Imagine shining a flashlight into a material and watching the light bend backward—or in an entirely unexpected direction—as ...

Researchers at the University of Hong Kong demonstrate negative light refraction with the natural magnetic material CrSBr – ...

For the first time, scientists have demonstrated that negative refraction can be achieved using atomic arrays - without the need for artificially manufactured metamaterials. Scientists have long ...

Concept of magnetic order-mediated excitonic negative refraction and schematic of the micro-device. Imagine shining a ...

Schematic of a portion of a 2D hierarchical phoxonic crystal with both large scale photonic lattice and a smaller scale phononic lattice inside a cavity resonator in the larger scale lattice. (Image: ...

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