The Novel Nanofabrication Method for Meta-Optics Devices
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "A：Physics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2025 | Viewed by 32
Special Issue Editors
Interests: metasurface and metamaterial; nanofabrication; subwavelength optics and its application
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Metamaterials and metasurfaces that consist of subwavelength artificial resonators have attracted tremendous concerns for their capacity for the on-demand tuning of the optical parameters. As a type of subwavelength configuration, metamaterials and metasurfaces possess the advantages of a smaller footprint, higher performance, and more diverse functions, compared to the traditional optical components, and promote the pullulation of compact meta-optics devices. Nowadays, meta-optics devices have proved to be an excellent candidate in wearable optical systems, near-eye displayers, and miniaturized light modulators. For example, time-of-flight (ToF) sensors assembled by metasufaces dramatically reduce the device size and can possibly be used in smart phones and intelligent vehicles. The structures of the resonators in the meta-optics devices, which usually have nanoscale feature sizes, determine the optical performance. Nanoarchitectures with higher spatial controllability are always desired to achieve meta-optics devices with the desired functions and properties, thus posing a serious challenge to the nanofabrication method. The planar art that is based on lithography and the following pattern transfer process struggle to meet the needs of the development of meta-optics. To break thorough this bottleneck, we require new fabrication strategies with the capacity to build up meta-optics structures on the nanoscale with fast processing speeds, large area consistency, and high precision, and we must further utilize them to assemble high-performance meta-optics devices. Accordingly, this Special Issue seeks to showcase research papers and review articles that focus on novel nanofabrication methods in meta-optics devices, i.e., the achievement of meta-devices with diverse spatial controllability, novel fabrication approaches toward metasurfaces and metamaterials, and applications of advanced meta-optics.
Dr. Ruhao Pan
Prof. Dr. Junjie Li
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- nanofabrication
- high spatial controllability
- metamaterials and metasurfaces
- meta-optics devices
- subwavelength resonators
- light modulation
- compact optical devices
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