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    Constructing ultraviolet lasing is of great significance for basic research and medical use. Here the authors present a strategy for generating ultraviolet lasing through a tandem upconversion process with ultralarge anti-Stokes shift (1260 nm).

    • Tianying Sun
    • , Bing Chen
    •  & Feng Wang

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    Photoconductive sampling of optical fields is a powerful measurement technique, but existing models fail to connect single-electron dynamics to measured signals. Here, the authors report a model that identifies the roles of electron-neutral scattering and mean-field charge interaction in photoconductive sampling.

    • Johannes Schötz
    • , Ancyline Maliakkal
    •  & Matthias F. Kling

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    To realize on-chip optical communication schemes based on silicon, the integration of waveguides onto III-V devices must be achieved. Here, the authors report waveguide-coupled III-V heterostructure photodiodes monolithically integrated on silicon waveguides via aligned nanowire.

    • Pengyan Wen
    • , Preksha Tiwari
    •  & Kirsten E. Moselund

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    Antiferromagnets offer the potential for higher speed and density than ferromagnetic materials for spintronic devices. Here, Reimers et al study the domain structure of CuMnAs, demonstrating the role of defects in stabilizing the location and orientation of antiferromagnetic domain walls.

    • Sonka Reimers
    • , Dominik Kriegner
    •  & Kevin W. Edmonds

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    Among the existing machine learning frameworks, reservoir computing demonstrates fast and low-cost training, and its suitability for implementation in various physical systems. This Comment reports on how aspects of reservoir computing can be applied to classical forecasting methods to accelerate the learning process, and highlights a new approach that makes the hardware implementation of traditional machine learning algorithms practicable in electronic and photonic systems.

    • Lina Jaurigue
    •  & Kathy Lüdge

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    In lead‐tin halide perovskite photodiodes, the interfacial energy offset at the charge transport layer controls the dark current. In this work, by increasing this offset, the authors demonstrates a photodiode with ultralow dark and noise currents and high near‐infrared sensitivity.

    • Riccardo Ollearo
    • , Junke Wang
    •  & Gerwin H. Gelinck

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    Existing schemes for coherent control and measurements in superconducting circuits rely on the coupling between superconducting qubits and cavity photons. Here the authors implement conditional fluorescence readout of a fluxonium qubit placed inside an open waveguide, with no coupling to cavity modes.

    • Nathanaël Cottet
    • , Haonan Xiong
    •  & Vladimir E. Manucharyan

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    Ferroelectric ordering of water has been at the heart of intense debates due to its importance in enhancing our understanding of the condensed matter. Here, the authors observe ferroelectric properties of water ice in a two dimensional phase under confinement between two graphene layers.

    • Hao-Ting Chin
    • , Jiri Klimes
    •  & Ya-Ping Hsieh

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    A major challenge in magnon based approaches to information processing lies in developing valves to allow or supress the magnon signal. Here, Chen et al demonstrate a van der Waals magnet based magnon valve which can be tuned electrically over an exceptionally wide range.

    • Guangyi Chen
    • , Shaomian Qi
    •  & Jian-Hao Chen

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    It remains challenging to integrate topological insulators (TI) with magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJ) for spintronics applications. Here, the authors achieve a large tunneling magnetoresistance ratio and a low switching current density in a TI-MTJ device at room temperature, very promising for TI-driven magnetic memory.

    • Hao Wu
    • , Aitian Chen
    •  & Kang L. Wang

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    Resistive switching usually occurs by the formation of conducting filaments in the direction of current flow. Here the authors study an intriguing type of volatile metal-to-insulator resistive switching in (La,Sr)MnO3, which occurs by the formation of an insulating barrier perpendicular to the current.

    • Pavel Salev
    • , Lorenzo Fratino
    •  & Ivan K. Schuller

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    The development of fast and dynamic topological photonic platforms is an ongoing challenge. Here, the authors demonstrate a reprogrammable plasmonic topological insulator in which ultrafast electric switches allow for nanosecond-level switching time between different configurations.

    • Jian Wei You
    • , Qian Ma
    •  & Tie Jun Cui

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    Conventional DC-DC converters rely on switching operations and energy storing components which face both noise and scaling difficulties. Here, the authors present an alternative design for a DC-to-DC converter based on closely coupled LEDs and photovoltaic cells, which exhibits high efficiency, low noise, and miniaturizability.

    • Bo Zhao
    • , Sid Assawaworrarit
    •  & Shanhui Fan

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    Semiconductor surface states often stand in the way of device performance, but here, the authors take advantage of them for wavelength conversion. They present a compact, passive conversion device insensitive to optical alignment by using plasmon-coupled surface states that enable the efficient conversion without nonlinear phenomena.

    • Deniz Turan
    • , Ping Keng Lu
    •  & Mona Jarrahi

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    Switching of ferrimagnets by current-induced spin-orbit torque is promising for spintronics, due to their high-speed dynamics and small macroscopic magnetization. Switching of perpendicularly magnetized materials, however, requires a bias field for symmetry breaking. Here, Zheng et al demonstrate field-free current-induced switching of perpendicular ferrimagnets, using a compositional gradient-driven Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction.

    • Zhenyi Zheng
    • , Yue Zhang
    •  & Pedram Khalili Amiri

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    Coherent conversion between optical and microwave photonics is needed for future quantum applications. Here, the authors combine thin-film lithium niobate and superconductor platforms as a hybrid electro-optic system to achieve high-efficiency frequency conversion between microwave and optical modes.

    • Yuntao Xu
    • , Ayed Al Sayem
    •  & Hong X. Tang

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    Photonics-based radars offer intriguing potential but face tradeoffs in tunability, complexity, and noise. Here the authors present microwave generation in a photonics platform by heterodyning of two low-noise, self-injection-locked lasers, and demonstrate its advantages in an FMCW radar system.

    • Eric A. Kittlaus
    • , Danny Eliyahu
    •  & Siamak Forouhar

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    Strong nonlinearities, like high harmonic generation in optical systems, can lead to interesting applications in photonics. Here the authors fabricate a thin resonant gallium phosphide metasurface capable of avoiding the laser-induced damage and demonstrate efficient even and odd high harmonic generation from it when driven by mid-infrared laser pulses.

    • Maxim R. Shcherbakov
    • , Haizhong Zhang
    •  & Gennady Shvets

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    Anti-ferromagnetic based memories have a wide range of advantages over their ferromagnetic counterparts, however, their electrical signatures of switching are complicated by spurious signals. Here, Arpaci et al demonstrate an experimental method to distinguish between anti-ferromagnetic switching, and such spurious signatures.

    • Sevdenur Arpaci
    • , Victor Lopez-Dominguez
    •  & Pedram Khalili Amiri

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    Energy harvesting devices based on micro-electromechanisms (MEMS) is attractive for sustainable energy applications. Here, the authors report the theoretical working principle of a lightweight, low-voltage AC-current generating MEMS-based capacitive rotor device for Watts-level power generation from everyday walking.

    • Ehud Haimov
    • , Aidan Chapman
    •  & Alexei A. Kornyshev

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    In molecular junctions, where a molecule is placed between two electrodes, the current passed decays exponentially as a function of length. Here, Chen et al. show that this exponentially attenuation can be controlled by changing a single atom at the end of the molecular wire.

    • Xiaoping Chen
    • , Bernhard Kretz
    •  & Christian A. Nijhuis

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    Wireless implantable medical devices (IMDs) are hamstrung by both size and efficiency required for wireless power transfer. Here, Zaeimbashi et al. present a magnetoelectric nano-electromechanical systems that can harvest energy and sense weak magnetic fields like those arising from neural activity.

    • Mohsen Zaeimbashi
    • , Mehdi Nasrollahpour
    •  & Nian X. Sun

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    Background radiation has been identified as a key factor limiting the coherence times of superconducting circuits. Here, the authors measure the impact of environmental and cosmic radiation on a superconducting resonator with varying degrees of shielding, including an underground facility.

    • L. Cardani
    • , F. Valenti
    •  & I. M. Pop

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    The Gauge factor (GF) enhancement in strain sensors remains a key challenge. Here the authors leverage the piezoelectric and photoelectric effects in a class of van der Waals materials to tune the GF, and obtain a record GF up to 3933 for a SnS2-based strain sensor.

    • Wenjie Yan
    • , Huei-Ru Fuh
    •  & Han-Chun Wu

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    Exploiting delocalized organic polaritons for enhanced exciton harvesting has been advantageous for organic optoelectronic with planar heterojunctions. Here, the authors report polariton-assisted excitation energy channeling in organic heterojunctions coupled to the same cavity mode.

    • Mao Wang
    • , Manuel Hertzog
    •  & Karl Börjesson

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    High-frequency rectifiers at terahertz regime are pivotal components in modern communication, whereas the drawbacks in semiconductor junctions-based devices inhibit their usages. Here, the authors report electromagnetic rectification with high signal-to-noise ratio driven by chiral Bloch-electrons in type-II Dirac semimetal NiTe2-based device allowing for efficient THz detection.

    • Libo Zhang
    • , Zhiqingzi Chen
    •  & Wei Lu

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    Perovskite single crystals are commonly grown in organic solvents, which require relatively high temperature condition. Here, the authors develop a low-temperature crystallisation strategy to grow CsPbBr3 single crystals in water with improved charge transport properties and stability.

    • Jiali Peng
    • , Chelsea Q. Xia
    •  & Qianqian Lin

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    Designing efficient light-emitting diodes with white-light-emission from broadband-emission metal halides remains a challenge. Here, the authors demonstrate bright and efficient lead-free LEDs based on cesium copper halides enabled by introducing Tween organic additive in the precursor.

    • Hong Chen
    • , Lin Zhu
    •  & Jianpu Wang

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    A recent finding of tuning critical current in metallic nanowires by application of small gate voltages seems at odds with general understanding. Here, Ritter et al. study similar nanowires and link the origin of the critical current suppression to tunneling of few high-energy electrons between gate and nanowire, ruling out direct tuning by electric fields.

    • M. F. Ritter
    • , A. Fuhrer
    •  & F. Nichele

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    Human-like robotic sensing aims at extracting and processing complicated environmental information via multisensory integration and interaction. Tan et al. report an artificial spiking multisensory neural network that integrates five primary senses and mimics the crossmodal perception of biological brains.

    • Hongwei Tan
    • , Yifan Zhou
    •  & Sebastiaan van Dijken

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    Measuring real time magnetization dynamics resulting from Hall effects is hard due to the small signal size. Here Sala et al demonstrate a method of performing Hall resistance measurements with sub-ns resolution, and use it to investigate the switching of GdFeCo dots induced by spin-orbit torques.

    • G. Sala
    • , V. Krizakova
    •  & P. Gambardella

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    Goto et al present a bolometer based around the heat generation in magnetic tunnel junctions under auto-oscillation conditions. Unlike superconducting bolometers, the presented device operates at room temperature and sub-GHz frequencies, opening possibilities for use in microwave devices.

    • Minori Goto
    • , Yuma Yamada
    •  & Yoshishige Suzuki

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    The suppression of dark current in organic photodetectors (OPDs) is important for maximizing the performance of the devices. Here, the authors report the relationship between the high dark saturation current and the presence of mid-gap trap states in OPDs with a donor–acceptor structure.

    • Jonas Kublitski
    • , Andreas Hofacker
    •  & Karl Leo

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    Most demonstrations of optical neural networks for computing have been so far limited to real-valued frameworks. Here, the authors implement complex-valued operations in an optical neural chip that integrates input preparation, weight multiplication and output generation within a single device.

    • H. Zhang
    • , M. Gu
    •  & A. Q. Liu

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    Designing energy efficient and scalable artificial networks for neuromorphic computing remains a challenge. Here, the authors present 1 Gb phase change memory memristor array with a spontaneous sparse learning scheme able to leverage the resistance drift issue improving the classification accuracy on MNIST handwritten digit dataset.

    • Dong-Hyeok Lim
    • , Shuang Wu
    •  & Luping Shi

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    Operating donor-based quantum computers in silicon is hindered by the dependence of inter-qubit coupling on the precise donor position. Here, the authors show controlled rotation operation on exchange-coupled electron spins in the weak-exchange regime, loosening the requirements on positioning precision.

    • Mateusz T. Ma̧dzik
    • , Arne Laucht
    •  & Andrea Morello

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    Thermoelectricity due to the interplay of the nonlocal Cooper pair splitting and the elastic co-tunneling in normal metal-superconductor-normal metal structure is predicted. Here, the authors observe the non-local Seebeck effect in a graphene-based Cooper pair splitting device.

    • Z. B. Tan
    • , A. Laitinen
    •  & P. J. Hakonen

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    Hitherto, only circularly polarized antiferromagnetic (AFM) spin-waves (SWs) were expected to convey spin-information. Here, the authors present persistent spin-transport over long distances in the easy-plane AFM phase of hematite, α-Fe2O3, via linearly polarized SW pairs with ultra-low damping.

    • R. Lebrun
    • , A. Ross
    •  & M. Kläui

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