Nanophotonic Materials and Sensor Devices
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Optical Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 December 2025 | Viewed by 1428
Special Issue Editors
Interests: photodetection; photonic materials; THz sensing
Interests: nanophotonics; integrated optics; optical waveguide devices, including their applications in sensing
Interests: scientific activity deals with the design, characterization, and analysis of novel nanomaterials, schemes, and processes within the broad area of photonics, including sensing applications; topics on integrated photonics, nanoplasmonics, and infrared spectroscopy; fundamental investigations in weak and strong light–matter interactions, from the visible to the terahertz
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Recently, we have seen a growing interest in Nanophotonic Materials and Sensor Devices, which offer new opportunities for sensing technology. Sensing based on nanophotonic materials, including nano particles, nano tubes, nano films, nano 2D materials, metamaterials, photonic crystals, and micro-structure fibers, has the advantages of high sensitivity, low power consumption, and being on-chip integrable. Nanophotonic materials for sensing have found a range of applications in biology, medical science, materials analysis, robot technology, environment monitoring, radiation detection, and communication technology.
This Special Issue therefore aims to put together original research and review articles on recent advances, theories, methods, technologies, solutions, applications, and new challenges in the field of various nanophotonic materials for sensing and related sensing devices.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- New theory or preparation methods of, or new phenomena in organic nano materials for sensing or related sensing applications;
- New theory or preparation methods of, or new phenomena in inorganic nano materials for sensing or related sensing applications;
- New theory or preparation methods of, or new phenomena in 2D nano materials for sensing or related sensing applications;
- New theory or preparation methods of, or new phenomena in metamaterials for sensing or related sensing applications;
- New theory or preparation methods of, or new phenomena in photonic crystals for sensing or related sensing applications;
- New theory or preparation methods of, or new phenomena in other nano-structure materials for sensing or related sensing applications;
- Nanophotonic materials-based biomedical sensing;
- Nanophotonic materials-based sensing for materials analysis;
- Nanophotonic materials-based image sensing;
- Nanophotonic materials-based spectral sensing;
- Nanophotonic materials-based sensing for food safety;
- Nanophotonic materials-based sensing for water safety;
- Nanophotonic materials-based sensing for soil monitoring;
- Nanophotonic materials-based sensing for atmosphere monitoring;
- Nanophotonic materials-based sensing for health monitoring of humans;
- Nanophotonic materials-based sensing for driverless transportation;
- Nanophotonic materials-based sensing for internet of things;
- Nanophotonic materials-based sensing for smart home;
- Nanophotonic materials-based sensing for smart agriculture;
- Nanophotonic materials-based sensing for smart manufacturing;
- Nanophotonic materials-based sensing for robots;
- Nanophotonic materials-based sensing for factory safety;
- Nanophotonic materials-based sensing for mine safety;
- Nanophotonic materials-based sensing for oil depot safety;
- Nanophotonic materials-based sensing for the semiconductor device industry;
- Nanophotonic materials-based sensing for integrated-circuit fabrication and test;
- Nanophotonic materials-based sensing for remote sensing;
- Nanophotonic materials-based sensing for electric/magnetic field sensing;
- Nanophotonic materials-based sensing for force/gravity sensing;
- Nanophotonic materials-based sensing for speed sensing;
- Nanophotonic materials-based sensing for acceleration sensing;
- Nanophotonic materials-based sensing for temperature sensing;
- Nanophotonic materials-based sensing for humidity sensing;
- Nanophotonic materials-based sensing for frequency/wavelength sensing;
- Nanophotonic materials-based sensing for earthquake precursor sensing;
- Nanophotonic materials-based sensing for sensing of harmful/flammable/explosive gases;
- Nanophotonic materials-based sensing for sensing of cosmic rays or particles;
- Nanophotonic materials-based sensing for sensing in quantum communications;
- Nanophotonic materials-based sensing for sensing of weak signals;
- Nanophotonic materials-based sensing for astronomical exploration.
Prof. Dr. Zhengbiao Ouyang
Prof. Dr. Huihui Lu
Dr. Xin Jin
Dr. Huanhuan Liu
Guest Editors
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