Intelligent Nanotechnology: Merging Nanoscience and Artificial Intelligence provides an overview of advances in science and technology made possible by the convergence of nanotechnology and artificial intelligence (AI). Sections focus on AI-enhanced design, characterization and manufacturing and the use of AI to improve important material properties, with an emphasis on mechanical, photonic, electronic and magnetic properties. Designing benign nanomaterials through the prediction of their impact on biology and the environment is also discussed. Other sections cover the use of AI in the acquisition and analysis of data in experiments and AI technologies that have been enhanced through nanotechnology platforms. Final sections review advances in applications enabled by the merging of nanotechnology and artificial intelligence, including examples from biomedicine, chemistry and automated research.

This book, the first of its kind, bridges the gap between the increasingly interlinked fields of nanophotonics and artificial intelligence (AI). While artificial intelligence techniques, machine learning in particular, have revolutionized many different areas of scientific research, nanophotonics holds a special position as it simultaneously benefits from AI-assisted device design whilst providing novel computing platforms for AI. This book is aimed at both researchers in nanophotonics who want to utilize AI techniques and researchers in the computing community in search of new photonics-based hardware. The book guides the reader through the general concepts and specific topics of relevance from both nanophotonics and AI, including optical antennas, metamaterials, metasurfaces, and other photonic devices on the one hand, and different machine learning paradigms and deep learning algorithms on the other. It goes on to comprehensively survey inverse techniques for device design, AI-enabled applications in nanophotonics, and nanophotonic platforms for AI. This book will be essential reading for graduate students, academic researchers, and industry professionals from either side of this fast-developing, interdisciplinary field.   

Due to the capability of surface plasmons in localizing and guiding light in a sub-wavelength metal structure, surface-plasmon-based photonics or "plasmonics" offers an opportunity to merge photonics and electronics at nanoscale dimensions and makes it possible to realize very large scale electronics and photonics integration (VLSEPI). Although major breakthroughs have been made in passive plasmonic devices, including waveguides, couplers, and lenses, only a limited amount of research has been conducted on active plasmonic components, such as switches and modulators. In this book, the author describes a new concept of molecular active plasmonics (MAP) in which the precisely-controlled nanoscale mechanical motions in artificial molecular machines are harnessed for achieving molecular-level active plasmonic materials and devices. Once established, these molecular-level active plasmonic devices could achieve unprecedented performance and become integral components for future, ultrasmall, energy-saving photonic integrated circuits and VLSEPI, benefiting a range of applications, from optical communications to energy to medical diagnosis.