Nature PhotonicsPub Date : 2024-09-04DOI: 10.1038/s41566-024-01510-2
Susanne Baumann, Sebastian Loth
{"title":"Shrinking time-domain spectroscopy to atomic dimensions","authors":"Susanne Baumann, Sebastian Loth","doi":"10.1038/s41566-024-01510-2","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41566-024-01510-2","url":null,"abstract":"Terahertz waveforms can now be measured with atomic-scale spatial resolution as a result of a new form of terahertz time-domain spectroscopy that uses tunnelling electrons as an ultrafast, localized probe. The approach paves the way for ultrafast optical surface analysis at the scale of individual molecules or atoms.","PeriodicalId":18926,"journal":{"name":"Nature Photonics","volume":"18 9","pages":"886-887"},"PeriodicalIF":32.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142137903","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature PhotonicsPub Date : 2024-09-04DOI: 10.1038/s41566-024-01514-y
Etienne Brasselet
{"title":"Chiral nonlinear optical inheritance","authors":"Etienne Brasselet","doi":"10.1038/s41566-024-01514-y","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41566-024-01514-y","url":null,"abstract":"The nonlinear optical response of achiral molecules spread on chiral nanostructured substrates and subjected to circularly polarized light is examined. The experiment is a step towards confirming a long-standing theoretical prediction: hyper-Raman optical activity.","PeriodicalId":18926,"journal":{"name":"Nature Photonics","volume":"18 9","pages":"892-893"},"PeriodicalIF":32.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142137886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Real-time detection and discrimination of radioactive gas mixtures using nanoporous inorganic scintillators","authors":"Raphael Marie-Luce, Pavlo Mai, Frederic Lerouge, Yannis Cheref, Sylvie Pierre, Benoit Sabot, Frederic Chaput, Christophe Dujardin","doi":"10.1038/s41566-024-01507-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41566-024-01507-x","url":null,"abstract":"The nuclear industry’s expansion to encompass carbon-free electricity generation from small modular reactors and nuclear fuel reprocessing necessitates enhanced detection and monitoring of pure beta-emitting radioactive elements such as 3H and 85Kr; this endeavour is crucial for nuclear safety authorities tasked with environmental monitoring. However, the short range of electrons emitted by these gases makes detection challenging. Current methods, such as ionization chambers and liquid scintillation, do not offer at the same time good sensitivity, real-time analysis and ease of implementation. We demonstrate an approach using a gas–solid mixture to overcome these limitations. We synthetized a transparent and scintillating nanoporous material, an aerogel of Y3Al5O12:Ce4+, and achieved real-time detection with an efficiency of 96% for 85Kr and 18% for 3H. The method reaches a sensitivity below 100 mBq per cm3 over 100 s measurement time. We are able to measure simultaneously as mixtures containing both 3H and 85Kr a capability not possible previously. Our results demonstrate a compact and robust detection system for inline measurement of strategic radioactive gases. This combination of concept and method enhances nuclear power plant management and contributes to environmental safeguarding. Beyond the detection issues, this concept opens a wide field of new methods for radionuclide metrology. Using a gas–solid mixture approach, researchers used a transparent, scintillating nanoporous material for real-time detection of 85Kr and 3H, two pure beta emitters. They also simultaneously measure a mixture of them. The broadly applicable approach may be useful for nuclear industry and environmental safeguarding.","PeriodicalId":18926,"journal":{"name":"Nature Photonics","volume":"18 10","pages":"1037-1043"},"PeriodicalIF":32.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41566-024-01507-x.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142118091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature PhotonicsPub Date : 2024-08-28DOI: 10.1038/s41566-024-01528-6
R. Panico, P. Comaron, M. Matuszewski, A. S. Lanotte, D. Trypogeorgos, G. Gigli, M. De Giorgi, V. Ardizzone, D. Sanvitto, D. Ballarini
{"title":"Author Correction: Onset of vortex clustering and inverse energy cascade in dissipative quantum fluids","authors":"R. Panico, P. Comaron, M. Matuszewski, A. S. Lanotte, D. Trypogeorgos, G. Gigli, M. De Giorgi, V. Ardizzone, D. Sanvitto, D. Ballarini","doi":"10.1038/s41566-024-01528-6","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41566-024-01528-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18926,"journal":{"name":"Nature Photonics","volume":"18 10","pages":"1121-1121"},"PeriodicalIF":32.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41566-024-01528-6.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142377222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature PhotonicsPub Date : 2024-08-23DOI: 10.1038/s41566-024-01482-3
Lang Liu, Shi-Yu Liu, Yuanpeng Shi, Cui-Ling Fang, Shan Zhao, Huai-Yi Shen, Ming-Xing Chen, Ze-Jie Wang, Yan Ma, Yan Liu, Yan Feng, Jiang Tang, Heng-Yun Ye, Guangda Niu
{"title":"Anti-perovskites with long carrier lifetime for ultralow dose and stable X-ray detection","authors":"Lang Liu, Shi-Yu Liu, Yuanpeng Shi, Cui-Ling Fang, Shan Zhao, Huai-Yi Shen, Ming-Xing Chen, Ze-Jie Wang, Yan Ma, Yan Liu, Yan Feng, Jiang Tang, Heng-Yun Ye, Guangda Niu","doi":"10.1038/s41566-024-01482-3","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41566-024-01482-3","url":null,"abstract":"Halide perovskites have shown promising potential for direct X-ray detection due to their high X-ray absorption coefficient, low trap states and convenient fabrication process. However, it is still a challenge to achieve high sensitivity, low dark current and low detection limit in a single material. The deep reason for this is the trade-off between the material’s μτ product and resistivity. Here we report the construction of an organic–inorganic hybrid anti-perovskite ((2-Habch)3Cl(PtI6)) with indirect transition and low orbital symmetry at the band edge to achieve an ultralong intrinsic lifetime and thus break the trade-off. (2-Habch)3Cl(PtI6) achieves an unprecedented long carrier lifetime of >3 ms, leading to a large μτ product of 6.25 × 10−3 cm2 V−1 and high resistivity of 1012 Ω cm, outperforming most X-ray detection materials. These properties enabled the development of X-ray detectors that simultaneously achieve an ultralow dark current of 0.21 nA cm−2, high sensitivity of 1.0 × 104 µC Gyair−1 cm−2, ultralow detection limit of 2.4 nGyair s−1 and excellent operational stability with no observable baseline drift, outperforming state-of-the-art perovskite single-crystal detectors. The rare combination of high performance in almost every figure of merit in the anti-perovskite-based X-ray detector could enable new-generation X-ray detection systems. The researchers synthesize organic–inorganic hybrid inverse perovskites that exhibit excellent carrier lifetime and mobility–lifetime product and high resistivity, enabling stable X-ray detectors with performance arguably outperforming state-of-the-art perovskite single-crystal detectors.","PeriodicalId":18926,"journal":{"name":"Nature Photonics","volume":"18 9","pages":"990-997"},"PeriodicalIF":32.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142042674","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature PhotonicsPub Date : 2024-08-19DOI: 10.1038/s41566-024-01508-w
Tao Hua, Xiaosong Cao, Jingsheng Miao, Xiaojun Yin, Zhanxiang Chen, Zhongyan Huang, Chuluo Yang
{"title":"Deep-blue organic light-emitting diodes for ultrahigh-definition displays","authors":"Tao Hua, Xiaosong Cao, Jingsheng Miao, Xiaojun Yin, Zhanxiang Chen, Zhongyan Huang, Chuluo Yang","doi":"10.1038/s41566-024-01508-w","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41566-024-01508-w","url":null,"abstract":"Multiple-resonance thermally activated delayed fluorescence materials have emerged as promising candidates for next-generation ultrahigh-definition displays due to their narrowband emission and triplet-harvesting capability. However, achieving optimal colour purity and device efficiency for blue multiple-resonance thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters has presented challenges. Here we demonstrate an effective approach to attain superior deep-blue molecules by constructing twisted-boron-/nitrogen-/oxygen-embedded higher-order fused-ring frameworks with fully resonating structures. The optimized emitter exhibits high rigidity and minimized bonding/antibonding character for ultrasharp emission, along with a small singlet–triplet gap and large spin–orbit couplings for rapid spin flip. This combination results in deep-blue emission at 458 nm with a narrow full-width at half-maximum of 12 nm in solution and a reverse intersystem crossing rate constant of 2.29 × 106 s−1, on par with those of heavy-atom-based multiple-resonance thermally activated delayed fluorescence molecules. The related single-unit organic light-emitting diode achieves an external quantum efficiency of 39.2% with colour coordinates of (0.141, 0.050) and a narrow full-width at half-maximum of 14 nm. Furthermore, a two-unit stacked tandem hyperfluorescence organic light-emitting diode achieves an ultrahigh external quantum efficiency of 74.5% with low efficiency roll-off at high luminance values. This performance represents a remarkable balance between efficiency and colour purity in the deep-blue region, marking an important step towards power-efficient ultrawide-colour-gamut displays. Highly twisted multi-boron-based multiple-resonance thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters enable deep-blue organic light-emitting diodes with high colour purity, a narrow full-width at half-maximum of 14 nm and a peak external quantum efficiency of 39.2%.","PeriodicalId":18926,"journal":{"name":"Nature Photonics","volume":"18 11","pages":"1161-1169"},"PeriodicalIF":32.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142002835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Perovskite computed tomography imager and three-dimensional reconstruction","authors":"Yuhong He, Jinmei Song, Mingbian Li, Kostiantyn Sakhatskyi, Weijun Li, Xiaopeng Feng, Bai Yang, Maksym Kovalenko, Haotong Wei","doi":"10.1038/s41566-024-01506-y","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41566-024-01506-y","url":null,"abstract":"Indirect scintillator computed tomography (CT) imaging suffers from reduced image contrast and high-dose X-ray exposure due to inevitable light losses and multiple energy conversion steps. Here we report a direct lead-halide perovskite CT imager through low-cost spray-coating processes. Detector arrays with 980 μm absorber thickness and <10 nm surface roughness yield uniform X-ray response with detection quantum efficiency of 80% and noise-equivalent dose of 153 pGyair. The perovskite CT imager affords the three-dimensional reconstruction of a tooth under a low effective dose of 5.5 μSv, about two orders of magnitude smaller than dental cone-beam CT, and low-contrast detectability by resolving a 5 Hounsfield unit difference within a 5 mm region of interest. A direct lead-halide perovskite CT imager has been demonstrated. The detector arrays have 980 μm absorber thickness and exhibit detection quantum efficiency of 80% and noise-equivalent dose of 153 pGyair.","PeriodicalId":18926,"journal":{"name":"Nature Photonics","volume":"18 10","pages":"1052-1058"},"PeriodicalIF":32.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141992023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature PhotonicsPub Date : 2024-08-16DOI: 10.1038/s41566-024-01479-y
Paul Balondrade, Victor Barolle, Nicolas Guigui, Emeric Auriant, Nathan Rougier, Claude Boccara, Mathias Fink, Alexandre Aubry
{"title":"Multi-spectral reflection matrix for ultrafast 3D label-free microscopy","authors":"Paul Balondrade, Victor Barolle, Nicolas Guigui, Emeric Auriant, Nathan Rougier, Claude Boccara, Mathias Fink, Alexandre Aubry","doi":"10.1038/s41566-024-01479-y","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41566-024-01479-y","url":null,"abstract":"Label-free microscopy exploits light scattering to obtain a three-dimensional image of biological tissues. However, light propagation is affected by aberrations and multiple scattering, which drastically degrade the image quality and limit the penetration depth. Multi-conjugate adaptive optics and time-gated matrix approaches have been developed to compensate for aberrations but the associated frame rate is extremely limited for three-dimensional imaging. Here we develop a multi-spectral matrix approach to solve these fundamental problems. On the basis of a sparse illumination scheme and an interferometric measurement of the reflected wave field at multiple wavelengths, the focusing process can be optimized in post-processing for any voxel by addressing independently each frequency component of the reflection matrix. A proof-of-concept experiment shows a three-dimensional image of an opaque human cornea over a 0.1 mm3 field of view at a 290 nm resolution and a 1 Hz frame rate. This work paves the way towards a fully digital microscope allowing real-time, in vivo, quantitative and deep inspection of tissues. Based on the acquisition of a multi-spectral reflection matrix at a high frame rate, a fully digital microscope overcomes aberrations and multiple scattering to provide a three-dimensional image of an ex vivo opaque cornea at a resolution of 0.29 μm and 0.5 μm in the transverse and axial directions, respectively.","PeriodicalId":18926,"journal":{"name":"Nature Photonics","volume":"18 10","pages":"1097-1104"},"PeriodicalIF":32.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141992022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature PhotonicsPub Date : 2024-08-15DOI: 10.1038/s41566-024-01518-8
Xuchen Shan, Lei Ding, Dajing Wang, Shihui Wen, Jinlong Shi, Chaohao Chen, Yang Wang, Hongyan Zhu, Zhaocun Huang, Shen S. J. Wang, Xiaolan Zhong, Baolei Liu, Peter John Reece, Wei Ren, Weichang Hao, Xunyu Lu, Jie Lu, Qian Peter Su, Lingqian Chang, Lingdong Sun, Dayong Jin, Lei Jiang, Fan Wang
{"title":"Author Correction: Sub-femtonewton force sensing in solution by super-resolved photonic force microscopy","authors":"Xuchen Shan, Lei Ding, Dajing Wang, Shihui Wen, Jinlong Shi, Chaohao Chen, Yang Wang, Hongyan Zhu, Zhaocun Huang, Shen S. J. Wang, Xiaolan Zhong, Baolei Liu, Peter John Reece, Wei Ren, Weichang Hao, Xunyu Lu, Jie Lu, Qian Peter Su, Lingqian Chang, Lingdong Sun, Dayong Jin, Lei Jiang, Fan Wang","doi":"10.1038/s41566-024-01518-8","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41566-024-01518-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18926,"journal":{"name":"Nature Photonics","volume":"18 9","pages":"998-998"},"PeriodicalIF":32.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41566-024-01518-8.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142137899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature PhotonicsPub Date : 2024-08-14DOI: 10.1038/s41566-024-01504-0
Jason Lynch, Evan Smith, Adam Alfieri, Baokun Song, Matthew Klein, Christopher E. Stevens, Cindy Yueli Chen, Chavez FK. Lawrence, Cherie R. Kagan, Honggang Gu, Shiyuan Liu, Lian-Mao Peng, Shivashankar Vangala, Joshua R. Hendrickson, Deep Jariwala
{"title":"Gate-tunable optical anisotropy in wafer-scale, aligned carbon nanotube films","authors":"Jason Lynch, Evan Smith, Adam Alfieri, Baokun Song, Matthew Klein, Christopher E. Stevens, Cindy Yueli Chen, Chavez FK. Lawrence, Cherie R. Kagan, Honggang Gu, Shiyuan Liu, Lian-Mao Peng, Shivashankar Vangala, Joshua R. Hendrickson, Deep Jariwala","doi":"10.1038/s41566-024-01504-0","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41566-024-01504-0","url":null,"abstract":"Telecommunications and polarimetry both require the active control of the polarization of light. Currently, this is done by combining intrinsically anisotropic materials with tunable isotropic materials into heterostructures using complicated fabrication techniques owing to the lack of scalable materials that possess both properties. Tunable birefringent and dichromic materials are scarce and rarely available in high-quality thin films over wafer scales. Here we report semiconducting, highly aligned, single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) over 4″ wafers with normalized birefringence and dichroism values of 0.09 and 0.58, respectively. The real and imaginary parts of the refractive index of these SWCNT films are tuned by up to 5.9% and 14.3% in the infrared at 2,200 nm and 1,660 nm, respectively, using electrostatic doping. Our results suggest that aligned SWCNTs are among the most anisotropic and tunable optical materials known and open new avenues for their application in integrated photonics and telecommunications. Using electrostatic doping, the real and imaginary parts of the refractive index along the extraordinary axis of semiconducting, highly aligned, single-walled carbon nanotubes over 4″ wafers can be tuned by up to 5.9% and 14.3% in the infrared at 2,200 nm and 1,660 nm, respectively.","PeriodicalId":18926,"journal":{"name":"Nature Photonics","volume":"18 11","pages":"1176-1184"},"PeriodicalIF":32.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141980915","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}