Photothermal regulation concerning solar harvesting and repelling has recently attracted
significant interest due to the fast-growing research focus in the areas of solar heating for …

Nanostructured surfaces with designed optical functionalities, such as metasurfaces, allow
efficient harvesting of light at the nanoscale, enhancing light–matter interactions for a wide …

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 …

Nanophotonic engineering provides an effective platform to manipulate thermal emission on-
demand, enabling unprecedented heat management superior to conventional bulk …

Molecular junctions are building blocks for constructing future nanoelectronic devices that
enable the investigation of a broad range of electronic transport properties within nanoscale …

Infrared spectroscopy provides unique information on the composition and dynamics of
biochemical systems by resolving the characteristic absorption fingerprints of their …

Enhanced light-matter interactions are the basis of surface-enhanced infrared absorption
(SEIRA) spectroscopy, and conventionally rely on plasmonic materials and their capability to …

Conventional optical components are limited to size scales much larger than the wavelength
of light, as changes to the amplitude, phase and polarization of the electromagnetic fields …

Thermal emission from a hot body is inherently challenging to control due to its incoherent
nature. Recent advances have shown that patterned surfaces can transform thermal …

Metasurfaces have been enabling the miniaturization and integration of complex optical
functionalities within an ultrathin platform by engineering the scattering features of localized …