New Directions in Thin Film Nanophotonics

• Main Authors: K. V., Sreekanth (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), ElKabbash, Mohamed (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Caligiuri, Vincenzo (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Singh, Ranjan (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), De Luca, Antonio (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Strangi, Giuseppe (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Progress in Optical Science and Photonics, 6
• Subjects: Surfaces (Physics).; Interfaces (Physical sciences).; Thin films.; Microwaves.; Optical engineering.; Materials-Surfaces.; Lasers.; Photonics.; Nanotechnology.; Biomaterials.; Surface and Interface Science, Thin Films.; Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering.; Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films.; Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices.; Nanotechnology and Microengineering.

This book highlights recent advances in thin-film photonics, particularly as building blocks of metamaterials and metasurfaces. Recent advances in nanophotonics has demonstrated remarkable control over the electromagnetic field by tailoring the optical properties of materials at the subwavelength sc...

Table of Contents:

• Perfect light absorption in thin and ultra-thin films and its applications
• Realization of point-of-darkness and extreme phase singularity using nanophotonic cavities
• Phase change material-based nanophotonic cavities for reconfigurable photonic device applications
• Subwavelength nanopatterning using thin metal films
• Dielectric singularities in hyperbolic metamaterials
• Resonant gain singularities in hyperbolic metamaterials
• Metal/photoemissive-blend hyperbolic metamaterials for controlling the topological transition
• Guided modes of hyperbolic metamaterial and their applications
• Graphene and topological insulator-based active THz hyperbolic metamaterials.