BACKGROUND Nanoscale optics is usually associated with plasmonic structures made of
metals such as gold or silver. However, plasmonics suffers from high losses of metals …

Metamaterials are composed of periodic subwavelength metal/dielectric structures that
resonantly couple to the electric and/or magnetic components of the incident …

All-dielectric metamaterials and metasurfaces have been demonstrated as ideal platforms to
manipulate electromagnetic waves and enhance light–matter interaction. Analogous to …

The ideal material for nanophotonic applications will have a large refractive index at optical
frequencies, respond to both the electric and magnetic fields of light, support large optical …

This article reviews recent progress leading to the realization of planar optical components
made of a single layer of phase shifting nanostructures. After introducing the principles of …

Optical metasurfaces have developed as a breakthrough concept for advanced wave‐front
engineering enabled by subwavelength resonant nanostructures. However, reflection and/or …

Recent rapid progress in subwavelength optics and nanophotonics with dielectric structures
is underpinned by the physics of Mie resonances excited in nanoparticles with a high …

The prospect of creating metamaterials with optical properties greatly exceeding the
parameter space accessible with natural materials has been inspiring intense research …

Plasmonic colours are structural colours that emerge from resonant interactions between
light and metallic nanostructures. The engineering of plasmonic colours is a promising …

Nonradiating current configurations attract attention of physicists for many years as possible
models of stable atoms. One intriguing example of such a nonradiating source is known as …