Photonics Enabled by Plasmonic Metamaterials: Recent Developments and Future Directions
A special issue of Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 June 2026 | Viewed by 5
Special Issue Editor
Interests: plasmonics; metamaterials; nanophotonics; nano-optics; metasurface; nanofabrication; super resolution; sub-diffraction; lithography
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Dear Colleagues,
Due to rapid advancements in materials, computation and nanofabrication techniques, photonics enabled by plasmonic metamaterials and metasurfaces have led to remarkable developments in both fundamental principles and various practical domains, including super-resolution imaging, nanolithography, sensing with high sensitivity and hyperspectral detection. In recent years, researchers have endeavored to combine this technology with physics, materials, and techniques such as deep/extreme ultraviolet source, two-dimensional materials and quantum to search for exciting phenomena and applications.
This Special Issue welcomes the submission of original research articles and reviews that present recent developments and future directions in “Photonics Enabled by Plasmonic Metamaterials and Metasurfaces”. We welcome the submission of all theoretical, numerical, and experimental papers. The scope of this Special Issue includes, but is not limited to, the following topics:
- High/super-resolution imaging;
- Nanolithography and nanofabrication;
- Plasmonic metamaterials and metasurfaces;
- Ultraviolet plasmonic;
- Plasmonics in two-dimensional materials;
- Nonlinear plasmonics;
- Quantum plasmonics;
- Plasmonic waveguides;
- Plasmonic spectroscopy;
- Plasmonics sensing.
Dr. Weijie Kong
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- plasmonic
- metamaterial
- metasurface
- super-resolution
- subwavelength
- nanolithography
- nanofabrication
- ultraviolet
- quantum
- spectroscopy
- sensing
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