Research

Professor Junsuk Rho’s research team from the Departments of Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, and Electrical Engineering at POSTECH has achieved an unprecedented milestone by publishing two papers as corresponding author in a single issue of the world’s most prestigious scientific journal, Nature.

The team drew global attention from both academia and industry by presenting two separate studies in the same issue of Nature: one on “commercial-level mass production technology for metalenses,” long considered the greatest challenge in metasurface technology, and another on “next-generation 2D and 3D switching display technology” that applies metasurfaces to practical devices.

Professor Junsuk Rho served as the corresponding author for both papers. This marks the first time that achievements led by a single research laboratory in Korea have appeared side by side in one issue of Nature.

Professor Junsuk Rho, who led the research, said, “Twenty-five years after the principles of metamaterials were first discovered, we have now fully solved the most critical challenge of mass production needed to transform science into technology. We expect these achievements to lead to groundbreaking applications in future key industries, including next-generation displays.”

▶️ DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10369-y

               https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10318-9