Photonic Devices Based on Plasmonic or Dielectric Nanostructures
A special issue of Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732). This special issue belongs to the section "Optoelectronics and Optical Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2024) | Viewed by 7662
Special Issue Editors
Interests: optics; photonics; light scattering; computational science; metasurfaces; plasmonics; sensing
Interests: photonics; solar cells; detectors; liquid crystals; optics
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Dear Colleagues,
Metallic and dielectric nanostructures have been vastly investigated in recent years due to their capability of enhancing light–matter interaction at the nanoscale. Attending to their near-field properties, strong electromagnetic energy confinement energy either in the surroundings or inside the nanoparticles has found applications in many different fields (e.g., sensing, solar cells, detectors, optical communications). Regarding the far-field characteristics, interesting directional properties originating from the interferential effects between dipolar and higher multipolar electric and magnetic resonances in the dielectric nanoparticles have been exploited for designing different photonic devices, such as optical switchers, filters, or holograms, among others.
Both an active tunability of these properties and a fitting of their spectral working band are interesting. In this sense, liquid crystals and phase-change materials represent some of the solutions that have been proposed.
This Special Issue invites manuscripts that introduce recent advances in metallic and/or dielectric nanostructures for designing photonic devices. All theoretical, numerical, and experimental papers are accepted. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Metallic and/or dielectric nanostructures for absorption enhancement: solar cells, photodectectors;
- Metallic and/or dielectric nanostructures for sensing;
- Metallic and/or dielectric nanostructures for switching devices;
- Metallic and/or dielectric nanostructures for building holograms;
- Metallic and/or dielectric nanostructures for color filters;
- Tunable photonic devices by means of liquid crystals;
- Tunable photonic devices using phase-change materials.
Dr. Angela Barreda
Dr. Braulio García-Cámara
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- plasmonic
- dielectric
- nanostructures
- phase-change materials
- liquid crystals
- switchers
- filters
- solar cells
- detectors
- holograms
- sensors
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