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This feature issue is a partial collection of contributions from authors who presented their research at the 9th International Conference on Nanophotonics (ICNP 2016) held during March 21-25, 2016 at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. ICNP is an independent conference series dedicated to nanophotonics research and applications. This feature issue collects 28 papers related to research presented at ICNP 2016.
© 2016 Optical Society of America
1. Introduction to ICNP 2016
Nanophotonics, the art and practice of exploring behavior of light on the nanometer scale, and of the interaction of nanometer-scale objects with light, is an interdisciplinary field that cuts across optical science and engineering, optoelectronics, and nanotechnology [1,2]. This is a rapidly evolving field that has attracted tremendous interests and massive investment from scientific and technological communities around the world [3–12]. The driving force for this sensational development is the promise to go far beyond the conventional boundaries of optics and photonics. Because of the diffraction limit, regular optical components do not have the ability to confine light down to the nanoscale dimension, nor do these components interact with light much when fabricated into structures of nanoscale dimension. Taking advantage of novel materials with unique properties and maturity of nanofabrication techniques, research in nanophotonics continues to make cutting-edge process in a variety of fronts ranging from fundamental phenomena to practical applications [13–18]. Launched in 2007 as an annual event with the exception in 2014, the International Conference on Nanophotonics (ICNP) held at various Asian cities so far is dedicated to this emerging field. ICNP 2016 is the 9th in such a series that took place during March 21-25, 2016 at Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan where scientists and researchers around the world met and reported their latest advances in optics and photonics both in nano- and micro-scale.
This conference primarily aims to explore novel ideas in nanophotonic science and technology that might enable technological breakthroughs in high impact areas, such as biomedical and life sciences, information processing, communications, energy harvesting and storage, environment and conservation. Participants of this five-day conference with three parallel venues have either attended or contributed to sessions that covered a very broad subject areas that are closely related to nanophotonics such as microscopy and nanoscopy, nano-optoelectronics, metamaterials and plasmonics, nanofabrication, photonic crystals and nanofibers, nanocharacterization, green photonics and photovoltaic, self-assembly and nanochemistry, nanolasers, nanodevices and integration, modeling and simulation, quantum optics and computing, silicon photonics, nonlinear optics, and nanobiophotonics: imaging, sensing, nanomedicine and light activated therapy.
ICNP 2016 brought together over 400 participants from all over the world as participants ranging from new comers such as students just beginning to set feet in this field to well-known experts and leaders. There were 9 plenary talks led off by the Nobel Laureate, Eric Betzig, who delivered an inspiring presentation on “Imaging life at high spatiotemporal resolution.” The rest of the conference consisted of 101 invited and contributed talks, and 107 posters.
2. About the Feature Issue
This feature issue is a partial collection of outstanding works presented at ICNP 2016. It consists of 28 papers in total. All papers must present original, previously unpublished results, and were subject to the established standards and peer-review process of this journal. To be eligible for consideration of publication in this feature issue, submissions must include substantial and/or significant new information in addition to their original conference abstracts.
Our expectation of this feature issue is to accomplish three objectives. The first one is to feature some of the important contributions that were reported at ICNP 2016; the second is to draw attention of even more researchers to the field of nanophotonics; the last objective is to make researchers be aware of the potential impact of nanophotonics to other important fields.
Acknowledgments
ICNP acknowledges the supports from Research Center for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica (AS-103-TP-A06), National Tsing Hua University (105-J6-008-J4, MOST-105-2916-I-007-009-A1), National Taiwan University, Ministry of Science & Technology (MOST-104-2745-M-002-003-ASP and MOST-105-2745-M-002-002-ASP), Bureau of Foreign Trade, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Taiwan, R.O.C., Taiwan Information Storage Association, and Taiwan Photonics Society.
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