Advancements in Photonic Crystals: Materials, Design, and Applications
A special issue of Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 November 2025 | Viewed by 10
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Photonic crystals (PCs) are periodic optical nanostructures that manipulate the flow of light by creating photonic bandgaps, enabling unprecedented control over electromagnetic waves. These materials have revolutionized photonics, offering applications in lasers, sensors, optical communications, and quantum technologies. By engineering their bandgap properties, PCs can confine, guide, or filter light at desired wavelengths, paving the way for next-generation optoelectronic devices. This Special Issue, “Advancements in Photonic Crystals: Materials, Design, and Applications”, seeks high-quality contributions on recent breakthroughs in PC research. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Fundamental physics of photonic crystals;
- Novel materials for photonic crystals;
- Advanced design and optimization methods for photonic crystals;
- Theoretical and computational modeling of photonic band structures;
- Photonic crystal devices and integrated photonics;
- Biophotonics and medical applications;
- Quantum and nonlinear photonic crystals.
Dr. Guang Lu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- photonic crystals
- novel materials
- advanced design
- applications
- photonic bandgaps
- photonic crystal devices
- optoelectronic devices
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