The Unconventional Semiconductors and Their Applications GRS provides a unique forum for young doctoral and post-doctoral researchers to present their work, discuss new methods, cutting edge ideas, and pre-published data, as well as to build collaborative relationships with their peers. Experienced mentors and trainee moderators will facilitate active participation in scientific discussion to allow all attendees to be engaged participants rather than spectators.
Metal-halide perovskites and other emerging semiconductors exhibit diverse dimensionalities. These range from atom-thin 2D sheets and 1D chains to 3D ABX3 frameworks. They offer tunable bandgaps, defect-tolerant lattices, and strong light–matter interactions. Such properties have driven advances in solar cells, LEDs, photodetectors, and more. Their structural and compositional flexibility creates vast design spaces. However, this richness can overwhelm trial-and-error approaches.
Laboratory experiments navigate these design spaces through synthetic feasibility, such as via solution- and vapor-phase routes, additive engineering, and in-situ/ex-situ characterization. In parallel, computational/theoretical methods explore the design spaces through predictive simulations, high-throughput screening, symmetry-guided enumeration, phonon-mode analysis, and machine-learning surrogates. Frontier efforts in both respective fields are rapidly expanding our understanding of metal-halide perovskites and related semiconductors.
Yet many in silico candidates remain out of reach in the lab, and experimental campaigns often yield unexpected polymorphs or kinetic traps. This divergence underscores the value of a collaboration: one that leverages predictive modeling to narrow vast compositional spaces and experimental innovation to translate those predictions into real materials. By also focusing on general strategies across perovskites, double perovskites, vacancy-ordered frameworks, layered chalcogenides, and other unconventional semiconductors, we can accelerate the journey from theory to a tangible device.
We invite contributions from those pushing the frontiers of experimental and from those pioneering techniques in theoretical modeling; hybrid studies are welcome but not required.
