Scientists at Rice University have discovered that beams of light can physically shift atoms in a class of ultra-thin ...

Engineers pair vibrating particles, called phonons, with particles of light, called photons, to enhance the nonlinear optical properties of hexagonal boron nitride. Writing in Nature Communicationson ...

Writing in Nature Communications on November 24, engineers at Columbia and theoretical collaborators at the Max Planck for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter find that pairing laser light to crystal ...