High-quality materials are critical for advances in plasmonics, especially as researchers now
investigate quantum effects at the limit of single surface plasmons or exploit ultraviolet-or …

In this review we look at the concepts and state-of-the-art concerning the strong coupling of
surface plasmon-polariton modes to states associated with quantum emitters such as …

We introduce the refractiveindex. info database, a comprehensive open-source repository
containing optical constants for a wide array of materials, and describe in detail the …

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The dielectric function of silver is a fundamental quantity related to its electronic structure
and describes its optical properties. However, results published over the past six decades …

Metamaterials are artificial optical media composed of sub-wavelength metallic and
dielectric building blocks that feature optical phenomena not present in naturally occurring …

The need for the development of transparent conductive electrodes (TCEs) supported on
flexible polymer substrates has explosively increased in response to flexible polymer‐based …

Excitons in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides are formed at K and K′ points at
the boundary of the Brillouin zone. They acquire a valley degree of freedom, which has been …

Integration of multiple diversified functionalities into a single, planar and ultra-compact
device has become an emerging research area with fascinating possibilities for realization …

The negatively charged boron vacancy (VB–) defect in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) with
optically addressable spin states has emerged due to its potential use in quantum sensing …