Reconfigurable optical metasurfaces are rapidly emerging as a major frontier in photonics
research, development and commercialization. They promise compact, lightweight and …

Abstract Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) materials, such as
MoS 2, WS 2, MoSe 2, and WSe 2, have received extensive attention in the past decade due …

Optical imaging plays a central role in biology and medicine but is hindered by light
scattering in live tissue. We report the counterintuitive observation that strongly absorbing …

Recent advances in ultrafast, large-modulation photonic materials have opened the door to
many new areas of research. One specific example is the exciting prospect of photonic time …

Interfacial ferroelectricity, prevalent in various parallel-stacked layered materials, allows
switching of out-of-plane ferroelectric order by in-plane sliding of adjacent layers. Its …

Despite over a decade of intense research efforts, the full potential of two-dimensional
transition-metal dichalcogenides continues to be limited by major challenges. The lack of …

In recent years, active metasurfaces have emerged as a reconfigurable nanophotonic
platform for the manipulation of light. Here, application of an external stimulus to resonant …

Dephasing and non-radiative decay processes limit the performance of a wide variety of
quantum devices at room temperature. Here we illustrate a general pathway to notably …

This tutorial offers a comprehensive overview of photonic time crystals: artificial materials
whose electromagnetic properties are periodically modulated in time at scales comparable …

Manipulation of resonant dielectric nanostructures is of paramount importance for next-
generation photonic devices. Traditionally, researchers use two-dimensional or phase …