Focus Issue: Journal of Materials Research

Ultra-wide Bandgap Materials, Devices, and Systems
Issue date: November 14, 2021
Submission deadline: April 1, 2021

Modern demands for energy-efficient power electronics, secure high-speed communications, and ever-increasing computing power are converging with technology opportunities created by ultrawide-bandgap semiconductors to define new paradigms for a wide range of electronic, optical, sensing, and quantum applications. Rapid progress in the development of ultrawide-bandgap semiconductors such as Al(Ga)N, (AlGa)2O3, diamond, boron nitride, and other new materials have begun to produce encouraging results commensurate with the fundamental advantages that these materials promise. Much remains, however, to be understood in various areas of materials research that encompass bulk and epitaxial crystal growth, defect properties and their impact on device performance, low-dimensional structures, surface and interface physics, optimal strategies for device design and fabrication, and heterogeneous integration with other semiconductors for system-level implementations. This JMR Focus Issue will feature experimental advances and theoretical developments in the field of ultrawide-bandgap semiconductors, devices, and systems. 
 

Contributing papers are solicited in the following areas:
•  Bulk crystal synthesis and substrate technologies
•  Epitaxy of thin films and nanostructures
•  Defect science, engineering, and characterization
•  Carrier transport
•  Electronic and optoelectronic devices and properties
•  Thermal properties and thermal management approaches
•  Quantum materials and technologies

GUEST EDITORS 
Man Hoi Wong, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA
Oliver Bierwagen, Paul Drude Institute for Solid State Electronics, Germany 
Robert Kaplar, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
Hitoshi Umezawa, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan

MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION

To be considered for this issue, new and previously unpublished results significant to the development of this field should be presented. The manuscripts must be submitted via the JMR electronic submission system by April 1, 2021. Manuscripts submitted after this deadline will not be considered for the issue due to time constraints on the review process. Please select “Focus issue: Ultra-wide Bandgap Materials, Devices, and Systems” as the Focus Issue designation. Note our manuscript submission minimum length of 3250 words, excluding figures, captions, and references, with at least 6 and no more than 10 figures and tables combined. Review articles may be longer but must be pre-approved by proposal to the Guest Editors via jmr@mrs.org. The proposal form and author instructions may be found at www.mrs.org/jmr-instructions. All manuscripts will be reviewed in a normal but expedited fashion. Papers submitted by the deadline and subsequently accepted will be published in the Focus Issue. Other manuscripts that are acceptable but cannot be included in the issue will be scheduled for publication in a subsequent issue of JMR.

Please direct questions to jmr@mrs.org.