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Turning Heat Into Custom Light With Advanced Nanotechnology


Researchers at the CUNY Graduate Center have made significant strides in manipulating the optical properties of thermal radiation using metasurfaces. Their latest study demonstrates how these two-dimensional materials can control thermal radiation to create customizable light sources, which could

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