An unexpected discovery in a Harvard lab has led to a breakthrough insight into choosing an unconventional material, silica, ...

Researchers found silica can outperform high-index materials for optical metasurfaces. Its chip-making compatibility enables ...

The ability to precisely control the various properties of laser light is critical to much of the technology that we use today, from commercial virtual reality (VR) headsets to microscopic imaging for ...

Metasurfaces and their novel or counterintuitive optical properties can achieve a variety of functions that conventional bulk optics components cannot. The Harvard SEAS lab of metamaterials pioneer ...

Metasurfaces are two-dimensional (2D), nanoengineered surfaces that interact strongly with electromagnetic waves and can control light with remarkable precision. These ultra-thin layers can be used to ...