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Nanophotonics meet functional imaging

Nanophotonics is a part of nanotechnology for investigat-ing the light-matter interactions on the nanometer scale. This field provides a new approach to achieving the limit of specificity and sensitivity in functional medical imag-ing such as photoacoustic imaging, optical coherence tomography, and two-photon microscopy. This functional imaging based on nanophotonics can expand and devel-op new diagnostic and imaging technologies towards ad-vanced healthcare technology with a nanoscale resolu-tion beyond the diffraction limit. Furthermore, functional imaging using nanophotonics has been continuously pro-gressive and expanded to other fields through the con-vergence with other available materials and platforms. This special Issue aims to introduce recent interdiscipli-nary approaches toward innovative nanophotonics-based functional imaging technologies.

Guest editor: 
Junsuk Rho, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea, jsrho@postech.ac.kr

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  1. Metasurfaces can modulate light with periodically arranged subwavelength scatterers, and they can generate arbitrary wavefronts. Therefore, they can be used to realize various optical components. In particular...

    Authors: Dongmin Jeon, Kilsoo Shin, Seong-Won Moon and Junsuk Rho
    Citation: Nano Convergence 2023 10:24
  2. Single-molecule localization microscopy (SMLM) breaks the optical diffraction limit by numerically localizing sparse fluorescence emitters to achieve super-resolution imaging. Spectroscopic SMLM or sSMLM furth...

    Authors: Benjamin Brenner, Cheng Sun, Françisco M. Raymo and Hao F. Zhang
    Citation: Nano Convergence 2023 10:14

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