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| Open AccessPolarization-driven reversible actuation in a photo-responsive polymer composite
Light-responsive polymers with polarization-dependent deformation are promising material to develop tunable devices usually limited by irreversible dynamic control. Here, the authors use controlled polarization of visible light to produce arbitrary deformations into amorphous composites containing azopolymer microdomains to unlock the next level of complex actuation in soft lightdriven robots.
- David Urban
- , Niccolò Marcucci
- & Emiliano Descrovi
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| Open AccessRheological engineering of perovskite suspension toward high-resolution X-ray flat-panel detector
The film uniformity is essential to the fixed pattern noise (FPN) and resolution of X-ray detectors. Here the authors demonstrate the rheological engineering of the perovskite suspension to achieve low FPN of 1.39% and high resolution of 0.51 lp/pix.
- Zihao Song
- , Xinyuan Du
- & Jiang Tang
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| Open AccessLearning diffractive optical communication around arbitrary opaque occlusions
Researchers demonstrate robust optical communication around fully opaque occlusions, partially or entirely blocking the light path, using a pair of electronic encoder and passive diffractive decoder that are jointly optimized using deep learning.
- Md Sadman Sakib Rahman
- , Tianyi Gan
- & Aydogan Ozcan
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| Open AccessRapid sensing of hidden objects and defects using a single-pixel diffractive terahertz sensor
Researchers showcase a deep learning-designed diffractive terahertz sensor that rapidly detects hidden defects within 3D samples based on the output spectrum measured by a single-pixel detector, eliminating sample scanning or image formation/processing.
- Jingxi Li
- , Xurong Li
- & Aydogan Ozcan
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| Open AccessReassessing the existence of soft X-ray correlated plasmons
- Mohsen Moazzami Gudarzi
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| Open AccessVisible to mid-infrared giant in-plane optical anisotropy in ternary van der Waals crystals
van der Waals materials are usually characterized by a significant out-of-plane optical anisotropy, but in-plane birefringence is also necessary for photonics applications. Here, the authors report the presence of broadband optical anisotropy in a layered material, Ta2NiS5, showing in-plane birefringence of ~2 and ~0.5 in the visible and mid-infrared range, respectively.
- Yanze Feng
- , Runkun Chen
- & Shaojuan Li
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| Open AccessRoom-temperature high-speed electrical modulation of excitonic distribution in a monolayer semiconductor
2D excitonic devices hold potential for on-chip optoelectronic applications. Here, the authors report high-speed in-plane electrical modulations of the excitonic distribution in monolayer semiconductor/Au electrode junctions, showing switching times as low as 5 ns at room temperature.
- Guangpeng Zhu
- , Lan Zhang
- & Qihua Xiong
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| Open AccessAtmospheric-moisture-induced polyacrylate hydrogels for hybrid passive cooling
Gan et al. have developed sodium polyacrylate-based films for passive radiative cooling that can be fabricated using atmospheric moisture alone, offering radiative and evaporative cooling, reducing temperatures by up to 5 °C under partly cloudy skies.
- Roisul Hasan Galib
- , Yanpei Tian
- & Qiaoqiang Gan
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| Open AccessNanoscale reshaping of resonant dielectric microstructures by light-driven explosions
Laser machining can modify and reshape materials on the scale comparable to light’s wavelength. Here, authors use tailored microstructures to push the limit of laser machining to a scale that is almost 100 times smaller than a wavelength of light.
- Maxim R. Shcherbakov
- , Giovanni Sartorello
- & Gennady Shvets
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| Open AccessAll-dielectric scale invariant waveguide
The Authors present an exciting dielectric waveguide mechanism that can confine light in regions of varying sizes, unlike conventional designs. The platform offers a unique blend of properties by leveraging radiation modes while minimizing optical losses. This work holds promise for serving as the next generation of fundamental building blocks for integrated photonics applications.
- Janderson R. Rodrigues
- , Utsav D. Dave
- & Michal Lipson
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| Open AccessA random optical parametric oscillator
In this work the authors develop a Random optical parametric oscillator - the parametric analogous of random lasers. This system shows improved key metrics like tuneable repetition rates, tuneable pulse duration, inter-pulse coherence as well as simpler configuration compared with standard systems.
- Pedro Tovar
- , Jean Pierre von der Weid
- & Xiaoyi Bao
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| Open AccessReal higher-order Weyl photonic crystal
Here, the authors experimentally discover a class of higher-order Weyl semimetal phase in a three-dimensional photonic crystal, exhibiting the concurrence of the surface and hinge Fermi arcs from the nonzero Chern number and the nontrivial generalized real Chern number, respectively, coined a real higher-order Weyl photonic crystals.
- Yuang Pan
- , Chaoxi Cui
- & Yihao Yang
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| Open AccessResonant cavity phosphor
Phosphor efficiency can be improved via materials development or structural engineering, the latter only begun lately. Here the authors propose and investigate simple vertical resonant cavity as a platform for nanostructurally engineered phosphor.
- Tae-Yun Lee
- , Yeonsang Park
- & Heonsu Jeon
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| Open AccessAsymptotic dispersion engineering for ultra-broadband meta-optics
The authors present a comprehensive framework for on-demand dispersion control with a single-layer metasurface, particularly in an ultra-broad bandwidth. An achromatic metalens spanning the visible and near-infrared spectra is experimentally demonstrated.
- Yueqiang Hu
- , Yuting Jiang
- & Huigao Duan
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| Open AccessSingle virus fingerprinting by widefield interferometric defocus-enhanced mid-infrared photothermal microscopy
The study of viruses relies on the detection of viral proteins or viral nucleic acids. Here, the authors present a widefield interferometric defocus-enhanced mid-infrared photothermal (WIDE-MIP) microscope for high-throughput fingerprinting of single viruses.
- Qing Xia
- , Zhongyue Guo
- & Ji-Xin Cheng
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| Open AccessSubwavelength terahertz imaging via virtual superlensing in the radiating near field
The authors develop a method for sub-diffraction near-field imaging using measurements taken relatively far from an object, amplifying evanescent waves that encode the highest resolution. The increased distance greatly reduces the perturbation of the fields by the imaging device itself.
- Alessandro Tuniz
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| Open AccessVisible-to-mid-IR tunable frequency comb in nanophotonics
Here the authors provide the experimental demonstration of a widely tunable integrated frequency comb source unlocking the spectrum from the visible to the mid-infrared in a thin-film lithium niobate platform.
- Arkadev Roy
- , Luis Ledezma
- & Alireza Marandi
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| Open Access4D Optical fibers based on shape-memory polymers
The authors demonstrate here a method for the production of arbitrarily long, light-guiding microstructured fibers with shape-memory properties. The showcased design of adaptative fibers here holds potential for the development of functional actuators and sensors.
- Clément Strutynski
- , Marianne Evrard
- & Frédéric Smektala
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| Open AccessLorentz microscopy of optical fields
Electron holography and microscopy have long been used to map static electric and magnetic fields. Here, authors establish Lorentz Microscopy of Optical Fields, a new technique that uses the deflection and interference of an electron beam to obtain phase-resolved images of nanoscale optical fields.
- John H. Gaida
- , Hugo Lourenço-Martins
- & Claus Ropers
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| Open AccessMetasurface enabled broadband all optical edge detection in visible frequencies
Here, the Authors demonstrate a 2D isotropic, polarization-independent, broadband edge detection with high transmission efficiency under both coherent and incoherent illumination along the visible range using a metasurface based on Fourier optics principles.
- Ibrahim Tanriover
- , Sina Abedini Dereshgi
- & Koray Aydin
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| Open AccessEnhancing operational stability of OLEDs based on subatomic modified thermally activated delayed fluorescence compounds
Structural engineering at the subatomic level remains little for boosting operational stability of organic light-emitting diodes. Here, authors show that deuteration of acceptor is critical to enhance device stability, which is commonly neglected due to limited availability and synthetic complexity.
- Sinyeong Jung
- , Wai-Lung Cheung
- & Man-Chung Tang
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| Open AccessSub-THz wireless transmission based on graphene-integrated optoelectronic mixer
Here, the authors report the realization of a sub-THz wireless data link based on a graphene-integrated optoelectronic mixer with a >96 GHz bandwidth, −44 dB upconversion efficiency and <0.1 mm2 footprint, providing an alternative approach for the realization of millimeter-wave transmitters.
- Alberto Montanaro
- , Giulia Piccinini
- & Marco Romagnoli
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| Open AccessHigh-Q lasing via all-dielectric Bloch-surface-wave platform
Integrating coherent light sources on surface wave platforms would offer opportunities for sensing and data processing. The authors realize a microfabricated coherent light source based on the stimulated emission of a guided Bloch surface wave mode.
- Yang-Chun Lee
- , Ya-Lun Ho
- & Jean-Jacques Delaunay
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| Open AccessTerahertz radiation by quantum interference of excitons in a one-dimensional Mott insulator
THz pulses with tuneable properties are desirable for manipulating electronic states in materials. The authors report generation of THz pulses with phase, frequency, and amplitude control by tuning exciton interference in a 1D Mott insulator of transition metal complex and provide insight into exciton dynamics.
- Tatsuya Miyamoto
- , Akihiro Kondo
- & Hiroshi Okamoto
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| Open AccessCharge injection engineering at organic/inorganic heterointerfaces for high-efficiency and fast-response perovskite light-emitting diodes
The hole injection and device stability rely heavily on the inorganic/organic interface in perovskite light-emitting diodes. The authors enhanced the NiOx/PVK interface with a self-assembled monolayer, resulting in blue and green devices with maximum efficiencies of 14.5% and 26.0%, respectively.
- Zhenchao Li
- , Ziming Chen
- & Hin-Lap Yip
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| Open AccessCascaded metasurfaces for high-purity vortex generation
The authors demonstrate an efficient way to generate high-purity vortex beams by applying optical neural networks to cascaded phase-only metasurfaces. Specifically, they present record-high-quality Laguerre-Gaussian (LGp,l) optical modes with polynomial orders p = 10 and l = 200 with purity in p, l and relative conversion efficiency of 96%, 85%, and 70%, respectively.
- Feng Mei
- , Geyang Qu
- & Shumin Xiao
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| Open AccessFloquet non-Abelian topological insulator and multifold bulk-edge correspondence
The authors propose an implementation of Floquet non-Abelian topological insulators in a 1D three-band system with parity-time symmetry. Furthermore, they demonstrate that the bulk-edge correspondence is multifold and follows the multiplication rule of a quaternion group.
- Tianyu Li
- & Haiping Hu
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| Open AccessElectroluminescence and hyperphosphorescence from stable blue Ir(III) carbene complexes with suppressed efficiency roll-off
Deep-blue emitters and corresponding light-emitting devices are still in the progress to meet industrial standards. Here, the authors report catalytic interconversion of isomeric iridium(III) complexes and achieve true-blue emission and operational half-lifetime of over 10,000 h for tandem devices.
- Jie Yan
- , Dong-Ying Zhou
- & Yun Chi
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| Open AccessIntegrated reconstructive spectrometer with programmable photonic circuits
Recent years have seen a growing need for miniaturized spectroscopic tools. Here, authors present a novel integrated spectrometer with programmable photonic circuits, achieving record-high resolution and bandwidth via only a few filtering components.
- Chunhui Yao
- , Kangning Xu
- & Richard Penty
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| Open AccessCreating tunable lateral optical forces through multipolar interplay in single nanowires
It is a significant challenge to create an interface-free lateral optical force under the illumination of a single polarized plane wave. Here, the authors provide a minimalist paradigm to address this challenge by exploiting multipolar interplay in a single elongated particle.
- Fan Nan
- , Francisco J. Rodríguez-Fortuño
- & Xiaohao Xu
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| Open AccessIn vivo noninvasive systemic myography of acute systemic vasoactivity in female pregnant mice
The assessment of selective therapeutics targeted to treat altered vasoactivity, a major characteristic of cardiovascular and oncological diseases, is still challenging due to unknown whole-body selectivity. Here the authors demonstrate that photoacoustic tomography has the potential to capture significant acute vasodilation of major arteries and vasculature selectivity.
- Kristie Huda
- , Dylan J. Lawrence
- & Carolyn L. Bayer
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| Open AccessMultiple channelling single-photon emission with scattering holography designed metasurfaces
Here the authors demonstrate on-chip single-photon source providing two emission channels with individual direction and polarization control of each channel by implementing a plasmonic holographic metasurface coupled to a Ge-vacancy nanodiamond.
- Danylo Komisar
- , Shailesh Kumar
- & Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi
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| Open AccessMorphogenetic metasurfaces: unlocking the potential of Turing patterns
Inspired by Alan Turing’s last works on morphogenesis, this research introduces a technique for generating metasurfaces through the emergence of anisotropic patterns capable of self-structuring in response to electromagnetic constraints.
- Thomas Fromenteze
- , Okan Yurduseven
- & Cyril Decroze
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| Open AccessTopologically crafted spatiotemporal vortices in acoustics
The topologically robust generation of acoustic spatiotemporal vortex pulses is reported by utilizing mirror- symmetry breaking meta-gratings, which paves the way for exploring spatiotemporal structured waves in acoustics and beyond.
- Hongliang Zhang
- , Yeyang Sun
- & Zhichao Ruan
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| Open AccessVisualizing moiré ferroelectricity via plasmons and nano-photocurrent in graphene/twisted-WSe2 structures
Recent experiments have shown the formation of ferroelectric domains in twisted van der Waals bilayers. Here, the authors report near-field infrared nano-imaging and nano-photocurrent measurements to investigate ferroelectricity in minimally twisted WSe2 by visualizing the plasmonic and photo-thermoelectric response of an adjacent graphene monolayer.
- Shuai Zhang
- , Yang Liu
- & D. N. Basov
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| Open AccessTransmission-type photonic doping for high-efficiency epsilon-near-zero supercoupling
The authors present a transmission-type doping approach to reduce resonant losses in photonic doping. Assisted by the approach, proximate ideal epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) supercoupling with neartotal energy transmission and zero-phase advance is achieved in experiments.
- Wendi Yan
- , Ziheng Zhou
- & Yue Li
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| Open AccessOrientation distributions of vacuum-deposited organic emitters revealed by single-molecule microscopy
The understanding of the orientation of luminescent molecules is currently limited by the ensemble-averaging nature of state-of-the-art measurements. Here, the authors apply single-molecule imaging to obtain complete orientation distributions of the transition dipole of individual emitter molecules.
- Francisco Tenopala-Carmona
- , Dirk Hertel
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| Open AccessModulation of perovskite degradation with multiple-barrier for light-heat stable perovskite solar cells
The long-term stability of perovskite solar cells remains a critical challenge for the commercialization of the technology. Here, the authors adopt a non-noble metal/metal oxide/polymer multiple-barrier to suppress device degradation, achieving long-term stability in encapsulated p-i-n devices.
- Jing Zhou
- , Zonghao Liu
- & Wei Chen
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| Open AccessPhotostimulation of brain lymphatics in male newborn and adult rodents for therapy of intraventricular hemorrhage
Intraventricular hemorrhage is one of the most fatal forms of brain injury. It is a common complication in premature infants and has limited treatment options. Here, the authors show that transcranial photostimulation can ameliorate lymphatic removal of blood from the brain of adult and newborn rodents after intraventricular hemorrhage, providing fast recovery and improvement of behavioral outcomes.
- Dongyu Li
- , Shaojun Liu
- & Dan Zhu
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| Open AccessDifferential phase-diversity electrooptic modulator for cancellation of fiber dispersion and laser noise
In this work, the authors showcase four-phase electrooptic modulators (FEOMs) implemented on thin-film lithium niobate. This innovation effectively addresses challenges related to dispersion and semiconductor laser noise limitations, offering a promising solution for integrated photonic applications.
- Ehsan Ordouie
- , Tianwei Jiang
- & Bahram Jalali
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| Open AccessTwisted moiré photonic crystal enabled optical vortex generation through bound states in the continuum
The Authors in this work predict the radiation of twisted bilayer photonic crystals to host an optical vortex in the far field, which is enabled by connecting BIC modes in photonic crystals with the free space through a ‘moiré channel’.
- Tiancheng Zhang
- , Kaichen Dong
- & Jie Yao
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| Open AccessMultimaterial fiber as a physical simulator of a capillary instability
Capillary breakup in multimaterial fibers is explored for the self-assembly of optoelectronic systems. However, its insights primarily stem from numerical simulations, qualitative at best. The authors formulate an analytical model of such breakup, obtaining a window in the governing parameters where the generally chaotic breakup becomes predictable and thus engineerable.
- Camila Faccini de Lima
- , Fan Wang
- & Alexander Gumennik
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| Open AccessHigh-performance cost efficient simultaneous wireless information and power transfers deploying jointly modulated amplifying programmable metasurface
In this work, the authors demonstrate a ‘jointly modulated’ amplifying programmable metasurface (APM) for simultaneous wireless information and power transmission (SWIPT). Their technique outperforms existing methods, significantly improving power transmission and adaptability for conveying energy and data across various domains, including wireless implants, 6 G networks, and IoT systems.
- Xin Wang
- , Jia Qi Han
- & Tie Jun Cui
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| Open AccessHigh-resolution single-photon imaging with physics-informed deep learning
High-resolution single-photon imaging is challenging due to complex hardware and noise disturbances. Here, the authors realise simultaneous single-photon denoising and super-resolution enhancement by physics-informed deep learning, with a physical multi-source noise model, two single-photon image datasets, and a deep transformer network.
- Liheng Bian
- , Haoze Song
- & Jun Zhang
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| Open AccessIntrinsic 1\({T}^{{\prime} }\) phase induced in atomically thin 2H-MoTe2 by a single terahertz pulse
A single field-enhanced terahertz pulse was used to create 1\({T}^{{\prime} }\)-MoTe2 out of few-layer H-MoTe2 crystals, providing insights into the ultrafast polymorphic transition dynamics and resolving a long-standing debate over the realization of this transition by high-energy photon irradiation.
- Jiaojian Shi
- , Ya-Qing Bie
- & Keith A. Nelson
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| Open AccessKapitza-resistance-like exciton dynamics in atomically flat MoSe2-WSe2 lateral heterojunction
Here, the authors use tip-enhanced photoluminescence spectroscopy to show a discontinuity of the exciton density distribution on each side of the interface of a MoSe2/WSe2 lateral heterostructure. They introduce the concept of ‘exciton Kapitza resistance’ by analogy with the interfacial thermal resistance known as ‘Kapitza resistance’.
- Hassan Lamsaadi
- , Dorian Beret
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| Open AccessEngineering the temporal dynamics of all-optical switching with fast and slow materials
Here the authors demonstrate the active control of an all-optical switch harnessing the interaction of light with the constituent materials. The response speeds up by two orders of magnitude and scales accordingly with the strength of the light matter interaction.
- Soham Saha
- , Benjamin T. Diroll
- & Alexandra Boltasseva
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| Open AccessPick and place process for uniform shrinking of 3D printed micro- and nano-architected materials
Three-dimensional structures with micro-/nanoscale features can be produced by two-photon polymerization lithography but suffering from a non-uniform shrinkage. Here, the authors report a poly(vinyl alcohol)-assisted pick-and-place process to uniformly heat shrink three-dimensional micro-/nano-architected materials printed by two-photon polymerization lithography.
- Tomohiro Mori
- , Hao Wang
- & Joel K. W. Yang
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| Open AccessProof of crystal-field-perturbation-enhanced luminescence of lanthanide-doped nanocrystals through interstitial H+ doping
Lanthanide-doped inorganic nanocrystals are promising for optical imaging and biomedical applications. Here authors show that interstitial H+ doping-induced crystal-field perturbation enhances the photoluminescence intensity of lanthanide-doped inorganic nanocrystals.
- Guowei Li
- , Shihui Jiang
- & Maochun Hong