Photonics Volume 2: Nanophotonic Structures and Materials

Discusses the basic physical principles underlying thescience and technology of nanophotonics, its materials andstructures

This volume presents nanophotonic structures and Materials.Nanophotonics is photonic science and technology that utilizeslight/matter interactions on the nanoscale where researchers arediscovering new phenomena and developing techniques that go wellbeyond what is possible with conventional photonics andelectronics.The topics discussed in this volume are: CavityPhotonics; Cold Atoms and Bose-Einstein Condensates; Displays;E-paper; Graphene; Integrated Photonics; Liquid Crystals;Metamaterials; Micro-and Nanostructure Fabrication; Nanomaterials;Nanotubes; Plasmonics; Quantum Dots; Spintronics; Thin FilmOptics
Comprehensive and accessible coverage of the whole of modernphotonics
Emphasizes processes and applications that specifically exploitphoton attributes of light
Deals with the rapidly advancing area of modern optics
Chapters are written by top scientists in their field

Written for the graduate level student in physical sciences;Industrial and academic researchers in photonics, graduate studentsin the area; College lecturers, educators, policymakers,consultants, Scientific and technical libraries, governmentlaboratories, NIH.

David L. Andrews leads research on fundamentalmolecular photonics and energy transport, optomechanical forces andnonlinear optical phenomena. He has over 160 research papers andalso eight books to his name - including the widely adoptedtextbook Lasers in Chemistry. The current focus of his researchgroup is on novel mechanisms for optical nanomanipulation andswitching, and light-harvesting in nanostructured molecularsystems. The group enjoys strong international links, particularlywith groups in Canada, Lithuania, New Zealand and the UnitedStates. Andrews is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, anda Fellow of the Institute of Physics, and he is the inaugural Chairof the SPIE Nanotechnology Technical Group.