Advances in Photonic Materials

Dear Colleagues,

Photonic materials play an important role in information processing, chemical sensors, solar cells, light-emitting devices, optical memories, and other important applications. They encompass a wide variety of materials and material technologies. Advances in photonic materials fabrication, processing, and integration into different platforms constitute important areas of research and technological development. Spectacular advances in photonic materials technologies in recent years have involved light–matter interaction control through photonic crystal technology, light-trapping in thin films for solar cell applications, surface effects for the enhancement of nonreciprocal materials response, the on-chip integration of bias-magnet-free magneto-optic films, the processing of light at the nanoscale through nanophotonics, advances in plasmonics, and the development of optical metamaterials. The exploitation of new optical phenomena and the development of optical devices have created opportunities for advances in fields such as optical memory and holographic storage, and the heterogeneous integration of materials for photonic integrated circuits (PICs) on a single chip to achieve maximum efficiencies. These vast multidisciplinary research efforts span the fields of physics, chemistry, materials science, and engineering and encompass the development of new types of materials and new ways of integration. The outcomes of these diverse research efforts have led to a vast number of publications in multiple journals. This Special Issue will provide researchers and scientists with a collective platform for assembling in one issue the various aspects of material development. Original research articles, short communication letters, and review articles are all welcome.

Prof. Dr. Miguel Levy
Dr. Dolendra Karki
Guest Editors

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