Recent Advances and Emerging Applications in Photonic Materials

Recent Advances and Emerging Applications in Photonic Materials
by Staff Writers
New York NY (SPX) Feb 13, 2023

"Photonic Materials: Recent Advances and Emerging Applications" is a new book that presents the latest trends and research in the field of photonics and photonic materials applications. The chapters are divided into several broad categories, including Photonic Crystals, Plasmonics, Renewable Energy (Solar Cells and Materials), Nanophotonics, Novel Photonic Materials, Bragg Fibers, Silicon Photonics, and Smart Materials.

Chapter 1 of the book summarizes recent developments in Photonic Crystals, including the most frequent and necessary optical devices based on photonic crystals such as optical logic gates, optical power splitters, polarization splitters, sensing devices, and lasers. Chapter 2 proposes a novel design for an all-optical XOR gate using 2D photonic crystals, while Chapter 3 investigates the effect of hydrostatic pressure on the reflectance and transmittance properties of a one-dimensional PC containing germanium (Ge).

Plasmonics, a fast-growing branch of science and technology that focuses on the coupling of light to the free electron density in metals, is covered in Chapter 4. The chapter provides a comprehensive description of the theoretical approaches adopted to investigate graphene surface plasmons, their interactions with photons, phonons, and electrons, and the experimental techniques used to study them.

Chapter 5 critically analyzes the third-generation solar cells in terms of materials, production, fabrication process, energy payback time, efficiency, and applications, while Chapter 6 gives a brief overview of recent research on graphene in solar cell applications. Nanophotonics, which studies the characteristics of light on nanometer scales, is the focus of Chapters 7 and 8.

Chapter 10 reviews the application of monochalcogenides, transition metal dichalcogenides, and MXenes in fiber laser technology, while Chapter 11 explores and compares the propagation and dispersion properties of hollow-core Bragg fiber waveguides for high and low refractive index contrasts of cladding materials. Chapter 12 studies the biological motivation behind the development of multilayer photonic nanostructures.

Chapter 13 analyzes different approaches to modeling fabrication variations in photonic integrated circuits, and Chapter 14 gives a comprehensive review of different types of smart materials, their preparation, characteristics, and applications.

The book is published by Bentham Science Publishers in New York, NY and is available at EurekAlert! and the Bentham Science Publishers website.