Advances in Organic Materials for Energy, Optoelectronics, and Electronics
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2026 | Viewed by 26
Special Issue Editors
Interests: ultrafast spectroscopy; organic and hybrid material; strong and weak coupling
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Interests: solar cells materials and spectroscopy; thin film devices; lasers; microcavities; strong-coupling; polaritons
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
There is currently significant interest in the development of advanced materials with new technological applications. Amongst these, both organic (carbon-based) semiconductors and metal halide perovskite semiconductors (MHPs) have been the subject of worldwide research for applications in optoelectronics. Organic semiconductors can be directly designed and synthesized with optoelectronic properties in mind, including efficient and tunable light absorption, high photoluminescence quantum yield, and room-temperature excitonic effects. MHPs also have outstanding photovoltaic properties resulting from extended and balanced carrier diffusion, high defect tolerance, readily tunable band gaps, and self-assembly into quantum confined 2D structures. Both types of material can also be processed from solutions and are mechanically flexible. In both cases, the low materials cost makes such materials of direct interest in a range of optoelectronic applications, including as the active layer in solar cells, light-emitting diodes (LEDs), photodetectors, and lasers. This Special Issue will consider recent developments in the field of organic and halide perovskite semiconductors, focusing on applications in energy harvesting, light emission, and optoelectronics.
Dr. Tersilla Virgili
Prof. Dr. David Lidzey
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- organic semiconductors
- perovskites
- solar cells
- LEDs
- lasers
- microcavities
- photodetectors
- optoelectronics
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