Light-Science & Applications

Article	Citations
Augmented reality and virtual reality displays: emerging technologies and future perspectives	596
Strain engineering of 2D semiconductors and graphene: from strain fields to band-structure tuning and photonic applications	310
High-performance quasi-2D perovskite light-emitting diodes: from materials to devices	309
Deep learning in optical metrology: a review	305
Thermally stable and highly efficient red-emitting Eu3+-doped Cs3GdGe3O9 phosphors for WLEDs: non-concentration quenching and negative thermal expansion	298
Polarisation optics for biomedical and clinical applications: a review	284
Adaptive dynamic range shift (ADRIFT) quantitative phase imaging	249
Progress on AlGaN-based solar-blind ultraviolet photodetectors and focal plane arrays	248
Spin-decoupled metasurface for simultaneous detection of spin and orbital angular momenta via momentum transformation	246
Optical meta-waveguides for integrated photonics and beyond	243
Towards higher-dimensional structured light	237
Silicon/2D-material photodetectors: from near-infrared to mid-infrared	235
Interlayer exciton formation, relaxation, and transport in TMD van der Waals heterostructures	232
Advanced liquid crystal devices for augmented reality and virtual reality displays: principles and applications	231
Photonic matrix multiplication lights up photonic accelerator and beyond	229
Circularly polarized luminescence from organic micro-/nano-structures	226
Far-field super-resolution ghost imaging with a deep neural network constraint	225
Review of biosensing with whispering-gallery mode lasers	217
Multifunctional metasurfaces enabled by simultaneous and independent control of phase and amplitude for orthogonal polarization states	210
Fundamentals and comprehensive insights on pulsed laser synthesis of advanced materials for diverse photo- and electrocatalytic applications	206
Plasmonic tweezers: for nanoscale optical trapping and beyond	205
Ultra-broadband metamaterial absorbers from long to very long infrared regime	183
X-ray-charged bright persistent luminescence in NaYF4:Ln3+@NaYF4 nanoparticles for multidimensional optical information storage	182
Perfecting and extending the near-infrared imaging window	164
Dielectric metalens for miniaturized imaging systems: progress and challenges	163

Compact ultrabroadband light-emitting diodes based on lanthanide-doped lead-free double perovskites	162
Arbitrary polarization conversion dichroism metasurfaces for all-in-one full Poincaré sphere polarizers	161
Phase-controlled van der Waals growth of wafer-scale 2D MoTe2 layers for integrated high-sensitivity broadband infrared photodetection	150
Blue LED-pumped intense short-wave infrared luminescence based on Cr3+-Yb3+-co-doped phosphors	147
Chiral carbon dots: synthesis, optical properties, and emerging applications	139
Optical whispering-gallery mode barcodes for high-precision and wide-range temperature measurements	134
Polarization-insensitive 3D conformal-skin metasurface cloak	134
A 15-user quantum secure direct communication network	133
Review of computer-generated hologram algorithms for color dynamic holographic three-dimensional display	133
Glass crystallization making red phosphor for high-power warm white lighting	131
Metasurface-enabled on-chip multiplexed diffractive neural networks in the visible	129
Liquid crystal-templated chiral nanomaterials: from chiral plasmonics to circularly polarized luminescence	128
Van der Waals two-color infrared photodetector	123
Precursor-dependent structural diversity in luminescent carbonized polymer dots (CPDs): the nomenclature	123
Highly efficient Fe3+-doped A2BB′O6 (A = Sr2+, Ca2+; B, B′ = In3+, Sb5+, Sn4+) broadband near-infrared-emitting phosphors for spectroscopic analysis	123
Electron–phonon coupling-assisted universal red luminescence of o-phenylenediamine-based carbon dots	120
Advances of surface-enhanced Raman and IR spectroscopies: from nano/microstructures to macro-optical design	118
Ultrasensitive detection of endocrine disruptors via superfine plasmonic spectral combs	115
Reversible 3D optical data storage and information encryption in photo-modulated transparent glass medium	111
Ultrahigh numerical aperture meta-fibre for flexible optical trapping	109
Extraordinary evanescent field confinement waveguide sensor for mid-infrared trace gas spectroscopy	108
Tunable liquid crystal grating based holographic 3D display system with wide viewing angle and large size	106
Lanthanide-doped heterostructured nanocomposites toward advanced optical anti-counterfeiting and information storage	105
Liquid crystal-powered Mie resonators for electrically tunable photorealistic color gradients and dark blacks	105
Hybrid laser precision engineering of transparent hard materials: challenges, solutions and applications	105
Research progress of full electroluminescent white light-emitting diodes based on a single emissive layer	105
Microstructure and domain engineering of lithium niobate crystal films for integrated photonic applications	104
Spectral imaging with deep learning	103
One ion to catch them all: Targeted high-precision Boltzmann thermometry over a wide temperature range with Gd3+	103
All-optical information-processing capacity of diffractive surfaces	100
High-Q microresonators on 4H-silicon-carbide-on-insulator platform for nonlinear photonics	99
Angular momentum holography via a minimalist metasurface for optical nested encryption	98
Advances in cost-effective integrated spectrometers	98
Formation and fluorescent mechanism of red emissive carbon dots from o-phenylenediamine and catechol system	97
Nonlinear control of photonic higher-order topological bound states in the continuum	96
Transport of intensity diffraction tomography with non-interferometric synthetic aperture for three-dimensional label-free microscopy	95
Enabling robust and hour-level organic long persistent luminescence from carbon dots by covalent fixation	93
A novel approach for designing efficient broadband photodetectors expanding from deep ultraviolet to near infrared	90
Ensemble learning of diffractive optical networks	89
Efficient generation of complex vectorial optical fields with metasurfaces	88
Chip-integrated van der Waals PN heterojunction photodetector with low dark current and high responsivity	88
Biophotonic probes for bio-detection and imaging	88
Realization of quantum secure direct communication over 100 km fiber with time-bin and phase quantum states	87
Direct laser writing of volumetric gradient index lenses and waveguides	86
Nanoprinted high-neuron-density optical linear perceptrons performing near-infrared inference on a CMOS chip	86
Deep learning-enabled virtual histological staining of biological samples	85
Multifunctional resonant wavefront-shaping meta-optics based on multilayer and multi-perturbation nonlocal metasurfaces	84
An excellent deep-ultraviolet birefringent material based on [BO2]∞ infinite chains	84
High-fidelity structured illumination microscopy by point-spread-function engineering	83
Confined-domain crosslink-enhanced emission effect in carbonized polymer dots	83

Deeply learned broadband encoding stochastic hyperspectral imaging	82
Cylindrical vector beam multiplexer/demultiplexer using off-axis polarization control	80
Silica optical fiber integrated with two-dimensional materials: towards opto-electro-mechanical technology	80
Fiber-tip polymer clamped-beam probe for high-sensitivity nanoforce measurements	80
Integrated metasurfaces for re-envisioning a near-future disruptive optical platform	80
Deep-ultraviolet nonlinear optical crystals: concept development and materials discovery	78
One step synthesis of efficient red emissive carbon dots and their bovine serum albumin composites with enhanced multi-photon fluorescence for in vivo bioimaging	78
High-performance polarization management devices based on thin-film lithium niobate	77
Suppressing thermal quenching via defect passivation for efficient quasi-2D perovskite light-emitting diodes	76
Dual-color terahertz spatial light modulator for single-pixel imaging	76
Highly efficient green InP-based quantum dot light-emitting diodes regulated by inner alloyed shell component	76
Self-assembled liquid crystal architectures for soft matter photonics	75
1-Pbps orbital angular momentum fibre-optic transmission	75
Origins of the long-range exciton diffusion in perovskite nanocrystal films: photon recycling vs exciton hopping	75
Color-preserving passive radiative cooling for an actively temperature-regulated enclosure	75
Towards standardizing retinal optical coherence tomography angiography: a review	74
Nanocomposites based on lanthanide-doped upconversion nanoparticles: diverse designs and applications	73
Real-time whole-brain imaging of hemodynamics and oxygenation at micro-vessel resolution with ultrafast wide-field photoacoustic microscopy	73
MXene-GaN van der Waals metal-semiconductor junctions for high performance multiple quantum well photodetectors	72
Physics and applications of Raman distributed optical fiber sensing	72
Creation and control of high-dimensional multi-partite classically entangled light	71
Divergence-degenerate spatial multiplexing towards future ultrahigh capacity, low error-rate optical communications	70
Ultracompact meta-imagers for arbitrary all-optical convolution	70
End-to-end learning of 3D phase-only holograms for holographic display	70
All-optical synthesis of an arbitrary linear transformation using diffractive surfaces	70
Rapid, continuous projection multi-photon 3D printing enabled by spatiotemporal focusing of femtosecond pulses	69
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	68
Photonic structures in radiative cooling	67
Direct quantification of topological protection in symmetry-protected photonic edge states at telecom wavelengths	67
A metasurface-based light-to-microwave transmitter for hybrid wireless communications	66
Recent progress in quantum photonic chips for quantum communication and internet	66
Unsupervised content-preserving transformation for optical microscopy	66
Internal OH− induced cascade quenching of upconversion luminescence in NaYF4:Yb/Er nanocrystals	66
Optical coherent dot-product chip for sophisticated deep learning regression	65
Time-expanded phase-sensitive optical time-domain reflectometry	65
Compact multi-foci metalens spectrometer	65
2D materials for conducting holes from grain boundaries in perovskite solar cells	65
Mechanism of the trivalent lanthanides’ persistent luminescence in wide bandgap materials	64
Low-loss single-mode hybrid-lattice hollow-core photonic-crystal fibre	63
Compressively sampling the optical transmission matrix of a multimode fibre	62
Entangled photons enabled time-frequency-resolved coherent Raman spectroscopy and applications to electronic coherences at femtosecond scale	62
Top-emitting thermally activated delayed fluorescence organic light-emitting devices with weak light-matter coupling	62
Liquid crystal-based structural color actuators	62
Foveated glasses-free 3D display with ultrawide field of view via a large-scale 2D-metagrating complex	62
Merging bound states in the continuum by harnessing higher-order topological charges	61
Active terahertz beam steering based on mechanical deformation of liquid crystal elastomer metasurface	61
Dirac-like cone-based electromagnetic zero-index metamaterials	61
Deep learning acceleration of multiscale superresolution localization photoacoustic imaging	60
Modeling the optical properties of twisted bilayer photonic crystals	59
One-step printable platform for high-efficiency metasurfaces down to the deep-ultraviolet region	59
A monolithic InP/SOI platform for integrated photonics	59
Efficiency limits of concentrating spectral-splitting hybrid photovoltaic-thermal (PV-T) solar collectors and systems	59
Microglia modulation with 1070-nm light attenuates Aβ burden and cognitive impairment in Alzheimer’s disease mouse model	58
Special Issue: Rare earth luminescent materials	57
Multiple fields manipulation on nitride material structures in ultraviolet light-emitting diodes	57
Enhanced blue-light excited cyan-emitting persistent luminescence of BaLu2Al2Ga2SiO12:Ce3+, Bi3+ phosphors for AC-LEDs via defect modulation	57
Electrically controllable laser frequency combs in graphene-fibre microresonators	57
Magnetic plasmon resonances in nanostructured topological insulators for strongly enhanced light–MoS2 interactions	57
Quantum engineering of non-equilibrium efficient p-doping in ultra-wide band-gap nitrides	56
Bandwidth limits of luminescent solar concentrators as detectors in free-space optical communication systems	56
Phase characterisation of metalenses	56
Polarization multiplexed diffractive computing: all-optical implementation of a group of linear transformations through a polarization-encoded diffractive network	55
High-operating-temperature mid-infrared photodetectors via quantum dot gradient homojunction	55
Monolithic integration of embedded III-V lasers on SOI	55
Loss-induced nonreciprocity	54
Operando monitoring transition dynamics of responsive polymer using optofluidic microcavities	53
0.75 Gbit/s high-speed classical key distribution with mode-shift keying chaos synchronization of Fabry–Perot lasers	53
Observation of polarity-switchable photoconductivity in III-nitride/MoSx core-shell nanowires	53
Ultra-broadband reflectionless Brewster absorber protected by reciprocity	52
Freeform imaging systems: Fermat’s principle unlocks “first time right” design	52
Fourier Imager Network (FIN): A deep neural network for hologram reconstruction with superior external generalization	52
Upconversion time-stretch infrared spectroscopy	52
Broadband terahertz wave generation from an epsilon-near-zero material	52
Pancharatnam–Berry phase reversal via opposite-chirality-coexisted superstructures	51
Anti-scattering light focusing by fast wavefront shaping based on multi-pixel encoded digital-micromirror device	51
Towards efficient near-infrared fluorescent organic light-emitting diodes	51
Hollow nanoparticles synthesized via Ostwald ripening and their upconversion luminescence-mediated Boltzmann thermometry over a wide temperature range	51
Quasi-phase-matching-division multiplexing holography in a three-dimensional nonlinear photonic crystal	51
Phase-matching-induced near-chirp-free solitons in normal-dispersion fiber lasers	50
Less is more: dimensionality reduction as a general strategy for more precise luminescence thermometry	50

Persistent X-ray-activated phosphors: mechanisms and applications	50
Optical synaptic devices with ultra-low power consumption for neuromorphic computing	50
Air pollution and meteorological conditions significantly contribute to the worsening of allergic conjunctivitis: a regional 20-city, 5-year study in Northeast China	50
SERS monitoring of photoinduced-enhanced oxidative stress amplifier on Au@carbon dots for tumor catalytic therapy	49
High-fidelity carbon dots polarity probes: revealing the heterogeneity of lipids in oncology	49
Challenges and strategies in high-accuracy manufacturing of the world’s largest SiC aspheric mirror	49
Color-selective three-dimensional polarization structures	49
Integrated sensing and communication in an optical fibre	49
Recent advances in metasurface design and quantum optics applications with machine learning, physics-informed neural networks, and topology optimization methods	48
Engineered tunneling layer with enhanced impact ionization for detection improvement in graphene/silicon heterojunction photodetectors	48
Direct demonstration of triplet excimer in purely organic room temperature phosphorescence through rational molecular design	48
Ultraviolet phosphorescent carbon nanodots	48
Holo-imprinting polarization optics with a reflective liquid crystal hologram template	48
Structured 3D linear space–time light bullets by nonlocal nanophotonics	48
Towards high-power, high-coherence, integrated photonic mmWave platform with microcavity solitons	48
Modulation of photocarrier relaxation dynamics in two-dimensional semiconductors	48
Machine learning powered ellipsometry	47
Revealing the nature of optical activity in carbon dots produced from different chiral precursor molecules	47
Shot-noise limited, supercontinuum-based optical coherence tomography	47
Superresolution structured illumination microscopy reconstruction algorithms: a review	47
Biopsy-free in vivo virtual histology of skin using deep learning	47
In vivo flow cytometry reveals a circadian rhythm of circulating tumor cells	47
Efficient second harmonic generation by harnessing bound states in the continuum in semi-nonlinear etchless lithium niobate waveguides	46
Confocal-based fluorescence fluctuation spectroscopy with a SPAD array detector	46
Hybrid Dirac semimetal-based photodetector with efficient low-energy photon harvesting	46
Room-temperature multiple ligands-tailored SnO2 quantum dots endow in situ dual-interface binding for upscaling efficient perovskite photovoltaics with high VOC	46
Synthesis and dissociation of soliton molecules in parallel optical-soliton reactors	45
Nanoscale mapping of optically inaccessible bound-states-in-the-continuum	45
Towards automatic freeform optics design: coarse and fine search of the three-mirror solution space	45
Material-specific high-resolution table-top extreme ultraviolet microscopy	45
Toward optical coherence tomography on a chip: in vivo three-dimensional human retinal imaging using photonic integrated circuit-based arrayed waveguide gratings	45
Organic photovoltaics for simultaneous energy harvesting and high-speed MIMO optical wireless communications	45
High-sensitivity nanophotonic sensors with passive trapping of analyte molecules in hot spots	45
Mn5+-activated Ca6Ba(PO4)4O near-infrared phosphor and its application in luminescence thermometry	45
Quantum superposition demonstrated higher-order topological bound states in the continuum	45
Color liquid crystal grating based color holographic 3D display system with large viewing angle	45
Label-free SARS-CoV-2 detection and classification using phase imaging with computational specificity	44
The rise of halide perovskite semiconductors	44
Efficient single-component white light emitting diodes enabled by lanthanide ions doped lead halide perovskites via controlling Förster energy transfer and specific defect clearance	44
Quantitative phase imaging through an ultra-thin lensless fiber endoscope	44
Evidence for moiré intralayer excitons in twisted WSe2/WSe2 homobilayer superlattices	44
There is plenty of room at the top: generation of hot charge carriers and their applications in perovskite and other semiconductor-based optoelectronic devices	44
Spontaneous and stimulated electron–photon interactions in nanoscale plasmonic near fields	43
Localization-limited exciton oscillator strength in colloidal CdSe nanoplatelets revealed by the optically induced stark effect	43
Vertical matrix perovskite X-ray detector for effective multi-energy discrimination	43
Multimodal nonlinear endomicroscopic imaging probe using a double-core double-clad fiber and focus-combining micro-optical concept	43
Graphene/MoS2−xOx/graphene photomemristor with tunable non-volatile responsivities for neuromorphic vision processing	43
LOEN: Lensless opto-electronic neural network empowered machine vision	42
Controllable oscillated spin Hall effect of Bessel beam realized by liquid crystal Pancharatnam-Berry phase elements	42
Surface plasmons interference nanogratings: wafer-scale laser direct structuring in seconds	42
Powerful terahertz waves from long-wavelength infrared laser filaments	42
Excitation spectral microscopy for highly multiplexed fluorescence imaging and quantitative biosensing	42
Highly efficient acousto-optic modulation using nonsuspended thin-film lithium niobate-chalcogenide hybrid waveguides	42
Electrically pumped quantum-dot lasers grown on 300 mm patterned Si photonic wafers	41
Chemiluminescent carbon nanodots for dynamic and guided antibacteria	41
Operando optical fiber monitoring of nanoscale and fast temperature changes during photo-electrocatalytic reactions	41
Ultra-low-loss on-chip zero-index materials	41
A flexible, multifunctional, optoelectronic anticounterfeiting device from high-performance organic light-emitting paper	41
Intervalence charge transfer of Cr3+-Cr3+ aggregation for NIR-II luminescence	41
Whole-infrared-band camouflage with dual-band radiative heat dissipation	41
Laser particles with omnidirectional emission for cell tracking	41
Bright, high-repetition-rate water window soft X-ray source enabled by nonlinear pulse self-compression in an antiresonant hollow-core fibre	41
A knowledge-inherited learning for intelligent metasurface design and assembly	40
Valence conversion and site reconstruction in near-infrared-emitting chromium-activated garnet for simultaneous enhancement of quantum efficiency and thermal stability	40
Light-responsive and corrosion-resistant gas valve with non-thermal effective liquid-gating positional flow control	40
Design of coherent wideband radiation process in a Nd3+-doped high entropy glass system	40
Real-time molecular imaging of near-surface tissue using Raman spectroscopy	40
Super-resolution vibrational microscopy by stimulated Raman excited fluorescence	40
Upconversion FRET quantitation: the role of donor photoexcitation mode and compositional architecture on the decay and intensity based responses	40
Perovskite-based color camera inspired by human visual cells	40
Separating arbitrary free-space beams with an integrated photonic processor	39
Snapshot multispectral imaging using a diffractive optical network	39
Quantification of electron accumulation at grain boundaries in perovskite polycrystalline films by correlative infrared-spectroscopic nanoimaging and Kelvin probe force microscopy	39
A flexible capacitive photoreceptor for the biomimetic retina	39
Slow light bimodal interferometry in one-dimensional photonic crystal waveguides	39
Frequency-modulated continuous waves controlled by space-time-coding metasurface with nonlinearly periodic phases	39
Robust and ultralow-energy-threshold ignition of a lean mixture by an ultrashort-pulsed laser in the filamentation regime	39
Superchiral near fields detect virus structure	39
On the use of deep learning for phase recovery	38
Nanophotonics enhanced coverslip for phase imaging in biology	38
Photon-counting distributed free-space spectroscopy	38
Forward stimulated Brillouin scattering and opto-mechanical non-reciprocity in standard polarization maintaining fibres	38
On-chip generation of Bessel–Gaussian beam via concentrically distributed grating arrays for long-range sensing	38
High resolution multispectral spatial light modulators based on tunable Fabry-Perot nanocavities	38
Demonstration of an integrated nanophotonic chip-scale alkali vapor magnetometer using inverse design	38
Biophotonic sensors with integrated Si3N4-organic hybrid (SiNOH) lasers for point-of-care diagnostics	38
Ultra-highly sensitive dual gases detection based on photoacoustic spectroscopy by exploiting a long-wave, high-power, wide-tunable, single-longitudinal-mode solid-state laser	38
MXene supported surface plasmons on telecommunications optical fibers	37
Directional terahertz holography with thermally active Janus metasurface	37
Genetically encoded BRET-activated photodynamic therapy for the treatment of deep-seated tumors	37
Liquid lens based holographic camera for real 3D scene hologram acquisition using end-to-end physical model-driven network	37
Testing universality of Feynman-Tan relation in interacting Bose gases using high-order Bragg spectra	37
Large-scale achromatic flat lens by light frequency-domain coherence optimization	37
Rapid species identification of pathogenic bacteria from a minute quantity exploiting three-dimensional quantitative phase imaging and artificial neural network	37
Uncovering recent progress in nanostructured light-emitters for information and communication technologies	37