Light-Science & Applications

Article	Citations
Mini-LED, Micro-LED and OLED displays: present status and future perspectives	643
Strategies to approach high performance in Cr3+-doped phosphors for high-power NIR-LED light sources	437
Augmented reality and virtual reality displays: emerging technologies and future perspectives	430
Micro-light-emitting diodes with quantum dots in display technology	395
Low-dose real-time X-ray imaging with nontoxic double perovskite scintillators	272
Recent advances in 2D, 3D and higher-order topological photonics	253
Thermally stable and highly efficient red-emitting Eu3+-doped Cs3GdGe3O9 phosphors for WLEDs: non-concentration quenching and negative thermal expansion	252
Strain engineering of 2D semiconductors and graphene: from strain fields to band-structure tuning and photonic applications	243
High-performance quasi-2D perovskite light-emitting diodes: from materials to devices	239
Electromagnetic chirality: from fundamentals to nontraditional chiroptical phenomena	230
Adaptive dynamic range shift (ADRIFT) quantitative phase imaging	230
Polarisation optics for biomedical and clinical applications: a review	228
Phase imaging with an untrained neural network	217
Simple experimental procedures to distinguish photothermal from hot-carrier processes in plasmonics	215
Deep learning in optical metrology: a review	213
Spin-decoupled metasurface for simultaneous detection of spin and orbital angular momenta via momentum transformation	201
Optical meta-waveguides for integrated photonics and beyond	199
Progress on AlGaN-based solar-blind ultraviolet photodetectors and focal plane arrays	198
Ten years of spasers and plasmonic nanolasers	197
High-temperature infrared camouflage with efficient thermal management	192
Interlayer exciton formation, relaxation, and transport in TMD van der Waals heterostructures	186
Circularly polarized luminescence from organic micro-/nano-structures	182
Low-threshold topological nanolasers based on the second-order corner state	181
Far-field super-resolution ghost imaging with a deep neural network constraint	180
Silicon/2D-material photodetectors: from near-infrared to mid-infrared	178

Malus-metasurface-assisted polarization multiplexing	176
Plasmonic tweezers: for nanoscale optical trapping and beyond	175
Performing optical logic operations by a diffractive neural network	174
Photonic matrix multiplication lights up photonic accelerator and beyond	172
Multifunctional metasurfaces enabled by simultaneous and independent control of phase and amplitude for orthogonal polarization states	170
Review of biosensing with whispering-gallery mode lasers	166
Advanced liquid crystal devices for augmented reality and virtual reality displays: principles and applications	163
Towards higher-dimensional structured light	158
X-ray-charged bright persistent luminescence in NaYF4:Ln3+@NaYF4 nanoparticles for multidimensional optical information storage	154
Low-loss metasurface optics down to the deep ultraviolet region	149
Black phosphorus-based photothermal therapy with aCD47-mediated immune checkpoint blockade for enhanced cancer immunotherapy	143
Ultra-broadband metamaterial absorbers from long to very long infrared regime	141
Fundamentals and comprehensive insights on pulsed laser synthesis of advanced materials for diverse photo- and electrocatalytic applications	135
Arbitrary polarization conversion dichroism metasurfaces for all-in-one full Poincaré sphere polarizers	133
Perfecting and extending the near-infrared imaging window	130
Transparent inorganic multicolour displays enabled by zinc-based electrochromic devices	128
Compact ultrabroadband light-emitting diodes based on lanthanide-doped lead-free double perovskites	127
Nonlinear polaritons in a monolayer semiconductor coupled to optical bound states in the continuum	126
Optical whispering-gallery mode barcodes for high-precision and wide-range temperature measurements	117
Blue LED-pumped intense short-wave infrared luminescence based on Cr3+-Yb3+-co-doped phosphors	115
Dielectric metalens for miniaturized imaging systems: progress and challenges	115
A 15-user quantum secure direct communication network	115
Kirigami/origami: unfolding the new regime of advanced 3D microfabrication/nanofabrication with “folding”	114
High-speed femtosecond laser plasmonic lithography and reduction of graphene oxide for anisotropic photoresponse	113
Polarization-insensitive 3D conformal-skin metasurface cloak	111
Temporal aiming	111
Chiral carbon dots: synthesis, optical properties, and emerging applications	109
Precursor-dependent structural diversity in luminescent carbonized polymer dots (CPDs): the nomenclature	108
Monitoring the charge-transfer process in a Nd-doped semiconductor based on photoluminescence and SERS technology	108
Glass crystallization making red phosphor for high-power warm white lighting	105
Electron–phonon coupling-assisted universal red luminescence of o-phenylenediamine-based carbon dots	101
Van der Waals two-color infrared photodetector	100
Black phosphorus-based van der Waals heterostructures for mid-infrared light-emission applications	99
Ultrasensitive detection of endocrine disruptors via superfine plasmonic spectral combs	98
Reversible 3D optical data storage and information encryption in photo-modulated transparent glass medium	97
Microcavity top-emission perovskite light-emitting diodes	97
Visible light communication with efficient far-red/near-infrared polymer light-emitting diodes	97
Micro-rocket robot with all-optic actuating and tracking in blood	97
Review of computer-generated hologram algorithms for color dynamic holographic three-dimensional display	96
Miniscope3D: optimized single-shot miniature 3D fluorescence microscopy	96
Optical RAM and integrated optical memories: a survey	96
Controlling angular dispersions in optical metasurfaces	95
Advances of surface-enhanced Raman and IR spectroscopies: from nano/microstructures to macro-optical design	93
Liquid crystal-templated chiral nanomaterials: from chiral plasmonics to circularly polarized luminescence	92
Chirality-assisted lateral momentum transfer for bidirectional enantioselective separation	91
Early detection and classification of live bacteria using time-lapse coherent imaging and deep learning	91
Highly efficient Fe3+-doped A2BB′O6 (A = Sr2+, Ca2+; B, B′ = In3+, Sb5+, Sn4+) broadband near-infrared-emitting phosphors for spectroscopic analysis	90
Microstructure and domain engineering of lithium niobate crystal films for integrated photonic applications	89
Single-shot lensless imaging with fresnel zone aperture and incoherent illumination	89
One ion to catch them all: Targeted high-precision Boltzmann thermometry over a wide temperature range with Gd3+	87

Research progress of full electroluminescent white light-emitting diodes based on a single emissive layer	87
Ultrahigh numerical aperture meta-fibre for flexible optical trapping	86
Ultrathin monolithic 3D printed optical coherence tomography endoscopy for preclinical and clinical use	86
All-optical information-processing capacity of diffractive surfaces	85
Metasurface-enabled on-chip multiplexed diffractive neural networks in the visible	85
Hybridisation of perovskite nanocrystals with organic molecules for highly efficient liquid scintillators	85
Ghost spintronic THz-emitter-array microscope	83
Force-induced charge carrier storage: a new route for stress recording	83
Broadband perovskite quantum dot spectrometer beyond human visual resolution	82
Hybrid laser precision engineering of transparent hard materials: challenges, solutions and applications	82
Tunable liquid crystal grating based holographic 3D display system with wide viewing angle and large size	81
Extraordinary evanescent field confinement waveguide sensor for mid-infrared trace gas spectroscopy	81
Perovskite light-emitting/detecting bifunctional fibres for wearable LiFi communication	81
A plasmonic route for the integrated wireless communication of subdiffraction-limited signals	80
Digital synthesis of histological stains using micro-structured and multiplexed virtual staining of label-free tissue	78
Lanthanide-doped heterostructured nanocomposites toward advanced optical anti-counterfeiting and information storage	77
Hybrid multi-chip assembly of optical communication engines by in situ 3D nano-lithography	77
Transport of intensity diffraction tomography with non-interferometric synthetic aperture for three-dimensional label-free microscopy	76
Ensemble learning of diffractive optical networks	76
Efficient generation of complex vectorial optical fields with metasurfaces	76
Liquid crystal-powered Mie resonators for electrically tunable photorealistic color gradients and dark blacks	76
Higher-order topological insulators in synthetic dimensions	76
Nonlinear control of photonic higher-order topological bound states in the continuum	76
Nontrivial coupling of light into a defect: the interplay of nonlinearity and topology	74
Phase-controlled van der Waals growth of wafer-scale 2D MoTe2 layers for integrated high-sensitivity broadband infrared photodetection	74
Room-temperature lasing from nanophotonic topological cavities	74
High-Q microresonators on 4H-silicon-carbide-on-insulator platform for nonlinear photonics	74
First observation of tropospheric nitrogen dioxide from the Environmental Trace Gases Monitoring Instrument onboard the GaoFen-5 satellite	73
Biophotonic probes for bio-detection and imaging	73
Spectral imaging with deep learning	72
Enabling robust and hour-level organic long persistent luminescence from carbon dots by covalent fixation	71
Dynamic full-field optical coherence tomography: 3D live-imaging of retinal organoids	71
Thermodynamic limits for simultaneous energy harvesting from the hot sun and cold outer space	70
High-fidelity structured illumination microscopy by point-spread-function engineering	69
Nanoprinted high-neuron-density optical linear perceptrons performing near-infrared inference on a CMOS chip	69
Light-emitting diodes: brighter NIR-emitting phosphor making light sources smarter	68
Origins of the long-range exciton diffusion in perovskite nanocrystal films: photon recycling vs exciton hopping	67
Realization of quantum secure direct communication over 100 km fiber with time-bin and phase quantum states	67
Direct laser writing of volumetric gradient index lenses and waveguides	67
Photonic Floquet topological insulators in a fractal lattice	67
Formation and fluorescent mechanism of red emissive carbon dots from o-phenylenediamine and catechol system	64
Direct quantification of topological protection in symmetry-protected photonic edge states at telecom wavelengths	64
On-chip plasmonic spin-Hall nanograting for simultaneously detecting phase and polarization singularities	64
An excellent deep-ultraviolet birefringent material based on [BO2]∞ infinite chains	63
Ultrafast optical response and ablation mechanisms of molybdenum disulfide under intense femtosecond laser irradiation	63
Silica optical fiber integrated with two-dimensional materials: towards opto-electro-mechanical technology	63
A novel approach for designing efficient broadband photodetectors expanding from deep ultraviolet to near infrared	63
Diffraction-limited imaging with monolayer 2D material-based ultrathin flat lenses	63
Confined-domain crosslink-enhanced emission effect in carbonized polymer dots	62
Fiber-tip polymer clamped-beam probe for high-sensitivity nanoforce measurements	62
Cylindrical vector beam multiplexer/demultiplexer using off-axis polarization control	62
Deeply learned broadband encoding stochastic hyperspectral imaging	62
Suppressing thermal quenching via defect passivation for efficient quasi-2D perovskite light-emitting diodes	61
Huge upconversion luminescence enhancement by a cascade optical field modulation strategy facilitating selective multispectral narrow-band near-infrared photodetection	61
Creation and control of high-dimensional multi-partite classically entangled light	60
Nanocomposites based on lanthanide-doped upconversion nanoparticles: diverse designs and applications	60
Advances in cost-effective integrated spectrometers	59
Color-preserving passive radiative cooling for an actively temperature-regulated enclosure	59
Multifunctional resonant wavefront-shaping meta-optics based on multilayer and multi-perturbation nonlocal metasurfaces	58
2D materials for conducting holes from grain boundaries in perovskite solar cells	58
Internal OH− induced cascade quenching of upconversion luminescence in NaYF4:Yb/Er nanocrystals	58
Low-loss single-mode hybrid-lattice hollow-core photonic-crystal fibre	57
Chip-integrated van der Waals PN heterojunction photodetector with low dark current and high responsivity	57
Optical coherent dot-product chip for sophisticated deep learning regression	57
Photonic amorphous topological insulator	57
Deep-ultraviolet nonlinear optical crystals: concept development and materials discovery	57
Rapid, continuous projection multi-photon 3D printing enabled by spatiotemporal focusing of femtosecond pulses	57
Top-emitting thermally activated delayed fluorescence organic light-emitting devices with weak light-matter coupling	56
Real-time whole-brain imaging of hemodynamics and oxygenation at micro-vessel resolution with ultrafast wide-field photoacoustic microscopy	56
Highly efficient green InP-based quantum dot light-emitting diodes regulated by inner alloyed shell component	56
MXene-GaN van der Waals metal-semiconductor junctions for high performance multiple quantum well photodetectors	56
Enhancing the graphene photocurrent using surface plasmons and a p-n junction	56
A nanotheranostic agent based on Nd3+-doped YVO4 with blood-brain-barrier permeability for NIR-II fluorescence imaging/magnetic resonance imaging and boosted sonodynamic therapy of orthotopic glioma	56
1-Pbps orbital angular momentum fibre-optic transmission	55
Time-expanded phase-sensitive optical time-domain reflectometry	55
Endo-microscopy beyond the Abbe and Nyquist limits	55
A versatile photodetector assisted by photovoltaic and bolometric effects	55
High-performance position-sensitive detector based on the lateral photoelectrical effect of two-dimensional materials	54
Deep learning acceleration of multiscale superresolution localization photoacoustic imaging	54
Dual-color terahertz spatial light modulator for single-pixel imaging	54

Thouless pumping in disordered photonic systems	54
Routing valley exciton emission of a WS2 monolayer via delocalized Bloch modes of in-plane inversion-symmetry-broken photonic crystal slabs	54
Foveated glasses-free 3D display with ultrawide field of view via a large-scale 2D-metagrating complex	54
Towards visible-wavelength passively mode-locked lasers in all-fibre format	53
Towards standardizing retinal optical coherence tomography angiography: a review	53
Electrically controllable laser frequency combs in graphene-fibre microresonators	53
Ultracompact meta-imagers for arbitrary all-optical convolution	52
Unsupervised content-preserving transformation for optical microscopy	52
All-optical synthesis of an arbitrary linear transformation using diffractive surfaces	52
Efficiency limits of concentrating spectral-splitting hybrid photovoltaic-thermal (PV-T) solar collectors and systems	52
Dirac-like cone-based electromagnetic zero-index metamaterials	51
Modulating the optical and electrical properties of MAPbBr3 single crystals via voltage regulation engineering and application in memristors	51
Magnetic plasmon resonances in nanostructured topological insulators for strongly enhanced light–MoS2 interactions	51
Mechanism of the trivalent lanthanides’ persistent luminescence in wide bandgap materials	51
Physics and applications of Raman distributed optical fiber sensing	50
A metasurface-based light-to-microwave transmitter for hybrid wireless communications	50
High-performance polarization management devices based on thin-film lithium niobate	50
Common-path interferometric label-free protein sensing with resonant dielectric nanostructures	50
Multiple fields manipulation on nitride material structures in ultraviolet light-emitting diodes	49
Compressively sampling the optical transmission matrix of a multimode fibre	49
Adaptive optics two-photon microscopy enables near-diffraction-limited and functional retinal imaging in vivo	48
A monolithic InP/SOI platform for integrated photonics	48
Opto-thermoelectric microswimmers	48
Angular momentum holography via a minimalist metasurface for optical nested encryption	48
Towards efficient near-infrared fluorescent organic light-emitting diodes	48
Loss-induced nonreciprocity	47
Broadband terahertz wave generation from an epsilon-near-zero material	47
One step synthesis of efficient red emissive carbon dots and their bovine serum albumin composites with enhanced multi-photon fluorescence for in vivo bioimaging	46
Divergence-degenerate spatial multiplexing towards future ultrahigh capacity, low error-rate optical communications	46
Phase characterisation of metalenses	46
End-to-end learning of 3D phase-only holograms for holographic display	46
Bandwidth limits of luminescent solar concentrators as detectors in free-space optical communication systems	46
Deep learning-enabled virtual histological staining of biological samples	46
Octupole corner state in a three-dimensional topological circuit	46
Understanding and tuning blue-to-near-infrared photon cutting by the Tm3+/Yb3+ couple	45
Entangled photons enabled time-frequency-resolved coherent Raman spectroscopy and applications to electronic coherences at femtosecond scale	44
Quantum engineering of non-equilibrium efficient p-doping in ultra-wide band-gap nitrides	44
High-efficiency second-order nonlinear processes in an optical microfibre assisted by few-layer GaSe	44
0.75 Gbit/s high-speed classical key distribution with mode-shift keying chaos synchronization of Fabry–Perot lasers	44
Spatial heterogeneity of oxygenation and haemodynamics in breast cancer resolved in vivo by conical multispectral optoacoustic mesoscopy	44
Ultrafast hydrogen bond dynamics of liquid water revealed by terahertz-induced transient birefringence	44
Quasi-phase-matching-division multiplexing holography in a three-dimensional nonlinear photonic crystal	44
Ultra-broadband reflectionless Brewster absorber protected by reciprocity	43
Persistent X-ray-activated phosphors: mechanisms and applications	43
Microglia modulation with 1070-nm light attenuates Aβ burden and cognitive impairment in Alzheimer’s disease mouse model	43
Ultrafast response of harmonic modelocked THz lasers	43
Self-assembled liquid crystal architectures for soft matter photonics	43
Harnessing a multi-dimensional fibre laser using genetic wavefront shaping	42
Liquid crystal-based structural color actuators	42
Deep-blue organic light-emitting diodes based on a doublet d–f transition cerium(III) complex with 100% exciton utilization efficiency	42
Freeform imaging systems: Fermat’s principle unlocks “first time right” design	41
Tuneable red, green, and blue single-mode lasing in heterogeneously coupled organic spherical microcavities	41
Room-temperature multiple ligands-tailored SnO2 quantum dots endow in situ dual-interface binding for upscaling efficient perovskite photovoltaics with high VOC	41
Operando monitoring transition dynamics of responsive polymer using optofluidic microcavities	41
Modeling the optical properties of twisted bilayer photonic crystals	41
Hollow nanoparticles synthesized via Ostwald ripening and their upconversion luminescence-mediated Boltzmann thermometry over a wide temperature range	41
Anti-scattering light focusing by fast wavefront shaping based on multi-pixel encoded digital-micromirror device	41
Polarization multiplexed diffractive computing: all-optical implementation of a group of linear transformations through a polarization-encoded diffractive network	41
Enhanced blue-light excited cyan-emitting persistent luminescence of BaLu2Al2Ga2SiO12:Ce3+, Bi3+ phosphors for AC-LEDs via defect modulation	40
High-fidelity carbon dots polarity probes: revealing the heterogeneity of lipids in oncology	40
High-sensitivity nanophotonic sensors with passive trapping of analyte molecules in hot spots	40
Towards high-power, high-coherence, integrated photonic mmWave platform with microcavity solitons	40
Observation of polarity-switchable photoconductivity in III-nitride/MoSx core-shell nanowires	40
Multimodal nonlinear endomicroscopic imaging probe using a double-core double-clad fiber and focus-combining micro-optical concept	40
In vivo flow cytometry reveals a circadian rhythm of circulating tumor cells	40
Modulation of photocarrier relaxation dynamics in two-dimensional semiconductors	40
Phase-matching-induced near-chirp-free solitons in normal-dispersion fiber lasers	40
Air pollution and meteorological conditions significantly contribute to the worsening of allergic conjunctivitis: a regional 20-city, 5-year study in Northeast China	40
Efficient full-path optical calculation of scalar and vector diffraction using the Bluestein method	40
Engineered tunneling layer with enhanced impact ionization for detection improvement in graphene/silicon heterojunction photodetectors	40
Special Issue: Rare earth luminescent materials	39
Spontaneous and stimulated electron–photon interactions in nanoscale plasmonic near fields	39
Light-induced irreversible structural phase transition in trilayer graphene	39
Less is more: dimensionality reduction as a general strategy for more precise luminescence thermometry	39
Confocal-based fluorescence fluctuation spectroscopy with a SPAD array detector	39
Direct observation of photonic Landau levels and helical edge states in strained honeycomb lattices	39
Machine learning powered ellipsometry	39
One-step printable platform for high-efficiency metasurfaces down to the deep-ultraviolet region	39
Design of coherent wideband radiation process in a Nd3+-doped high entropy glass system	39
Light-modulated vertical heterojunction phototransistors with distinct logical photocurrents	39
Asymmetric optical camouflage: tuneable reflective colour accompanied by the optical Janus effect	39
Direct demonstration of triplet excimer in purely organic room temperature phosphorescence through rational molecular design	38
Toward optical coherence tomography on a chip: in vivo three-dimensional human retinal imaging using photonic integrated circuit-based arrayed waveguide gratings	38
Fourier Imager Network (FIN): A deep neural network for hologram reconstruction with superior external generalization	37
Ultra-low-loss on-chip zero-index materials	37
Bright, high-repetition-rate water window soft X-ray source enabled by nonlinear pulse self-compression in an antiresonant hollow-core fibre	37
Merging bound states in the continuum by harnessing higher-order topological charges	37
Hybrid Dirac semimetal-based photodetector with efficient low-energy photon harvesting	37
Structured 3D linear space–time light bullets by nonlocal nanophotonics	36
Excitation spectral microscopy for highly multiplexed fluorescence imaging and quantitative biosensing	36
Holo-imprinting polarization optics with a reflective liquid crystal hologram template	36
Organic photovoltaics for simultaneous energy harvesting and high-speed MIMO optical wireless communications	36
Label-free SARS-CoV-2 detection and classification using phase imaging with computational specificity	36
Biopsy-free in vivo virtual histology of skin using deep learning	36
Shot-noise limited, supercontinuum-based optical coherence tomography	36