Scope
The study of emergent materials are motivated by the desire for miniaturization and performance enhancement of electronic and optoelectronic devices. Many such materials, once synthesized, reveal unexpected properties, the understanding of which require an interdisciplinary study involving physics, chemistry, and nanoengineering. A startling example in this sense is graphene, the landmark of two-dimensional, atomically-thin materials, whereas topological insulators are the lattest materials to attract considerable scientific interest. An increasing attention for practical applications as well as theoretical challenges is also drawn by superconductors and advanced magnetic materials. Organic Systems, including smart molecules, conjugated oligomers and (co)polymers, biological macromolecules, etc, form a well established class of functional materials whose intriguing properties find application in a wide range of electronic devices, from light-emitting to field-effect transistors and sensors.
In many cases it is not necessary, however, to synthesize new materials in order to respond to challenging technological demands. For instance, artificial periodic structures such as metamaterials or photonic crystals are able to manipulate electromagnetic or acoustic waves in unprecedented ways, revealing phenomena such as negative refraction or sub-wavelength guiding and focusing.
This section is dedicated to emergent, newly discovered materials and architectures with applications in optics, electronics and optoelectronics.
Topics
The topics of interest for this section include, but are not limited to, the synthesis, and theoretical and experimental studies on:
- low-dimensional materials, including the recently discovered atomically-thin materials
- new three-dimensional materials and architectures with enhanced functionalities
- metamaterials for electromagnetic or acoustic wave manipulation
- photonic crystals
- surface-assisted self-assembly monolayer and multilayer structures
- advanced magnetic materials and superconductors
- topological insulators
- emerging molecular and supramolecular materials and applications
Section Organizers
Daniela DRAGOMAN, University of Bucharest, Romania,
Florin STANCULESCU, University of Bucharest, Romania,
Invited papers
| Magdalena Lidia Ciurea | Ge nanocrystals in oxides for enhancing non-volatile memory performance |
| Juozas Vidas Grazulevicius | Materials for organic light emitting diodes based on thermally activated delayed fluorescence |
| Felicia Iacomi | Studies on some emerging layered hybrid nanocomposites |
| Victor Kuncser | New insights on magnetic interactions and related effects in diluted magnetic systems |
| Lucian Prejbeanu | Magnetic Random Access Memories: status and roadmap |
| Toma Stoica | Two-dimensional MoS2: growth control of large area and heterostructures |
| Hendrik Swart | Photon and electron beam pumped up- and down conversion luminescence of RE activated phosphors |
| Ion Tiginyanu | Three-Dimensional Architectures of Nanomaterials for Multifunctional Applications |
| Xixiang Zhang | The obervation of biskyrmion in centrosymmetric polycrystalline magnets at room-temperature |
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