Advanced Functional Thin Film Materials: Simulations, Design, Preparation and Applications
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Chemical and Molecular Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 October 2024 | Viewed by 46
Special Issue Editors
Interests: thin films deposition; carbon phases; graphene/graphene-like materials; characterization of materials; structural defects
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The term “advanced functional thin film materials” describes a vast class of materials from special alloys, through functionalized inorganic materials, to organic materials. Moreover, advanced functional thin film materials are a distinct area of materials science, which includes the theoretical study (via molecular dynamics) of materials with thin film applications, their controlled synthesis as thin films and their characterization.
The synthesis/deposition of thin films is most often based on chemical vapor deposition methods (CVD), e.g., thermal/plasma/laser/arc, etc., simulated processes, physical vapor deposition methods (PVD), e.g., ac or dc magnetron sputtering, evaporation, etc., and pulsed laser ablation methods. As the structure of such materials strongly influences their properties, the scope of this Special Issue will cover both amorphous as well as nano-, micro-, and single crystalline films/layers.
Here is a list of advanced functional thin film materials that will be the focus of this Special Issue:
- Graphene and graphene-like materials;
- Thin films of carbon phases, including amorphous carbon (aC), tetragonal carbon/diamond-like carbon (taC/DLC), amorphous hydrogenated carbon (aC) and tetragonal carbon (taC), etc.;
- Silicon carbide;
- Materials used in photovoltaic cells: CdTe, amorphous/fine-crystalline silicon, perovskite materials, etc.;
- Both SiO2-based (e.g., Si-O-C) and TiO2-based (e.g., Ti-O-C) glasses, etc.;
- Oxide materials: ferroelectric/ferromagnetic materials, optical/optoelectric materials, as well as those with antibacterial/biomimetic coatings, etc.;
- Various composite materials, including those based on carbon composites with nano-sized inorganic fillers, and others.
Dr. Teodor I. Milenov
Dr. Stefan Kolev
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- chemical vapor deposition
- physical vapor deposition
- pulsed laser ablation
- advanced functional materials
