Yang, Quansan
Yang, Gaojie
Nambara, Takahiro https://orcid.org/0009-0006-4569-2508
Kusaka, Hiroyuki
Kunai, Yuichiro https://orcid.org/0009-0006-5675-4196
Matlock, Alex C. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4337-2715
Swain, Corban https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3404-8339
Pryor, Brett
Salamin, Yannick
Oran, Daniel
Kariyawasam, Hasindu
Hettiarachchi, Ramith https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7070-8213
Wadduwage, Dushan
Soljačić, Marin https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7184-5831
So, Peter T. C. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4698-6488
Boyden, Edward S. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0419-3351
Funding for this research was provided by:
United States Department of Defense | United States Army | U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command | Army Research Laboratory (W911NF-23-2-0121)
United States Department of Defense | United States Army | U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command | Army Research Laboratory (W911NF-23-2-0121)
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (P2EZP2-188091)
Article History
Received: 12 February 2025
Accepted: 18 March 2026
First Online: 12 May 2026
Competing interests
: E.S.B., G.Y., Q.Y., P.T.C.S., Y.K. and T.N. have filed several patent applications regarding this technology (WO/2025/259944 and WO/2025/259948). T.N., H. Kusaka and Y.K. are employees of a company, Fujikura Ltd., with certain potential commercial rights in implosion fabrication. D.O. operates a company, Irradiant Technologies Inc., commercializing 3D nanofabrication including implosion fabrication. The other authors declare no competing interests.