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Optical materials and structures are substances used to manipulate the flow of light. This can include reflecting, absorbing, focusing or splitting an optical beam. The efficiency of a specific material at each task is strongly wavelength dependent, thus a full understanding of the interaction between light and matter is vital.
A single light-emitting dye molecule precisely placed within the tiny gap of a metal nanodimer boosts light–matter coupling — a step closer to the development of quantum devices operating at room temperature.
Low-energy ions implantation is used for spatially selective p-type doping to construct lateral p-n homojunction. The as-fabricated lateral WS2 p-n homojunction is applied in self-powered photodetector.
Flat optics enable light manipulation at the subwavelength scale and provide a compact, wave-based, information processing and acquisition platform. Here, Wang et al. focus on the emerging interdisciplinary field of computational flat optic imaging applications and reveal their intrinsic connections.
Luminescent materials with narrowband emissions are vital for optoelectronic applications. Here, the authors achieve room temperature phosphorescence with a FWHM of 30 nm through the multiple resonance effect and showcase its practical application in X-ray imaging.
A single light-emitting dye molecule precisely placed within the tiny gap of a metal nanodimer boosts light–matter coupling — a step closer to the development of quantum devices operating at room temperature.