MRS Advances Electronic Devices and Materials

Issue date: Spring 2021
Submission deadline: December 16, 2020

Contacting Materials and Interfaces for Optoelectronic Devices

MRS Advances is accepting full-paper submissions on Electronic Devices and Materials topics related to the symposium topic Contacting Materials and Interfaces for Optoelectronic Devices from the 2020 MRS Spring/Fall Meeting. Submissions, the review process, and the final decision are not contingent on presentation at the meeting itself.

MRS Advances publishes short papers that provide a “snapshot” of an advance within the field of materials research. Such work may include important early indications from a research project that has not yet reached a conclusion, or related results that are significant but not central to the goal of the project. The scientific methods and logic should be rigorous, technically sound, and of interest to other specialists in the area of research.

Of particular interest are topics in Contacting Materials and Interfaces for Optoelectronic Devices:

•  Inorganic, organic and hybrid materials for electron and hole transport layers (ETL and HTL).
•  Passivating contacts and buffer layers for solar cells and light emitting devices (CIGS, hybrid perovskites, silicon, CdTe, organic).
•  Transparent conducting oxides (TCOs) and transparent electrodes.
•  Multifunctional nanolayers and 2D materials as contact materials.
•  Density functional theory (DFT) and first-principle calculations of optoelectronic materials and interfaces.
•  Damage-free fabrication and post-treatment techniques of nanolayers and thin film contact materials.
•  Scalable synthesis and deposition techniques of contact materials (from lab to fab).
•  Thermal, environmental and long-term stability of contact materials and interfaces.
•  In-situ, ex-situ and operando characterization of contact materials and interfaces via spectroscopy and microscopy methods (TEM, XPS, UPS, SPM, EXAFS).
•  Interface engineering and fundamental understanding of charge transfer, band bending, Fermi level pining, passivation.
•  Defects at interfaces, TCOs and contact materials.
•  Computational materials prediction and design of contacts in optoelectronic materials.
•  Novel approaches in device and interface modeling.

Manuscript Submission:

To be considered for MRS Advances, new and previously unpublished results significant to the development of this field should be presented. MRS journals allow submission and publication of figures and content that have appeared online as part of a virtual presentation. Standard journal peer review policies apply to these submitted papers. The manuscripts must be submitted via the MRS Advances electronic submission system by December 16, 2020. 

All manuscripts will be reviewed in the standard rapid timeframe of MRS Advances to ensure timely publication in the issue related to the submission topic. Please see manuscript preparation instructions and length restrictions at www.mrs.org/mrs-advances-manuscript-instructions. At submission, indicate Electronic Devices and Materials as the topical area of your paper.

Please contact mrsadvances@mrs.org with any questions.