Recent advances in unravelling and utilizing unexplored functionalities of antiferromagnets have nucleated and energized the field of antiferromagnetic spintronics, which aims to understand and control the dynamics of antiferromagnetic moments…

Caloric materials show thermal changes in responses to applied external fields and are named as per the nature of the driving field. There are three strands of caloric materials, namely…

The advent of data-centric approaches in the past decade has witnessed a paradigm shift in the way materials design and discovery has been pursued traditionally. This rapidly developing and vibrant…

Hybrid organic-inorganic halide perovskites are a new family of semiconductors that are revolutionizing the field of optoelectronics. These materials are surprising scientists not only by their outstanding device performance, but…

In recent years, there has been a surge of interest in devices that leverage quantum phenomena. Quantum-based devices are poised to move into a variety of fields including computing, sensing,…

Next-generation two-dimensional materials have atomistic structures that are more complex than graphene’s and hexagonal boron nitride’s honeycomb lattices. The reduced symmetries of these novel materials give rise to inhomogeneous materials…

One of the most exciting recent developments in quantum materials is the discovery and characterization of magnetism and superconductivity in exfoliated single-layer materials. These developments pave the way for an…

In photothermal techniques, the thermal response of materials to modulated incident light or electromagnetic radiation is measured and analyzed in order to extract information on the physical processes that underly…

The field of plasmonics studies the remarkably strong interaction of metallic nanoparticles with light, resulting from the resonant excitation of their quasi-free electrons. Among the various properties of plasmonic resonances,…