{"title":"OFC: Outside Front Cover","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/S2666-9528(25)00006-8","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S2666-9528(25)00006-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":66474,"journal":{"name":"Green Chemical Engineering","volume":"6 2","pages":"Page OFC"},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143594170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Outside Back Cover","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/S2666-9528(25)00015-9","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S2666-9528(25)00015-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":66474,"journal":{"name":"Green Chemical Engineering","volume":"6 2","pages":"Page OBC"},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143594167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nian Liu, Zhengzheng Liu, Yuanlong Huang, Peipei Du, Xiang Zhang, Yuxin Leng, Jiajun Luo, Juan Du, Jiang Tang
{"title":"Fluorine-modified passivator for efficient vacuum-deposited pure-red perovskite light-emitting diodes","authors":"Nian Liu, Zhengzheng Liu, Yuanlong Huang, Peipei Du, Xiang Zhang, Yuxin Leng, Jiajun Luo, Juan Du, Jiang Tang","doi":"10.1038/s41377-025-01740-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41377-025-01740-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Vacuum-deposited perovskite light-emitting diodes (PeLEDs) have demonstrated significant potential for high-color-gamut active-matrix displays. Despite the rapid advance of green PeLEDs, red ones remain a considerable challenge because of the inferior photophysical properties of vacuum-deposited red-light-emitting materials. Here, a rationally designed fluorine-modified phosphine oxide additive was introduced to in-situ passivate vacuum-deposited perovskites. The highly polar 2-F-TPPO incorporated perovskite films demonstrated enhanced photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY), suppressed defects, and improved crystallinity. When implemented as active layers in PeLEDs, an external quantum efficiency (EQE) of 12.6% with an emission wavelength of 640 nm is achieved, which was 6 times higher compared to the previously reported most efficient vacuum-deposited red PeLEDs (EQE below 2%). Our findings lay the foundations for the further exploration of high-performance vacuum-deposited PeLEDs toward full-color perovskite displays.</p>","PeriodicalId":18069,"journal":{"name":"Light-Science & Applications","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143582803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Wenjun Yi, Shuyue Zhu, Meicheng Fu, Nan Gu, Junli Qi, Siyu Liu, Mengjun Zhu, Ping Wang, Xin Chen, Yi Zhang, Hongyu Zhang, Yao Xu, Junyi Du, Peng Xiong, Zhaohua Dong, Luobing Dong, Qiong Liu, Xiujian Li
{"title":"Relay-projection microscopic telescopy","authors":"Wenjun Yi, Shuyue Zhu, Meicheng Fu, Nan Gu, Junli Qi, Siyu Liu, Mengjun Zhu, Ping Wang, Xin Chen, Yi Zhang, Hongyu Zhang, Yao Xu, Junyi Du, Peng Xiong, Zhaohua Dong, Luobing Dong, Qiong Liu, Xiujian Li","doi":"10.1038/s41377-025-01800-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41377-025-01800-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The fundamental trade-off between spatial resolution and imaging distance poses a significant challenge for current imaging techniques, such as those used in modern biomedical diagnosis and remote sensing. Here, we introduce a new conceptual method for imaging dynamic amplitude-phase-mixed objects, termed relay-projection microscopic telescopy (rPMT), which fundamentally challenges conventional light collection techniques by employing non-line-of-sight light collection through square-law relay-projection mechanisms. We successfully resolved tin<u>y</u> features measuring 2.76 μm, 22.10 μm, and 35.08 μm for objects positioned at distances of 1019.0 mm, 26.4 m, and 96.0 m, respectively, from single-shot spatial power spectrum images captured on the relay screen; these results demonstrate that the resolution capabilities of rPMT significantly surpass the Abbe diffraction limit of the 25 mm-aperture camera lens at the respective distances, achieving resolution improvement factors of 7.9, 25.4, and 58.2. The rPMT exhibits long-distance, wide-range, high-resolution imaging capabilities that exceed the diffraction limit of the camera lens and the focusing range limit, even when the objects are obscured by a scattering medium. The rPMT enables telescopic imaging from centimeters to beyond hundreds of meters with micrometer-scale resolution using simple devices, including a laser diode, a portable camera, and a diffusely reflecting whiteboard. Unlike contemporary high-resolution imaging techniques, our method does not require labeling reagents, wavefront modulation, synthetic receive aperture, or ptychography scanning, which significantly reduce the complexity of the imaging system and enhance the application practicality. This method holds particular promise for in-vivo label-free dynamic biomedical microscopic imaging diagnosis and remote surveillance of small objects.</p>","PeriodicalId":18069,"journal":{"name":"Light-Science & Applications","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143569710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dimensionality-enhanced mid-infrared light vortex detection based on multilayer graphene","authors":"Dehong Yang, Jiawei Lai, Zipu Fan, Shiyu Wang, Kainan Chang, Lili Meng, Jinluo Cheng, Dong Sun","doi":"10.1038/s41377-024-01735-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41377-024-01735-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Recent conceptual demonstrations of direct photocurrent readout of light vortices have enabled the development of light orbital angular momentum-sensitive focal plane arrays and on-chip integration of orbital angular momentum detection. However, known orbital angular momentum-sensitive materials are limited to two topological Weyl Semimetals belonging to the <i>C</i><sub><i>2v</i></sub> point group, namely, WTe<sub>2</sub> and TaIrTe<sub>4</sub>. Both are fragile under ambient conditions and challenging for large-scale epitaxial growth. In this work, we demonstrate that multilayer graphene, which is complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor compatible and epitaxially growable at the wafer scale, is applicable for orbital angular momentum detection in the mid-infrared region. Using a multilayer graphene photodetector with a designed U-shaped electrode geometry, we demonstrate that the topological charge of orbital angular momentum can be detected directly through the orbital photogalvanic effect and that the orbital angular momentum recognition capability of multilayer graphene is an order of magnitude greater than that of TaIrTe<sub>4</sub>. We found that the detection capability of multilayer graphene is enabled by the enhanced orbital photogalvanic effect response due to the reduced dimensionality and scattering rate. Our work opens a new technical route to improve orbital angular momentum recognition capability and is immediately applicable for large-scale integration of ambient stable, mid-infrared direct orbital angular momentum photodetection devices.</p>","PeriodicalId":18069,"journal":{"name":"Light-Science & Applications","volume":"53 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143560629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ultrafast pump-probe phase-randomized tomography","authors":"Filippo Glerean, Enrico Maria Rigoni, Giacomo Jarc, Shahla Yasmin Mathengattil, Angela Montanaro, Francesca Giusti, Matteo Mitrano, Fabio Benatti, Daniele Fausti","doi":"10.1038/s41377-025-01789-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41377-025-01789-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Measuring fluctuations in matter’s low-energy excitations is the key to unveiling the nature of the non-equilibrium response of materials. A promising outlook in this respect is offered by spectroscopic methods that address matter fluctuations by exploiting the statistical nature of light-matter interactions with weak few-photon probes. Here we report the first implementation of ultrafast phase randomized tomography, combining pump-probe experiments with quantum optical state tomography, to measure the ultrafast non-equilibrium dynamics in complex materials. Our approach utilizes a time-resolved multimode heterodyne detection scheme with phase-randomized coherent ultrashort laser pulses, overcoming the limitations of phase-stable configurations and enabling a robust reconstruction of the statistical distribution of phase-averaged optical observables. This methodology is validated by measuring the coherent phonon response in α-quartz. By tracking the dynamics of the shot-noise limited photon number distribution of few-photon probes with ultrafast resolution, our results set an upper limit to the non-classical features of phononic state in α-quartz and provide a pathway to access non-equilibrium quantum fluctuations in more complex quantum materials.</p>","PeriodicalId":18069,"journal":{"name":"Light-Science & Applications","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143561277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Full polarization control of photons with evanescent wave coupling in the ultra subwavelength gap of photonic molecules","authors":"Rui Zhu, Chenjiang Qian, Shan Xiao, Jingnan Yang, Sai Yan, Hanqing Liu, Deyan Dai, Hancong Li, Longlong Yang, Xiqing Chen, Yu Yuan, Danjie Dai, Zhanchun Zuo, Haiqiao Ni, Zhichuan Niu, Can Wang, Kuijuan Jin, Qihuang Gong, Xiulai Xu","doi":"10.1038/s41377-025-01794-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41377-025-01794-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Polarization of photons plays a key role in quantum optics and light-matter interactions, however, it is difficult to control in nanosystems since the eigenstate of a nanophotonic cavity is usually fixed and linearly polarized. Here, we reveal the polarization control of photons using photonic molecules (PMs) that host supermodes of two coupled nanobeam cavities. In contrast to conventional PMs in a 2D photonic crystal slab, for the two 1D photonic crystal nanobeam cavities the shift and gap between them can be tuned continuously. With an ultra subwavelength gap, the coupling between the two cavities is dominated by the evanescent wave coupling in the surrounding environment, rather not the emission wave coupling for conventional PMs. As such, the non-Hermiticity of the system becomes pronounced, and the supermodes consist of a non-trivial phase difference between bare eigenstates that supports elliptical polarization. We observe that both the polarization degree and polarization angle of the antisymmetric mode strongly depend on the shift and gap between the two cavities, exhibiting polarization states from linear to circular. This full polarization control indicates the great potential of PMs in quantum optical devices and spin-resolved cavity quantum electrodynamics.</p>","PeriodicalId":18069,"journal":{"name":"Light-Science & Applications","volume":"210 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143545982","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Controlling the wavefront aberration of a large-aperture and high-precision holographic diffraction grating","authors":"Wenhao Li, Xinyu Wang, Bayanheshig, Zhaowu Liu, Wei Wang, Shan Jiang, Yubo Li, Shuo Li, Wei Zhang, Yanxiu Jiang, Zheng Wu, Wenyuan Zhou","doi":"10.1038/s41377-025-01785-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41377-025-01785-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The scanning interference field exposure technique is an effective method to fabricate holographic diffraction grating with meter-level size and nano-level precision. The main problems of fabricating large-aperture and high-precision grating by this technique are the high-precision displacement measurement of the stage, the high-precision control of the interference fringe and the real time compensation of the grating phase error. In this paper, the influence of grating groove error on the wavefront aberration is analyzed. In order to improve the precision of the stage with displacement range more than one meter, an integrated displacement measurement combining grating sensing and laser interferometry is proposed, which suppresses the influence of environment on measurement precision under long displacement range. An interference fringe measurement method is proposed, which combines the diffraction characteristics of the measuring grating with the phase-shifting algorithm. By controlling the direction, period and phase nonlinear errors of the interference fringe, high quality interference fringe can be obtained. Further, a dynamic phase-locking model is established by using heterodyne interferometry to compensate grating phase error caused by stage motion error in real time. A grating with the aperture of 1500 mm × 420 mm is fabricated. The wavefront aberration reaches 0.327<i>λ</i> @ 632.8 nm and the wavefront gradient reaches 16.444 nm/cm. This research presents a novel technique for the fabrication of meter-level size and nano-level precision holographic grating, which would further promote the development of chirped pulse amplification systems, high-energy laser and ultra-high precision displacement measurement.</p>","PeriodicalId":18069,"journal":{"name":"Light-Science & Applications","volume":"52 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143545976","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Non-invasive and fully two-dimensional quantitative visualization of transparent flow fields enabled by photonic spin-decoupled metasurfaces","authors":"Qingbin Fan, Peicheng Lin, Le Tan, Chunyu Huang, Feng Yan, Yanqing Lu, Ting Xu","doi":"10.1038/s41377-025-01793-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41377-025-01793-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Transparent flow field visualization techniques play a critical role in engineering and scientific applications. They provide a clear and intuitive means to understand fluid dynamics and its complex phenomena, such as laminar flow, turbulence, and vortices. However, achieving fully two-dimensional quantitative visualization of transparent flow fields under non-invasive conditions remains a significant challenge. Here, we present an approach for achieving flow field visualization by harnessing the synergistic effects of a dielectric metasurface array endowed with photonic spin-decoupled capability. This approach enables the simultaneous acquisition of light-field images containing flow field information in two orthogonal dimensions, which allows for the real-time and quantitative derivation of multiple physical parameters. As a proof-of-concept, we experimentally demonstrate the applicability of the proposed visualization technique to various scenarios, including temperature field mapping, gas leak detection, visualization of various fluid physical phenomena, and 3D morphological reconstruction of transparent phase objects. This technique not only establishes an exceptional platform for advancing research in fluid physics, but also exhibits significant potential for broad applications in industrial design and vision.</p>","PeriodicalId":18069,"journal":{"name":"Light-Science & Applications","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143545979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"High-performance achromatic flat lens by multiplexing meta-atoms on a stepwise phase dispersion compensation layer","authors":"Jingen Lin, Jinbei Chen, Jianchao Zhang, Haowen Liang, Juntao Li, Xue-Hua Wang","doi":"10.1038/s41377-024-01731-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41377-024-01731-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Flat optics have attracted interest for decades due to their flexibility in manipulating optical wave properties, which allows the miniaturization of bulky optical assemblies into integrated planar components. Recent advances in achromatic flat lenses have shown promising applications in various fields. However, it is a significant challenge for achromatic flat lenses with a high numerical aperture to simultaneously achieve broad bandwidth and expand the aperture sizes. Here, we present the zone division multiplex of the meta-atoms on a stepwise phase dispersion compensation (SPDC) layer to address the above challenge. In principle, the aperture size can be freely enlarged by increasing the optical thickness difference between the central and marginal zones of the SPDC layer, without the limit of the achromatic bandwidth. The SPDC layer also serves as the substrate, making the device thinner. Two achromatic flat lenses of 500 nm thickness with a bandwidth of 650–1000 nm are experimentally achieved: one with a numerical aperture of 0.9 and a radius of 20.1 µm, and another with a numerical aperture of 0.7 and a radius of 30.0 µm. To the best of our knowledge, they are the broadband achromatic flat lenses with highest numerical apertures, the largest aperture sizes and thinnest thickness reported so far. Microscopic imaging with a 1.10 µm resolution has also been demonstrated by white light illumination, surpassing any previously reported resolution attained by achromatic metalenses and multi-level diffractive lenses. These unprecedented performances mark a substantial step toward practical applications of flat lenses.</p>","PeriodicalId":18069,"journal":{"name":"Light-Science & Applications","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143545980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}