The past few years have witnessed the significant impacts of wearable electronics/photonics
on various aspects of our daily life, for example, healthcare monitoring and treatment …

Photonic sensing devices have become increasingly important in various fields such as
agriculture, medicine, biochemical sensing, and manufacturing. They are highly sensitive …

Graphene has generated exceptional interest as an optoelectronic material 1, 2 because its
high carrier mobility 3, 4 and broadband absorption 5 promise to make extremely fast and …

Photonic integration on thin flexible plastic substrates is important for emerging applications
ranging from the realization of flexible interconnects to conformal sensors applied to the …

Conventional electronic and photonic devices are inherently 2D and rigid because of the
substrates on which they are fabricated. However, the world is not flat and stiff: There are …

While the vast majority of integrated photonic devices are traditionally fabricated on rigid
substrates, photonic integration of both passive and active photonic devices on flexible …

Mechanically stretchable photonics provides a new geometric degree of freedom for
photonic system design and foresees applications ranging from artificial skins to soft …

Glasses, in their different forms and compositions, have special properties that are not found
in other materials. The combination of transparency and hardness at room temperature …

Mechanically flexible photonic devices are essential building blocks for novel bio-integrated
optoelectronic systems, wearable sensors, and flexible consumer electronics. Here we …

One of the most straightforward methods to actively control optical functionalities of
metamaterials is to apply mechanical strain deforming the geometries. These deformations …