Rafael G. Uceda, Sandra Míguez-Lago, Carlos M. Cruz, Sara P. Morcillo, Luis Álvarez de Cienfuegos, Víctor Blanco, Araceli G. Campaña, Maria Ribagorda, Delia Miguel, Juan M. Cuerva
{"title":"Do's and Don'ts When Visiting Circularly Polarized Luminescence","authors":"Rafael G. Uceda, Sandra Míguez-Lago, Carlos M. Cruz, Sara P. Morcillo, Luis Álvarez de Cienfuegos, Víctor Blanco, Araceli G. Campaña, Maria Ribagorda, Delia Miguel, Juan M. Cuerva","doi":"10.1002/adom.202503285","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.202503285","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This perspective offers our overview on the principles, challenges, and opportunities of circularly polarized luminescence (CPL), drawn from our complementary experience over the past decade. Rather than a comprehensive review, we aim to share insights on the often demanding yet rewarding path of CPL research. We first highlight key questions for newcomers, then organize selected sections by molecular structure, with emphasis on our own contributions. Central to the discussion is the dissymmetry factor (<i>g</i><sub>lum</sub>), governed by the interplay between electric and magnetic dipole transition moments, though other descriptors are also considered. Strategies in organic and inorganic molecular design leading to enhanced CPL efficiency are discussed, together with a critical evaluation of potential applications, particularly in sensing. In this context, NIR-emitting CPL fluorophores emerge as highly promising. The integration of CPL-active molecules in solid-state devices, as well as links to other chiral-related phenomena such as chiral-induced spin selectivity, are also addressed. Looking ahead, theoretical models and artificial intelligence are considered valuable tools to complement advanced experimental approaches, helping to overcome current limitations and to unlock new opportunities in both fundamental studies and technological applications. We conclude with our own reflections, practical advice, and perspectives for future research.</p>","PeriodicalId":116,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Optical Materials","volume":"14 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2026-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/adom.202503285","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147569703","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Copper(I)-Carbene Complex With High Quantum Yield for White Light Emitting Application","authors":"Subramaniyam Kalaivanan, Gopendra Muduli, Sibani Mund, Kumar Siddhant, Arushi Rawat, Kohsuke Matsumoto, François Réveret, Federico Cisnetti, Osamu Tsutsumi, Sivakumar Vaidyanathan, Ganesan Prabusankar","doi":"10.1002/adom.202503640","DOIUrl":"10.1002/adom.202503640","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>A novel tri-coordinated dinuclear copper(I) <i>N</i>-heterocyclic carbene complex, [Cu<sub>2</sub>(L<sup>1</sup>)<sub>2</sub>]I<sub>2</sub> (<b>1</b>), (where L<sup>1</sup> = 1,3-bis((1-mesityl-1,2,3-triazol-4-yl)methyl)-benzimidazole) with excellent photoluminescence properties was isolated from the reaction between CuI and L<sup>1</sup>.HBr. The copper(I) complex was characterized by FT-IR, TGA, DTA, and single-crystal X-ray diffraction techniques. The three-coordinated copper center in <b>1</b> exhibited a distorted trigonal planar geometry. <b>1</b> is thermally stable till 258°C. <b>1</b> emits a greenish-blue color at 497 nm due to halide-metal to ligand charge transfer with Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage (CIE) values of <i>x</i> = 0.19 and <i>y</i> = 0.43. It possesses a remarkably high quantum yield of 84% with a lifetime of 9.6 µs at room temperature. DFT studies reveal that HOMO is mainly located on the copper-iodide center, and the LUMO is dispersed on the NHC ligand, supporting charge transfer mechanism. The greenish-blue emitter <b>1</b> was combined with a red-emitting Eu(III) complex to fabricate a white LED exhibiting CIE (0.37, 0.32), color rendering index of 70 and a low correlated color temperature of 3182 K. The fabricated LED achieves luminous efficiency of radiation (LER) of around 365 lm W<sup>−1</sup>, highlighting <b>1</b> as promising candidate for potential applications in optoelectronics and lighting.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":116,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Optical Materials","volume":"14 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2026-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147569089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Taha Haddadifam, Farzan Shabani, Mustafa Kalay, Aisan Khaligh, Evren Mutlugun, Mustafa Serdar Onses, Hilmi Volkan Demir
{"title":"Ultra-Durable Information-Encoded Anti-Counterfeiting Self-Assembled Nanocrystal Labels (Advanced Optical Materials 11/2026)","authors":"Taha Haddadifam, Farzan Shabani, Mustafa Kalay, Aisan Khaligh, Evren Mutlugun, Mustafa Serdar Onses, Hilmi Volkan Demir","doi":"10.1002/adom.70988","DOIUrl":"10.1002/adom.70988","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>Chip Security</b></p><p>To protect semiconductor chips, an information-encoded label is designed, fabricated, and transferred onto an electronic chip. In this label, colloidal quantum wells with ultra-low emission bandwidth were utilized. Each color bar represents a specific information. The nanoparticles are randomly distributed on the boundaries of the color bars, making the information secure and unclonable. More details can be found in the Research Article by Hilmi Volkan Demir and co-workers (DOI: 10.1002/adom.202502884).\u0000\u0000 <figure>\u0000 <div><picture>\u0000 <source></source></picture><p></p>\u0000 </div>\u0000 </figure></p>","PeriodicalId":116,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Optical Materials","volume":"14 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2026-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/adom.70988","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147567471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Phosphorescent Carbon Dots Confined in Al2O3 With Broad Excitation Range","authors":"Ziting Zhong, Jinkun Liu, Jueran Cao, Zhun Ran, Yuqi Li, Xuejie Zhang, Jianle Zhuang, Chaofan Hu","doi":"10.1002/adom.202503439","DOIUrl":"10.1002/adom.202503439","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Developing single-component carbon dot (CD)-based composites with long-lived emission, tunable colors, and broad excitation range remains scientifically challenging. Herein, CDs and alumina composites (CDs@Al<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub>) with broad excitation range were synthesized through a one-step calcination method using benzamide as the carbon source. The room temperature phosphorescence (RTP) emission color shifts from blue to green to yellow as excitation wavelength increases. CDs@Al<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub> synthesized at an optimized calcination temperature of 500°C exhibits lifetimes of up to 1.36 s under 258 nm excitation and 0.63 s at 520 nm. Photophysical analysis reveals that the multicolor afterglow originates from multiple emission centers within the CDs. N, O co-doping creates novel surface states, while the rigid matrix confines emission centers, suppressing non-radiative decay and enabling phosphorescence tuning. CDs@Al<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub> demonstrates potential in anti-counterfeiting and information encryption due to its unique optical properties. This work provides a novel strategy for designing single-component optical materials with color-tunable emission and broad excitation range.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":116,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Optical Materials","volume":"14 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2026-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147568068","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Seungmok Youn, Kunwoo Park, Ikbeom Lee, Gitae Lee, Namkyoo Park, Sunkyu Yu
{"title":"Phase-Sensitive Engineering of Optical Disordered Materials Using Heterogeneous Networks","authors":"Seungmok Youn, Kunwoo Park, Ikbeom Lee, Gitae Lee, Namkyoo Park, Sunkyu Yu","doi":"10.1002/adom.202503499","DOIUrl":"10.1002/adom.202503499","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Heterogeneous networks provide a universal framework for extracting subsystem-level features of a complex system, which are critical in graph coloring, pattern classification, and motif identification. In such networks, distinct groups of nodes and links can be decomposed into different types of multipartite networks, whose nodes are partitioned into disjoint sets with edges permitted only across these sets. In optics, this decomposition motivates a network-based analysis of multiphase optical materials by introducing multipartite networks to model intra- and inter-phase electromagnetic interactions. Here, we develop heterogeneous network modeling of wave scattering to engineer multiphase random heterogeneous materials. We devise multipartite network decomposition determined by material phases, which is examined using uni- and bi-partite network examples for two-phase multiparticle systems embedded in a host medium. We show that the directionality of the bipartite network governs the phase-sensitive alteration of microstructures. The proposed modeling enables a network-based design to achieve phase-sensitive microstructural features, while almost preserving the overall scattering response. With examples of designing quasi-isoscattering stealthy hyperuniform materials, our results provide a recipe for engineering multiphase materials for wave functionalities.</p>","PeriodicalId":116,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Optical Materials","volume":"14 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2026-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/adom.202503499","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147568669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Aligned Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Film Chiral Metasurfaces for Terahertz Polarization Sensing (Advanced Optical Materials 11/2026)","authors":"Xiangdong Chen, Yue Wang, Xiang Zhang, Peng Shen, Fei Fan, Shengjiang Chang","doi":"10.1002/adom.70985","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.70985","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>Aligned Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Films</b></p><p>This work reports a chiral terahertz metasurface based on wafer-level aligned single-walled carbon nanotube films, made by controllable vacuum filtration. Chiral effects are realized by etching symmetrical patterns, simplifying cumbersome chiral fabrication. With high biocompatibility and anisotropy-enabled design freedom, it enables sensitive chiral biomolecule detection via polarization sensing, overcoming traditional enantiomer distinction limits. More details can be found in the Research Article by Yue Wang and co-workers. (DOI:10.1002/adom.202501993)\u0000\u0000 <figure>\u0000 <div><picture>\u0000 <source></source></picture><p></p>\u0000 </div>\u0000 </figure></p>","PeriodicalId":116,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Optical Materials","volume":"14 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2026-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/adom.70985","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147567412","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hao Yuan, Chun Li, Bo Yang, Yongxv Liu, Yunfei Cao, Hao Jiang, Haoran Yang, Xiaoqing Si, Jian Cao
{"title":"A Review on Ultrashort Pulse Laser Welding Technology (Advanced Optical Materials 10/2026)","authors":"Hao Yuan, Chun Li, Bo Yang, Yongxv Liu, Yunfei Cao, Hao Jiang, Haoran Yang, Xiaoqing Si, Jian Cao","doi":"10.1002/adom.70984","DOIUrl":"10.1002/adom.70984","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>Ultrashort Pulse Laser Welding Technology</b></p><p>Ultrashort-pulse lasers are characterized by extremely high peak power, triggering the nonlinear absorption of transparent materials at the interface and generating localized micro-melt pools that enables effective joining. The welding approach features lower heat input, reduced residual stress, and microscale precision, making it highly promising for welding transparent and brittle materials. This review summarizes recent advances in ultrashort-pulse laser welding technology. More details can be found in the Review Article by Chun Li, Jian Cao, and co-workers (DOI: 10.1002/adom.202501852).\u0000\u0000 <figure>\u0000 <div><picture>\u0000 <source></source></picture><p></p>\u0000 </div>\u0000 </figure></p>","PeriodicalId":116,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Optical Materials","volume":"14 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2026-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/adom.70984","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147565415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hao Yuan, Chun Li, Bo Yang, Yongxv Liu, Yunfei Cao, Hao Jiang, Haoran Yang, Xiaoqing Si, Jian Cao
{"title":"A Review on Ultrashort Pulse Laser Welding Technology","authors":"Hao Yuan, Chun Li, Bo Yang, Yongxv Liu, Yunfei Cao, Hao Jiang, Haoran Yang, Xiaoqing Si, Jian Cao","doi":"10.1002/adom.202501852","DOIUrl":"10.1002/adom.202501852","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Ultrashort pulse laser (USPL) with its excellent properties of ultrashort pulse width and extremely high peak power is widely applied in precision machining, microfabrication, and biomedicine. In recent years, there is a growing trend in using USPL in the field of welding. This emerging welding technology is primarily applied to the welding of transparent materials. By focusing USPL at the welding interface, laser energy transfers to substrates within a narrow area through the nonlinear absorption process, accompanied with large amount of heat release to achieve the melting and bonding. Due to the extremely short pulse width and limited energy input, thermal diffusion around the joint is minimal, resulting in the diminished welding region, lower thermal stress, and enhanced welding precision. This method holds significant promise for welding samples with a large coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) difference. In this review, the welding of transparent materials is first introduced, including the welding process, mechanism, and process optimization. Following this, the welding of transparent materials-opaque materials and opaque materials-opaque materials are described. The current progress in the applications of USPL welding is then presented. Finally, the development prospects of USPL welding technology are summarized and discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":116,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Optical Materials","volume":"14 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2026-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147568915","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction to “Selective and Sensitive Detection of Cu+ in Living Cells Based on Chelator Modified Carbon Dots”","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/adom.71059","DOIUrl":"10.1002/adom.71059","url":null,"abstract":"<p>T. Gao, P. Deng, S. Guo, et al.: Selective and Sensitive Detection of Cu<sup>+</sup> in Living Cells Based on Chelator Modified Carbon Dots. <i>Advanced Optical Materials</i> <i>12</i>, 2400458 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.202400458</p><p>The authors regret to report that an error exists in Figure 9 of the published article. To avoid confusion, the LSCM images in Figure 9 have been updated. It should be emphasized that this correction does not affect any discussions or conclusions presented in the paper. The revised version of Figure 9 is provided below.</p><p></p><p>We apologize for this error.</p>","PeriodicalId":116,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Optical Materials","volume":"14 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2026-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/adom.71059","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147566347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Silica-Based Er:YAG Nanocrystal Composite Fibers Enabling S+C+L Broadband Tunable Lasers","authors":"Min Sun, Yuli Pang, Jialong Li, Xu Lu, Ziheng Miao, Dong Cheng, Qilai Zhao, Changsheng Yang, Guowu Tang, YongSheng Sun, Cheng Luo, Kun Yang, Tien Khee Ng, Tao Chen, Xiaoyong Wei, Shanhui Xu, Guoping Dong, Qi Qian, Zhongmin Yang, Zhuo Xu","doi":"10.1002/adom.202503634","DOIUrl":"10.1002/adom.202503634","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The rapid advancement of optical communication and laser technologies demands materials that simultaneously exhibit broadband tunability and sufficient gain efficiency. However, achieving a harmonious balance between these two critical properties in conventional glass optical fibers remains a significant challenge. Here, we report the development and characterization of erbium-doped yttrium-aluminum-garnet (Er:YAG) nanocrystal composite fibers. The fibers are fabricated using a post-feeding melt-in-tube method by precisely controlling the interfacial reaction time (<10 min), which effectively resulted in Er:YAG nanocrystals embedded in the core region. Spectroscopic studies reveal that the nanocrystal size effect modifies the energy level splitting of erbium ions, leading to an extended emission bandwidth. When deployed in a ring-cavity laser, a 30-cm-length fiber enables a low fusion splicing loss of 0.1 dB with standard single-mode silica fibers and continuous tuning over 126 nm (1494–1620 nm) with an optical signal-to-noise ratio of ∼70 dB, making it suitable for S+C+L band tunable laser applications. These fibers demonstrate both broad gain bandwidth and high signal-to-noise ratio, positioning them as ideal candidates for wavelength-division multiplexing systems and other optical communication devices.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":116,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Optical Materials","volume":"14 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2026-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147563641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}