Investigation on Optical Phenomena of Micro/Nano Materials/Structures
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Advanced Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 February 2023) | Viewed by 2888
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Materials and structures in micro-/nano dimensions have revealed unprecedented optical phenomena, which open up the rapidly developing fields of nanophotonics, metamaterials, photonic crystals, and plasmonics. This Special Issue aims to provide a forum for discussion about the recent efforts and advances in the investigation of various optical phenomena based on subwavelength-scale light–matter interactions.
The scope of this Special Issue includes fundamental research on the optical properties of varieties of micro-/nanomaterials/-structures, as well as applied research in multiple novel applications. It covers a broad range of topics including, but not limited to, the following areas:
- Plasmonics: metallic nanostructures and their optical properties;
- Metamaterials, metasurfaces, metadevices, fundamentals and applications;
- Nanophotonic concepts and devices for solar energy harvesting and conversion;
- Near-field optical microscopy;
- Light–matter interactions in nanocavities, nanolasers;
- Nanostructures, nanoparticles, nanotubes, nanowires, nanowaveguides, and nanofibers;
- Integrated silicon photonics;
- Semiconductor quantum dots;
- Two-dimensional materials;
- Ultrafast and nonlinear optical responses in nanomaterials and -structures;
- Optical manipulation techniques;
- Nano-biophotonics;
- Optofluidics;
- Optomechanics;
- System applications based on nanophotonic devices;
- Nanofabrication techniques, thin-film processing, and self-assembly.
Dr. Tianyue Zhang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- nanophotonics
- nano-optics
- light–matter interactions
- optical materials
- photonic devices
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