DESCRIPTION

Optical metamaterials (and their 2-D versions, usually referred to as “metasurfaces”) are artificial composite (dielectric or metallo-dielectric) materials that can be engineered so as to attain fine control of light-matter interactions at the nanoscales, as well as to exhibit exotic responses (e.g., anomalous reflection and refraction) that are not usually found in conventional materials.

Metamaterial science and engineering nowadays constitute one of the most transformative and fast pacing research fields, with a variety of potentially disruptive applications including communications, defense, and chemical/biological sensing.

This Special Collection of Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology aims at showcasing the recent advances and trends in the modeling, design, fabrication, characterization and applications of optical metamaterials and metasurfaces.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Novel physical phenomena
• Advances in modeling and simulations
• Experimental characterization
• Nano-fabrication approaches
• Quantum, nonreciprocal, and topological effects
• Nanoparticles, nanophotonics and nanoplasmonics
• Nanocircuits and nanoantennas
• Active, nonlinear, tunable, and reconfigurable structures
• Applications to communications, security and safety, optical sensing

Manuscripts submitted to this Special Collection will be peer-reviewed before publication.

Please submit your manuscript by March 30, 2018 to be considered for publication.

Lead Guest Editor