Emerging Trends in Photonic Crystals

Dear Colleagues,

Over the last three decades, photonic crystals (PhCs) have garnered significant interest due to their broad applicative potential in optics and photonics. Generally, these structures can be fabricated via either “top-down” lithographic or “bottom-up” self-assembly approaches. These self-assembly approaches have attracted particular attention due to their low cost, simple fabrication processes, relative convenience regarding scalability, and the ease of creating complex structures with nanometer precision. Self-assembled colloidal crystals (CCs), which are good candidates for PhCs, have offered unprecedented opportunities for photonics, optics, optoelectronics, sensing, energy harvesting, environmental remediation, pigments, display, LED, biomedical engineering and many other applications. The emerging application of CCs and unique photonic structures is enabled by advanced self-assembly methods.

In this Special Issue, we would like to focus on the emerging trends in PhCs. These include, but are not limited to, the simulation of novel photonic crystal structures, new approaches to the fabrication of PhCs, and the wide novel application of these PhCs.

Prof. Dr. Zhongyu Cai
Guest Editor

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