Soft Materials for Nanophotonic Devices
A special issue of Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991). This special issue belongs to the section "Nanoelectronics, Nanosensors and Devices".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2023) | Viewed by 177
Special Issue Editor
Interests: flexible photonic crystals for nanolasers and optical sensors; surface plasmonic resonance for optical sensors, light emitters, and optical nano-tweezers; hybrid integration in silicon-based photonic integrated circuits; integration of metastructure/2D materials
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the past decade, with the rapid development of flexible and foldable devices and systems, researchers have dedicated their attention to integrating different meta-structures that can manipulate light under a subwavelength scale in various soft materials. On the basis of the tunability or stability under deformable operation, current advances are pursuing application-specific optical functionalities, including light-emitting/harvest, passive optical components (filtering, guiding, modulating, etc.), optical sensing, optical imaging/display, etc., for constructing flexible integrated photonic circuits or systems.
This Special Issue will focus on the latest progress in "meta-structures in soft materials for nanophotonic devices". We invite authors to contribute original research that can include, but is not limited to, the following scopes which cover the novel phenomena, manufacturing techniques, and/or the above-mentioned device applications.
- optical quantum/nano structures in soft materials;
- flexible photonic crystals (dielectric);
- flexible surface plasmonic resonance structures (metal);
- flexible photonic-plasmonic hybrid metastructure;
- all-polymeric nanophotonic structures;
- electrically controllable nanophotonics in soft materials;
- novel soft nanostructured materials for photonic devices
Dr. Tsan-Wen Lu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- flexible nanophotonics
- photonic nanostructure
- nanophotonic devices
- photonic crystals
- surface plasmon resonance
- nanostructured polymer
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