Advanced Photomaterials for Photonic Applications

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue, titled “Advanced Photomaterials for Photonic Applications”, is focused on the latest research in the field of optically active materials used in technologies within the field of photonics. Advanced photomaterials form the basis of the current technological revolution, enabling the manipulation of light at unprecedented levels for applications ranging from telecommunications to quantum medicine. Its development is based on multidisciplinary approaches that combine electronic band engineering, advanced chemical synthesis, nanostructuring, and photonic modeling.

In this sense, we are particularly interested in collecting high-quality research articles and reviews that present the latest progress in the utilization of such advanced materials in innovative technologies such as sustainable energy, holography, diffractive and holographic optical elements, smart sensors, biosensors, biomedicine, and integrated photonics powered by artificial intelligence.

The aim of this Special Issue is to examine different advanced photomaterial types such as photopolymers, light-sensitive hidrogels, nanomaterials that confine light at the nanoscale dramatically improving sensitivity in medical diagnostics and biosensors, photonic crystals that allow light to be stopped or guided with minimal losses, metamaterials that possess optical properties not found in nature, and nonlinear optical materials, whilst exploring their properties and performance through spectroscopy, microscopy, holography, and electrochemical analysis.

Dr. Manuel G. Ramírez
Guest Editor

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