“There’s nothing faster than light, and we’re using light to control material properties at essentially the fastest possible speed that’s allowed by physics.” And unlike earlier attempts to achieve ...

"We can use almost the entire spectrum of light, from visible to X-ray, to manipulate and study materials," Fohtung said. "We can interrogate any system, from hard condensed matter to soft biological ...

Tailoring symmetries in an innovative class of optoelectronic metasurface produces a rich landscape of tunable current patterns down to the nanoscale. These materials provide opportunities for ...

“Generally, such antiferromagnetic materials are not easy to control,” Nuh Gedik says, pictured in between Tianchuang Luo, left, and Alexander von Hoegen. Additional MIT co-authors include Batyr Ilyas ...

Newly achieved precise control over light emitted from incredibly tiny sources, a few nanometers in size, embedded in two-dimensional materials could lead to remarkably high-resolution monitors and ...

Refraction—the bending of light as it passes through different media—has long been constrained by physical laws that prevent independent control over how light waves along different directions bend.

Materials that emit and manipulate light are at the heart of technologies ranging from solar energy to advanced imaging ...

Researchers have taken a giant leap toward transforming how future electronics will work—by controlling matter itself. For decades, scientists have chased the dream of designing devices that operate ...