Thin Film Coatings for Sensing and Optical Applications
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412). This special issue belongs to the section "Thin Films".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 289
Special Issue Editor
Interests: metal oxide thin films; nanomaterials; gas sensors; acetone detection; exhaled breath analysis
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We would like to invite you to submit your work to this Special Issue entitled “Thin Film Coatings for Sensing and Optical Applications”. Thanks to the technological developments over the last decade, the deposition techniques for thin film coatings changed, enabling the fabrication of novel sensors including bio-sensing, gas-sensing and optical-sensing applications. The aim of this Special Issue is to present the latest experimental and theoretical developments in the field, through a combination of original research papers and review articles from leading groups around the world.
In particular, the topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Gas-sensing applications;
- Optical devices;
- Bio-sensing applications;
- Electrochemical applications;
- Theoretical studies of thin-film coatings;
- The development of deposition techniques.
Prof. Dr. Artur M. Rydosz
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- thin films
- optical detection
- bio-sensors
- gas-sensors
- SPR/LSPR applications
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