This review paper focuses on group IVB transition metal nitrides (TMNs) such as titanium
nitride (TiN), zirconium nitride (ZrN), and hafnium nitride (HfN) and as alternative plasmonic …

Harnessing solar energy by employing concentrated solar power (CSP) systems requires
materials with high electrical conductivity and optical reflectivity. Silver, with its excellent …

Plasmon resonance represents the collective oscillation of free electron gas density and
enables enhanced light-matter interactions in nanoscale dimensions. Traditionally, the …

Passive daytime radiative cooling (PDRC) holds enormous potential to provide low‐cost,
electricity‐free cooling in hot environments and to overcome the urban heat island effects …

The fabrication of flexible single-crystalline plasmonic or photonic components in a scalable
way is fundamentally important to flexible electronic and photonic devices with high speed …

Rare-earth nitride (REN) pnictides are exciting materials due to their localized and strongly
correlated 4f-electrons that lead to interesting magnetic properties useful for spintronic …

Metal/semiconductor superlattices represent a fascinating frontier in materials science and
nanotechnology, where alternating layers of metals and semiconductors are precisely …

With the constant miniaturization of device technologies, it has become essential to
understand and engineer the electronic properties of semiconductors in nanoscale …

Uniaxial materials have achieved new prominence in photonics because they can have
hyperbolic spectral regions with metallic (ε< 0) and dielectric (ε> 0) permittivities along …

Epitaxy of hybrid superlattices (HSLs) consisting of functional layers with different crystal
geometries is crucial to expanding the family of artificially designed single-crystalline …