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 …

Background Metamaterials (MMs) are smartly engineered structures with rationally
designed, nanostructured building blocks that allow us to build devices with distinct …

Materials and structures with negative Poisson's ratio exhibit a counter-intuitive behaviour.
Under uniaxial compression (tension), these materials and structures contract (expand) …

Electromagnetic metamaterials, artificial media created by subwavelength structuring, are
useful for engineering electromagnetic space and controlling light propagation. Such …

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 …

Materials research plays a vital role in transforming breakthrough scientific ideas into next‐
generation technology. Similar to the way silicon revolutionized the microelectronics …

Metamaterials, as artificially structured materials composed of subwavelength arrays of
resonant unit cells, can exhibit exotic properties beyond those accessible to natural …

Quantum sensing has become a broad field. It is generally related with the idea of using
quantum resources to boost the performance of a number of practical tasks, including the …

Polaritons—hybrid light–matter excitations—enable nanoscale control of light. Particularly
large polariton field confinement and long lifetimes can be found in graphene and materials …

The advent of negative index materials has spawned extensive research into metamaterials
over the past decade. Metamaterials are attractive not only for their exotic electromagnetic …