{"title":"Helical Chiral MR-TADF Emitters Enabling Blue Circularly Polarized OLEDs","authors":"Guohui Xing, Haiwei Xia, Jiahao Xu, Xinwen Zhang, Yun Ma, Qiang Zhao","doi":"10.1002/adom.202503584","DOIUrl":"10.1002/adom.202503584","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Circularly polarized organic light-emitting diodes (CP-OLEDs) are attracting increasing attention for next-generation display and imaging applications. A key challenge lies in the development of emitters that can simultaneously deliver high efficiency, narrowband emission, and strong circular polarization. Herein, we report three pairs of helical CP-MR-TADF compounds, <i>M</i>/<i>P</i>-<b>PhCz-QAO</b>, <i>M</i>/<i>P</i>-<b>BFN-QAO</b>, and <i>M</i>/<i>P</i>-<b>BSF-QAO</b>, in which <i>N</i>-phenylcarbazole, dibenzofuran, and dibenzothiophene units induce intrinsic helical chirality within a carbonyl/nitrogen-based MR-TADF framework. This steric design enforces strong coupling between the chiral geometry and the frontier molecular orbitals. The resulting enantiomers exhibit narrowband sky-blue photoluminescence (PL) with full widths at half maximum of 32–42 nm and solution-state Commission International de l'Eclairage (CIE) <sub>y</sub> coordinates of 0.08–0.14. When integrated into OLEDs, the devices achieve maximum external quantum efficiencies of up to 15.1% together with clear circularly polarized electroluminescence signals with <i>g</i><sub>EL</sub> values on the order of 10<sup>−3</sup>. This work demonstrates a robust intrinsic chirality design strategy for achieving high-performance CP-MR-TADF materials, paving the way toward efficient and spectrally pure CP-OLEDs for advanced chiroptical optoelectronic applications.</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":"147566114","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}
Zhitian Shi, Huiyu Huang, Richard Penty, Qixiang Cheng
{"title":"Photonic Hybrid Integration: Strategies and Promises of Advanced Additive Manufacturing","authors":"Zhitian Shi, Huiyu Huang, Richard Penty, Qixiang Cheng","doi":"10.1002/adom.202501750","DOIUrl":"10.1002/adom.202501750","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Hybrid photonic integration plays a vital role in combining the complementary properties of diverse materials such as silicon, III-V semiconductors, and electro optic crystals to create compact and multifunctional devices with advanced light generation, routing, and detection capabilities. However, integration faces significant challenges in ensuring material compatibility, achieving efficient coupling, and enabling scalable fabrication. This review examines the latest integration strategies, including wafer bonding, transfer printing, and additive manufacturing using multi-photon lithography, not as isolated techniques but as connected approaches for addressing these challenges. Advances in materials and post processing are described such as silica and ceramic conversion, improvements in metrology including refractive index and durability characterization, and emerging functionalities such as stimuli responsive 4D components, polarization control, photoluminescent elements, and integrated micro-optics. The discussion highlights performance tradeoffs between precision, throughput, and material properties, and shows how new processing and design methods extend the scope of photonic integration. By presenting a unified perspective, the review outlines how additive manufacturing can advance the development of next generation photonic systems that are efficient, scalable, and highly functional.</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.202501750","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147567737","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}
Boyu Zhou, Mingming Zhou, Yuhan Jiang, Zongming Chang, Chengxiao Gao, Yanping Wang
{"title":"Red Quantum Dot Light-Emitting Diodes With 31.3% EQE Enabled by a Pyridyl-Triazine Electron Transport Material","authors":"Boyu Zhou, Mingming Zhou, Yuhan Jiang, Zongming Chang, Chengxiao Gao, Yanping Wang","doi":"10.1002/adom.202503649","DOIUrl":"10.1002/adom.202503649","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Quantum dot light-emitting diodes (QLEDs) represent a leading technology for future display applications. However, interfacial non-radiative losses and charge injection imbalance remain critical challenges limiting device performance. Here, a pyridyl-triazine electron transport layer (ETL) based on 2,4,6-Tris(3’-(pyridine-3-yl) biphenyl-3-yl)-1,3,5-triazine (TmPPPyTz) is introduced to suppress the interfacial non-radiative recombination driven by Zn<sup>2+</sup>-related surface defects on red quantum dots. Concurrently, combined with an optimized hole-transporting layer comprising poly(9-vinylcarbazole) (PVK) blended with 25 wt.% tris(4-carbazoyl-9-ylphenyl)amine (TCTA), balanced carrier injection is achieved. The resulting red QLEDs with all-organic charge transport layers exhibit unprecedented performance metrics: an external quantum efficiency of 31.3%, a current efficiency of 39.0 cd A<sup>−1</sup>, a power efficiency of 35.3 lm W<sup>−1</sup>, and a <i>T</i><sub>50</sub> lifetime of 7513 h at 100 cd m<sup>−2</sup>. These efficiency values correspond to improvements of 42%, 35% and 104% over conventional ZnMgO-ETL devices (22.0%, 28.8 cd A<sup>−1</sup>, and 17.3 lm W<sup>−1</sup>). This work establishes a new design strategy for high-performance QLEDs through molecular engineering of electron transport materials.</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":"147566346","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":"Developing Excellent Thermo-Optical Properties in Bi/Ta Doped AgNbO3 Ceramics for Adaptive Thermal Management","authors":"Zhiyuan Zhao, Liping Tong, Xinru Yang, Hongchao Li, Hao Gong, Zhongyang Wang, Xiao Zhou, Tongxiang Fan","doi":"10.1002/adom.202503475","DOIUrl":"10.1002/adom.202503475","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Effective regulation of optical and thermal properties remains a crucial challenge for materials in variable temperature environments. Conventional thermal control materials, characterized by static thermo-optical properties, often fail to meet the demands under dynamic thermal conditions. In this study, we achieve exceptional thermo-optical properties in AgNbO<sub>3</sub>-based ceramics (Ag<sub>1-x</sub>Bi<sub>x/3</sub>NbO<sub>3</sub> with <i>x</i> = 0.20, ABN0.20), demonstrating a high emittance variation (Δε = 0.298) and temperature-stable absorptance (Δα = 0.046) across a broad temperature range. Through integrated experimental analysis and DFT calculations, we investigate the effects of doping on lattice structure, phase transition temperature, and thermo-optical properties. Key findings include: (i) The phase transition temperature decreases with decreasing ionic radius of the dopant, particularly that Bi<sup>3+</sup> and Ta<sup>5+</sup> ion doping significantly lowers the M<sub>1</sub>–M<sub>2</sub> phase transition temperature, stabilizing the antiferroelectric phase near room temperature. (ii) Dopants effectively narrow the bandgap of AgNbO<sub>3</sub>, enhancing solar absorption. (iii) The d–p orbital hybridization between Ag(Nb)─O bonds governs emissivity through thermal disruption susceptibility. Strengthened hybridization expands the resonant area, thereby increasing infrared emission. These results demonstrate that orbital hybridization-mediated tuning in doped AgNbO<sub>3</sub> ceramics offers a promising pathway for developing adaptive thermal control systems, particularly for applications requiring real-time emissivity modulation and solar-thermal regulation.</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":"147566348","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":"Exciton–Polariton Effect and Polarized High-Quality Lasing in 1D CsPbBr3-CsPb2Br5 Perovskite Planar Microcavities via Solution-Driven Soft Thermal Imprinting","authors":"Hsin-Ming Cheng, Fang-Chi Lo, Sheng-Chan Wu, Chia-Kai Lin, Wen-Chi Huang, Bo-Hong Lin, Chun-Hung Lin, Hsu-Cheng Hsu","doi":"10.1002/adom.202501349","DOIUrl":"10.1002/adom.202501349","url":null,"abstract":"<p>High-quality laser modes (Q-factor of ≈6520) are achieved through the self-assembly of 1D metal halide perovskite (MHP) planar microwires (MWs) with a preferred orientation using a solution-driven soft thermal imprinting technique. The coexistence of CsPbBr<sub>3</sub> and CsPb<sub>2</sub>Br<sub>5</sub> crystal phases within these MHP MWs, supported by well-matched heterointerfaces and improved resistance to environmental degradation, underpins their high exciton binding energy and the realization of exceptional laser quality factors in Fabry–Pérot (FP) resonators. Strong exciton-polariton coupling is demonstrated across various wire lengths, with Rabi splitting energies ranging from 145 to 180 meV, as revealed by a modified Lorentz oscillator model. This rapid increase in the group refractive index near the excitonic transition further exemplifies the energy-band dispersion inherent to exciton-polaritons. These novel structures, which function as microcavities, also yield waveguide modes that exhibit an exceptionally high degree of linear polarization. By leveraging these light-matter interactions and waveguide architectures, this work paves the way for cost-effective, solution-processed perovskite photonic devices with high-quality, linearly polarized lasing and optical nonlinearity applications.</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":"147570364","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}
Zhitian Shi, Huiyu Huang, Richard Penty, Qixiang Cheng
{"title":"Photonic Hybrid Integration: Strategies and Promises of Advanced Additive Manufacturing (Advanced Optical Materials 10/2026)","authors":"Zhitian Shi, Huiyu Huang, Richard Penty, Qixiang Cheng","doi":"10.1002/adom.70991","DOIUrl":"10.1002/adom.70991","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>3D-Printed Photonic Systems</b></p><p>This cover illustrates the vision of a fully 3D-printed photonic system that integrates laser sources, photodetectors, processing elements, and optical switches within a single fabrication platform. By combining multi photon lithography with advanced printable materials and nanoscale design tools, additive manufacturing can move beyond discrete components toward compact, scalable, and multifunctional photonic architectures. More details can be found in the Review Article by Qixiang Cheng and co-workers (DOI: 10.1002/adom.202501750).\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.70991","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147565416","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}
York Estewin Serge-Correales, Fernando Eduardo Maturi, Henrique Luis Piva, Sajjad Ullah, Antonio Claudio Tedesco, Luís Dias Carlos, Maria Rute Ferreira André, Marc Verelst, Sidney José Lima Ribeiro, Rogéria Rocha Gonçalves
{"title":"Controlled Shell Growth Enables High Quantum Yield Upconverting Nanoparticles for Thermal Sensing and Bioimaging","authors":"York Estewin Serge-Correales, Fernando Eduardo Maturi, Henrique Luis Piva, Sajjad Ullah, Antonio Claudio Tedesco, Luís Dias Carlos, Maria Rute Ferreira André, Marc Verelst, Sidney José Lima Ribeiro, Rogéria Rocha Gonçalves","doi":"10.1002/adom.202502598","DOIUrl":"10.1002/adom.202502598","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Lanthanide-doped upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) are versatile materials for biomedical applications owing to their ability to convert low-energy near-infrared (NIR) light into higher-energy emission. This nonlinear optical process allows for deep tissue penetration with minimal autofluorescence, scattering, and phototoxicity, making UCNPs ideal for dual-function bioimaging and nanoscale temperature sensing. However, their use is often limited by low luminescence quantum yields (<i>QY</i>). Here, a novel synthesis strategy is reported to obtain NaYbF<sub>4</sub>:Tm<sup>3+</sup>@NaYF<sub>4</sub> core@shell UCNPs with controlled shell thickness to reduce surface quenching. The optimized nanoparticles exhibit strong upconversion emissions, high <i>QYs</i> up to 5.5%, and long luminescence lifetimes reaching 1.2 ms. Thicker shells significantly enhance performance, placing this material among the most efficient Tm-based UCNP systems reported for biological applications. Dual ratiometric thermometric parameters enable accurate, contactless temperature readouts in the 30–60 °C range, with each parameter showing optimal thermal sensitivity at different subranges. Cytotoxicity assays confirm high biocompatibility (93% cell viability), and confocal super-resolution (SR) imaging reveals strong, specific UC luminescence signals in NIH-3T3 fibroblasts. These results demonstrate the potential of nanocrystal engineering in enhancing the optical performance of UCNPs and highlight their potential as a versatile material for dual-function thermal sensing and imaging in biological environments.</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":"147567056","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}
Jarod E. Meyer, Biridiana Rodriguez, Leland Nordin, Kunal Mukherjee
{"title":"Mid-Infrared LEDs Based on Lattice-Mismatched Hybrid IV–VI/III–V Heterojunctions","authors":"Jarod E. Meyer, Biridiana Rodriguez, Leland Nordin, Kunal Mukherjee","doi":"10.1002/adom.202503448","DOIUrl":"10.1002/adom.202503448","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) can bridge the gap between narrow linewidth, expensive lasers and broadband, inefficient thermal globars for low-cost chemical sensing in the mid-infrared (mid-IR). However, the efficiency of III–V-based mid-IR LEDs at room temperature is low, primarily limited by strong nonradiative Auger-Meitner recombination that is only partially overcome with complex quantum-engineered active regions. Here, we exploit the intrinsically low Auger-Meitner recombination rates of the IV–VI semiconductors PbSe and PbSnSe, while leveraging the mature III–V platform through the fabrication of hybrid heterojunctions that mediate the ∼8% lattice mismatch to GaAs. Electrically injected n-PbSe/p-GaAs LEDs emit at 3.8 µm with output powers up to 400 µW under pulsed operation and a peak wall plug efficiency of 0.08% at room temperature, approaching the performance of commercial III–V LEDs at similar wavelengths. Incorporating 7% Sn extends the emission to 5 µm in GeSe/PbSnSe/GaAs LEDs with output powers up to 45 µW. Notably, both devices operate despite threading dislocation densities on the order of 10<sup>9</sup> cm<sup>−2</sup>, underscoring the potential of hybrid IV–VI/III–V heterojunction architectures. We show that combining the complementary advantages of IV–VI and III–V semiconductors offers a simple and efficient mid-IR optoelectronic platform for a rapidly expanding set of applications.</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":"147566066","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}
Michael Bezick, Blake A. Wilson, Vaishnavi Iyer, Yuheng Chen, Vladimir M. Shalaev, Sabre Kais, Alexander V. Kildishev, Brad Lackey, Alexandra Boltasseva
{"title":"PearSAN: A Machine Learning Method for Inverse Design Using Pearson Correlated Surrogate Annealing","authors":"Michael Bezick, Blake A. Wilson, Vaishnavi Iyer, Yuheng Chen, Vladimir M. Shalaev, Sabre Kais, Alexander V. Kildishev, Brad Lackey, Alexandra Boltasseva","doi":"10.1002/adom.202500249","DOIUrl":"10.1002/adom.202500249","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Inverse design in nanophotonics is often bottlenecked by the curse of dimensionality, particularly for metasurfaces with many degrees of freedom, where the optimization landscape is highly non-convex. In this work, we introduce Pearson Correlated Surrogate Annealing (PearSAN): a machine learning-assisted framework that efficiently navigates these complex spaces. PearSAN uses a surrogate model designed to capture relative performance trends within the latent space of a generative model. This allows the algorithm to rapidly converge toward optimal solutions without requiring exhaustive physical simulations. As a showcase example, PearSAN is applied to the design of thermophotovoltaic (TPV) metasurfaces by matching the working bands of a thermal radiator and a photovoltaic (PV) cell. PearSAN achieves a state-of-the-art design efficiency of <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mo>∼</mo>\u0000 <mn>97</mn>\u0000 <mo>%</mo>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation>$sim 97%$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math>, outperforming conventional baselines in both convergence speed and final device performance. These results establish PearSAN as a robust tool for photonics applications requiring precise spectral engineering.</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.202500249","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147566872","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}