Advances in Nanophotonic Materials, Devices, and Applications
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Optical and Photonic Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 June 2025 | Viewed by 3486
Special Issue Editors
Interests: nanofabrication; flat optics; silicon photonics; plasmonics; sensors and measurements
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Interests: optoelectronics; nanofabrication; flexible devices; neuromorphic chips
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Over the past few decades, the field of micro/nanophotonics has seen tremendous growth, driven by the continuous advancements in the design and fabrication of photonic devices at micro- and nano-scales. These devices have found applications in a wide range of areas, including telecommunications, medical imaging, sensing, quantum computing, and environmental monitoring. For instance, photodetectors incorporated with metal nanorods employ the surface plasmonic effect to delocalize the electric field, which facilitates carrier dissociation and thus leads to improved responsivity. A metasurface that depicts a layer of subwavelength-scale nanostructures shows the strong capability of tuning light–matter interaction and thus performs versatile functions in photonics and optics.
In light of these developments, we invite you to contribute your original research articles, review papers, and short communications that showcase the latest breakthroughs and applications of nanophotonics devices, materials, and applications. We are particularly interested in papers that address the following device’s themes: experimental and modeling advances in micro/nano-structured optoelectronics and photonics devices, including LEDs, solar cells, photodetectors, metasurfaces, silicon photonics devices, lasers, and flat optics devices. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, nanomaterials, micro/nanostructures, nanofabrication, micro/nanodevices and applications, and simulation works.
We look forward to receiving your submissions.
Dr. Zhengji Xu
Dr. Lu Zhu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- metasurface
- nanophotonics
- nanomaterials
- micro/nanostructures
- nanofabrication
- optoelectronics
- silicon photonics
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