Dear Colleagues,

Optical sensors have been well developed and widely distributed in varies areas. As the developing of micro-/nano-fabrication technique, varies plasmonic structures with excellent sensing performance have been boosting, which provides flexible and outstanding properties for kinds of sensors.

This special issue is aimed at the latest advances in the theories, principles, novel designs, special structures and varies applications of plasmon-based optical sensors. The topics include but are not limited to:

• Proposed or developed plasmonic theory adopted for sensing based on electromagnetic or quantum theory for plasmonic structures;
• Novel sensing principle or prototype based on new ideas, techniques, fabrications, hybrid structures and interdisciplinary areas with sufficient details;
• Integrated sensing systems and lab-on-chip sensors;
• Remote sensing, distributed optical fiber sensing, sensor networks and algorithms for fiber sensing;
• Kinds of plasmonic waveguide (like nanowires, wedges and grooves) -based sensing;
• Semiconductor nanowires, waveguides sensors with plasmonic effect;
• Meta-materials and meta-surface based and other photonics-based optical sensors;
• Two-dimensional nanomaterials based optical sensors;
• Ultra-sensitive, cost-effective, and label-free sensing;
• Plasmonics-based smart optical sensors;
• Plasmonic imaging and digital-resolution imaging sensing for various biomoleculars;
• Plasmonic-enhanced fluorescent and quantum dots-based high-sensitive sensing;
• Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) for sensing detection;
• Summarized work, reviews and perspectives in this area;

Prof. Dr. Yurui Fang
Dr. Yuzhang Liang
Guest Editors

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• Plasmon-based optical sensors

• Plasmonic/photonic sensing principle

• Plasmonic/photonic sensing design

• Plasmonic/photonic applications

• Label-free Plasmonic/photonic sensing

• Ultra-sensitive plasmonic/photonic sensing

• Plasmonic waveguide sensing

• Plasmonic imaging sensing

• Remote sensing and sensing network