Nano-Photonics Materials and Devices

Dear Colleagues,

For centuries, researchers have searched for unique methodologies to control the flow of light and perform useful operations. Building from macroscopic reflective and refractive optics, the advent of advanced nanoscale fabrication techniques has opened new avenues to explore the control of light. Most notably, they have enabled researchers to design the optical space with exceptional flexibility, driving the demonstration of unique properties such as negative refractive indices, deep subwavelength confinement, extremely anisotropic materials, high speed on-chip photonic devices, and ultrathin functional surfaces. Over the last two decades these advances have unlocked many unique and powerful techniques which are now beginning to be explored in the consumer space. Yet, moving these discoveries from the lab to practical implementations incurs an entirely new set of challenges and restrictions such as cost, robustness, versatility, efficiency, etc., which must be overcome for success. To conquer these hurdles, the development of new photonic materials such as highly doped semiconductors, metallic ceramics, and alloyed materials to conquer cost, environmental, and integration challenges as well as unique and robust-filled design methodologies, such as collective optical property engineering, random nanostructure engineering, and fault-tolerant design optimization are critical advances.

This Special Issue looks to explore recent advances in these practical considerations of nanophotonic device and materials development. Researchers are encouraged to submit both review and original research articles on experimental and theoretical works in the broad areas outlined above. Solutions and demonstrations based on novel design, fabrication, characterization and modeling methods to further advance the field are considered.

Dr. Nathaniel Kinsey
Guest Editor

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• Optical materials
• metamaterials
• integrated photonics
• nanophotonics
• application-driven
• robust optics