Nanogenerators and Self-Powered Optical Sensors
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Sensing and Imaging".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 February 2025 | Viewed by 5703
Special Issue Editors
Interests: nanogenerators; piezoelectric effect; self-powered sensors; light-polarization detectors; spin photocurrent; luminescent materials; solar cells
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The aim of this Special Issue is to collect the latest achievements in the research and development of nanogenerators based on semiconductors and self-powered optical sensors. Self-powered optical sensors hold much potential due to their excellent energy-conservation, pollution-free, and high-responsivity properties, which is important for environmental monitoring, human–machine interaction, industrial quality control, and security. Apart from the fabrication of heterostructures or Schottcky contacts, nanogenerators are another technology able to realize high-performance self-powered optical sensors via the triboelectric, pyroelectric, and piezoelectric effects.
This Special Issue will focus on (1) self-powered optical sensors for electron/spin detection and imaging, and (2) nanogenerators used in self-powered optical sensors. Both review articles and original research papers describing the current state-of-the-art in this research field are strongly encouraged.
The manuscripts should cover, but are not limited to, the following topics:
- Triboelectric nanogenerators for light sensors;
- Pyro-phototronics;
- Piezoelectric effect for photodetectors;
- Self-powered optical sensors;
- Schottky optoelectronic sensors;
- P–n junction photoelectric sensors;
- Light polarization sensors;
- Spin detection using optical methods;
- Photovoltaic devices;
- Optical imaging.
Prof. Dr. Laipan Zhu
Prof. Dr. Tao Yang
Guest Editors
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