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Volume 11 Issue 9 - Special Issue: Metamaterials and Plasmonics in Asia

April 2022

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Editorial on special issue: “Metamaterials and plasmonics in Asia”

Tie Jun Cui, Jeong Weon Wu, Teruya Ishihara, Lei Zhou

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Metallic and dielectric nanoscatterers are optical pigments that offer rich resonating coloration in the subwavelength regime with prolonged material consistency. Recent advances in responsive materials, whose mechanical shapes and optical properties can change in response to stimuli, expand the scope of scattering-based colorations from static to active. Thus, active color-changing pixels are achieved with extremely high spatial resolution, in conjunction with various responsive polymers and phase-change materials. This review discusses recent progress in developing such responsive photonic nanopixels, ranging from electrochromic to other color-changing concepts. We describe what parameters permit modulation of the scattering colors and highlight superior functional devices. Potential fields of application focusing on imaging devices, including active full-color printing and flexible displays, information encryption, anticounterfeiting, and active holograms, are also discussed.

The mechanism of the perfect anti-reflection of acoustic waves, regardless of frequency and incident angle, is presented. We show that reflections at a planar interface between two different acoustic media can be removed by adding a nonlocal metamaterial that compensates for the impedance mismatch. The properties required of a nonlocal metamaterial are explicitly specified through spatio-temporally dispersive mass density and bulk modulus. We analyze the characteristics of spatio-temporal dispersion according to the thickness of the matching layer. We discuss the issue of the total internal reflection caused by conventional matching layers and explain how our nonlocal matching layer avoids this. The practical design of our nonlocal layer using metamaterials is explained. The omni-directional frequency-independent behavior of the proposed anti-reflection matching layer is confirmed through explicit numerical calculation using the finite element method, and comparisons made to the conventional quarter-wave matching layer approach.

About this journal

Nanophotonics covers recent international research results, specific developments in the field and novel applications and is published in partnership with Sciencewise. It belongs to the top journals in the field. Nanophotonics focuses on the interaction of photons with nano-structures, such as carbon nano-tubes, nano metal particles, nano crystals, semiconductor nano dots, photonic crystals, tissue and DNA. The journal covers the latest developments for physicists, engineers and material scientists, working in fields related to:

Plasmonics: metallic nanostructures and their optical properties
Meta materials, fundamentals and applications
Nanophotonic concepts and devices for solar energy harvesting and conversion
Near-field optical microscopy
Nanowaveguides and devices
Nano Lasers
Nanostructures, nanoparticles, nanotubes, nanowires, nanofibers
Photonic crystals
Integrated silicon photonics
Semiconductor quantum dots
Quantum optics & Quantum information
Ultrafast and nonlinear pulse propagation in nano materials and structures
Light-matter interaction, optical manipulation techniques
Nano-biophotonics
Optofluidics
Optomechanics
System applications based on nanophotonic devices
Nanofabrication techniques, thin film processing, self-assembly

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Average time from submission to initial Editorial Manager assessment: 5 days
Average time from submission to final decision (all article types): 57 days
Average time from acceptance to publication: 13 days

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Special/Topical Issues

Published in 2023:

Quantum Nanophotonics (Guest Editors: Jaehyuck Jang, Minsu Jeong, and Junsuk Rho)
Neural network learning with photonics and for photonic circuit design (Guest Editors: Daniel Brunner, Miguel C. Soriano, and Shanhui Fan)
Nanofabrication (Guest Editors: Maria Farsari, Sang-Hyun Oh, and Joel Yang) 　
Metamaterials and Plasmonics in Asia (Guest Editors: Lei Zhou, JeongWeon Wu, Q-Han Park, Namkyoo Park and Teruya Ishihara)
Nanophotonics in support of Ukrainian Scientists (Guest Editors: Nader Engheta and Nikolay Zheludev; Publishing Editor: Dennis Couwenberg)

Published in 2022:

Photonic Angular Momentum (Guest Editors: Andrew Forbes, Qiwen Zhan and Siddharth Ramachandran)
New Trends in Nanophotonics and Advanced Photonic Materials (Guest Editor: Junsuk Rho)
Metamaterials and Plasmonics in Asia (Guest Editors: Lei Zhou, Tiejun Cui, JeongWeon Wu and Teruya Ishihara)
Tunable Nanophotonics (Guest Editors: Juejun Hu, Arseniy I. Kuznetsov, Volker J. Sorger, and Isabelle Staude)
Novel Two-Dimensional Materials Based Bio-Nanophotonic (Guest Editors: Hans Ågren, Jong Seung Kim and Han Zhang)

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Volume 11 Issue 9 - Special Issue: Metamaterials and Plasmonics in Asia

Issue of Nanophotonics

Frontmatter

Editorial on special issue: “Metamaterials and plasmonics in Asia”

Waveguide effective plasmonics with structure dispersion

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Graphene-based plasmonic metamaterial for terahertz laser transistors

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Recent advances in metamaterials for simultaneous wireless information and power transmission

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Multi-freedom metasurface empowered vectorial holography

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Nanophotonics-inspired all-silicon waveguide platforms for terahertz integrated systems

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Optical metasurfaces towards multifunctionality and tunability

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The perspectives of broadband metasurfaces and photo-electric tweezer applications

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Free-form optimization of nanophotonic devices: from classical methods to deep learning

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Optical generation of strong-field terahertz radiation and its application in nonlinear terahertz metasurfaces

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Responsive photonic nanopixels with hybrid scatterers

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Efficient modal analysis of plasmonic nanoparticles: from retardation to nonclassical regimes

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Molecular chirality detection using plasmonic and dielectric nanoparticles

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Vortex radiation from a single emitter in a chiral plasmonic nanocavity

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Reconfigurable Mach–Zehnder interferometer for dynamic modulations of spoof surface plasmon polaritons

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Manipulating guided wave radiation with integrated geometric metasurface

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Comparison of second harmonic generation from cross-polarized double-resonant metasurfaces on single crystals of Au

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Rotational varifocal moiré metalens made of single-crystal silicon meta-atoms for visible wavelengths

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Meta-lens light-sheet fluorescence microscopy for in vivo imaging

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All-metallic high-efficiency generalized Pancharatnam–Berry phase metasurface with chiral meta-atoms

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Drawing structured plasmonic field with on-chip metalens

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Negative refraction in twisted hyperbolic metasurfaces

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Anisotropic impedance surfaces activated by incident waveform

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Machine–learning-enabled metasurface for direction of arrival estimation

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Intelligent electromagnetic metasurface camera: system design and experimental results

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High-efficiency generation of far-field spin-polarized wavefronts via designer surface wave metasurfaces

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Terahertz meta-chip switch based on C-ring coupling

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Resonance-enhanced spectral funneling in Fabry–Perot resonators with a temporal boundary mirror

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Dynamic inversion of planar-chiral response of terahertz metasurface based on critical transition of checkerboard structures

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Terahertz 3D bulk metamaterials with randomly dispersed split-ring resonators

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BST-silicon hybrid terahertz meta-modulator for dual-stimuli-triggered opposite transmission amplitude control

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Gate-tuned graphene meta-devices for dynamically controlling terahertz wavefronts

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Dual-band composite right/left-handed metamaterial lines with dynamically controllable nonreciprocal phase shift proportional to operating frequency

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Highly suppressed solar absorption in a daytime radiative cooler designed by genetic algorithm

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All-optical binary computation based on inverse design method

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Exciton-dielectric mode coupling in MoS2 nanoflakes visualized by cathodoluminescence

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Broadband wavelength tuning of electrically stretchable chiral photonic gel

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Spatio-spectral decomposition of complex eigenmodes in subwavelength nanostructures through transmission matrix analysis

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Scattering asymmetry and circular dichroism in coupled PT-symmetric chiral nanoparticles

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Exciton-dielectric mode coupling in MoS₂ nanoflakes visualized by cathodoluminescence