We are delighted to announce an open call for papers to our new themed collection focusing on advanced nanophotonics, plasmonics, and nano-optics!
This collection aims to highlight recent breakthroughs and innovative research in the manipulation of light at the nanoscale, including the development of novel nanostructures, enhancement of light-matter interactions, and applications in sensing, imaging, and information processing. We look forward to featuring research that unveils novel processes, phenomena, and discoveries. Although application-oriented studies are welcome, we are especially eager to receive submissions that explore new and intriguing aspects of fundamental science. Topics include but are not limited to,
- Optical nanoantennas
- Light-matter interaction
- Quantum optics
- Near-field optics
- Nonlinear optics
- Anomalies in light scattering
- Spectroscopy and microscopy of materials
- Optical sensors
- Nanofabrication techniques
- New techniques and methods of analysis
- Advanced imaging
- Nano-optical trapping
- Optics and transport in nanomaterials
- Functional nanophotonics
- Optical response of advanced nanostructured materials
- Nanofunctional photonic composites and self-organised nanostructures
- Ultrafast opto-induced magnetism
Submit before 1st December 2024.
If you are interested in contributing to this collection, please get in touch with the Editorial Office.
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This themed collection is Guest Edited by:
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Viktoriia Babicheva
University of New Mexico ORCID: 0000-0002-0789-5738 Viktoriia is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of New Mexico.Before starting at UNM, she worked at the University of Arizona, Georgia State, and Purdue Universities. Her research interests are nanophotonics, plasmonics, and metamaterials and more information can be found here. |
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Yu-Jung (Yuri) Lu
Research Center for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica ORCID: 0000-0002-3932-653X Dr. Yu-Jung Lu is an Associate Research Fellow at the Research Center for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at National Taiwan University. She earned her Ph.D. in Physics from National Tsing Hua University, in 2013, and later joined Prof. Harry Atwater’s research group at Caltech as a postdoctoral researcher from 2015 to 2017. Dr. Lu is a renowned materials physicist who specializes in active plasmonics, nanophotonics, and metasurfaces. Her research focuses on plasmonic nanodevices that enable the harvesting, generation, and manipulation of light at the nanoscale. |
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Alexander Shalin
Suzhou City University ORCID: 0000-0003-0038-5273 His research interests cover theoretical near-field optics, optics of nanoobjects, nanophotonics, plasmonics, optical forces and tweezers, NEMs, optical properties of heterogeneous media and metamaterials, optical transparency, antireflection coatings, metasurfaces, light-trapping coatings. |
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Dattatray Late
CSIR National Chemical Laboratory, India ORCID: 0000-0003-3007-7220 His interests cover the synthesis of various 1D nanowires / nanotubes & 2D (Nanosheets, thin films) nanomaterials for various applications such as sensors, supercapacitors, Light Emitting diodes (LEDs), photodetectors, nano-switches, nonvolatile memory devices, Li-ion batteries, catalysts for water splitting applications, and more. |
