Gold nanorods (NRs), pseudo-one-dimensional rod-shaped nanoparticles (NPs), have
become one of the burgeoning materials in the recent years due to their anisotropic shape …

Colloidal quantum dots (QDs) are nanoscale semiconductor crystals with surface ligands
that enable their dispersion in solvents. Quantum confinement effects facilitate wave function …

The spatial arrangement of plasmonic nanoparticles can dramatically affect their interaction
with electromagnetic waves, which offers an effective approach to systematically control their …

Chirality is ubiquitous in nature and plays mysterious and essential roles in maintaining key
biological and physiological processes. As biological systems display high selectivity for …

Chirality describes the geometric property of an object that is not superimposable on its
mirror image and has been a pivotal concept in chemistry and biology since the 19th …

Single-photon sources are essential for advancing quantum technologies with scalable
integration being a crucial requirement. To date, deterministic positioning of single-photon …

Chirality, the absence of mirror symmetry, is predominant in nature. The chiral nature of the
electromagnetic field behaves differently with chiral matter for left circularly polarized and …

Noble metal nanoparticles as color labels and signal generators have been widely accepted
for the fabrication of colorimetric assays and sensors due to their simplicity and practicality …

A terahertz absorber with controllable and switchable bandwidth that is insensitive to
polarization is of great interest. Here, we propose and demonstrate a metasurface absorber …

As the most plentiful energy source on Earth, solar energy possesses the potential to fulfill
all of humanity's energy requirements if harnessed to its full extent. Unlike finite fossil fuels …