BACKGROUND Materials by design is an appealing idea that is very hard to realize in
practice. Combining the best of different ingredients in one ultimate material is a task for …

The integration of dissimilar materials into heterostructures has become a powerful tool for
engineering interfaces and electronic structure. The advent of 2D materials has provided …

The growing maturity of nanofabrication has ushered massive sophisticated optical
structures available on a photonic chip. The integration of subwavelength-structured …

The integration of functional nanomaterials and heterostructures with photonic architectures
has laid the foundation for important photonic and optoelectronic applications. The advent of …

Polaritons are hybrid excitations of matter and photons. In recent years, polaritons in van der
Waals nanomaterials—known as van der Waals polaritons—have shown great promise to …

For more than seven decades, hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has been employed as an
inert, thermally stable engineering ceramic; since 2010, it has also been used as the optimal …

Hexagonal boron nitride (h‐BN) is a layered inorganic synthetic crystal exhibiting high
temperature stability and high thermal conductivity. As a ceramic material it has been widely …

Twisted two-dimensional bilayer materials exhibit many exotic electronic phenomena.
Manipulating the 'twist angle'between the two layers enables fine control of the electronic …

In recent years, enhanced light–matter interactions through a plethora of dipole-type
polaritonic excitations have been observed in two-dimensional (2D) layered materials. In …

Flexible electronics have recently gained considerable attention due to their potential to
provide new and innovative solutions to a wide range of challenges in various electronic …