Over the last decade, extensive efforts have been made on utilizing advanced materials and
structures to improve the properties and functionalities of flexible electronics. While the …

Nanomechanics has brought mesoscopic physics into the world of vibrations. Because
nanomechanical systems are small, fluctuations are significant, the vibrations already …

Magnonics addresses the physical properties of spin waves and utilizes them for data
processing. Scalability down to atomic dimensions, operation in the GHz-to-THz frequency …

Phononic crystals (PCs) and metamaterials (MMs) can exhibit abnormal properties, even far
beyond those found in nature, through artificial design of the topology or ordered structure of …

Recent advancements in computational inverse-design approaches—algorithmic
techniques for discovering optical structures based on desired functional characteristics …

Cavity optomechanical systems enable interactions between light and mechanical
resonators, providing a platform both for fundamental physics of macroscopic quantum …

In solid state physics, a bandgap (BG) refers to a range of energies where no electronic
states can exist. This concept was extended to classical waves, spawning the entire fields of …

Phononic crystals (PnCs) control the transport of sound and heat similar to the control of
electric currents by semiconductors and metals or light by photonic crystals. Basic and …

Efficient interconversion of both classical and quantum information between microwave and
optical frequency is an important engineering challenge. The optomechanical approach with …

Photons at microwave and optical frequencies are principal carriers for quantum information.
While microwave photons can be effectively controlled at the local circuit level, optical …