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Edited by Yuanjie Yang, Carmelo Rosales-Guzmán and Mingzhou Chen
In 1974, Nye and Berry described the topological structure of the wave front as a screw-type dislocation in the wave trains, analogous to crystal defects, for the first time. In 1992, Allen and co-workers recognized that each photon of a vortex beam carries orbital angular momentum (OAM), ℓℏ, where ℓ describes the topological charge of the beam. Thus far, singularities in wave fields have been studied from fluid dynamics and plasma physics to optics and photonics, and even to electrons and neutrons. Meanwhile, the size of structured beam has been extended from bulk to nanoscale. The key property of a vortex beam is the existence of a quantized topological charge, which has found numerous applications in optical manipulation and trapping, optical communications, imaging, sensing, quantum science and astronomy, etc. This collection aims to explore the state-of-the-art advances of structured beams, both fundamental and applications.
Edited by Xin Tong, Chang Fu Dee and Feng Lin
Rational design and syntheses of nanostructured materials have been developed over the past decades, targeting applications in optics and electronics. The engineered nanostructured materials include zero-dimensional nanocrystals, one-dimensional nanowires, two-dimensional nanostructures, and their hybrids. They exhibit unique optical and electrical properties, which enable the possible advances in the fields of solar technologies, optical and electronic devices, in terms of the high photoresponse, superior electrical conductivity, tunable optical absorption/emission, compatible multifunctionality and facile device integration.
Edited by Yu Jia, Xiaoyu Han, Hao Xu and Fang Zhao
Two-dimensional (2D) materials are atomically thin substances, whose family has grown appreciably since the first discovery of graphene. They exhibit exceptional properties, governed by quantum confinement in the out-of-plane direction, naturally passivated surfaces, and/or huge suface-to-volume ratio, etc. Past years have seen worldwide interest in 2D mateials and also great efforts devoted to integrating them into fundamental sciences and engineering technologies.
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Edited by Gaoshan Huang, Wen-Jun Liu and Xinwei Wang
The atomic layer deposition (ALD) technique has been widely used and explored in numerous fields such as microelectronics, photoelectronics, optical coating, functional nanomaterials, MEMS/NEMS, energy storage, biotechnology, catalysis technology and etc. This is attributed to some unique advantages of ALD, including precise control of nano-scale thickness, superior uniformity across a large area, excellent conformity, relatively low deposition temperature and stoichiometric composition. This collection is focused on recent progresses in ALD-related research. The scope includes both theoretical and experimental investigations related to basic principle and practical application of ALD. The future direction is also discussed.
Edited by Shibin Li and Wei Zhang
Metal halide perovskite materials have gained much attention in the past years because of their high efficiency, low cost and the ease with which these materials can be made solution processable. These properties strongly suggest a huge potential of this class of materials for optoelectronic applications. This thematic series aims to demonstrate the recent research findings in perovskite materials and devices, particularly those incorporated with nanomaterials or nanostructures.
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