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Novel polymers for photonics
The capabilities of polymers have grown explosively in the last decade, and an increasingly wide palette of these materials with ever-expanding functionality is now available to researchers in a myriad of fields. Photonics is no exception, and recent years have seen polymers creatively employed in very diverse optical applications. The LSA papers in this web focus provide three diverse examples: polymers for the realization of photonic-molecule lasers; deformable lenses with tunable aberrations; and nanofibers which allow new opportunities for manipulation of light at the nanoscale.
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Polymeric photonic molecule super-mode lasers on silicon Open
Tobias Grossmann, Tobias Wienhold, Uwe Bog, Torsten Beck, Christian Friedmann, Heinz Kalt and Timo Mappes
Light: Science & Applications 2: e82; Published online, 24 May 2013; doi:10.1038/lsa.2013.38
Elastomeric lenses with tunable astigmatism Open
Peter Liebetraut, Sebastian Petsch, Jens Liebeskind and Hans Zappe
Light: Science & Applications 2: e98; Published online, 13 September 2013; doi:10.1038/lsa.2013.54
Functionalized polymer nanofibers: a versatile platform for manipulating light at the nanoscale Open
Pan Wang, Yipei Wang and Limin Tong
Light: Science & Applications 2: e102; Published online, 11 October 2013; doi:10.1038/lsa.2013.58
Organic photonics for communications
Jenny Clark and Guglielmo Lanzani
Nature Photonics 4: 438-446; Published online, 30 July 2010; doi:10.1038/nphoton.2010.160
Transparent polymer solar cells employing a layered light-trapping architecture
Rafael Betancur, Pablo Romero-Gomez, Alberto Martinez-Otero, Xavier Elias, Marc Maymó and Jordi Martorell
Nature Photonics 7: 995-1000; Published online, 20 October 2013; doi:10.1038/nphoton.2013.276
Materials science: The same, but better
Teri W. Odom
Nature 496: 40-41; Published online, 03 April 2013; doi:10.1038/496040a
Highly efficient organic light-emitting diodes from delayed fluorescence
Hiroki Uoyama, Kenichi Goushi, Katsuyuki Shizu, Hiroko Nomura and Chihaya Adachi
Nature 492: 234-238; Published online, 12 December 2012; doi:10.1038/nature11687
An ultra-lightweight design for imperceptible plastic electronics
Martin Kaltenbrunner, Tsuyoshi Sekitani, Jonathan Reeder, Tomoyuki Yokota, Kazunori Kuribara, Takeyoshi Tokuhara, Michael Drack, Reinhard Schwödiauer, Ingrid Graz, Simona Bauer-Gogonea, Siegfried Bauer and Takao Someya
Nature 499: 458-463; Published online, 24 July 2013; doi:10.1038/nature12314
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