Ning Li, Xiao Xiao, Yu Li, Ruobing Cheng, Junyi Yin, Hulin Zhang, Jun Chen
{"title":"Wearable Biomonitoring with 2D Carbon-Based Nanocomposite Hydrogels","authors":"Ning Li, Xiao Xiao, Yu Li, Ruobing Cheng, Junyi Yin, Hulin Zhang, Jun Chen","doi":"10.1002/apxr.202400182","DOIUrl":"10.1002/apxr.202400182","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Wearable bioelectronics facilitates continuous and efficient monitoring of physiological data, providing real-time insights and personalized medical guidance. However, the reliance on rigid materials in many existing devices restricts flexibility and comfort, hindering their seamless integration with the soft, dynamic nature of human tissue for prolonged on-body use. 2D carbon-based nanocomposite hydrogels, renowned for their tissue-like elasticity and softness, offer immense potential for advancing wearable bioelectronics. This review explores the synthesis methods and performance optimization strategies of these innovative materials. It categorizes the reinforcement mechanisms of 2D carbon-based nanomaterials, emphasizing improvements in mechanical properties, electrical conductivity, and multifunctionality. Additionally, it highlights the diverse applications of these hydrogels in wearable bioelectronics and discusses the current challenges and future opportunities for their integration into flexible and wearable bioelectronic devices.</p>","PeriodicalId":100035,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Physics Research","volume":"4 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/apxr.202400182","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144273347","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}
Ye Zhang, Siyuan Liu, Jianwei Yang, Yufei Chen, Hongsen He, Jun Dong
{"title":"Structured Light Fields with 2D Tunable Indices Generated in a Raman Microchip Laser","authors":"Ye Zhang, Siyuan Liu, Jianwei Yang, Yufei Chen, Hongsen He, Jun Dong","doi":"10.1002/apxr.202400167","DOIUrl":"10.1002/apxr.202400167","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Structured light fields in the form of Hermite-Gaussian modes with 2D tunable indices of <i>m</i> and <i>n</i> (HG<i><sub>m</sub></i><sub>,</sub><i><sub>n</sub></i>), and optical vortices in the form of Laguerre-Gaussian modes with radial index <i>p</i> and azimuthal index <i>l</i> (LG<sub>p,</sub><i><sub>l</sub></i>) are extremely needed for applications on optical communications, optical trapping, and quantum information processing. Here, high-order HG<i><sub>m</sub></i><sub>,</sub><i><sub>n</sub></i> modes and LG<i><sub>p</sub></i><sub>,</sub><i><sub>l</sub></i> optical vortices with 2D tunable indices are generated in a gain-manipulated Yb:YAG/YVO<sub>4</sub> Raman microchip laser (RML). The gain distribution is manipulated by controlling the separation between Yb:YAG crystal and the focus spot of the <i>y</i>-axis of the laser diode (Δz). HG<i><sub>m</sub></i><sub>,</sub><i><sub>n</sub></i> modes with 2D tunable indices of <i>m</i> up to 14 and <i>n</i> up to 2 are generated in Yb:YAG/YVO<sub>4</sub> RML by setting Δz = −0.5, −4.1, and −6.6 mm. The power of HG<sub>14,0</sub>, HG<sub>7,1</sub>, and HG<sub>6,2</sub> mode lasers are 0.49, 0.31, and 0.34 W under pump power of 3.1 W, and corresponding optical efficiencies are 11%, 7%, and 7.7%. LG<i><sub>p</sub></i><sub>,</sub><i><sub>l</sub></i> optical vortices with <i>p</i> = 0, 1, 2, and <i>l</i> up to 14 are converted from HG<i><sub>m</sub></i><sub>,</sub><i><sub>n</sub></i> mode lasers with a conversion efficiency of over 90%. High beam quality HG<i><sub>m</sub></i><sub>,</sub><i><sub>n</sub></i> modes, and LG<i><sub>p</sub></i><sub>,</sub><i><sub>l</sub></i> optical vortices with 2D tunable indices oscillating at Stokes wavelengths dramatically extend their applications.</p>","PeriodicalId":100035,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Physics Research","volume":"4 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/apxr.202400167","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143919287","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}
Zhipeng Hu, Yuwei Sun, Hongguang Dong, Houxin Fan, Kaige Ding, Yi Jin, Sailing He
{"title":"Recent Advances in Dielectric Chiral Metasurfaces","authors":"Zhipeng Hu, Yuwei Sun, Hongguang Dong, Houxin Fan, Kaige Ding, Yi Jin, Sailing He","doi":"10.1002/apxr.202400187","DOIUrl":"10.1002/apxr.202400187","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Natural chiral materials commonly possess weak chirality. Strong chirality can be achieved using chiral metasurfaces or metamaterials consisting of atom-like subwavelength units. Chiral metasurfaces, as a surface layer of subwavelength units, have gained much attention recently, since they are more easily fabricated than chiral metamaterials while the strong chirality is retained. Compared with metal ones, dielectric chiral metasurfaces have low material loss and support rich localized resonance. Here, we review various dielectric chiral metasurfaces, which are classified based on the geometry configuration, including three-dimensional chiral metasurfaces (the unit cell is not uniform along the height direction) and planar chiral metasurfaces (the unit cell is uniform along the height direction). To further enhance the chirality effect, periodic coupling may be adopted to reduce the leakage to improve the resonant quality factor and enhance the excited localized field. Various dielectric chiral metasurfaces are introduced, and their potential applications are discussed. Dielectric chiral metasurfaces provide a new and strong tool in chirality manipulation with important potential applications.</p>","PeriodicalId":100035,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Physics Research","volume":"4 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/apxr.202400187","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144273523","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}
Valentin Leeb, Nico Huber, Christian Pfleiderer, Johannes Knolle, Marc A. Wilde
{"title":"A Field Guide to Non-Onsager Quantum Oscillations in Metals","authors":"Valentin Leeb, Nico Huber, Christian Pfleiderer, Johannes Knolle, Marc A. Wilde","doi":"10.1002/apxr.202400134","DOIUrl":"10.1002/apxr.202400134","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Quantum oscillation (QO) measurements constitute a powerful method to measure the Fermi surface (FS) properties of metals. The observation of QOs is usually taken as strong evidence for the existence of extremal cross-sectional areas of the FS according to the famous Onsager relation. Here, mechanisms that generate QO frequencies that defy the Onsager relation are reviewed and material candidates are discussed. These include magnetic breakdown, magnetic interaction, chemical potential oscillations, and Stark quantum interference, most of which lead to signals occurring at combinations of “parent” Onsager frequencies. A special emphasis is put on the recently discovered mechanism of quasi-particle lifetime oscillations (QPLOs). This work aims to provide a field guide that allows, on the one hand, to distinguish such non-Onsager QOs from conventional QOs arising from extremal cross sections and, on the other hand, to distinguish the various non-Onsager mechanisms from each other. A practical classification of non-Onsager QOs is given in terms of the prerequisites for their occurrence and their characteristics. It is shown that, in particular, the recently discovered QPLOs may pose significant challenges for the interpretation of QO spectra, as they may occur quite generically as frequency differences in multi-orbit systems, <i>without</i> the necessity of visible “parent” frequencies in the spectrum, owing to a strongly suppressed temperature dephasing of QPLOs. An extensive list of material candidates is presented where QPLOs may represent an alternative explanation for the observation of unexpected QO frequencies.</p>","PeriodicalId":100035,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Physics Research","volume":"4 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/apxr.202400134","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143818815","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":"Operation of Single-Spin Qubits: Recent Advances and Prospects","authors":"Zhizhuo Zhang, Jushang Ran, Fei Gao, Chuancheng Jia, Xuefeng Guo","doi":"10.1002/apxr.202400146","DOIUrl":"10.1002/apxr.202400146","url":null,"abstract":"<p>As a foundational technology in quantum information science (QIS), the manipulation and detection of quantum spins enable precise control, opening new avenues for significant advancements. Early research focused on macroscopic ensemble quantum systems, where electron spin resonance is used to coherently address electron spins within different ensembles. However, the low initialization efficiency and readout sensitivity of such systems hinder their further development. Unlocking the full potential of quantum technology, it is essential to achieve single-spin precision. Various quantum systems, including color centers, quantum dots, atoms, and molecules, have been demonstrated the capability for single-spin manipulation. The successful control of spin quantum states in these systems through diverse techniques has paved the way for new ideas and boundless possibilities in QIS. This review provides a comprehensive overview of recent significant advances in the field and explores future development directions, aiming to shed light on the ongoing evolution of QIS.</p>","PeriodicalId":100035,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Physics Research","volume":"4 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/apxr.202400146","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143818804","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}
Yu Chen, Huanrong Liang, Xinyi Guan, Yuhang Ma, Zhaoqiang Zheng, Churong Ma, Chun Du, Jiandong Yao
{"title":"In Situ Construction of Flexible Low-Dimensional van der Waals Material Photodetectors","authors":"Yu Chen, Huanrong Liang, Xinyi Guan, Yuhang Ma, Zhaoqiang Zheng, Churong Ma, Chun Du, Jiandong Yao","doi":"10.1002/apxr.202400183","DOIUrl":"10.1002/apxr.202400183","url":null,"abstract":"<p>By virtue of the excellent flexibility, conformability, portability, and aesthetics, wearable photodetectors have attracted worldwide research enthusiasm over the past decade. However, traditional bulk covalent semiconductors are difficult to be applied to wearable photodetectors due to their pronounced rigidity. Profiting from the self-passivated surface, excellent carrier mobility, and strong light-harvesting ability, low-dimensional van der Waals materials (LDvdWMs) have shown immense potential for application in wearable optoelectronic devices. Nevertheless, the preparation of flexible photodetectors through exfoliation/transfer or solution methods has suffered from severe drawbacks spanning low production yield, severe contamination, and uncompetitive device properties. Therefore, researchers have been committed to exploring alternative preparation strategies. In response to this, the current review systematically summarizes the latest research advancements in directly constructing LDvdWM photodetectors on flexible substrates, including developing low-melting-point targeted materials, electron-beam-enabled crystallization, photonic crystallization, modified chemical vapor deposition, and pulsed-laser deposition, with the elaboration on the fundamental mechanisms enabling in situ deposition of LDvdWMs. Finally, the tricky challenges standing in the way in this field have been epitomized and potential solutions addressing them have been proposed. On the whole, this review underscores distinctive pathways for the development of flexible LDvdWM photodetectors, which probably usher in next-generation wearable optoelectronic technologies.</p>","PeriodicalId":100035,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Physics Research","volume":"4 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/apxr.202400183","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144273157","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":"Mechanical Spin Waves in a Nonlocal Discrete Magnetoelastic Lattice with Negative Group Velocity","authors":"Taehwa Lee, Xiaopeng Li, Ziqi Yu, Hyung-Suk Kwon, Chiara Daraio","doi":"10.1002/apxr.202400197","DOIUrl":"10.1002/apxr.202400197","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Structured materials can be engineered to support polarized waves generated by the rotation of the wave's displacement field, leading to spin angular momentum (SAM). This property can be leveraged to control the propagation of sound or vibrations through momentum locking or to induce nonreciprocal propagation via phonon-magnon coupling. However, the physical realization of elastic metamaterials that support SAM is a challenge. Discrete lattices can be used to realize mechanical systems that support SAM associated with the rotational motion of particles as the waves propagate. Here, a discrete elastic system is demonstrated, consisting of repulsive magnets mounted on cantilevers, which exhibit elastic spin waves arising from the coupling between the longitudinal and transverse motion of the magnets. It is shown that the direct observation of spin variation can be employed to detect lattice defects. The lattice also enables unidirectional wave propagation and can transmit waves with a negative group velocity due to nonlocal interactions.</p>","PeriodicalId":100035,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Physics Research","volume":"4 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/apxr.202400197","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144811126","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":"Superconducting Diode Effects: Mechanisms, Materials and Applications","authors":"Jiajun Ma, Ruiya Zhan, Xiao Lin","doi":"10.1002/apxr.202400180","DOIUrl":"10.1002/apxr.202400180","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Superconducting diode effects (SDEs) generally emerge in superconducting systems where both time-reversal and inversion symmetries are broken, showing nonreciprocal current characteristics: nondissipative in one direction and ohmic in the opposite. Since the discovery of the SDEs by Ando <i>et</i>~<i>al</i>. in the noncentrosymmetric superconductor [Nb/V/Ta]<sub>n</sub> in 2020, notable progress has been achieved on both the theoretical and experimental fronts. It is proposed that intrinsic SDEs are closely linked to various exotic superconducting states, such as the Fulde–Ferrell–Larkin–Ovchinnikov state, topological superconductivity, and chiral superconductivity. Recently, SDEs have emerged as important experimental tools for detecting symmetry breaking in exotic superconducting states. This advancement not only enhances the understanding of the fundamental nature of SDEs but also opens new possibilities for their applications in superconducting physics and related fields. This review focuses on the recent experimental progress in the observation of the SDEs and discusses their primary mechanisms from the perspective of material properties and symmetry breaking. Finally, the review summarizes the observed rectification efficiency of SDE devices and discusses future research directions in this rapidly developing field.</p>","PeriodicalId":100035,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Physics Research","volume":"4 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/apxr.202400180","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144273474","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}
Yunbo Ou, Xiaoyin Li, Jan Kopaczek, Austin Davis, Gigi Jackson, Mohammed Sayyad, Feng Liu, Seth Ariel Tongay
{"title":"The Hard Ferromagnetism in FePS3 Induced by Non-Magnetic Molecular Intercalation (Adv. Phys. Res. 2/2025)","authors":"Yunbo Ou, Xiaoyin Li, Jan Kopaczek, Austin Davis, Gigi Jackson, Mohammed Sayyad, Feng Liu, Seth Ariel Tongay","doi":"10.1002/apxr.202570003","DOIUrl":"10.1002/apxr.202570003","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>Anisotropic ferromagnetism within antiferromagnetic crystals</b></p><p>The cover feature showcases the emergence of hard anisotropic ferromagnetism following the intercalation of nonmagnetic pyridinium ions into antiferromagnetic FePS<sub>3</sub> single crystals. In article number 202400101, Yunbo Ou, Feng Liu, Seth Ariel Tongay, and colleagues report the transition from antiferromagnetism to ferromagnetism in pyridinium-intercalated FePS<sub>3</sub>, thereby highlighting both the energetically stable B-phase and metastable P-phase. These phases exhibit remarkable properties, including giant coercive fields exceeding 7 T and high Curie temperatures (72–87 K). As revealed by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and supported by first-principles calculations and atomistic spin dynamics simulations, electron transfer from the pyridinium ions to FePS<sub>3</sub> plays a key role in driving this transition. This work offers crucial insights into hard magnetism in intercalated van der Waals materials, thus paving the way for advances in 2D magnet-based technologies.\u0000\u0000 <figure>\u0000 <div><picture>\u0000 <source></source></picture><p></p>\u0000 </div>\u0000 </figure></p>","PeriodicalId":100035,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Physics Research","volume":"4 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/apxr.202570003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143380244","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}