Intelligent Metaphotonics: From Design to Advanced Optoelectronic Applications
A Special Issue of Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991) belonging to the section "Nanophotonics Materials and Devices".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 March 2027 | Viewed by 103
Editors
Interests: metasurface; artificial intelligence; new sensing and computing devices
Interests: metamaterial; metasurface; photonic crystal; holography
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Dear Colleagues,
Metasurfaces, as planar artificial nanostructures with subwavelength unit cells, enable flexible manipulation of electromagnetic wavefront, polarization, amplitude, phase and frequency at an ultra-thin interface. Compared with traditional bulky optical devices, metasurfaces exhibit prominent advantages in miniaturization, integration and low loss, and have become one of the most vibrant research frontiers in photonics, electromagnetics and metamaterials over the past decade. Nevertheless, conventional metasurface design heavily relies on physical intuition and iterative parameter sweeping for realizing multi-functionality, multi-wavelength compatibility and dynamic reconfiguration.
Furthermore, driven by the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence, data-driven optimization algorithms and computational electromagnetics, high-efficiency design methodologies are reshaping the paradigm of metasurface research. Machine learning, neural networks, inverse or direct design algorithms and optimization frameworks provide powerful tools to break traditional design limitations, facilitating the fast discovery of high-performance meta-atoms and enabling the design of more complex and high-performance metasurface devices. Benefiting from these design strategies, metasurfaces are continuously expanding their application boundaries, covering holography, optical imaging, beam steering, polarization engineering, optical computing, sensing, wireless communication, and so on.
This Special Issue aims to gather cutting-edge original research and insightful review articles on intelligent design methods for advanced photonics devices and metasurfaces, metasurface deep-learning-assisted novel fabrication methods for these metasurfaces, and their wide and advanced multifunctional applications. We welcome contributions that address fundamental challenges as well as experimentally verified functional devices; we expect to build a communication platform for researchers and promote the development of next-generation intelligent metasurface systems with this journal (Nanomaterials, IF:4.8; JCR: Q2).
Dr. Hongqiang Zhou
Dr. Qiang Jiang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- metasurfaces
- intelligent design
- artificial intelligence
- machine learning
- electromagnetic wave manipulation
- multidimensional multiplexing applications
- meta-holography
- holographic display
- optical computing
- meta-imaging
- flat optics
- metalenses
- cascaded layers
- nanostructures
- on-chip micro/nano devices
- opto-electronics computing and applications
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