Electronic devices are evolving from rigid devices into flexible and stretchable structures,
enabling a seamless integration of electronics into our everyday lives. The integration of a …

The ability to integrate complex electronic and optoelectronic functionalities within soft and
thin fibers is one of today's key advanced manufacturing challenges. Multifunctional and …

Recent breakthroughs in fibre technology have enabled the assembly of functional materials
with intimate interfaces into a single fibre with specific geometries,,,,,,,,,–, delivering diverse …

The ability to process optical signals without passing into the electrical domain has always
attracted the attention of the research community. Processing photons by photons unfolds …

Infrared (IR) fibers offer a versatile approach to guiding and manipulating light in the IR
spectrum, which is becoming increasingly more prominent in a variety of scientific …

Achieving high elasticity for silicon (Si) nanowires, one of the most important and versatile
building blocks in nanoelectronics, would enable their application in flexible electronics and …

Single‐crystal tin selenide (SnSe), a record holder of high‐performance thermoelectric
materials, enables high‐efficient interconversion between heat and electricity for power …

The field of hybrid optical fibers is one of the most active research areas in current fiber
optics and has the vision of integrating sophisticated materials inside fibers, which are not …

Glass fibres with silicon cores have emerged as a versatile platform for all-optical
processing, sensing and microscale optoelectronic devices. Using SiGe in the core extends …

Nanoscale specimens of semiconductor materials as diverse as silicon and diamond are
now known to be deformable to large elastic strains without inelastic relaxation. These …