Emergent Micro- and Nanomaterials for Optical, Infrared, and Terahertz Applications [Paperback]

1. Introduction to optical, infrared and terahertz frequency bands. 2. Theory of electromagnetic fields. 3. Theoretical Design of Nanomaterials for Optical and Terahertz Applications. 4. Plasmonic Materials and their Applications. 5. Artificial Metamaterials, Metasurfaces and Their Applications. 6. Low Loss Dielectric Materials and Their Applications. 7. Chiral Metamaterials and Their Applications. 8. Emerging Two-dimensional Materials and Their Applications in Detection of Polarized Light. 9. Phase Change Materials. 10. Magnetic and spintronic materials and their applications. 11. Soft and Flexible Materials and their Applications. 12. Piezoelectric materials and their applications. 13. Hybrid Perovskite Materials and their Applications. 14. Near-Infrared Organic Materials for Biological Applications.

This book reviews developments in various emergent micro- and nanomaterials and their implementation in optical, infrared, and terahertz applications. The similarity, advantage, and limitation of each material is discussed and a comparative analysis of the various materials is offered.

Song Sun is Associate Professor at Microsystem and Terahertz Research Center, China Academy of Engineering Physics. He received his B.S. degree (first class honor, 2009) and PhD (2013) in Microelectronics from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Prof. Sun started his career at Institute of High Performance Computing, Agency for Science Technology and Research, Singapore in 2013, and joined Microsystem and Terahertz Research Center, China in 2017. Currently, he is also Adjunct Professor at University of Electronic Science and Technology, China. His expertise is in theoretical physics and computational electromagnetics with a strong background in Vacuum Electronics, Plasmonics, Nanophotonics, Metamaterial and Metasurface, Fluorescence Spontaneous Emission, and their applications. Prof. Sun has authored or coauthored over 60 peerreview journallóÅ