Nonlinear Optical Materials: Design and Application
A special issue of Inorganics (ISSN 2304-6740). This special issue belongs to the section "Inorganic Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2026 | Viewed by 107
Special Issue Editor
Interests: oxides (borate, nitrate, carbonate, phosphate, sulfate, iodate, selenite, tellurite); chalcogenides (transition heterometallic-thio clusters, supermolecules); nanohybrids (porphyrins-functionalized graphenes/carbon nanotubes); nano-heterojunctions (SnS-MoS2, MoS2-Cu2-xS nanoparticles, MoS2 nanosheets); metal phosphide nanostructures (Ni12P5 nanoparticles, Co2P nanorods, Fe2P-loaded on N-doped graphene, Ni3P hollow porous nanospheres, Fe2P hierarchical nanostructures)
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Third-order nonlinear optical (3rd NLO) materials constitute a distinctive class of photonic media characterized by their intrinsic third-order nonlinear susceptibility χ(3), which governs intensity-dependent modulation of refractive and absorptive indices. These properties enable diverse applications essential for modern photonics, including optical limiting, all-optical switching, sub-bandgap photodetection, and ultrashort pulse generation, with critical deployments in ultrafast laser systems and high-bandwidth optical communications. Notably, their optical limiting capability plays an indispensable key role in protecting human eyes and optical sensors from laser-induced damage across military, medical, and industrial platforms, while their integration into emerging domains such as quantum photonics and silicon photonics underscores substantial potential for next-generation all-optical signal processing architectures. Inorganic and related materials, leveraging their diverse electronic band structures, large NLO coefficients, and ultrafast response times, constitute the foundational framework of 3rd nonlinear optics and serve as the cornerstone for on-chip optical modulation and quantum photonic applications.
This Special Issue aims to collect original research articles and comprehensive reviews on recent advances across all aspects of inorganic and related NLO materials, including but not limited to metal chalcogenides, oxides, halides and coordination complexes, carbon-based nanomaterials, metallic nanoclusters and nanoparticles, hybrid composite materials, and van der Waals heterostructures, thereby disseminating cutting-edge knowledge to a broad scientific audience.
I invite you to contribute papers in the following research areas and to enable your research to impact the next trend in this promising field of inorganic materials.
Prof. Dr. Chi Zhang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- metalloorganic compounds
- carbon-based materials—graphene, carbon nanotubes
- transition metal sulfides and oxides
- perovskites, metal halides
- MXene-based materials
- nanoclusters/nanoparticles: nanogold, nanosilver clusters
- inorganic–organic hybrid materials
- inorganic hybrid composite materials
- metal complexes
- two-dimensional heterojunctions
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