High-quality materials are critical for advances in plasmonics, especially as researchers now
investigate quantum effects at the limit of single surface plasmons or exploit ultraviolet-or …

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

We report a comprehensive experimental study of optical and electrical properties of thin
polycrystalline gold films in a wide range of film thicknesses (from 20 to 200 nm). Our …

The dielectric function of silver is a fundamental quantity related to its electronic structure
and describes its optical properties. However, results published over the past six decades …

Metamaterials are artificial optical media composed of sub-wavelength metallic and
dielectric building blocks that feature optical phenomena not present in naturally occurring …

Transparent conductors are essential elements in an array of optoelectronic devices. The
most commonly used transparent conductor–indium tin oxide (ITO) suffers from issues …

The need for the development of transparent conductive electrodes (TCEs) supported on
flexible polymer substrates has explosively increased in response to flexible polymer‐based …

Molecular polaritons are quasiparticles resulting from the hybridization between molecular
and photonic modes. These composite entities, bearing characteristics inherited from both …

Plasmonic color filters employing a single optically-thick nanostructured metal layer have
recently generated considerable interest as an alternative to colorant-based color filtering …

The negatively charged boron vacancy (VB–) defect in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) with
optically addressable spin states has emerged due to its potential use in quantum sensing …