National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures

High‐Speed Electrically Driven Liquid‐Crystal Compact Optical Skyrmion Encoder

ABSTRACT Optical skyrmions are topologically nontrivial polarization textures with intrinsic robustness under external perturbations, making them promising carriers for disturbance‐resistant optical information transmission. However, existing optical skyrmion generation schemes m...

Role of desolvation on biomolecular liquid–liquid phase separation

Abstract Biomolecular condensates play essential roles in cellular organization and are implicated in diverse pathological processes. Their formation is driven by liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS), a process that requires coordinated multistep desolvation of biomolecular chai...

A nuclear clock synchronized to 229Th

Abstract Atomic clocks have made time and frequency the most precisely measured quantities in physics, progressing from microwave standards that realize the SI second 1 to optical clocks with unprecedented precision 2 . A nuclear clock transfers the frequency reference from an el...

Rapid inverse design of large-scale freeform meta-optics with the neighborhood-attention transformer

Abstract Metasurfaces are progressively reshaping traditional optical paradigms and pushing the boundaries in complex applications where compact designs are essential. However, the design of metasurfaces demands substantial computational resources to numerically solve Maxwell's e...