Dear Colleagues,

Nanostructured thin films represent an exciting class of materials with highly tunable and applicable properties. Their application has entered almost all areas of our lives, including important renewable energy sources, numerous modern electrical devices, as well as important biomedical applications, such as permanent implants. They exhibit many practical properties such as quantum confinement effects, surface plasmon resonance, multiple exciton generation, and many others. Therefore, research into the optical and electrical properties of nanostructured thin films represents a very important area of ​​research that is a source of innovation and development. Nanostructured materials also offer a multitude of new discoveries due to the various combinations of different materials, the many different shapes of nanostructures, as well as the specific nature of nano-objects, which often exhibit size- and shape-dependent electrical and optical properties.

This Special Issue focuses on advances in the development of nanostructured thin films with specific optical and electrical properties. These include many possible research areas including new understandings of their fundamental properties, advanced methods of producing such materials, methods of achieving certain effects, as well as the different applications of such materials based on these properties. Authors are cordially invited to contribute original research articles and review articles to this Special Issue. Potential topics, covering advances in the optical and electrical properties of nanostructured thin films, include, but are not limited to the following:

1. Advanced production methods of nanostructured thin films;
2. Semiconductor-based nanostructured thin films;
3. Nanostructured thin films with metallic nanoparticles;
4. Quantum confinement in nanostructured thin films;
5. Plasmonic resonances in nanostructured thin films;
6. Multiple exciton generation in nanostructured thin films;
7. Specific properties of nanostructured thin films and their control;
8. Applications of nanostructured thin films;
9. Modeling of the optical and electrical properties of nanostructured thin films.

Dr. Maja Mičetić
Guest Editor

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• nanostructured thin films
• quantum dots
• nanoparticles
• surface plasmon resonance
• multiple exciton generation
• optical properties
• electrical properties
• thin film deposition methods
• modeling electrical and optical properties of thin films
• applications of thin films