Nanoscale Materials and Their Photonic Devices

Dear Colleagues,

Nanomaterials and their functional devices are generally regarded as a promising alternative for the next generation of photonic chips. Undoubtedly, the unique advantages of photons, including a large width, high computing speed, ultrahigh parallelism, and low power consumption, provide new opportunities to overcome the performance limitation of certain traditional electronic devices. Recently, the emerging nanostructures and nanotechnology have boosted the development of functional modules in all-optical processing chips, such as emitters, detectors, modulators, waveguides, and switches. The key advances lie in the design of the electronic states and the optical states, which leads to the significant improvement in the functionality and performance of photonic devices.

This Special Issue will present both scientific and engineering aspects of nanomaterials and their practical applications in the fields of optical communication, high-level security, on-chip recording, high-throughput sensing, etc. This includes the design and controlled synthesis of nanoarchitectures, fundamental properties, spectral management, and achievement of state-of-the-art photonic devices. We invite authors to contribute original research articles and review articles covering the current progress on nanoscale materials and their photonic devices.

Dr. Limin Jin
Guest Editor

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• nanomaterials
• nanophotonics
• optical devices
• spectral management
• controlled synthesis