BIC architectures typically face a fundamental trade-off between high quality (Q) factors and wide-angle chiral operation.

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Theoretical and experimental work described in Nature Physics expands the repertoire of exotic phases of matter.

On a breezy afternoon last autumn in Cambridge, Mass., in a laboratory thrumming with the huff-whish-huff sound of ...

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Modern life is increasingly shaped by light. Optical devices exist in smartphone cameras, medical sensors, and emerging quantum technologies. As these ...

Most laser sources produce Gaussian beams that diverge as they propagate. This natural spreading limits their effectiveness in applications that require light to remain concentrated over long ...

Also known as magnetoelectronics, spintronics rely on electron spin rather than electron charge, as found in traditional ...