Physicists in China have demonstrated that a structure called an optical metasurface can individually trap up to 78,400 ...

The terahertz (THz) band of the electromagnetic spectrum holds immense promise for next-generation technologies, including high-speed wireless communication, advanced encryption, and medical imaging.

Co-lead author on the new paper Prachi Thureja, a graduate student in Atwater's group, says to understand their work, first consider the word "metasurface." The root, "meta," comes from a Greek prefix ...