{"title":"Piezoelectric fibers for flexible and wearable electronics.","authors":"Shengtai Qian, Xingbei Wang, Wei Yan","doi":"10.1007/s12200-023-00058-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12200-023-00058-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Flexible and wearable electronics represent paramount technologies offering revolutionized solutions for medical diagnosis and therapy, nerve and organ interfaces, fabric computation, robot-in-medicine and metaverse. Being ubiquitous in everyday life, piezoelectric materials and devices play a vital role in flexible and wearable electronics with their intriguing functionalities, including energy harvesting, sensing and actuation, personal health care and communications. As a new emerging flexible and wearable technology, fiber-shaped piezoelectric devices offer unique advantages over conventional thin-film counterparts. In this review, we survey the recent scientific and technological breakthroughs in thermally drawn piezoelectric fibers and fiber-enabled intelligent fabrics. We highlight the fiber materials, fiber architecture, fabrication, device integration as well as functions that deliver higher forms of unique applications across smart sensing, health care, space security, actuation and energy domains. We conclude with a critical analysis of existing challenges and opportunities that will be important for the continued progress of this field.</p>","PeriodicalId":12685,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of Optoelectronics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2023-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10030726/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9174042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Thermally activated delayed fluorescent small molecule sensitized fluorescent polymers with reduced concentration-quenching for efficient electroluminescence.","authors":"Qin Xue, Mingfang Huo, Guohua Xie","doi":"10.1007/s12200-022-00056-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12200-022-00056-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) small molecule bis-[3-(9,9-dimethyl-9,10-dihydroacridine)-phenyl]-sulfone (m-ACSO2) was used as a universal host to sensitize three conventional fluorescent polymers for maximizing the electroluminescent performance. The excitons were utilized via inter-molecular energy transfer and the non-radiative decays were successfully refrained in the condensed states. Therefore, the significant enhancement of the electroluminescent efficiencies was demonstrated. For instance, after doping poly(9,9-dioctylfluorene-co-benzothiadiazole) (F8BT) into m-ACSO2, the external quantum efficiency (EQE) was improved by a factor of 17.0 in the solution-processed organic light-emitting device (OLED), as compared with the device with neat F8BT. In terms of the other well-known fluorescent polymers, i.e., poly (para-phenylene vinylene) copolymer (Super Yellow, SY) and poly[2-methoxy-5-(2-ethylhexyloxy)-1,4-phenylenevinylene] (MEH-PPV), their EQEs in the devices were respectively enhanced by 70% and 270%, compared with the reference devices based on the conventional host 1,3-di(9H-carbazol-9-yl) benzene (mCP). Besides the improved charge balance in the bipolar TADF host, these were partially ascribed to reduced fluorescence quenching in the mixed films.</p>","PeriodicalId":12685,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of Optoelectronics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10027968/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9509720","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Min Tan, Jiang Xu, Siyang Liu, Junbo Feng, Hua Zhang, Chaonan Yao, Shixi Chen, Hangyu Guo, Gengshi Han, Zhanhao Wen, Bao Chen, Yu He, Xuqiang Zheng, Da Ming, Yaowen Tu, Qiang Fu, Nan Qi, Dan Li, Li Geng, Song Wen, Fenghe Yang, Huimin He, Fengman Liu, Haiyun Xue, Yuhang Wang, Ciyuan Qiu, Guangcan Mi, Yanbo Li, Tianhai Chang, Mingche Lai, Luo Zhang, Qinfen Hao, Mengyuan Qin
{"title":"Co-packaged optics (CPO): status, challenges, and solutions.","authors":"Min Tan, Jiang Xu, Siyang Liu, Junbo Feng, Hua Zhang, Chaonan Yao, Shixi Chen, Hangyu Guo, Gengshi Han, Zhanhao Wen, Bao Chen, Yu He, Xuqiang Zheng, Da Ming, Yaowen Tu, Qiang Fu, Nan Qi, Dan Li, Li Geng, Song Wen, Fenghe Yang, Huimin He, Fengman Liu, Haiyun Xue, Yuhang Wang, Ciyuan Qiu, Guangcan Mi, Yanbo Li, Tianhai Chang, Mingche Lai, Luo Zhang, Qinfen Hao, Mengyuan Qin","doi":"10.1007/s12200-022-00055-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12200-022-00055-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Due to the rise of 5G, IoT, AI, and high-performance computing applications, datacenter traffic has grown at a compound annual growth rate of nearly 30%. Furthermore, nearly three-fourths of the datacenter traffic resides within datacenters. The conventional pluggable optics increases at a much slower rate than that of datacenter traffic. The gap between application requirements and the capability of conventional pluggable optics keeps increasing, a trend that is unsustainable. Co-packaged optics (CPO) is a disruptive approach to increasing the interconnecting bandwidth density and energy efficiency by dramatically shortening the electrical link length through advanced packaging and co-optimization of electronics and photonics. CPO is widely regarded as a promising solution for future datacenter interconnections, and silicon platform is the most promising platform for large-scale integration. Leading international companies (e.g., Intel, Broadcom and IBM) have heavily investigated in CPO technology, an inter-disciplinary research field that involves photonic devices, integrated circuits design, packaging, photonic device modeling, electronic-photonic co-simulation, applications, and standardization. This review aims to provide the readers a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art progress of CPO in silicon platform, identify the key challenges, and point out the potential solutions, hoping to encourage collaboration between different research fields to accelerate the development of CPO technology.</p>","PeriodicalId":12685,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of Optoelectronics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10027985/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10643793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Preface to the special issue on \"Recent Advances in Functional Fibers\".","authors":"Lei Wei, Guangming Tao, Chong Hou, Wei Yan","doi":"10.1007/s12200-022-00054-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12200-022-00054-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12685,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of Optoelectronics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9797627/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10522082","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A \"light chaser\" and his dream of Optics Valley of China : --To commemorate Prof. Dexiu Huang.","authors":"Wei Hong, Zhen Wang, Jianji Dong","doi":"10.1007/s12200-022-00053-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12200-022-00053-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12685,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of Optoelectronics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2022-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9797630/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10528938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Organic optoelectronics creating new opportunities for science and applications.","authors":"Yinhua Zhou, Chengliang Wang","doi":"10.1007/s12200-022-00052-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12200-022-00052-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":12685,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of Optoelectronics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2022-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9790823/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10530600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Organic photodiodes: device engineering and applications.","authors":"Tong Shan, Xiao Hou, Xiaokuan Yin, Xiaojun Guo","doi":"10.1007/s12200-022-00049-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12200-022-00049-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Organic photodiodes (OPDs) have shown great promise for potential applications in optical imaging, sensing, and communication due to their wide-range tunable photoelectrical properties, low-temperature facile processes, and excellent mechanical flexibility. Extensive research work has been carried out on exploring materials, device structures, physical mechanisms, and processing approaches to improve the performance of OPDs to the level of their inorganic counterparts. In addition, various system prototypes have been built based on the exhibited and attractive features of OPDs. It is vital to link the device optimal design and engineering to the system requirements and examine the existing deficiencies of OPDs towards practical applications, so this review starts from discussions on the required key performance metrics for different envisioned applications. Then the fundamentals of the OPD device structures and operation mechanisms are briefly introduced, and the latest development of OPDs for improving the key performance merits is reviewed. Finally, the trials of OPDs for various applications including wearable medical diagnostics, optical imagers, spectrometers, and light communications are reviewed, and both the promises and challenges are revealed.</p>","PeriodicalId":12685,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of Optoelectronics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2022-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9763529/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9183952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Advanced functional nanofibers: strategies to improve performance and expand functions.","authors":"Xinyu Chen, Honghao Cao, Yue He, Qili Zhou, Zhangcheng Li, Wen Wang, Yu He, Guangming Tao, Chong Hou","doi":"10.1007/s12200-022-00051-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12200-022-00051-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Nanofibers have a wide range of applications in many fields such as energy generation and storage, environmental sensing and treatment, biomedical and health, thanks to their large specific surface area, excellent flexibility, and superior mechanical properties. With the expansion of application fields and the upgrade of application requirements, there is an inevitable trend of improving the performance and functions of nanofibers. Over the past few decades, numerous studies have demonstrated how nanofibers can be adapted to more complex needs through modifications of their structures, materials, and assembly. Thus, it is necessary to systematically review the field of nanofibers in which new ideas and technologies are emerging. Here we summarize the recent advanced strategies to improve the performances and expand the functions of nanofibers. We first introduce the common methods of preparing nanofibers, then summarize the advances in the field of nanofibers, especially up-to-date strategies for further enhancing their functionalities. We classify these strategies into three categories: design of nanofiber structures, tuning of nanofiber materials, and improvement of nanofibers assemblies. Finally, the optimization methods, materials, application areas, and fabrication methods are summarized, and existing challenges and future research directions are discussed. We hope this review can provide useful guidance for subsequent related work.</p><p><strong>Graphical abstract: </strong></p>","PeriodicalId":12685,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of Optoelectronics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2022-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9761053/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9803864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dissipative Kerr single soliton generation with extremely high probability via spectral mode depletion.","authors":"Boqing Zhang, Nuo Chen, Xinda Lu, Yuntian Chen, Xinliang Zhang, Jing Xu","doi":"10.1007/s12200-022-00047-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12200-022-00047-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Optical Kerr solitons generation based on microresonators is essential in nonlinear optics. Among various soliton generation processes, the single soliton generation plays a pivotal role since it ensures rigorous mode-locking on each comb line whose interval equals the free spectral range (FSR) of the microresonator. Current studies show that single soliton generation is challenging due to cavity instability. Here, we propose a new method to greatly improve single soliton generation probalility in the anomalous group velocity dispersion (GVD) regime in a micro-ring resonator based on silicon nitride. The improvement is realized by introducing mode depletion through an integrated coupled filter. It is convenient to introduce controllable single mode depletion in a micro-ring resonator by adjusting the response function of a coupled filter. We show that spectral mode depletion (SMD) can significantly boost the single soliton generation probability. The effect of SMD on the dynamics of optical Kerr solitons generation are also discussed. The proposed method offers a straightforward and simple way to facilitate robust single soliton generation, and will have an impact on the research development in optical Kerr soliton generation and on-chip optical frequency mode manipulation.</p>","PeriodicalId":12685,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of Optoelectronics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9756270/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9189644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}