Dear Colleagues,

Light-matter interactions pervades the disciplines of optical and atomic physics, condensed matter physics, electrical engineering, molecular biology, and medicine with frequency and length scales extending over many orders of magnitude. The interaction at the nanometer scale is particularly important. Combining the outcomes of light-matter interactions and nanotechnology to achieve completely new optical, electrical, and photoelectric capabilities has led to the development of nano-optics and nano-optoelectronics, which have become an essential component of science and technology. Such applications include nanolasers, photonic crystals, semiconductor dots, quantum optics, nanowires, nanowaveguides, and nanomaterials in fiber lasers.

This Special Issue of Nanomaterials aims to bring together research on light-matter interactions with research on nanomaterials. We invite authors to contribute original research articles and review articles to give a fair appraisal of the current state of the art and perspectives on the future of nanophotonics research. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Nanomaterials;
• Specially designed nano-structured materials;
• Light and laser sources;
• Light trapping and cooling;
• Optical phenomena in nano-photonic structures;
• Nanofabrication techniques;
• Nanoplasmonics;
• Quantum, nonlinear and nonlocal effects in nanostructures;
• Photonic crystals;
• Nanowaveguiding devices;
• Single-photon sources.

Dr. Zhengkun Fu
Dr. Lianghui Huang
Prof. Dr. Mengtao Sun
Guest Editors

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