Photonic and Phononic Crystals: Towards Sensors and Energy Applications
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "A：Physics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 July 2023) | Viewed by 3262
Special Issue Editor
Interests: phononic crystals; photonic crystals; metamaterials
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Dear Colleagues,
The studies of the interaction between the incident waves and the multilayer structures received a significant attention. Such interaction could be helpful in the design and fabrications of many applications in optical, physical, medical and industrial communities. The aims of this issue focus on the applications of periodic material such as photonic and phononic crystals in energy, biomedical, environmental, chemical and physical sensors applications. Owing to the massive developments among cultural, economic and technological, the improvements of new resources and techniques became mandatory to improve our life. Actually, the problems of energy, health and water as well are the main aspects all over the world. However, the limited resources of governments could present the strong difficulty towards the improvements of these requirements. These new structures can open the window of the above applications and more. The needs of the non-renewable energy within the three past decades through vehicles, industry and electricity have risen with a massive rate due to the population growth and high welfare rates. As a result, many burdens were placed on governments and a solution was needed to rationalize expenditures. Furthermore, these structures could be of interest in the early detection of many diseases such as cancer, sugar and many types of virus based on the photon localization property. Such types of detection provides high accuracy, high stability, high limits of safety and limited cost in comparing with other medical techniques.
Dr. Ahmed Mehaney
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- photonic crystals
- phononic crystals
- sensors
- waves
- periodic materials
- band gaps
- biosensors
