Two-Dimensional Materials for Emerging Photonics and Spintronics Applications
A special issue of Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2026 | Viewed by 12
Special Issue Editors
Interests: two-dimensional materials; meta-surfaces; IR photonics; light–matter interactions; optical spectroscopies; sensing and imaging; numerical simulations
Interests: nano-magnets; thin films; ferromagnetics; spintronics; magnetization dynamics; microwave devices; spin orbit torque; topological insulators; Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interactions
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Two-dimensional (2D) materials have revolutionized the field of materials science and device engineering due to their unique structural, electrical, and optical properties. Their atomically thin geometry, strong light–matter interaction, tunable electronic band structure, and compatibility with heterogeneous integration have made them particularly attractive for advanced photonic, optoelectronic, and spintronics applications.
In recent years, significant progress has been made in using 2D materials—including graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), black phosphorus, and natural hyperbolic van der Waals crystals—for devices operating across the visible, infrared, and terahertz regimes. They demonstrated their potential in ultra-compact photonic and optical components, e.g., modulators, photodetectors, THz emitters, waveguides, and many others, opening new frontiers in both fundamental physics and practical device technologies.
This Special Issue aims to bring together recent advancements and insights into the design, fabrication, characterization, and theoretical modeling of novel and existing 2D materials-based optical, photonic, optoelectronic, spintronics, and electro-optic systems. It will serve as a platform for researchers to showcase cutting-edge results and explore interdisciplinary challenges that bridge materials science, photonics, and device physics.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Engineering light–matter interaction in 2D materials from visible to THz frequencies for optical, spintronic, and photonic devices.
- Polaritonic phenomena in 2D materials (e.g., exciton-, phonon-, magnon- and plasmon-polaritons).
- Moiré superlattices and heterostructure for emergent optoelectronic spintronics behavior in twisted 2D materials.
- Light–spin interaction dynamics in 2D materials and heterostructures for quantum photonics, single-photon sources, and valleytronics applications.
- Tunable spintronic THz emitters using 2D interfaces with ferromagnets.
- Spin wave propagation and mapping in 2D materials and heterostructures.
- Integration of 2D materials with dielectric and plasmonic meta-surfaces.
- Optical characterization techniques and experimental probes for 2D materials.
- Advances in synthesis, stacking, and interfacial control of 2D heterostructures for optical and spintronic functionality.
- Nonlinear optics and ultrafast dynamics in 2D materials and their heterostructures.
Dr. Saurabh Dixit
Dr. Vinay Sharma
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- two-dimensional materials
- quantum photonics
- quantum optics
- nonlinear optics
- spintronics
- polariton
- Moiré superlattices
- light–matter interactions
- metamaterials
- anisotropic materials
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