ABSTRACT
Transparent conductive oxides and transition-metal nitrides re-
cently emerged as novel material platforms for linear and nonlinear
nanophotonics. Their optical and structural properties can largely
be tuned in the visible and near-infrared spectral range in order
to meet the requirements of plasmonic and metamaterials techno-
logies. Moreover, transparent conductive oxide thin films show a
tunable epsilon-near-zero condition in the near-infrared, which
enables to boost and tailor their nonlinear optical response. The
compatibility of these materials with the mature silicon technology
provides great opportunities for a number of applications ranging
from optical sensing to nonlinear signal generation on a chip.
