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• Article | 03 January 2024

  Silver telluride colloidal quantum dot infrared photodetectors and image sensors

  Silver telluride quantum dots are employed in shortwave-infrared photodetectors and in monolithically integrated imagers that are free from toxic heavy metals and fully solution processable.

  • Yongjie Wang
  • , Lucheng Peng
  •  & Gerasimos Konstantatos

• Article
  24 April 2023 | Open Access

  Brilliant whiteness in shrimp from ultra-thin layers of birefringent nanospheres

  The strong birefringence of liquid crystalline nanospheres in the body of the Pacific cleaner shrimp enables brilliant whiteness by overcoming undesirable optical crowding effects.

  • Tali Lemcoff
  • , Lotem Alus
  •  & Benjamin A. Palmer

• Review Article | 07 February 2022

  Photonics and thermodynamics concepts in radiative cooling

  This Review details the fundamental photonics and thermodynamics concepts that underlie the processes of radiative cooling, and discusses a few emerging directions associated with radiative cooling research.

  • Shanhui Fan
  •  & Wei Li

• Research Highlight | 29 August 2018

  Waste-heat recovery

  • David F. P. Pile

• News & Views | 31 October 2017

  Exploring the limits of optics

  At the 24th General Congress of the International Commission for Optics in Tokyo, photonics-based sensing and simulations were shown to benefit research into phenomena that span the nanometre to astronomical range.

  • Noriaki Horiuchi

• Article | 04 May 2014

  Lead-free solid-state organic–inorganic halide perovskite solar cells

  Perovskite solar cells containing tin rather than lead, which is usually employed, are reported. These cells have a power conversion efficiency of 5.7% and retain 80% of their performance over a period of 12 hours.

  • Feng Hao
  • , Constantinos C. Stoumpos
  •  & Mercouri G. Kanatzidis

• Research Highlights | 27 February 2013

  CO₂ check

  • Noriaki Horiuchi