Special Issue "New Insights in Resonant Dielectric Nanostructures"

Dear Colleagues,

Recently, a new branch of condensed matter physics has emerged for the purpose of investigating the control of strongly induced electric and magnetic resonances in dielectric nanoparticles, having a high refractive index. When developing nanoantennas and metasurfaces, dielectric nanoparticles make it possible to reduce dissipative losses and achieve a significant resonant amplification of both the electrical and magnetic signals, dielectric metamaterials also contributing significant advances in optics and photonics. Compared to metallic materials—with the main disadvantages of a significant heat loss and low efficiency—, all-dielectric nanostructures with a high refractive index easily combine electrical and magnetic resonances, leading to the efficient control of such optical properties as the phase, amplitude, polarization and anisotropy. Future-proof technologies are driven by high-performance optical communications, being at the heart of ultra-fast computing, and will rely on densely packed reconfigurable optical schemes based on nanophotonics. Until recently, plasmonics have been considered the only available basis for nanoscale optics, but resonant dielectric nanostructured metamaterials provide more practical alternatives by exploiting resonances in dielectric nanoparticles and highly refractive index structures.

Prof. Dr. Sergei Trukhanov
Guest Editor

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• complex oxides of transition metals
• magnetodielectrics
• metamaterials
• resonant dielectrics
• polymer composites
• carbon-based nanocomposites
• permittivity
• permeability
• refractive index
• nanotechnology