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This paper reviews the fabrication and functionalities of high-refractive-index-contrast optical structures that can serve as versatile optical platforms to address the limitations of current optoelectronic devices.
Graphene and topological insulators are promising platforms for near-field nanotechnology on a subwavelength scale. Authors present the highly confined nature of Dirac plasmon-polaritons in graphene, topological insulator, and hybrid systems.
Cholesteric Spherical Reflectors (CSRs) are omnidirectional retroreflectors that are selective in circular polarization and wavelength, enabling human-invisible fiducial markers for applications in robotics, augmented reality, anti-counterfeiting, circular economy and more
This paper reviews recent advances in self-assembled liquid crystalline architectures in terms of their fabrications, manipulations, as well as emerging applications.
Pulsed laser method uses a laser as an energy source to produce diverse materials in various environments for the reactions of photo- and electrocatalytic applications.
Liquid crystal-based actuators with structural color changes and the potential applications of these structural color actuators in soft robotic devices are reviewed.
Large-aperture high-quality DKDP crystal with deuteration level of 70% has been successfully grown, which can fabricate the large single-crystal optics with the size exceeding 400 mm for ICF application.
This review focuses on liquid crystal-templated chiral functional nanomaterials, including chiral plasmonic nanomaterials and chiral luminescent nanomaterials, introducing their underlying mechanisms, chiroptical properties, and potential applications.
Structure-property correlations and related materials discovery of deep-ultraviolet nonlinear optical crystals are reviewed while elucidating the core concepts and stringent criteria.
This review outlines the exciting developments in high-performance dielectric metalenses whilst highlighting the challenges of using dielectric metalenses to replace conventional optics in miniature optical systems.
Advanced liquid crystal-based light engines and planar optical components play pivotal roles for systematically improving the image quality and formfactor of the augmented reality and virtual reality displays.
This paper review recent advances in Raman distributed optical fiber sensing in terms of temperature measurement accuracy, spatial resolution, dual-parameters and applications.
Single-photon emission from a single GaN/AlN quantum dot induced by continuous-wave laser excitation, leading to an optimum g(2)(0) = 0.17 at room temperature.