Advancements in Lasers: Applications and Future Trends
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412). This special issue belongs to the section "Laser Coatings".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 July 2025 | Viewed by 598
Special Issue Editors
Interests: semiconductor lasers; OFC; integrated optoelectronics; coating
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Theoretical, experimental and engineering developments in multifunctional coatings as single or multiple layers covering different substrates are the most important research field in semiconductor laser fabrication and optical transmission. This has been spurred primarily by their performance in the demanding environmental conditions required by current applications, ranging from pump sources; optical communication; metasurfaces; and the aerospace, medical, automotive and chemical industries to oil and gas detection technologies. Driven by the current state of knowledge of passivation and strain mechanisms, the need to maintain structural material integrity and reliability assets in harsh environments and a renewed impetus towards the performance of new nanostructured coating systems have created a huge demand for experimental, theoretical, modelling and engineering activities.
The manufacturing, designing, testing, and engineering of high-performance nanostructured materials that are photoelectrically active (e.g., perovskite, metals, graphene, carbon nanotubes, conductive polymers, etc.), capable of serving as physical protection layers (organic polymers, composite materials, ceramic materials, etc.) or both provide unprecedented functionality and opportunities for multifunctional coatings protecting metallic structures (semiconductors, fibres, mirrors and lenses).
This Special Issue will serve as a forum for papers discussing the following concepts:
- Theoretical, experimental and engineering research, knowledge and new ideas in optoelectronic protective and preventive coating mechanisms.
- Recent developments in multifunctional organic, inorganic, perovskite and hybrid coatings.
- Coatings produced by different processes, including but not limited to additive manufacturing processes, thermal spray, laser and plasma processing, CVD, sputtering, Ebeam, etc.
- Experimenting with and processing high-performance coatings with exposure to high temperatures, high stress, and other extreme environmental conditions.
- Understanding the degradation mechanisms of coatings through friction, wear or other dynamic loading conditions and passivation techniques.
- The development of test methods considering the interplay between mechanical, optoelectronic and electrochemical interactions and the ability to predict performance and/or reliability with an emphasis on valid, accelerated performance tests and the relation between test techniques and field performance data.
- Computer modelling and simulation to predict coating properties, performance, durability and reliability in service environments.
- Monolithic integration OFC computer modelling and simulations to predict OFC properties and performance.
Dr. Zhongliang Qiao
Dr. Zaijin Li
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- passivation coatings
- performance modelling
- reliability coatings
- damage evolution modelling of coatings
- OFC
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