Overview
- Highlights recent advances in active thin-film photonics, and understanding of thin-film photonics for reconfigurable photonic devices
- Discusses thin-film photonics in the context of building blocks of lithography-free nanophotonic cavities and metamaterials?
- Also highlights the applications of thin-films for advanced biosensing, gas sensing, negative refraction and perfect absorption
Part of the book series: Progress in Optical Science and Photonics (POSP, volume 6)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Development and Applications of Metal/Dielectric Resonant Cavity-Based Thin Film Structures
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Front Matter
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Development and Applications of Multilayered Hyperbolic Metamaterials
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Keywords
- Nanophotonic cavity
- Phase singularity
- Ultrathin films
- Critical light coupling
- Thin-film optical absorbers
- Subwavelength nanopatterning
- Hyperbolic metamaterials
- Biosensing
- Epsilon near zero metamaterials
- Resonant gain singularities
- Terahertz frequencies
- Perfect light absorption
- Negative refraction
- Gas sensing
- Super lensing
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Dr. Mohamed ElKabbash obtained his bachelors in Law and Master in Law from Alexandria University, Egypt. He then obtained a B. A. in physics and economics from Illinois Wesleyan University, IL, USA, and PhD in physics from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA. He is currently a postdoctoral associate at the high intensity femtosecond laser lab, the institute of optics, University of Rochester, NY, USA.
Dr. Vincenzo Caligiuri received his Master Degree in Electronic Engineering in 2013 at the University of Calabria. In 2017 he received his Ph.D. in Physics and Material Science at the University of Calabria, in collaboration with the Nanoplasm laboratory of Case Western Reserve University, Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and CNR Nanotech. At the moment, he is working as a Post-Doc at the Nanochemistry Department of the Italian Institute of Technology.
Prof. Ranjan Singh is an Assistant Professor at the School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He received his M. S. degree in Optoelectronics and Laser Technology from Cochin University of Science and Technology, India and PhD in photonics from Oklahoma State University, USA. Before joining NTU, he was a postdoctoral research associate at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA.
Prof. Antonio De Luca is an Associate Professor of Applied Physics at University of Calabria. He is affiliated to INSTM, the National Consortium on the Materials Science and Technology and Co-Chair of the scientific initiative “From Life to Life” National Academy of Lincei. He is the President of the “Associazione NanoPlasm” that is involved to the promotion of research activities in Plasmonics and Nano-Photonics. He is also affiliated with CNR-National Research Council, Nanotec Institute – Italy. He completed his PhD at University of Calabria.
Prof. Giuseppe Strangi is Professor of Physics and General Medical Sciences at Case Western Reserve University, USA. He also holds an endowed chair professorships as Ohio Research Scholar in Surfaces of Advanced Materials at CWRU. He is senior scientist of the National Research Council (CNR- Italy). Strangi is the President of the Scientific Committee of the Foundation “Con il Cuore”, a national foundation that supports cancer research in Europe and he is the General Chair of the International Conference – NANOPLASM “New Frontiers in Plasmonics and Nanophotonics”. He is fellow of The Institute of Science of the Origins and of the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center (CWRU), Senior Member of Optical Society of America and American Physical Society.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: New Directions in Thin Film Nanophotonics
Authors: Sreekanth K. V., Mohamed ElKabbash, Vincenzo Caligiuri, Ranjan Singh, Antonio De Luca, Giuseppe Strangi
Series Title: Progress in Optical Science and Photonics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8891-0
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-8890-3Published: 10 July 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-8893-4Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-8891-0Published: 27 June 2019
Series ISSN: 2363-5096
Series E-ISSN: 2363-510X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 172
Topics: Surface and Interface Science, Thin Films, Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering, Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films, Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices, Nanotechnology and Microengineering, Biomaterials