The Journal of Nanophotonics (JNP) is an electronic journal focusing on the fabrication and application of nanostructures that facilitate the generation, propagation, manipulation, and detection of light from the infrared to the ultraviolet regimes. The scope extends to theory, modeling and simulation, experimentation, instrumentation, and application. Topics lying within the scope of the journal include:

Nanophotonic Devices

• Light-harvesting materials and devices
• Integrated nanophotonic devices
• Novel resonators and resonator-based devices
• Nanophotonic detectors
• Nanowaveguides and nanoantennas
• Nanoscale optoelectronics
• Metaphotonic devices
• THz nanophotonics
• Lasers
• Devices for energy storage
• Agri-photonics
• Nanophotonic devices for computing and artificial intelligence

 Nanoscale and nanostructured materials

• Nanoparticles and nanoparticulate composite materials
• Quantum dots and other low-dimensional nanostructures
• Nanotubes, nanowires, and nanofibers
• Liquid crystals photonics
• Materials for nanobiophotonics
• Nanophosphor materials
• Two-dimensional and phase-change materials

 Optical manipulation and control with nanostructures

• Photonics crystals, metamaterials, metasurfaces
• Tunable, active, multifunctional, and light-emitting structures
• Surface plasmons and nanoplasmonics
• Excitons and polaritons in nanosystems
• Topological nanophotonics

 Optical characterization

• Scattering and other spectroscopy techniques
• Ultrashort pulse propagation
• Near-field optics

 Quantum materials, devices, and phenomena

• Single photon and other squeezed sources
• Optical manipulation techniques, spectroscopies, and scattering techniques
• Spintronics
• Quantum nanophotonic devices based on photon-atom and photon-ion interactions
• Solid-state quantum devices based on vacancies (e.g., in diamond, silicon carbide, etc.)

 Nanofabrication techniques for photonics

• Colloidal and molecular self-assembly
• Nanolithography (electron beam, focused ion, interference, laser direct write, etc.)
• Advanced growth and deposition techniques (CVD, MBE, sputtering, etc.)
• Nanoemitter incorporation

 Novel design approaches

• Inverse design
• Topology optimization
• Adjoint optimization
• Machine-learning and deep-learning techniques