We present the science and technology roadmap for graphene, related two-dimensional
crystals, and hybrid systems, targeting an evolution in technology, that might lead to impacts …

Interactions induced by electromagnetic fluctuations, such as van der Waals and Casimir
forces, are of universal nature present at any length scale between any types of systems …

Regulation of hot spots exhibits excellent potential in many applications including
nanolasers, energy harvesting, sensing, and subwavelength imaging. Here, hat-shaped …

Metallic nanostructures with nanometer gaps support hybrid plasmonic modes with an
extremely small mode volume and strong local field intensity, which constitutes an attractive …

Engineering hotspots is of crucial importance in many applications including energy
harvesting, nano-lasers, subwavelength imaging, and biomedical sensing. Surface …

The field of transformation optics shows that media containing gradients in optical properties
are equivalent to curved geometries of spacetime for the propagation of light. Conformal …

Advances in metamaterials have offered the opportunity of engineering electromagnetic
properties beyond the limits of natural materials. A typical example is “spoof” surface …

The fields of photonics and phononics encompass the fundamental science of light and
sound propagation and interactions in complex structures, as well as its technological …

When the separation of two surfaces approaches sub-nanometre scale, the boundary
between the two most fundamental heat transfer modes, heat conduction by phonons and …

We investigate the conditions yielding plasmon-exciton strong coupling at the single emitter
level in the gap between two metal nanoparticles. Inspired by transformation optics ideas, a …