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A solid-state source of strongly entangled photon pairs with high brightness and indistinguishability
Embedding GaAs quantum dots in broadband photonic nanostructures allows a source of entangled photons to be fabricated with simultaneous enhancements of the most important parameters.
- Jin Liu
- , Rongbin Su
- & Xuehua Wang
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Spin-polarized electrons in monolayer MoS2
Under the application of a magnetic field, the 2D electron gas in a gated MoS2 monolayer becomes spin-polarized, the Coulomb interaction probably being key to the symmetry breaking.
- Jonas Gaël Roch
- , Guillaume Froehlicher
- & Richard John Warburton
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Tapered InP nanowire arrays for efficient broadband high-speed single-photon detection
Tapered InP nanowire p–n junction arrays enable efficient broadband and high-speed room-temperature photodetection.
- Sandra J. Gibson
- , Brad van Kasteren
- & Michael E. Reimer
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Bright sub-20-nm cathodoluminescent nanoprobes for electron microscopy
Lanthanide-doped nanoparticles could be used as labels for the imaging of biomolecules, potentially leading to a multicolour modality in electron microscopy.
- Maxim B. Prigozhin
- , Peter C. Maurer
- & Steven Chu
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Optically switchable organic light-emitting transistors
A combination of light-emitting semiconductors and photochromic molecules enables the fabrication of optically switchable organic light-emitting transistors with tunable current and luminance.
- Lili Hou
- , Xiaoyan Zhang
- & Paolo Samorì
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Chalcogenide glass metasurfaces from fluid instabilities
Fluid instabilities in chalcogenide glasses can be exploited to self-assemble optical metasurfaces on various template substrates over a large area.
- Tian Gu
- & Juejun Hu
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Self-assembly of nanostructured glass metasurfaces via templated fluid instabilities
Optical glasses can form high-quality dielectric metasurfaces by controlled dewetting and fluid instabilities.
- Tapajyoti Das Gupta
- , Louis Martin-Monier
- & Fabien Sorin
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Achromatic metalens array for full-colour light-field imaging
A metalens array of GaN nanoantennas is used to make a full-colour achromatic light-field camera.
- Ren Jie Lin
- , Vin-Cent Su
- & Din Ping Tsai
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Pushing the limits of optical information storage using deep learning
A machine-learning approach based on digital information encoding using silicon nanostructures enables a quasi-error-free read-out of sequences of up to 9 bit.
- Peter R. Wiecha
- , Aurélie Lecestre
- & Guilhem Larrieu
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Nonlinear light generation in topological nanostructures
Zigzag arrays of silicon nanoparticles show topologically protected third-harmonic generation at the nanoscale.
- Sergey Kruk
- , Alexander Poddubny
- & Yuri Kivshar
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High-efficiency colloidal quantum dot infrared light-emitting diodes via engineering at the supra-nanocrystalline level
PbS quantum dot ternary blends enable the realization of high-efficiency colloidal quantum dot infrared light-emitting diodes
- Santanu Pradhan
- , Francesco Di Stasio
- & Gerasimos Konstantatos
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Robust topologically protected transport in photonic crystals at telecommunication wavelengths
Thanks to its topological properties, a CMOS-compatible photonic crystal shows reflectionless transmission of light at telecommunication wavelengths even along a path with sharp turns.
- Mikhail I. Shalaev
- , Wiktor Walasik
- & Natalia M. Litchinitser
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Robust and compact waveguides
A nanofabricated twisted topological waveguide on silicon platform enables robust guiding of light at telecommunication wavelength.
- Sabyasachi Barik
- & Mohammad Hafezi
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Deterministic coupling of site-controlled quantum emitters in monolayer WSe2 to plasmonic nanocavities
An array of Au nanocubes combined with a planar mirror simultaneously induces single-photon emitters at lithographically defined locations in WSe2 and enables directional outcoupling of Purcell-enhanced single photons with high quantum yield.
- Yue Luo
- , Gabriella D. Shepard
- & Stefan Strauf
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Subwavelength angle-sensing photodetectors inspired by directional hearing in small animals
Two Si resonators couple through a non-Hermitian interaction to sense both the intensity and the incident angle of light with subwavelength resolution.
- Soongyu Yi
- , Ming Zhou
- & Mark Brongersma
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Two-photon interference in the telecom C-band after frequency conversion of photons from remote quantum emitters
Quantum interference of two photons can be extended to the mid-infrared region by using quantum frequency conversion.
- Jonas H. Weber
- , Benjamin Kambs
- & Peter Michler
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Semi-artificial photosynthesis
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Nano-imaging of intersubband transitions in van der Waals quantum wells
Experimental observation of intersubband transitions in van der Waals quantum wells is enabled by high spatial resolution imaging through near-field optical microscopy.
- Peter Schmidt
- , Fabien Vialla
- & Frank H. L. Koppens
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Directional lasing in resonant semiconductor nanoantenna arrays
Active dielectric nanoantenna arrays exhibit low-threshold and high-quality-factor directional lasing achieved via a leaky resonance excited in coupled gallium arsenide (GaAs) nanopillars.
- Son Tung Ha
- , Yuan Hsing Fu
- & Arseniy I. Kuznetsov
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Time to multiplex
Quantitative near-infrared bioimaging gets a boost from time-domain multiplexing.
- Jean-Claude G. Bünzli
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Enhanced water splitting under modal strong coupling conditions
Strong coupling between a Fabry–Pérot cavity mode and plasmonic modes enhances the internal quantum efficiency of a water splitting device.
- Xu Shi
- , Kosei Ueno
- & Hiroaki Misawa
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High Purcell factor generation of indistinguishable on-chip single photons
Exploiting both pulsed resonant excitation and a large Purcell enhancement, a single quantum dot coupled to a photonic crystal nanostructure can deterministically produce highly indistinguishable single photons for on-chip quantum optical applications.
- Feng Liu
- , Alistair J. Brash
- & A. Mark Fox
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Continuous-wave upconverting nanoparticle microlasers
Energy-looping excitation in lanthanide-doped upconverting nanoparticles enables low-threshold continuous-wave lasing in stand-alone microcavities.
- Angel Fernandez-Bravo
- , Kaiyuan Yao
- & P. James Schuck
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Energy harvesting from lukewarm photons
Evanescent photons of a hot body at a temperature below 500 K can be efficiently converted into electricity in a near-field thermophotovoltaic device.
- Philippe Ben-Abdallah
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Fast thermal relaxation in cavity-coupled graphene bolometers with a Johnson noise read-out
A graphene–hBN heterostructure integrated onto a photonic crystal cavity shows enhanced bolometric response owing to improved light absorption and ultrafast thermal relaxation time.
- Dmitri K. Efetov
- , Ren-Jye Shiue
- & Dirk Englund
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A scalable multi-photon coincidence detector based on superconducting nanowires
Superconducting nanowires can be engineered to realize scalable coincidence detectors of single photons.
- Di Zhu
- , Qing-Yuan Zhao
- & Karl K. Berggren
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Broadband, electrically tunable third-harmonic generation in graphene
Gate tunable and ultrabroadband third-harmonic generation can be achieved in graphene, paving the way for electrically tunable broadband frequency converters for applications in optical communications and signal processing.
- Giancarlo Soavi
- , Gang Wang
- & Andrea C. Ferrari
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Parallel mapping of optical near-field interactions by molecular motor-driven quantum dots
Single emitters transported by gliding microtubules over metallic nanoslits probe the near-field with a resolution of less than 5 nm.
- Heiko Groß
- , Hannah S. Heil
- & Stefan Diez
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Multifunctional biophotonic nanostructures inspired by the longtail glasswing butterfly for medical devices
A nanostructured membrane inspired by transparent butterfly wings is used for intraocular pressure sensing in vivo.
- Vinayak Narasimhan
- , Radwanul Hasan Siddique
- & Hyuck Choo
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Spin–photon interface and spin-controlled photon switching in a nanobeam waveguide
The spin state of a single electron is shown to control the transmission of single photons through a nanophotonic waveguide, thus realizing a spin-based photonic switch.
- Alisa Javadi
- , Dapeng Ding
- & Peter Lodahl
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Light touch
Light-responsive silicon nanowires modulate neuron activity in a non-invasive manner.
- Guglielmo Lanzani
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Imaging the rainbow
Dielectric metalenses made of high-index materials can compensate material dispersion to achieve broadband imaging in the visible.
- Thomas Zentgraf
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A broadband achromatic metalens in the visible
Integrating the Pancharatnam–Berry phase with integrated resonant nanoantennas in a metalens design produces an achromatic device capable of full-colour imaging in the visible range in transmission mode.
- Shuming Wang
- , Pin Chieh Wu
- & Din Ping Tsai
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A broadband achromatic metalens for focusing and imaging in the visible
Controlling the geometry of each dielectric element of a nanostructured surface enables frequency-dependent group delay and group delay dispersion engineering, and the fabrication of an achromatic metalens for imaging in the visible in transmission.
- Wei Ting Chen
- , Alexander Y. Zhu
- & Federico Capasso
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Reactive tunnel junctions in electrically driven plasmonic nanorod metamaterials
Chemical reactions in nanoscale gaps can be controlled by hot electrons generated by voltage-induced tunnelling.
- Pan Wang
- , Alexey V. Krasavin
- & Anatoly V. Zayats
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A graphene Zener–Klein transistor cooled by a hyperbolic substrate
Boron-nitride-supported graphene transistors show prominent current and noise temperature saturation due to hyperbolic phonon emission by non-equilibrium electron–hole pairs.
- Wei Yang
- , Simon Berthou
- & Bernard Plaçais
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2D materials for silicon photonics
Integration of 2D semiconductor optoelectronics with silicon photonics opens a new path for on-chip point-to-point optical communications.
- Yanhao Tang
- & Kin Fai Mak
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A MoTe2-based light-emitting diode and photodetector for silicon photonic integrated circuits
Optical interconnect components based on bilayer MoTe2 p–n junctions can be directly integrated with silicon photonics
- Ya-Qing Bie
- , Gabriele Grosso
- & Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
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Towards zero-threshold optical gain using charged semiconductor quantum dots
Blocking band-edge absorption of compositionally graded quantum dots with suppressed Auger recombination by pre-existing electrons allows for demonstrating near-zero-threshold optical gain and amplified spontaneous emission at sub-single-exciton pump levels.
- Kaifeng Wu
- , Young-Shin Park
- & Victor I. Klimov
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