Investigation on Optical Phenomena of Micro/Nano Materials/Structures

Dear Colleagues,

Materials and structures in micro-/nano dimensions have revealed unprecedented optical phenomena, which open up the rapidly developing fields of nanophotonics, metamaterials, photonic crystals, and plasmonics. This Special Issue aims to provide a forum for discussion about the recent efforts and advances in the investigation of various optical phenomena based on subwavelength-scale light–matter interactions.

The scope of this Special Issue includes fundamental research on the optical properties of varieties of micro-/nanomaterials/-structures, as well as applied research in multiple novel applications. It covers a broad range of topics including, but not limited to, the following areas:

• Plasmonics: metallic nanostructures and their optical properties;
• Metamaterials, metasurfaces, metadevices, fundamentals and applications;
• Nanophotonic concepts and devices for solar energy harvesting and conversion;
• Near-field optical microscopy;
• Light–matter interactions in nanocavities, nanolasers;
• Nanostructures, nanoparticles, nanotubes, nanowires, nanowaveguides, and nanofibers;
• Integrated silicon photonics;
• Semiconductor quantum dots;
• Two-dimensional materials;
• Ultrafast and nonlinear optical responses in nanomaterials and -structures;
• Optical manipulation techniques;
• Nano-biophotonics;
• Optofluidics;
• Optomechanics;
• System applications based on nanophotonic devices;
• Nanofabrication techniques, thin-film processing, and self-assembly.

Dr. Tianyue Zhang
Guest Editor

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