Optical links are moving to higher and higher transmission speeds while shrinking to shorter
and shorter ranges where optical links are envisaged even at the chip scale. The scaling in …

Quantum cryptography is arguably the fastest growing area in quantum information science.
Novel theoretical protocols are designed on a regular basis, security proofs are constantly …

Electro-optic modulators are an indispensable part of photonic communication systems,
largely dictating the achievable transmission rate. Recent advances in materials and …

Semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) of various material systems are being heavily
researched for the development of solid state single photon emitters, which are required for …

Stacking different two-dimensional crystals into van der Waals heterostructures provides an
exciting approach to designing quantum materials that can harness and extend the already …

Graphene is an ideal material for optoelectronic applications. Its photonic properties give
several advantages and complementarities over Si photonics. For example, graphene …

Geometry, an ancient yet vibrant branch of mathematics, has important and far-reaching
impacts on various disciplines such as art, science, and engineering. Here, we introduce an …

Optics offers unique opportunities for reducing energy in information processing and
communications while simultaneously resolving the problem of interconnect bandwidth …

With the advent of the era of big data, resistive random access memory (RRAM) has become
one of the most promising nanoscale memristor devices (MDs) for storing huge amounts of …

The family of 2D and layered materials has been expanding rapidly for more than a decade.
Within this large family of hundreds of materials, black phosphorus and its isoelectronic …