Optical Properties of 2D Material

Dear Colleagues,

With the increased need of high-performance, low-cost, and scalable optical components, there is a growing demand for new methods to develop solid-state photonic devices with enhanced performance. Two-dimensional (2D) materials are an emerging platform with promising properties for optics, including transferability, stretchability, heterogeneous device assembly, and straightforward integration with complex chip architectures. Photonics based on two-dimensional (2D) materials have made incredible progress in recent years and now set the state-of-the-art for a number of applications as integrated light sources, modulators, and detectors. Recently, 2D materials have also begun to impact the field of semiconductor quantum optics through the demonstration of stable quantum emitters, with great potential for quantum communication and sensing.

For this Special Issue, we invite authors to contribute original research as well as review articles on recent advances made on the understanding, characterization, and employment of the optical properties of 2D materials. Potential areas include but are not limited to:

• Integrated active optical components based on 2D materials;
• Light–matter interaction in 2D materials;
• Strong coupling regime and polariton resonances in 2D materials;
• Quantum emitters;
• Active defects in 2D material lattices;
• Plasmonic in 2D systems;
• Sensing with 2D materials;
• Near-field spectroscopy;
• Ultrafast phenomena in 2D materials;
• 2D heterostructures and applications;
• Intra- and interlayer excitons in TMDs.

Dr. Gabriele Grosso
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Applied Sciences is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• 2D materials
• photonics
• photonic devices
• plasmonics
• excitons
• polaritons
• layered semiconductors
• graphene photonics
• 2D heterostructures