Special Issue "Nano-photonic Devices"

Guest Editor
Prof. Dr. Robert Magnusson
Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX 76019, USA
Website: http://www.guidedmoderesonance.com/
E-Mail: magnusson@uta.edu
Phone: +1 817-272-2552
Interests: theory and experiment of periodic nanostructures; nanolithography; nano-photonics and nanoelectronics; nanoplasmonics; optical bio- and chemical sensors; nanofabrication; integrated nanoscale devices; diffractive optics; optical filters; thin-film optics; waveguide optics

Dear Colleagues,

Worldwide, nanotechnology is progressing rapidly, motivated by a plethora of economically important applications in medicine, energy, and communications. The field of nano-photonics, being an integral part of nanotechnology, is similarly progressing expeditiously. Accordingly, we hereby announce a special issue addressing advances in modeling, fabrication, and characterization of nano-photonic devices. Such devices have typically critical feature size on the order of ~1-500 nm and process or design control on a nanoscale. We invite submission of papers on passive and active nano-photonic devices fashioned with dielectrics, semiconductors, or metals. Example topics include subwavelength elements, photonic bandgap structures, plasmonic devices, silicon nano-photonic devices and systems, diffractive elements, nano-photonic biosensors, nanocavity devices, quantum-dot elements, photovoltaic cells, nano-opto-electromechanical systems (NOEMS), resonance-based devices, waveguide devices, slow-light elements, nano-antennas, nanostructured lasers, nanostructured detectors, and others.  Related novel systems concepts and application proposals are acceptable contributions.  Moreover, innovative methods in nanolithography, nanopatterning, thin-film deposition, device characterization, etc., are of interest.

Submission

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. Papers will be published continuously (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are refereed through a peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Micromachines is an international peer-reviewed Open Access quarterly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 300 CHF (Swiss Francs). English correction and/or formatting fees of 250 CHF (Swiss Francs) will be charged in certain cases for those articles accepted for publication that require extensive additional formatting and/or English corrections.

• nano-photonics
• nanopatterning
• nanoplasmonics
• nanolithography
• active and passive devices
• nanoscale systems
• nano-photonics applications