The interaction between molecular electronic transitions and electromagnetic fields can be
enlarged to the point where distinct hybrid light–matter states, polaritons, emerge. The …

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) have attracted attention in photonics owing to their
interesting properties. For example, BICs can effectively confine light in a counterintuitive …

Time-varying media have recently emerged as a new paradigm for wave manipulation, due
to the synergy between the discovery of highly nonlinear materials, such as epsilon-near …

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

Recent rapid progress in subwavelength optics and nanophotonics with dielectric structures
is underpinned by the physics of Mie resonances excited in nanoparticles with a high …

Metamaterials enable precise tailoring of light–matter interactions at the subwavelength
scale, permitting access to the full range of electromagnetic responses encoded in Maxwell's …

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) attract significant attention due to their remarkable
optical and excitonic properties. It was understood already in the 1960s and recently …

The full manipulation of intrinsic properties of electromagnetic waves has become the
central target in various modern optical technologies. Optical metasurfaces have been …

In recent years, 2D layered materials, including graphene, topological insulators, transition
metal dichalcogenides, black phosphorus, MXenes, graphitic carbon nitride, and metal …

Dielectric metasurfaces have emerged as a powerful platform for novel optical biosensors.
Due to their low optical loss and strong light–matter interaction, they demonstrate several …