Focus
Nanophotonics and Metamaterials
- Focus issue:
- December 2014 Volume 8 No 12 pp877-972
The creation of photonic materials, circuitry, devices and probes that act on the nanoscale is yielding new opportunities for controlling light in the sub-wavelength regime. The result could be higher density information storage and processing, and improved sensing and imaging capabilities.
Editorial
Not so small - p877
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2014.282
'Nanophotonics' is no longer just the realm of plasmonics researchers. Fields like metamaterials and 'flat' two-dimensional systems based on atomically thin materials are expanding the boundaries of nanophotonics.
Interview
Nanophotonics is big - pp878 - 879
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2014.281
Nature Photonics spoke to Pierre Berini — pioneer of plasmon waveguides — to get some perspective on how nanophotonics has evolved over the past decade and where it is heading.
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Reviews
Plasmonic meta-atoms and metasurfaces - pp889 - 898
Nina Meinzer, William L. Barnes & Ian R. Hooper
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2014.247
Metamaterials enable the tailoring of properties like dielectric permittivity and magnetic permeability. Electromagnetic excitations of metamaterial constituents and their interactions are reviewed, as well as promising future directions.
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Two-dimensional material nanophotonics - pp899 - 907
Fengnian Xia, Han Wang, Di Xiao, Madan Dubey & Ashwin Ramasubramaniam
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2014.271
The optical properties of graphene and emerging two-dimensional materials including transition metal dichalcogenides are reviewed with an emphasis on nanophotonic applications.
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Advances in small lasers - pp908 - 918
Martin T. Hill & Malte C. Gather
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2014.239
The latest developments in laser miniaturization, including those based on metals and dielectrics, are reviewed and future challenges outlined.
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Mapping nanoscale light fields - pp919 - 926
N. Rotenberg & L. Kuipers
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2014.285
Recent developments in probe-based near-field microscopy are reviewed, including techniques for determining the phase, amplitude and separate components of the electric and magnetic field.
Abstract - | Full Text - Mapping nanoscale light fields | PDF (2,168 KB) - Mapping nanoscale light fields
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