Since the unexpected discovery of ferroelectricity in hafnium oxide-based materials, the interest in this topic is continuously on the rise, both from basic science and application-oriented research sides. There are…

The explosion of big data requires the development of fast, energy-efficient, and nonvolatile data storage and processing techniques. Among the existing candidates, spintronic devices exhibit prominent attractive features. However, fast…

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in realizing artificial metasurfaces and metamaterials that provide novel and on-demand physical properties. Such metastructures can be designed on a variety…

This APL special topic is dedicated to a fascinating class of systems that contain magnetic elements at length scales in the range of a few nm up to a few…

Quantum photonic applications such as photonic quantum computing, quantum communication, and quantum sensing require highly sophisticated non-classical light sources and high-efficiency single-photon detectors. The light sources should be able to…

Van der Waals (vdW) materials represent a versatile material platform to explore fundamental science of correlated phases (e.g. Mott insulator, superconductivity, and magnetism) and new electronic and photonic devices. When…

Traditional silicon solar cells reach their efficiency limit, yet the massive upscaling of photovoltaics required to provide a significant contribution of solar power to the primary energy demand requires a…

The charge-density-wave (CDW) phase is a macroscopic quantum state consisting of a periodic modulation of the electronic charge density accompanied by a periodic distortion of the atomic lattice. Unconventional forms…

For decades, the field of thermoelectricity has been dominated by inorganic materials. The demonstration of reasonably stable polymer-based materials with a figure of merit of 0.1 and above has triggered…