Advances in Nanophotonics and Optical Metasurfaces
A special issue of Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991). This special issue belongs to the section "Nanophotonics Materials and Devices".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 July 2026 | Viewed by 153
Special Issue Editors
Interests: micro–nano photonics; optical metamaterials; surface plasmons
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Since the first demonstration of negative-index metamaterials two decades ago, the field of nanophotonics has evolved from proof-of-principle experiments to an enabling technology that reshapes optical design. Optical metasurface with ultrathin and planar architecture can impart local and spatially varying phase shifts, which has unlocked an entirely new design space based on generalized Snell’s law and the geometric–Pancharatnam–Berry phase. Concurrent advances in high-index dielectric nanoresonators, epsilon-near-zero films and active 2D materials have pushed quality factors, mode volumes and tunability to record levels. Today, nanophotonics and optical metasurfaces are poised to become a platform where light generation, routing, modulation and detection are performed on a single chip with sub-wavelength precision.
The present Special Issue of “Advances in Nanophotonics and Optical Metasurfaces” is aimed at presenting the current state of the art in optical nanostructures and metasurfaces. All submissions must present original, unpublished work and will be subject to the normal editorial standards and peer-review process of the journal.
We welcome submissions of original research articles, letters and comprehensive reviews that push the envelope in the theory, experiment and application of nanophotonics optical metasurface, such as all-dielectric metasurfaces, active metasurfaces, inverse-designed nanostructures and topological nanostructures.
Dr. Kun Zhang
Dr. Lingqi Li
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- optical micro/nano-sensors based on nanostructures
- bound state in continuous in metasurfaces
- chiral metasurfaces
- nonlinear effect based on metasurfaces
- topological nanostructures
- active metasurfaces
- inverse-designed nanostructures
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