Light-Science & Applications

Article	Citations
Augmented reality and virtual reality displays: emerging technologies and future perspectives	539
Strain engineering of 2D semiconductors and graphene: from strain fields to band-structure tuning and photonic applications	287
Thermally stable and highly efficient red-emitting Eu3+-doped Cs3GdGe3O9 phosphors for WLEDs: non-concentration quenching and negative thermal expansion	285
High-performance quasi-2D perovskite light-emitting diodes: from materials to devices	278
Deep learning in optical metrology: a review	270
Polarisation optics for biomedical and clinical applications: a review	262
Electromagnetic chirality: from fundamentals to nontraditional chiroptical phenomena	261
Adaptive dynamic range shift (ADRIFT) quantitative phase imaging	243
Progress on AlGaN-based solar-blind ultraviolet photodetectors and focal plane arrays	234
Spin-decoupled metasurface for simultaneous detection of spin and orbital angular momenta via momentum transformation	230
Optical meta-waveguides for integrated photonics and beyond	229
Interlayer exciton formation, relaxation, and transport in TMD van der Waals heterostructures	220
Circularly polarized luminescence from organic micro-/nano-structures	217
Silicon/2D-material photodetectors: from near-infrared to mid-infrared	211
Far-field super-resolution ghost imaging with a deep neural network constraint	209
Advanced liquid crystal devices for augmented reality and virtual reality displays: principles and applications	207
Photonic matrix multiplication lights up photonic accelerator and beyond	206
Towards higher-dimensional structured light	204
Review of biosensing with whispering-gallery mode lasers	204
Multifunctional metasurfaces enabled by simultaneous and independent control of phase and amplitude for orthogonal polarization states	202
Plasmonic tweezers: for nanoscale optical trapping and beyond	196
Fundamentals and comprehensive insights on pulsed laser synthesis of advanced materials for diverse photo- and electrocatalytic applications	181
X-ray-charged bright persistent luminescence in NaYF4:Ln3+@NaYF4 nanoparticles for multidimensional optical information storage	176
Ultra-broadband metamaterial absorbers from long to very long infrared regime	171
Black phosphorus-based photothermal therapy with aCD47-mediated immune checkpoint blockade for enhanced cancer immunotherapy	157

Perfecting and extending the near-infrared imaging window	155
Arbitrary polarization conversion dichroism metasurfaces for all-in-one full Poincaré sphere polarizers	150
Compact ultrabroadband light-emitting diodes based on lanthanide-doped lead-free double perovskites	146
Dielectric metalens for miniaturized imaging systems: progress and challenges	145
Blue LED-pumped intense short-wave infrared luminescence based on Cr3+-Yb3+-co-doped phosphors	134
Optical whispering-gallery mode barcodes for high-precision and wide-range temperature measurements	131
Polarization-insensitive 3D conformal-skin metasurface cloak	129
Chiral carbon dots: synthesis, optical properties, and emerging applications	129
A 15-user quantum secure direct communication network	125
Phase-controlled van der Waals growth of wafer-scale 2D MoTe2 layers for integrated high-sensitivity broadband infrared photodetection	124
Glass crystallization making red phosphor for high-power warm white lighting	118
Liquid crystal-templated chiral nanomaterials: from chiral plasmonics to circularly polarized luminescence	118
Advances of surface-enhanced Raman and IR spectroscopies: from nano/microstructures to macro-optical design	116
Review of computer-generated hologram algorithms for color dynamic holographic three-dimensional display	116
Precursor-dependent structural diversity in luminescent carbonized polymer dots (CPDs): the nomenclature	116
Van der Waals two-color infrared photodetector	116
Metasurface-enabled on-chip multiplexed diffractive neural networks in the visible	114
Electron–phonon coupling-assisted universal red luminescence of o-phenylenediamine-based carbon dots	113
Ultrasensitive detection of endocrine disruptors via superfine plasmonic spectral combs	112
Highly efficient Fe3+-doped A2BB′O6 (A = Sr2+, Ca2+; B, B′ = In3+, Sb5+, Sn4+) broadband near-infrared-emitting phosphors for spectroscopic analysis	110
Reversible 3D optical data storage and information encryption in photo-modulated transparent glass medium	108
Miniscope3D: optimized single-shot miniature 3D fluorescence microscopy	106
Ultrahigh numerical aperture meta-fibre for flexible optical trapping	102
Research progress of full electroluminescent white light-emitting diodes based on a single emissive layer	102
Microstructure and domain engineering of lithium niobate crystal films for integrated photonic applications	100
Tunable liquid crystal grating based holographic 3D display system with wide viewing angle and large size	98
One ion to catch them all: Targeted high-precision Boltzmann thermometry over a wide temperature range with Gd3+	98
Lanthanide-doped heterostructured nanocomposites toward advanced optical anti-counterfeiting and information storage	96
Hybrid laser precision engineering of transparent hard materials: challenges, solutions and applications	95
All-optical information-processing capacity of diffractive surfaces	95
Hybridisation of perovskite nanocrystals with organic molecules for highly efficient liquid scintillators	95
Force-induced charge carrier storage: a new route for stress recording	95
Extraordinary evanescent field confinement waveguide sensor for mid-infrared trace gas spectroscopy	94
Liquid crystal-powered Mie resonators for electrically tunable photorealistic color gradients and dark blacks	94
Perovskite light-emitting/detecting bifunctional fibres for wearable LiFi communication	90
Nonlinear control of photonic higher-order topological bound states in the continuum	90
Transport of intensity diffraction tomography with non-interferometric synthetic aperture for three-dimensional label-free microscopy	88
Spectral imaging with deep learning	88
High-Q microresonators on 4H-silicon-carbide-on-insulator platform for nonlinear photonics	87
Ensemble learning of diffractive optical networks	86
Biophotonic probes for bio-detection and imaging	85
Formation and fluorescent mechanism of red emissive carbon dots from o-phenylenediamine and catechol system	85
Efficient generation of complex vectorial optical fields with metasurfaces	84
Dynamic full-field optical coherence tomography: 3D live-imaging of retinal organoids	83
Enabling robust and hour-level organic long persistent luminescence from carbon dots by covalent fixation	83
Advances in cost-effective integrated spectrometers	82
Light-emitting diodes: brighter NIR-emitting phosphor making light sources smarter	82
Chip-integrated van der Waals PN heterojunction photodetector with low dark current and high responsivity	81
A novel approach for designing efficient broadband photodetectors expanding from deep ultraviolet to near infrared	80
Realization of quantum secure direct communication over 100 km fiber with time-bin and phase quantum states	80

Direct laser writing of volumetric gradient index lenses and waveguides	80
Nontrivial coupling of light into a defect: the interplay of nonlinearity and topology	80
Nanoprinted high-neuron-density optical linear perceptrons performing near-infrared inference on a CMOS chip	78
Angular momentum holography via a minimalist metasurface for optical nested encryption	78
Confined-domain crosslink-enhanced emission effect in carbonized polymer dots	77
High-fidelity structured illumination microscopy by point-spread-function engineering	76
Fiber-tip polymer clamped-beam probe for high-sensitivity nanoforce measurements	76
Deeply learned broadband encoding stochastic hyperspectral imaging	76
Silica optical fiber integrated with two-dimensional materials: towards opto-electro-mechanical technology	76
An excellent deep-ultraviolet birefringent material based on [BO2]∞ infinite chains	76
Multifunctional resonant wavefront-shaping meta-optics based on multilayer and multi-perturbation nonlocal metasurfaces	75
Cylindrical vector beam multiplexer/demultiplexer using off-axis polarization control	74
Suppressing thermal quenching via defect passivation for efficient quasi-2D perovskite light-emitting diodes	73
Origins of the long-range exciton diffusion in perovskite nanocrystal films: photon recycling vs exciton hopping	72
1-Pbps orbital angular momentum fibre-optic transmission	71
Dual-color terahertz spatial light modulator for single-pixel imaging	71
Deep-ultraviolet nonlinear optical crystals: concept development and materials discovery	71
Color-preserving passive radiative cooling for an actively temperature-regulated enclosure	70
Real-time whole-brain imaging of hemodynamics and oxygenation at micro-vessel resolution with ultrafast wide-field photoacoustic microscopy	70
Highly efficient green InP-based quantum dot light-emitting diodes regulated by inner alloyed shell component	69
Nanocomposites based on lanthanide-doped upconversion nanoparticles: diverse designs and applications	69
Diffraction-limited imaging with monolayer 2D material-based ultrathin flat lenses	68
Creation and control of high-dimensional multi-partite classically entangled light	68
MXene-GaN van der Waals metal-semiconductor junctions for high performance multiple quantum well photodetectors	67
Huge upconversion luminescence enhancement by a cascade optical field modulation strategy facilitating selective multispectral narrow-band near-infrared photodetection	67
Towards standardizing retinal optical coherence tomography angiography: a review	67
High-performance polarization management devices based on thin-film lithium niobate	67
Self-assembled liquid crystal architectures for soft matter photonics	66
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	65
Direct quantification of topological protection in symmetry-protected photonic edge states at telecom wavelengths	65
2D materials for conducting holes from grain boundaries in perovskite solar cells	65
End-to-end learning of 3D phase-only holograms for holographic display	64
Thouless pumping in disordered photonic systems	64
Rapid, continuous projection multi-photon 3D printing enabled by spatiotemporal focusing of femtosecond pulses	64
One step synthesis of efficient red emissive carbon dots and their bovine serum albumin composites with enhanced multi-photon fluorescence for in vivo bioimaging	64
Physics and applications of Raman distributed optical fiber sensing	64
Ultracompact meta-imagers for arbitrary all-optical convolution	63
Internal OH− induced cascade quenching of upconversion luminescence in NaYF4:Yb/Er nanocrystals	63
Routing valley exciton emission of a WS2 monolayer via delocalized Bloch modes of in-plane inversion-symmetry-broken photonic crystal slabs	63
A versatile photodetector assisted by photovoltaic and bolometric effects	63
All-optical synthesis of an arbitrary linear transformation using diffractive surfaces	63
A metasurface-based light-to-microwave transmitter for hybrid wireless communications	63
Deep learning-enabled virtual histological staining of biological samples	62
Low-loss single-mode hybrid-lattice hollow-core photonic-crystal fibre	61
Photonic structures in radiative cooling	61
Optical coherent dot-product chip for sophisticated deep learning regression	60
Unsupervised content-preserving transformation for optical microscopy	60
Mechanism of the trivalent lanthanides’ persistent luminescence in wide bandgap materials	59
Top-emitting thermally activated delayed fluorescence organic light-emitting devices with weak light-matter coupling	59
Time-expanded phase-sensitive optical time-domain reflectometry	59
Divergence-degenerate spatial multiplexing towards future ultrahigh capacity, low error-rate optical communications	59
Foveated glasses-free 3D display with ultrawide field of view via a large-scale 2D-metagrating complex	59
Integrated metasurfaces for re-envisioning a near-future disruptive optical platform	58
Entangled photons enabled time-frequency-resolved coherent Raman spectroscopy and applications to electronic coherences at femtosecond scale	58
Efficiency limits of concentrating spectral-splitting hybrid photovoltaic-thermal (PV-T) solar collectors and systems	58
Compressively sampling the optical transmission matrix of a multimode fibre	58
Deep learning acceleration of multiscale superresolution localization photoacoustic imaging	58
Electrically controllable laser frequency combs in graphene-fibre microresonators	56
Liquid crystal-based structural color actuators	56
Compact multi-foci metalens spectrometer	55
Multiple fields manipulation on nitride material structures in ultraviolet light-emitting diodes	55
Magnetic plasmon resonances in nanostructured topological insulators for strongly enhanced light–MoS2 interactions	55
Phase characterisation of metalenses	55
Dirac-like cone-based electromagnetic zero-index metamaterials	55
Active terahertz beam steering based on mechanical deformation of liquid crystal elastomer metasurface	54
Quantum engineering of non-equilibrium efficient p-doping in ultra-wide band-gap nitrides	54
Enhanced blue-light excited cyan-emitting persistent luminescence of BaLu2Al2Ga2SiO12:Ce3+, Bi3+ phosphors for AC-LEDs via defect modulation	53
Octupole corner state in a three-dimensional topological circuit	53
A monolithic InP/SOI platform for integrated photonics	53
Merging bound states in the continuum by harnessing higher-order topological charges	53
Bandwidth limits of luminescent solar concentrators as detectors in free-space optical communication systems	52
Special Issue: Rare earth luminescent materials	52
One-step printable platform for high-efficiency metasurfaces down to the deep-ultraviolet region	52
Polarization multiplexed diffractive computing: all-optical implementation of a group of linear transformations through a polarization-encoded diffractive network	51
Ultra-broadband reflectionless Brewster absorber protected by reciprocity	51
0.75 Gbit/s high-speed classical key distribution with mode-shift keying chaos synchronization of Fabry–Perot lasers	51
Microglia modulation with 1070-nm light attenuates Aβ burden and cognitive impairment in Alzheimer’s disease mouse model	51
Ultrafast hydrogen bond dynamics of liquid water revealed by terahertz-induced transient birefringence	50
Modeling the optical properties of twisted bilayer photonic crystals	50
Observation of polarity-switchable photoconductivity in III-nitride/MoSx core-shell nanowires	50

Loss-induced nonreciprocity	50
Opto-thermoelectric microswimmers	50
Towards efficient near-infrared fluorescent organic light-emitting diodes	49
Fourier Imager Network (FIN): A deep neural network for hologram reconstruction with superior external generalization	49
Direct observation of photonic Landau levels and helical edge states in strained honeycomb lattices	49
Operando monitoring transition dynamics of responsive polymer using optofluidic microcavities	49
Broadband terahertz wave generation from an epsilon-near-zero material	49
Hollow nanoparticles synthesized via Ostwald ripening and their upconversion luminescence-mediated Boltzmann thermometry over a wide temperature range	49
Anti-scattering light focusing by fast wavefront shaping based on multi-pixel encoded digital-micromirror device	49
Persistent X-ray-activated phosphors: mechanisms and applications	48
High-operating-temperature mid-infrared photodetectors via quantum dot gradient homojunction	48
Phase-matching-induced near-chirp-free solitons in normal-dispersion fiber lasers	48
Quasi-phase-matching-division multiplexing holography in a three-dimensional nonlinear photonic crystal	48
Freeform imaging systems: Fermat’s principle unlocks “first time right” design	48
High-fidelity carbon dots polarity probes: revealing the heterogeneity of lipids in oncology	48
Less is more: dimensionality reduction as a general strategy for more precise luminescence thermometry	47
Deep-blue organic light-emitting diodes based on a doublet d–f transition cerium(III) complex with 100% exciton utilization efficiency	47
Air pollution and meteorological conditions significantly contribute to the worsening of allergic conjunctivitis: a regional 20-city, 5-year study in Northeast China	47
Harnessing a multi-dimensional fibre laser using genetic wavefront shaping	46
SERS monitoring of photoinduced-enhanced oxidative stress amplifier on Au@carbon dots for tumor catalytic therapy	46
Modulation of photocarrier relaxation dynamics in two-dimensional semiconductors	46
Monolithic integration of embedded III-V lasers on SOI	46
Optical synaptic devices with ultra-low power consumption for neuromorphic computing	46
Towards high-power, high-coherence, integrated photonic mmWave platform with microcavity solitons	46
Tuneable red, green, and blue single-mode lasing in heterogeneously coupled organic spherical microcavities	46
Challenges and strategies in high-accuracy manufacturing of the world’s largest SiC aspheric mirror	46
Holo-imprinting polarization optics with a reflective liquid crystal hologram template	46
Upconversion time-stretch infrared spectroscopy	45
Engineered tunneling layer with enhanced impact ionization for detection improvement in graphene/silicon heterojunction photodetectors	45
Machine learning powered ellipsometry	45
Structured 3D linear space–time light bullets by nonlocal nanophotonics	45
Revealing the nature of optical activity in carbon dots produced from different chiral precursor molecules	45
Synthesis and dissociation of soliton molecules in parallel optical-soliton reactors	44
Confocal-based fluorescence fluctuation spectroscopy with a SPAD array detector	44
Pancharatnam–Berry phase reversal via opposite-chirality-coexisted superstructures	44
Room-temperature multiple ligands-tailored SnO2 quantum dots endow in situ dual-interface binding for upscaling efficient perovskite photovoltaics with high VOC	44
Recent progress in quantum photonic chips for quantum communication and internet	44
Ultraviolet phosphorescent carbon nanodots	44
In vivo flow cytometry reveals a circadian rhythm of circulating tumor cells	44
Biopsy-free in vivo virtual histology of skin using deep learning	43
Hybrid Dirac semimetal-based photodetector with efficient low-energy photon harvesting	43
High-sensitivity nanophotonic sensors with passive trapping of analyte molecules in hot spots	43
Direct demonstration of triplet excimer in purely organic room temperature phosphorescence through rational molecular design	43
Color-selective three-dimensional polarization structures	43
Spontaneous and stimulated electron–photon interactions in nanoscale plasmonic near fields	42
Efficient single-component white light emitting diodes enabled by lanthanide ions doped lead halide perovskites via controlling Förster energy transfer and specific defect clearance	42
Toward optical coherence tomography on a chip: in vivo three-dimensional human retinal imaging using photonic integrated circuit-based arrayed waveguide gratings	42
Shot-noise limited, supercontinuum-based optical coherence tomography	42
Multimodal nonlinear endomicroscopic imaging probe using a double-core double-clad fiber and focus-combining micro-optical concept	42
Light-induced irreversible structural phase transition in trilayer graphene	41
The rise of halide perovskite semiconductors	41
Excitation spectral microscopy for highly multiplexed fluorescence imaging and quantitative biosensing	41
Material-specific high-resolution table-top extreme ultraviolet microscopy	41
Mn5+-activated Ca6Ba(PO4)4O near-infrared phosphor and its application in luminescence thermometry	41
Light-modulated vertical heterojunction phototransistors with distinct logical photocurrents	41
Asymmetric optical camouflage: tuneable reflective colour accompanied by the optical Janus effect	41
Powerful terahertz waves from long-wavelength infrared laser filaments	41
There is plenty of room at the top: generation of hot charge carriers and their applications in perovskite and other semiconductor-based optoelectronic devices	40
Towards automatic freeform optics design: coarse and fine search of the three-mirror solution space	40
Vertical matrix perovskite X-ray detector for effective multi-energy discrimination	40
Design of coherent wideband radiation process in a Nd3+-doped high entropy glass system	40
Organic photovoltaics for simultaneous energy harvesting and high-speed MIMO optical wireless communications	40
Superresolution structured illumination microscopy reconstruction algorithms: a review	40
Quantum superposition demonstrated higher-order topological bound states in the continuum	40
Ultra-low-loss on-chip zero-index materials	40
Evidence for moiré intralayer excitons in twisted WSe2/WSe2 homobilayer superlattices	39
Perovskite-based color camera inspired by human visual cells	39
Controllable oscillated spin Hall effect of Bessel beam realized by liquid crystal Pancharatnam-Berry phase elements	39
Nanoscale mapping of optically inaccessible bound-states-in-the-continuum	39
Surface plasmons interference nanogratings: wafer-scale laser direct structuring in seconds	39
Real-time molecular imaging of near-surface tissue using Raman spectroscopy	39
Label-free SARS-CoV-2 detection and classification using phase imaging with computational specificity	39
Metastatic status of sentinel lymph nodes in breast cancer determined with photoacoustic microscopy via dual-targeting nanoparticles	39
Laser particles with omnidirectional emission for cell tracking	39
Bright, high-repetition-rate water window soft X-ray source enabled by nonlinear pulse self-compression in an antiresonant hollow-core fibre	39
Recent advances in metasurface design and quantum optics applications with machine learning, physics-informed neural networks, and topology optimization methods	38
Light-responsive and corrosion-resistant gas valve with non-thermal effective liquid-gating positional flow control	38
Integrated sensing and communication in an optical fibre	38
One photon-per-bit receiver using near-noiseless phase-sensitive amplification	38
Superchiral near fields detect virus structure	38
Super-resolution vibrational microscopy by stimulated Raman excited fluorescence	38
A flexible capacitive photoreceptor for the biomimetic retina	38
Localization-limited exciton oscillator strength in colloidal CdSe nanoplatelets revealed by the optically induced stark effect	38
Photon-counting distributed free-space spectroscopy	38
Quantitative phase imaging through an ultra-thin lensless fiber endoscope	38
Large-scale achromatic flat lens by light frequency-domain coherence optimization	37
Slow light bimodal interferometry in one-dimensional photonic crystal waveguides	37
Upconversion FRET quantitation: the role of donor photoexcitation mode and compositional architecture on the decay and intensity based responses	37
Ultrafast control of fractional orbital angular momentum of microlaser emissions	37
Nanophotonics enhanced coverslip for phase imaging in biology	37
A flexible, multifunctional, optoelectronic anticounterfeiting device from high-performance organic light-emitting paper	36
Plasmonic semiconductor nanogroove array enhanced broad spectral band millimetre and terahertz wave detection	36
Operando optical fiber monitoring of nanoscale and fast temperature changes during photo-electrocatalytic reactions	36
Polarimetric parity-time symmetry in a photonic system	36
Efficient second harmonic generation by harnessing bound states in the continuum in semi-nonlinear etchless lithium niobate waveguides	36