Transparent Conducting and Semiconducting Oxides
A special issue of Crystals (ISSN 2073-4352). This special issue belongs to the section "Inorganic Crystalline Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 February 2021) | Viewed by 2486
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Transparent conducting and semiconducting oxides (TCO’s and TSO’s) have emerged in the last ten years as materials with an outstanding and wide range of properties and possible new applications. For instance the ability to act as a semitransparent (80%) conductor with carrier densities like a semimetal and a breakdown voltage in power devices of Ga2O3 exceeding that of GaN. Their basic physics however is still under debate. Especially the doping mechanism and the search for the dominant donor are still ongoing. A related question is, why they occur preferentially as n-type materials with p-type doping being hard to achieve.
Progress in the growth of large single crystals and the growth of high quality thin films by different methods have initiated a billion Dollar market. Furthermore a wealth of studies on potential further applications like UV blind photodetectors and n-n type heterojunctions for transparent electronics demonstrate the high potential and further prospects.
Researchers are invited to contribute to the Special Issue on transparent conducting oxides which is intended to serve as a unique multidisciplinary forum covering broad aspects of science, technology and the application of films and single crystals.
The potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- Synthesis and growth of TCO/TSO crystals
- Growth of TCO/TSO films
- TCO/TSO crystal and film morphology
- Real structure and properties of TCO/TSO crystals and films
- Characterisation of TCO/TSO crystals and films by spectroscopic, microscopic and other advanced techniques
- Exploitation of the remarkable properties of TCO/TSO crystals and films in various existent and emerging applications
Dr. Christoph Janowitz
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- TCO/TSO single crystals
- TCO/TSO thin films
- Electronic structure
- Doping mechanism
- CVD, ALD and MBE
- TCO/TSO properties
- TCO/TSO characterization
- TCO/TSO applications
