Nanomaterials for Photonics: Advances and Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Photonics—the science of creating, manipulating, transmitting, and detecting light—has demonstrated the potential to bring significant progress and even to revolutionize a large range of domains, including healthcare, environment monitoring, energy generation and conservation, high-speed telecommunications, quantum computing, IoT, manufacturing technologies, transportation, and agriculture.

To improve the performance of photonic devices and circuits and add new functionalities, advances in optical materials and nanofabrication techniques are required.

This Special Issue of Nanomaterials will focus on recent advances and trends in developing advanced materials with new optical, photonic, and electrical properties for applications in photonics.

We invite interested authors to submit papers that cover synthesis, investigations, and fundamental understanding of new of structures and physical/chemical/optical properties, and characterization and application of new materials for photonics. Papers should demonstrate the applicability of the new materials in photonics and the added value in terms of performance, cost, and/or functionalities.

Papers presenting advanced device concepts and integration of the new materials with electronics will be highly appreciated.

Dr. Dana Cristea
Dr. Mihaela Kusko
Guest Editors

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