Advances in Chiral Electronics, Optoelectronics and Photonics
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Optical and Photonic Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 October 2022) | Viewed by 590
Special Issue Editors
Interests: light-emitting diodes; electroluminescence; photoluminescence; organic semiconductors; flexible electronics; interfacial conjugated polymers; circularly polarized emission; chiral photonics, chiral optoelectronics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues
Over the years, many research groups have devoted their efforts in preparing chiral molecular systems endowed with remarkable properties that, in turn, further promote their related applications in biology, medicine, bio-recognition, energy, nano-technology, etc.
More recently, the possibility of employing chiral molecules and their supramolecular assemblies in (opto)electronic or photonic devices has started to be explored and is now a steadily growing field. Among an abundance of possible applications of chiral systems, much attention has recently been dedicated to organic or hybrid light-emitting diodes (LEDs), capable of emitting circularly polarized (CP) electroluminescence and to CP light-sensitive transistors, including other promising applications of chiral molecules such as spin filters and CP photodetectors.
Despite the field’s recent great progress, many challenges still remain open, e.g., in the designing of chiral compounds and chiral supramolecular assemblies, in elucidating the relationship between chiroptical activity and device architectures, and in optimizing the performance of chiral devices. Moreover, further research is required to understand the full potential of these chiral systems to be employed in new applications.
This Special Issue aims to cover the most recent advances in the field of chiral electronics, optoelectronics, and photonics based on chiral organic, inorganic, and metalorganic materials from their design to application.
We hope for this Special Issue to raise interest and stimulate the debate among scientists working in this exciting field, and we look forward to receiving your submissions.
Dr. Umberto Giovanella
Dr. Francesco Zinna
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- chiral molecules, polymers, colloidal nanocrystals, perovskites
- chiral supramolecular assemblies
- chiral polymer hosts
- chiral organic and hybrid devices (OLEDs, photodetectors, field-effect transistors)
- chiral surfaces (metals, composites, polymers, etc.)
- chiral thin films
- spintronics
- spin filtering
