Low-Dimensional Materials for Ultrafast Photonics
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Optical and Photonic Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 February 2026 | Viewed by 20
Special Issue Editors
Interests: nonlinear optics; ultrafast spectroscopy; additive manufacturing
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to contribute to an upcoming Special Issue entitled “Low-Dimensional Materials for Ultrafast Photonics”, to be published in Materials. This Special Issue will explore the rich and rapidly evolving landscape of light–matter interaction in atomically thin materials, and aims to gather high-impact contributions from both fundamental and applied perspectives.
Low-dimensional materials—such as graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides, silicon nanosheets, black phosphorus, and van der Waals heterostructures—display a broad range of compelling physical phenomena arising from their reduced dimensionality, symmetry breaking, strong many-body interactions, and quantum confinement. Their highly tunable optoelectronic properties enable control over nonlinear effects, exciton dynamics, spin–valley coupling, and polaritonic modes. These characteristics position low-dimensional materials as ideal candidates for applications ranging from ultrafast optical switching, saturable absorption, and ultrafast spectroscopies to quantum photonic circuitry, energy applications, and beyond.
We welcome original contributions on topics including, but not limited to, the following:
- Nonlinear and quantum optical phenomena in 2D systems;
- Exciton and polariton physics in van der Waals materials;
- Waveguide-integrated and cavity-enhanced 2D photonic structures;
- Ultrafast carrier dynamics and pump–probe spectroscopy;
- 2D materials in plasmonics, metasurfaces, and photonic crystals.
If your research falls within these or related areas, we would be delighted to consider your manuscript. The submission deadline is February 2026, and all manuscripts will undergo rigorous peer review.
Dr. Michalis Stavrou
Dr. David Gray
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- 2D materials
- nonlinear optics
- ultrafast spectroscopy
- excitons
- polaritons
- optical switching
- saturable absorption
- quantum optics
- energy applications
- telecommunications
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