Advances in Photonic Metasurfaces and Metastructures
A special issue of Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991). This special issue belongs to the section "Nanophotonics Materials and Devices".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 August 2024 | Viewed by 1846
Special Issue Editor
Interests: nanophotonics; nano-optics; photonic materials; electromagnetics
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Dear Colleagues,
Novel methodologies in metastructures and plasmonics hold great potential for the generation, manipulation, sensing, and detection of signals at the nanometer scale, presenting significant prospects across a wide range of research directions in photovoltaics, optical communications, quantum information technology, biophotonics, lighting, sensing, chemistry, and medicine. Nonetheless, primary impediments hindering fundamental advancements and the broad practical utilization of these technologies originate from intrinsic material losses in constituent plasmonic components, the absence of materials with the required optical characteristics (e.g., exceedingly high refractive index, strong anisotropy, strong and fast response to external stimuli), and challenges associated with the reproducible and cost-effective realization of nanostructures. The recent discovery of innovative materials, including those with high refractive indices, plasmonic functionality, two-dimensional and layered materials, as well as materials exhibiting low losses, tunability, and compatibility with complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology, holds the potential to bring groundbreaking transformations to the field of nanophotonics, metasurfaces, and their diverse applications.
This Special Issue aims to highlight recent advances in the areas of metastructures and plasmonics with particular emphasis on metasurfaces, subwavelength light localization, quasi-bound states and high-quality factor resonances, multipolar and resonant responses in nanostructures, and related topics. Special attention is given to research directions related to engineering scattering, topological nanophotonics and parity–time symmetry, novel nanofabrication techniques for improving material properties, and enhanced nonlinear and dynamic responses in the metastructures.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Mie resonances and multipole excitations;
- Bound and quasi-bound states in the continuum;
- Two-dimensional and layered materials;
- Plasmonic materials and metastructures based on them;
- Directional scattering, multipole coupling, and Kerker effect;
- Collective effects in metastructures;
- Applications of metasurfaces and plasmonics.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Viktoriia Babicheva
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- mie resonances
- collective effects
- multipole decomposition
- high-refractive-index materials
- two-dimensional materials
- Van der Waals materials
- bound states in the continuum
- epsilon-near-zero materials
- Kerker effect
- silicon
- hyperbolic dispersion
- plasmonic nanostructures
- plasmonic sensors
- plasmon-induced energy transfer
