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One Special Issue entitled "Low-Dimensional Materials and Related Heterostructures: Promises for Next-Generation Optoelectronic & Electrical Devices" has been launched.

Co-Editors: Dr. Liujiang Zhou, Dr. Guangzhao Wang, Dr. Junjie He

The submission link is: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/micromachines/special_issues/M495ZM7GFT

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

With the development of integrated circuits according to Moore’s law, traditional silicon-based devices have gradually reached their performance limitation. Thus, we need to explore the new channel for future optoelectronic and electrical devices by using novel low-dimensional materials and heterostructures, in combination with photon-electron fusion technology. Low-dimensional (D) materials, including 0D, 1D, and 2D materials and their hybrid heterostructures, have been increasingly attracting interest due to their unique optical, magnetic, dielectric, electrical, and optoelectronic properties. In addition, the electronic structures and optical properties of low-dimensional materials could be easily modulated by adjusting the chemical compositions, stacking order, external electric/magnetic field, light, doping, substrates, etc. However, theoretical and experimental studies on electronic, optical and magnetic properties for those low-dimensional hybrid materials have not been sufficiently explored yet. Particularly, thorough theoretical insights into the light-induced non-equilibrium processes and physical figures of the dynamics between photon, electron, spin, and phonon are still lacking. Anyway, these novel nanomaterials and techniques have been becoming a hot research topic for next-generation optoelectronic and electronic devices.

In this Special Issue, we encourage submissions from researchers who are working on computational, theoretical and experimental studies of novel low-dimensional materials for optoelectronic and electronic devices, ranging from materials synthesis and characterization, and device fabrications to optoelectronic and electromagnetic simulations (multi-scale computational simulations) and thermal management. Important topics of growing interest are the 0 dimensional (0D), 1D, and 2D materials/heterostructures with promises for next-generation optoelectronic and electronic devices where we can see rapid development, and we invite such topics for inclusion in this Special Issue.

Dr. Liujiang Zhou

Dr. Guangzhao Wang

Dr. Junjie He

Guest Editors