The field of cantilever-based sensing emerged in the mid-1990s and is today a well-known
technology for label-free sensing which holds promise as a technique for cheap, portable …

Atomic force microscopy (AFM)-based methods have matured into a powerful nanoscopic
platform, enabling the characterization of a wide range of biological and synthetic …

A diverse spectrum of technology drivers such as improved thermal barriers, higher
efficiency thermoelectric energy conversion, phase-change memory, heat-assisted magnetic …

Bulk polymers are generally regarded as thermal insulators, and typically have thermal
conductivities on the order of 0.1 W m− 1 K− 1 (ref.). However, recent work,, suggests that …

This new edition of Infrared and Terahertz Detectors provides a comprehensive overview of
infrared and terahertz detector technology, from fundamental science to materials and …

Surface phonon polaritons are electromagnetic waves that propagate along the interfaces of
polar dielectrics and exhibit a large local-field enhancement near the interfaces at infrared …

Vanadium dioxide (VO 2), with the first-order metal-insulator phase transition at near room
temperature, has attracted increasing attention in the past few decades. With rapid electrical …

Since the late 1980s there have been spectacular developments in micromechanical or
microelectro-mechanical (MEMS) systems which have enabled the exploration of …

All material bodies are surrounded by a fluctuating electromagnetic field because of the
thermal and quantum fluctuations of the current density inside them. Close to the surface of …

The prospect of realizing entangled quantum states between macroscopic objects and
photons has recently stimulated interest in new laser-cooling schemes,. For example, laser …