Many of the advanced electronic components surrounding us in everyday life rely on polar materials to function. Polar materials have an uneven distribution of electric charge. This gives them a ...

Scientists at Heriot‑Watt University have demonstrated in a world-first, that light can be used to control every aspect of how electromagnetic waves oscillate, opening new technological frontiers.

Researchers have produced a record-thin optical quarter-waveplate from the two-dimensional material niobium oxychloride (NbOCl2), measuring roughly 269 nanometers thick and operating at a wavelength ...