Light-Science & Applications

Article	Citations
Augmented reality and virtual reality displays: emerging technologies and future perspectives	522
Strain engineering of 2D semiconductors and graphene: from strain fields to band-structure tuning and photonic applications	282
Recent advances in 2D, 3D and higher-order topological photonics	280
Thermally stable and highly efficient red-emitting Eu3+-doped Cs3GdGe3O9 phosphors for WLEDs: non-concentration quenching and negative thermal expansion	271
High-performance quasi-2D perovskite light-emitting diodes: from materials to devices	265
Deep learning in optical metrology: a review	259
Polarisation optics for biomedical and clinical applications: a review	257
Electromagnetic chirality: from fundamentals to nontraditional chiroptical phenomena	254
Adaptive dynamic range shift (ADRIFT) quantitative phase imaging	241
Progress on AlGaN-based solar-blind ultraviolet photodetectors and focal plane arrays	230
Spin-decoupled metasurface for simultaneous detection of spin and orbital angular momenta via momentum transformation	227
Optical meta-waveguides for integrated photonics and beyond	218
Interlayer exciton formation, relaxation, and transport in TMD van der Waals heterostructures	210
Circularly polarized luminescence from organic micro-/nano-structures	209
Far-field super-resolution ghost imaging with a deep neural network constraint	205
Silicon/2D-material photodetectors: from near-infrared to mid-infrared	205
Advanced liquid crystal devices for augmented reality and virtual reality displays: principles and applications	198
Towards higher-dimensional structured light	197
Photonic matrix multiplication lights up photonic accelerator and beyond	197
Multifunctional metasurfaces enabled by simultaneous and independent control of phase and amplitude for orthogonal polarization states	196
Review of biosensing with whispering-gallery mode lasers	194
Plasmonic tweezers: for nanoscale optical trapping and beyond	189
X-ray-charged bright persistent luminescence in NaYF4:Ln3+@NaYF4 nanoparticles for multidimensional optical information storage	171
Fundamentals and comprehensive insights on pulsed laser synthesis of advanced materials for diverse photo- and electrocatalytic applications	165
Ultra-broadband metamaterial absorbers from long to very long infrared regime	165

Black phosphorus-based photothermal therapy with aCD47-mediated immune checkpoint blockade for enhanced cancer immunotherapy	152
Perfecting and extending the near-infrared imaging window	150
Arbitrary polarization conversion dichroism metasurfaces for all-in-one full Poincaré sphere polarizers	144
Compact ultrabroadband light-emitting diodes based on lanthanide-doped lead-free double perovskites	141
Dielectric metalens for miniaturized imaging systems: progress and challenges	140
Transparent inorganic multicolour displays enabled by zinc-based electrochromic devices	134
Blue LED-pumped intense short-wave infrared luminescence based on Cr3+-Yb3+-co-doped phosphors	129
Optical whispering-gallery mode barcodes for high-precision and wide-range temperature measurements	127
Chiral carbon dots: synthesis, optical properties, and emerging applications	126
Polarization-insensitive 3D conformal-skin metasurface cloak	124
A 15-user quantum secure direct communication network	123
Temporal aiming	115
Glass crystallization making red phosphor for high-power warm white lighting	114
Precursor-dependent structural diversity in luminescent carbonized polymer dots (CPDs): the nomenclature	113
Van der Waals two-color infrared photodetector	112
Liquid crystal-templated chiral nanomaterials: from chiral plasmonics to circularly polarized luminescence	112
Monitoring the charge-transfer process in a Nd-doped semiconductor based on photoluminescence and SERS technology	112
Electron–phonon coupling-assisted universal red luminescence of o-phenylenediamine-based carbon dots	111
Phase-controlled van der Waals growth of wafer-scale 2D MoTe2 layers for integrated high-sensitivity broadband infrared photodetection	111
Review of computer-generated hologram algorithms for color dynamic holographic three-dimensional display	109
Metasurface-enabled on-chip multiplexed diffractive neural networks in the visible	109
Ultrasensitive detection of endocrine disruptors via superfine plasmonic spectral combs	108
Reversible 3D optical data storage and information encryption in photo-modulated transparent glass medium	108
Advances of surface-enhanced Raman and IR spectroscopies: from nano/microstructures to macro-optical design	105
Highly efficient Fe3+-doped A2BB′O6 (A = Sr2+, Ca2+; B, B′ = In3+, Sb5+, Sn4+) broadband near-infrared-emitting phosphors for spectroscopic analysis	105
Early detection and classification of live bacteria using time-lapse coherent imaging and deep learning	104
Miniscope3D: optimized single-shot miniature 3D fluorescence microscopy	104
Black phosphorus-based van der Waals heterostructures for mid-infrared light-emission applications	103
Research progress of full electroluminescent white light-emitting diodes based on a single emissive layer	100
Microstructure and domain engineering of lithium niobate crystal films for integrated photonic applications	99
Ultrahigh numerical aperture meta-fibre for flexible optical trapping	98
Ultrathin monolithic 3D printed optical coherence tomography endoscopy for preclinical and clinical use	97
Tunable liquid crystal grating based holographic 3D display system with wide viewing angle and large size	97
Hybrid laser precision engineering of transparent hard materials: challenges, solutions and applications	94
One ion to catch them all: Targeted high-precision Boltzmann thermometry over a wide temperature range with Gd3+	94
Hybridisation of perovskite nanocrystals with organic molecules for highly efficient liquid scintillators	94
Force-induced charge carrier storage: a new route for stress recording	93
Lanthanide-doped heterostructured nanocomposites toward advanced optical anti-counterfeiting and information storage	92
Liquid crystal-powered Mie resonators for electrically tunable photorealistic color gradients and dark blacks	89
All-optical information-processing capacity of diffractive surfaces	89
Extraordinary evanescent field confinement waveguide sensor for mid-infrared trace gas spectroscopy	87
Perovskite light-emitting/detecting bifunctional fibres for wearable LiFi communication	87
Nonlinear control of photonic higher-order topological bound states in the continuum	87
Spectral imaging with deep learning	85
Higher-order topological insulators in synthetic dimensions	85
Transport of intensity diffraction tomography with non-interferometric synthetic aperture for three-dimensional label-free microscopy	84
Biophotonic probes for bio-detection and imaging	84
Dynamic full-field optical coherence tomography: 3D live-imaging of retinal organoids	83
Ensemble learning of diffractive optical networks	82
High-Q microresonators on 4H-silicon-carbide-on-insulator platform for nonlinear photonics	82

Efficient generation of complex vectorial optical fields with metasurfaces	82
A plasmonic route for the integrated wireless communication of subdiffraction-limited signals	81
Nontrivial coupling of light into a defect: the interplay of nonlinearity and topology	80
Formation and fluorescent mechanism of red emissive carbon dots from o-phenylenediamine and catechol system	80
Light-emitting diodes: brighter NIR-emitting phosphor making light sources smarter	79
Enabling robust and hour-level organic long persistent luminescence from carbon dots by covalent fixation	79
Direct laser writing of volumetric gradient index lenses and waveguides	79
Room-temperature lasing from nanophotonic topological cavities	78
Realization of quantum secure direct communication over 100 km fiber with time-bin and phase quantum states	78
A novel approach for designing efficient broadband photodetectors expanding from deep ultraviolet to near infrared	77
Nanoprinted high-neuron-density optical linear perceptrons performing near-infrared inference on a CMOS chip	76
Photonic Floquet topological insulators in a fractal lattice	76
High-fidelity structured illumination microscopy by point-spread-function engineering	75
Deeply learned broadband encoding stochastic hyperspectral imaging	75
Chip-integrated van der Waals PN heterojunction photodetector with low dark current and high responsivity	75
Angular momentum holography via a minimalist metasurface for optical nested encryption	74
Advances in cost-effective integrated spectrometers	74
An excellent deep-ultraviolet birefringent material based on [BO2]∞ infinite chains	73
Fiber-tip polymer clamped-beam probe for high-sensitivity nanoforce measurements	73
Suppressing thermal quenching via defect passivation for efficient quasi-2D perovskite light-emitting diodes	72
Confined-domain crosslink-enhanced emission effect in carbonized polymer dots	72
Cylindrical vector beam multiplexer/demultiplexer using off-axis polarization control	72
Origins of the long-range exciton diffusion in perovskite nanocrystal films: photon recycling vs exciton hopping	71
Dual-color terahertz spatial light modulator for single-pixel imaging	69
Deep-ultraviolet nonlinear optical crystals: concept development and materials discovery	69
Multifunctional resonant wavefront-shaping meta-optics based on multilayer and multi-perturbation nonlocal metasurfaces	68
Color-preserving passive radiative cooling for an actively temperature-regulated enclosure	68
Real-time whole-brain imaging of hemodynamics and oxygenation at micro-vessel resolution with ultrafast wide-field photoacoustic microscopy	67
1-Pbps orbital angular momentum fibre-optic transmission	67
Highly efficient green InP-based quantum dot light-emitting diodes regulated by inner alloyed shell component	67
Silica optical fiber integrated with two-dimensional materials: towards opto-electro-mechanical technology	67
MXene-GaN van der Waals metal-semiconductor junctions for high performance multiple quantum well photodetectors	66
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
Nanocomposites based on lanthanide-doped upconversion nanoparticles: diverse designs and applications	65
Diffraction-limited imaging with monolayer 2D material-based ultrathin flat lenses	65
Creation and control of high-dimensional multi-partite classically entangled light	65
High-performance polarization management devices based on thin-film lithium niobate	64
Huge upconversion luminescence enhancement by a cascade optical field modulation strategy facilitating selective multispectral narrow-band near-infrared photodetection	64
Photonic amorphous topological insulator	63
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	63
A versatile photodetector assisted by photovoltaic and bolometric effects	63
Rapid, continuous projection multi-photon 3D printing enabled by spatiotemporal focusing of femtosecond pulses	62
Self-assembled liquid crystal architectures for soft matter photonics	62
One step synthesis of efficient red emissive carbon dots and their bovine serum albumin composites with enhanced multi-photon fluorescence for in vivo bioimaging	62
Thouless pumping in disordered photonic systems	62
Towards standardizing retinal optical coherence tomography angiography: a review	61
Ultracompact meta-imagers for arbitrary all-optical convolution	61
Internal OH− induced cascade quenching of upconversion luminescence in NaYF4:Yb/Er nanocrystals	61
End-to-end learning of 3D phase-only holograms for holographic display	61
Physics and applications of Raman distributed optical fiber sensing	60
Low-loss single-mode hybrid-lattice hollow-core photonic-crystal fibre	60
Deep learning-enabled virtual histological staining of biological samples	60
Routing valley exciton emission of a WS2 monolayer via delocalized Bloch modes of in-plane inversion-symmetry-broken photonic crystal slabs	59
Foveated glasses-free 3D display with ultrawide field of view via a large-scale 2D-metagrating complex	59
A metasurface-based light-to-microwave transmitter for hybrid wireless communications	59
Optical coherent dot-product chip for sophisticated deep learning regression	59
Time-expanded phase-sensitive optical time-domain reflectometry	59
All-optical synthesis of an arbitrary linear transformation using diffractive surfaces	58
Top-emitting thermally activated delayed fluorescence organic light-emitting devices with weak light-matter coupling	58
Enhancing the graphene photocurrent using surface plasmons and a p-n junction	57
Efficiency limits of concentrating spectral-splitting hybrid photovoltaic-thermal (PV-T) solar collectors and systems	57
Entangled photons enabled time-frequency-resolved coherent Raman spectroscopy and applications to electronic coherences at femtosecond scale	57
Unsupervised content-preserving transformation for optical microscopy	56
Deep learning acceleration of multiscale superresolution localization photoacoustic imaging	56
Mechanism of the trivalent lanthanides’ persistent luminescence in wide bandgap materials	56
Dirac-like cone-based electromagnetic zero-index metamaterials	55
Compressively sampling the optical transmission matrix of a multimode fibre	55
Electrically controllable laser frequency combs in graphene-fibre microresonators	55
Integrated metasurfaces for re-envisioning a near-future disruptive optical platform	55
Liquid crystal-based structural color actuators	54
Multiple fields manipulation on nitride material structures in ultraviolet light-emitting diodes	54
Magnetic plasmon resonances in nanostructured topological insulators for strongly enhanced light–MoS2 interactions	54
Divergence-degenerate spatial multiplexing towards future ultrahigh capacity, low error-rate optical communications	54
Octupole corner state in a three-dimensional topological circuit	53
Phase characterisation of metalenses	53
Compact multi-foci metalens spectrometer	52
Active terahertz beam steering based on mechanical deformation of liquid crystal elastomer metasurface	52
A monolithic InP/SOI platform for integrated photonics	51
Microglia modulation with 1070-nm light attenuates Aβ burden and cognitive impairment in Alzheimer’s disease mouse model	51

Bandwidth limits of luminescent solar concentrators as detectors in free-space optical communication systems	51
Quantum engineering of non-equilibrium efficient p-doping in ultra-wide band-gap nitrides	51
Photonic structures in radiative cooling	51
Opto-thermoelectric microswimmers	51
Enhanced blue-light excited cyan-emitting persistent luminescence of BaLu2Al2Ga2SiO12:Ce3+, Bi3+ phosphors for AC-LEDs via defect modulation	50
Merging bound states in the continuum by harnessing higher-order topological charges	50
Ultrafast hydrogen bond dynamics of liquid water revealed by terahertz-induced transient birefringence	50
Polarization multiplexed diffractive computing: all-optical implementation of a group of linear transformations through a polarization-encoded diffractive network	49
Loss-induced nonreciprocity	49
0.75 Gbit/s high-speed classical key distribution with mode-shift keying chaos synchronization of Fabry–Perot lasers	49
Ultra-broadband reflectionless Brewster absorber protected by reciprocity	49
Broadband terahertz wave generation from an epsilon-near-zero material	49
Towards efficient near-infrared fluorescent organic light-emitting diodes	49
One-step printable platform for high-efficiency metasurfaces down to the deep-ultraviolet region	49
Quasi-phase-matching-division multiplexing holography in a three-dimensional nonlinear photonic crystal	48
Fourier Imager Network (FIN): A deep neural network for hologram reconstruction with superior external generalization	48
Anti-scattering light focusing by fast wavefront shaping based on multi-pixel encoded digital-micromirror device	48
Special Issue: Rare earth luminescent materials	48
Observation of polarity-switchable photoconductivity in III-nitride/MoSx core-shell nanowires	47
Hollow nanoparticles synthesized via Ostwald ripening and their upconversion luminescence-mediated Boltzmann thermometry over a wide temperature range	47
High-fidelity carbon dots polarity probes: revealing the heterogeneity of lipids in oncology	47
Persistent X-ray-activated phosphors: mechanisms and applications	47
Harnessing a multi-dimensional fibre laser using genetic wavefront shaping	46
Less is more: dimensionality reduction as a general strategy for more precise luminescence thermometry	46
Freeform imaging systems: Fermat’s principle unlocks “first time right” design	46
Modeling the optical properties of twisted bilayer photonic crystals	46
Direct observation of photonic Landau levels and helical edge states in strained honeycomb lattices	46
Efficient full-path optical calculation of scalar and vector diffraction using the Bluestein method	46
Operando monitoring transition dynamics of responsive polymer using optofluidic microcavities	45
Optical synaptic devices with ultra-low power consumption for neuromorphic computing	45
Air pollution and meteorological conditions significantly contribute to the worsening of allergic conjunctivitis: a regional 20-city, 5-year study in Northeast China	45
Tuneable red, green, and blue single-mode lasing in heterogeneously coupled organic spherical microcavities	45
Deep-blue organic light-emitting diodes based on a doublet d–f transition cerium(III) complex with 100% exciton utilization efficiency	44
Challenges and strategies in high-accuracy manufacturing of the world’s largest SiC aspheric mirror	44
Towards high-power, high-coherence, integrated photonic mmWave platform with microcavity solitons	44
Machine learning powered ellipsometry	44
SERS monitoring of photoinduced-enhanced oxidative stress amplifier on Au@carbon dots for tumor catalytic therapy	44
Modulation of photocarrier relaxation dynamics in two-dimensional semiconductors	44
Phase-matching-induced near-chirp-free solitons in normal-dispersion fiber lasers	44
Upconversion time-stretch infrared spectroscopy	44
Revealing the nature of optical activity in carbon dots produced from different chiral precursor molecules	44
Monolithic integration of embedded III-V lasers on SOI	43
In vivo flow cytometry reveals a circadian rhythm of circulating tumor cells	43
Pancharatnam–Berry phase reversal via opposite-chirality-coexisted superstructures	43
High-operating-temperature mid-infrared photodetectors via quantum dot gradient homojunction	43
Engineered tunneling layer with enhanced impact ionization for detection improvement in graphene/silicon heterojunction photodetectors	43
Structured 3D linear space–time light bullets by nonlocal nanophotonics	43
High-sensitivity nanophotonic sensors with passive trapping of analyte molecules in hot spots	43
Ultraviolet phosphorescent carbon nanodots	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
Direct demonstration of triplet excimer in purely organic room temperature phosphorescence through rational molecular design	42
Room-temperature multiple ligands-tailored SnO2 quantum dots endow in situ dual-interface binding for upscaling efficient perovskite photovoltaics with high VOC	42
Light-induced irreversible structural phase transition in trilayer graphene	41
Asymmetric optical camouflage: tuneable reflective colour accompanied by the optical Janus effect	41
Hybrid Dirac semimetal-based photodetector with efficient low-energy photon harvesting	41
Light-modulated vertical heterojunction phototransistors with distinct logical photocurrents	41
Toward optical coherence tomography on a chip: in vivo three-dimensional human retinal imaging using photonic integrated circuit-based arrayed waveguide gratings	41
Holo-imprinting polarization optics with a reflective liquid crystal hologram template	41
Spontaneous and stimulated electron–photon interactions in nanoscale plasmonic near fields	41
Synthesis and dissociation of soliton molecules in parallel optical-soliton reactors	41
Confocal-based fluorescence fluctuation spectroscopy with a SPAD array detector	41
Powerful terahertz waves from long-wavelength infrared laser filaments	40
Design of coherent wideband radiation process in a Nd3+-doped high entropy glass system	40
Color-selective three-dimensional polarization structures	40
Ultra-low-loss on-chip zero-index materials	40
Quantum superposition demonstrated higher-order topological bound states in the continuum	39
Excitation spectral microscopy for highly multiplexed fluorescence imaging and quantitative biosensing	39
Real-time molecular imaging of near-surface tissue using Raman spectroscopy	39
Organic photovoltaics for simultaneous energy harvesting and high-speed MIMO optical wireless communications	39
Metastatic status of sentinel lymph nodes in breast cancer determined with photoacoustic microscopy via dual-targeting nanoparticles	39
Material-specific high-resolution table-top extreme ultraviolet microscopy	39
Superresolution structured illumination microscopy reconstruction algorithms: a review	39
Vertical matrix perovskite X-ray detector for effective multi-energy discrimination	39
Label-free SARS-CoV-2 detection and classification using phase imaging with computational specificity	39
Surface plasmons interference nanogratings: wafer-scale laser direct structuring in seconds	38
There is plenty of room at the top: generation of hot charge carriers and their applications in perovskite and other semiconductor-based optoelectronic devices	38
Efficient single-component white light emitting diodes enabled by lanthanide ions doped lead halide perovskites via controlling Förster energy transfer and specific defect clearance	38
Recent progress in quantum photonic chips for quantum communication and internet	38
Biopsy-free in vivo virtual histology of skin using deep learning	38
Laser particles with omnidirectional emission for cell tracking	38
The rise of halide perovskite semiconductors	38
Photon-counting distributed free-space spectroscopy	38
A flexible capacitive photoreceptor for the biomimetic retina	38
Light-responsive and corrosion-resistant gas valve with non-thermal effective liquid-gating positional flow control	38
Controllable oscillated spin Hall effect of Bessel beam realized by liquid crystal Pancharatnam-Berry phase elements	38
Bright, high-repetition-rate water window soft X-ray source enabled by nonlinear pulse self-compression in an antiresonant hollow-core fibre	38
Nanoscale mapping of optically inaccessible bound-states-in-the-continuum	38
Localization-limited exciton oscillator strength in colloidal CdSe nanoplatelets revealed by the optically induced stark effect	37
Ultrafast control of fractional orbital angular momentum of microlaser emissions	37
Slow light bimodal interferometry in one-dimensional photonic crystal waveguides	37
Quantitative phase imaging through an ultra-thin lensless fiber endoscope	37
One photon-per-bit receiver using near-noiseless phase-sensitive amplification	37
Mn5+-activated Ca6Ba(PO4)4O near-infrared phosphor and its application in luminescence thermometry	37
Polarimetric parity-time symmetry in a photonic system	36