Optical Micro–Nano Structures and Devices: Materials, Design and Applications
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "A：Physics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 August 2024) | Viewed by 2371
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Interests: nanophotonics; infrared and terahertz optics; Van der Waals materials; scanning near-field optical microscopy
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Interests: polaritonics; nanophotonics; tehrahertz sciences and technologies; mid-infrared spectroscopy; two-dimensional materials and their optoelectronics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The terahertz band (0.1 THz–10 THz), scarcely exploited compared to other electromagnetic waves, has been receiving enourmous attention around the world. Photonic devices exploiting this frequecny band offer promise in a very diverse range of applications, such as biosensing, medical imaging, and 6G wireless communication technology, to name a few. This may be attributed to their large potential for molecular label-free fingerprinting, as well as their non-ionizing properties and broad spectral bandwidth.
The realization of sensitive, high-speed and high-efficiency micro–nano devices for wireless communication, integrated circuits, and miniaturized interconnections requires materials and structure designs with strong light–matter interactions. However, approaches for generation, transmission, and conversion of terahertz electromagnetic waves are still limited. Therefore, novel materials and their micro–nano structures, exhibiting strong responses, extremely high electromagnetic confinement, and enhanced light–matter interactions, are in urgent demand.
This Special Issue aims to report on novel physical phenomena and machnisms in new emerging materials (metals, semiconductors, two-dimensional materials, topological materials, etc.) for emission, manipulation, and detection of terahertz electromagnetic waves, as well as the design and fabrication of micro–nano structures (cavity, metasurfaces, antenna, etc.) and devices for terahertz emission sources, modulators, and detector sand focal plane arrays for THz imaging.
Dr. Zebo Zheng
Prof. Dr. Huanjun Chen
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- nanomaterials with optical response
- high power terahertz emission
- broadband or narrowband terahertz source
- far-field terahertz modulation
- terahertz detection
- polaritonics
- micro-nano structure and devices for terahertz imaging
- metasurfaces
- terahertz sensing
- optical micro-nano structures and devices.
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