Metamaterials, as artificially structured materials composed of subwavelength arrays of
resonant unit cells, can exhibit exotic properties beyond those accessible to natural …

The prospect of creating metamaterials with optical properties greatly exceeding the
parameter space accessible with natural materials has been inspiring intense research …

Compared with conventional optical elements, 2D photonic metasurfaces, consisting of
arrays of antennas with subwavelength thickness (the 'meta-atoms'), enable the …

Photonic components with adjustable parameters, such as variable-focal-length lenses or
spectral filters, which can change functionality upon optical stimulation, could offer …

Barium titanate (BaTiO3) is a synthetic crystal used in electromechanical transducers and
multilayer ceramic capacitors. Since it is not available in nature, a variety of growth methods …

Advanced kirigami/origami provides an automated technique for modulating the mechanical,
electrical, magnetic and optical properties of existing materials, with remarkable flexibility …

We harness non-volatile, amorphous-crystalline transitions in the chalcogenide phase-
change medium germanium antimony telluride (GST) to realize optically-switchable, all …

The changing balance of forces at the nanoscale offers the opportunity to develop a new
generation of spatially reconfigurable nanomembrane metamaterials in which …

Kirigami, with facile and automated fashion of three-dimensional (3D) transformations, offers
an unconventional approach for realizing cutting-edge optical nano-electromechanical …

During the past few years, the optics and photonics communities have renewed their
attention toward transparent conducting oxides (TCOs), which for over two decades have …