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Welcome to the Journal of Nanophotonics
Akhlesh Lakhtakia
Editor-in-Chief
The launch of a new research journal is a time for hope, not only for
the future of that journal
but also for the future of the research areas within its scope.
Undoubtedly, nanoscience and
nanotechnology constitute a major growth area of scientific and
technological research in the
new century, with the potential to transform the human condition so
radically as to be barely
imaginable today. The current explosive growth of nanoresearch coupled
with the ever-expanding
role of optics and photonics in human civilization for at least a
century inspired
SPIE leaders last year to undertake the publication of the Journal of
Nanophotonics. Their
hopes for the new journal are symbolized by its launch during Photonics
West, the showcase
research conference and trade show of SPIE that greets the world of
optics and photonics at
the beginning of each new year.
The new journal is published in a recently emerged format. The Journal
of Nanophotonics
is an online-only journal. Its publication underlines the societal
transformation that
information science and technology (IST), another current growth area
but of somewhat older
provenance, has already wrought. As IST has thus enabled the rapid,
worldwide dissemination
of nanoresearch, and as the products of nanoresearch enable new formats
of information
production, storage, and dispersal, the contours of a new world of
global research are being
created. How exhilarating for researchers in all traditional
disciplines, at interdisciplinary
boundaries, and in multidisciplinary spaces!
The Journal of Nanophotonics focuses on the fabrication and application
of nanostructures
that facilitate the generation, propagation, manipulation, and
detection of light from the
infrared to the ultraviolet regimes. Topics lying within its scope
include: nanoparticles and
nanoparticulate composite materials and thin films; quantum dots and
other low-dimensional
nanostructures; nanotubes, nanowires, and nanofibers; nanowaveguides
and nanoantennas;
sculptured thin films and nanostructured photonic crystals; quantum
optics and spintronics;
nanoscale optical electronics; surface plasmons and nanoplasmonics;
ultrashort pulse
propagation; light-harvesting materials and devices; nanoscale light
sources; nanophotonic
detectors; near-field optics, optical manipulation techniques,
spectroscopies, and scattering
techniques; molecular self-assembly and other nanofabrication
techniques; nanobiophotonics;
nanothermal systems; and nanophotonic concepts and systems that
facilitate continued
integration of various optical and/or electronic functions. The scope
extends from theory,
modeling and simulation, experimentation, and instrumentation to
application.
On behalf of SPIE leaders as well as the editorial team of the Journal
of Nanophotonics, I
invite you to submit original manuscripts reporting on research and
development in
nanophotonics. Every manuscript is to be reviewed by the editorial team
and anonymous
peers. The journal also aims to publish focus issues containing invited
papers. A book-review
section is also planned.
Welcome to this new journal, in a recently emerged format, on an
emerging research area!
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