Fundamentals and Applications of Nanophotonics

Fundamentals and Applications of Nanophotonics includes a comprehensive discussion of the field of nanophotonics, including key enabling technologies that have the potential to drive economic growth and impact numerous application domains such as ICT, the environment, healthcare, military, transport, manufacturing, and energy.

This book gives readers the theoretical underpinnings needed to understand the latest advances in the field. After an introduction to the area, chapters two and three cover the essential topics of electrodynamics, quantum mechanics, and computation as they relate to nanophotonics.

Subsequent chapters explore materials for nanophotonics, including nanoparticles, photonic crystals, nanosilicon, nanocarbon, III-V, and II-VI semiconductors. In addition, fabrication and characterization techniques are addressed, along with the importance of plasmonics, and the applications of nanophotonics in devices such as lasers, LEDs, and photodetectors.

Covers electrodynamics, quantum mechanics and computation as these relate to nanophotonicsReviews materials, fabrication and characterization techniques for nanophotonicsDescribes applications of the technology such as lasers, LEDs and photodetectors

1. Introduction to Nanophotonics 2. Electrodynamics and the Wave Nature of Light: Maxwell Equations 3. Quantum Mechanics and Computation in Nanophotonics 4. Materials 5. Nanofabrication Techniques 6. Nanocharacterization 7. Effective Medium Theories 8. Plasmonics 9. Metamaterials 10. Nonlinear Optics from a Classical Perspective 11. Nanophotonic Devices