Two-Dimensional Materials for Optoelectronic Devices
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Electronic Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 July 2023) | Viewed by 268
Special Issue Editors
Interests: two-dimensional materials; optoelectronic devices; in-memory computing; piezotronics; tribotronics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In 2004, Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, two physicists from the University of Manchester, UK, successfully separated graphene from graphite by mechanical exfoliation with very high charge carrier mobility. These two scientists were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010 for their outstanding research on graphene materials. The remarkable properties of graphene have revived interest in inorganic two-dimensional (2D) materials, and in 2011, Andras Kis of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne turned his attention to 2D molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), a transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC), to fabricate the first 2D transistor with an ultra-high current on/off ratio of 1 × 108, and demonstrated its potential for photodetectors in 2013.
Two-dimensional materials with a unique two-dimensional structure exhibit some surprisingly unique properties due to quantum effects. The graphene family, TMDCs, 2D oxides, other 2D materials, and van der Waals heterostructures, owing to their strong light–matter interaction and photon absorption, have rapidly established their prominence in the field of photodetectors with applications focused on ultrafast and ultra-sensitive photodetection in a broad range of ultraviolet, visible, infrared, and terahertz. Two-dimensional materials and their heterostructures provide an exciting platform for future optoelectronic applications in many respects, exhibiting excellent performance benefits at the device level and allowing comfortable integration with existing silicon electronics and photonic technologies.
There are many other techniques and applications for 2D material optoelectronic devices. Two-dimensional materials are rapidly advancing into new areas of discovery, such as phototransistors, photonic memories, photocatalysis, photovoltaics, photonic neuromorphic devices, etc.
It is my pleasure to invite you to submit a manuscript for this Special Issue. Full papers, communications, and reviews are all welcome.
Dr. Guoyun Gao
Dr. Jinran Yu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- two-dimensional materials
- heterostructure
- optoelectronics
- photodetector
- phototransistors
- photonic memories
- photocatalysis
- photovoltaics
- photonic neuromorphic devices
