Light-Science & Applications

Article	Citations
Mini-LED, Micro-LED and OLED displays: present status and future perspectives	665
Augmented reality and virtual reality displays: emerging technologies and future perspectives	458
Strategies to approach high performance in Cr3+-doped phosphors for high-power NIR-LED light sources	444
Micro-light-emitting diodes with quantum dots in display technology	405
Low-dose real-time X-ray imaging with nontoxic double perovskite scintillators	281
Recent advances in 2D, 3D and higher-order topological photonics	258
Thermally stable and highly efficient red-emitting Eu3+-doped Cs3GdGe3O9 phosphors for WLEDs: non-concentration quenching and negative thermal expansion	257
Strain engineering of 2D semiconductors and graphene: from strain fields to band-structure tuning and photonic applications	251
High-performance quasi-2D perovskite light-emitting diodes: from materials to devices	247
Electromagnetic chirality: from fundamentals to nontraditional chiroptical phenomena	238
Polarisation optics for biomedical and clinical applications: a review	237
Adaptive dynamic range shift (ADRIFT) quantitative phase imaging	233
Deep learning in optical metrology: a review	227
Phase imaging with an untrained neural network	224
Simple experimental procedures to distinguish photothermal from hot-carrier processes in plasmonics	219
Spin-decoupled metasurface for simultaneous detection of spin and orbital angular momenta via momentum transformation	212
Progress on AlGaN-based solar-blind ultraviolet photodetectors and focal plane arrays	212
Optical meta-waveguides for integrated photonics and beyond	209
Ten years of spasers and plasmonic nanolasers	204
Interlayer exciton formation, relaxation, and transport in TMD van der Waals heterostructures	193
Low-threshold topological nanolasers based on the second-order corner state	186
Circularly polarized luminescence from organic micro-/nano-structures	186
Far-field super-resolution ghost imaging with a deep neural network constraint	183
Malus-metasurface-assisted polarization multiplexing	183
Silicon/2D-material photodetectors: from near-infrared to mid-infrared	183

Plasmonic tweezers: for nanoscale optical trapping and beyond	179
Multifunctional metasurfaces enabled by simultaneous and independent control of phase and amplitude for orthogonal polarization states	178
Photonic matrix multiplication lights up photonic accelerator and beyond	178
Review of biosensing with whispering-gallery mode lasers	172
Advanced liquid crystal devices for augmented reality and virtual reality displays: principles and applications	170
Towards higher-dimensional structured light	165
X-ray-charged bright persistent luminescence in NaYF4:Ln3+@NaYF4 nanoparticles for multidimensional optical information storage	160
Ultra-broadband metamaterial absorbers from long to very long infrared regime	147
Fundamentals and comprehensive insights on pulsed laser synthesis of advanced materials for diverse photo- and electrocatalytic applications	146
Black phosphorus-based photothermal therapy with aCD47-mediated immune checkpoint blockade for enhanced cancer immunotherapy	145
Perfecting and extending the near-infrared imaging window	138
Compact ultrabroadband light-emitting diodes based on lanthanide-doped lead-free double perovskites	136
Arbitrary polarization conversion dichroism metasurfaces for all-in-one full Poincaré sphere polarizers	136
Transparent inorganic multicolour displays enabled by zinc-based electrochromic devices	131
Dielectric metalens for miniaturized imaging systems: progress and challenges	124
Optical whispering-gallery mode barcodes for high-precision and wide-range temperature measurements	120
Blue LED-pumped intense short-wave infrared luminescence based on Cr3+-Yb3+-co-doped phosphors	118
A 15-user quantum secure direct communication network	117
Chiral carbon dots: synthesis, optical properties, and emerging applications	114
Temporal aiming	113
Polarization-insensitive 3D conformal-skin metasurface cloak	113
Glass crystallization making red phosphor for high-power warm white lighting	111
Monitoring the charge-transfer process in a Nd-doped semiconductor based on photoluminescence and SERS technology	108
Precursor-dependent structural diversity in luminescent carbonized polymer dots (CPDs): the nomenclature	108
Electron–phonon coupling-assisted universal red luminescence of o-phenylenediamine-based carbon dots	102
Van der Waals two-color infrared photodetector	102
Black phosphorus-based van der Waals heterostructures for mid-infrared light-emission applications	101
Review of computer-generated hologram algorithms for color dynamic holographic three-dimensional display	101
Ultrasensitive detection of endocrine disruptors via superfine plasmonic spectral combs	101
Reversible 3D optical data storage and information encryption in photo-modulated transparent glass medium	101
Liquid crystal-templated chiral nanomaterials: from chiral plasmonics to circularly polarized luminescence	100
Advances of surface-enhanced Raman and IR spectroscopies: from nano/microstructures to macro-optical design	99
Miniscope3D: optimized single-shot miniature 3D fluorescence microscopy	98
Microcavity top-emission perovskite light-emitting diodes	98
Micro-rocket robot with all-optic actuating and tracking in blood	98
Optical RAM and integrated optical memories: a survey	97
Controlling angular dispersions in optical metasurfaces	96
Highly efficient Fe3+-doped A2BB′O6 (A = Sr2+, Ca2+; B, B′ = In3+, Sb5+, Sn4+) broadband near-infrared-emitting phosphors for spectroscopic analysis	96
Ultrathin monolithic 3D printed optical coherence tomography endoscopy for preclinical and clinical use	92
Research progress of full electroluminescent white light-emitting diodes based on a single emissive layer	92
Early detection and classification of live bacteria using time-lapse coherent imaging and deep learning	92
Ultrahigh numerical aperture meta-fibre for flexible optical trapping	91
Microstructure and domain engineering of lithium niobate crystal films for integrated photonic applications	90
Metasurface-enabled on-chip multiplexed diffractive neural networks in the visible	90
One ion to catch them all: Targeted high-precision Boltzmann thermometry over a wide temperature range with Gd3+	89
Hybridisation of perovskite nanocrystals with organic molecules for highly efficient liquid scintillators	86
All-optical information-processing capacity of diffractive surfaces	86
Tunable liquid crystal grating based holographic 3D display system with wide viewing angle and large size	86
Hybrid laser precision engineering of transparent hard materials: challenges, solutions and applications	85
Phase-controlled van der Waals growth of wafer-scale 2D MoTe2 layers for integrated high-sensitivity broadband infrared photodetection	85

Force-induced charge carrier storage: a new route for stress recording	85
Ghost spintronic THz-emitter-array microscope	84
Lanthanide-doped heterostructured nanocomposites toward advanced optical anti-counterfeiting and information storage	83
Extraordinary evanescent field confinement waveguide sensor for mid-infrared trace gas spectroscopy	83
Perovskite light-emitting/detecting bifunctional fibres for wearable LiFi communication	82
Digital synthesis of histological stains using micro-structured and multiplexed virtual staining of label-free tissue	80
A plasmonic route for the integrated wireless communication of subdiffraction-limited signals	80
Liquid crystal-powered Mie resonators for electrically tunable photorealistic color gradients and dark blacks	80
Biophotonic probes for bio-detection and imaging	80
Higher-order topological insulators in synthetic dimensions	79
High-Q microresonators on 4H-silicon-carbide-on-insulator platform for nonlinear photonics	78
Ensemble learning of diffractive optical networks	78
Nonlinear control of photonic higher-order topological bound states in the continuum	78
Transport of intensity diffraction tomography with non-interferometric synthetic aperture for three-dimensional label-free microscopy	78
Efficient generation of complex vectorial optical fields with metasurfaces	77
Spectral imaging with deep learning	76
Nontrivial coupling of light into a defect: the interplay of nonlinearity and topology	76
Room-temperature lasing from nanophotonic topological cavities	74
Dynamic full-field optical coherence tomography: 3D live-imaging of retinal organoids	74
Nanoprinted high-neuron-density optical linear perceptrons performing near-infrared inference on a CMOS chip	73
High-fidelity structured illumination microscopy by point-spread-function engineering	72
Enabling robust and hour-level organic long persistent luminescence from carbon dots by covalent fixation	72
Light-emitting diodes: brighter NIR-emitting phosphor making light sources smarter	71
Photonic Floquet topological insulators in a fractal lattice	70
Direct laser writing of volumetric gradient index lenses and waveguides	70
Realization of quantum secure direct communication over 100 km fiber with time-bin and phase quantum states	70
Origins of the long-range exciton diffusion in perovskite nanocrystal films: photon recycling vs exciton hopping	68
Formation and fluorescent mechanism of red emissive carbon dots from o-phenylenediamine and catechol system	68
Cylindrical vector beam multiplexer/demultiplexer using off-axis polarization control	67
Fiber-tip polymer clamped-beam probe for high-sensitivity nanoforce measurements	67
A novel approach for designing efficient broadband photodetectors expanding from deep ultraviolet to near infrared	66
Silica optical fiber integrated with two-dimensional materials: towards opto-electro-mechanical technology	66
Deeply learned broadband encoding stochastic hyperspectral imaging	65
On-chip plasmonic spin-Hall nanograting for simultaneously detecting phase and polarization singularities	65
An excellent deep-ultraviolet birefringent material based on [BO2]∞ infinite chains	65
Direct quantification of topological protection in symmetry-protected photonic edge states at telecom wavelengths	64
Confined-domain crosslink-enhanced emission effect in carbonized polymer dots	64
Ultrafast optical response and ablation mechanisms of molybdenum disulfide under intense femtosecond laser irradiation	63
Suppressing thermal quenching via defect passivation for efficient quasi-2D perovskite light-emitting diodes	63
Diffraction-limited imaging with monolayer 2D material-based ultrathin flat lenses	63
Creation and control of high-dimensional multi-partite classically entangled light	63
Advances in cost-effective integrated spectrometers	62
Color-preserving passive radiative cooling for an actively temperature-regulated enclosure	62
Multifunctional resonant wavefront-shaping meta-optics based on multilayer and multi-perturbation nonlocal metasurfaces	62
Huge upconversion luminescence enhancement by a cascade optical field modulation strategy facilitating selective multispectral narrow-band near-infrared photodetection	62
Nanocomposites based on lanthanide-doped upconversion nanoparticles: diverse designs and applications	61
MXene-GaN van der Waals metal-semiconductor junctions for high performance multiple quantum well photodetectors	61
1-Pbps orbital angular momentum fibre-optic transmission	61
2D materials for conducting holes from grain boundaries in perovskite solar cells	61
Deep-ultraviolet nonlinear optical crystals: concept development and materials discovery	60
Highly efficient green InP-based quantum dot light-emitting diodes regulated by inner alloyed shell component	60
Rapid, continuous projection multi-photon 3D printing enabled by spatiotemporal focusing of femtosecond pulses	59
Endo-microscopy beyond the Abbe and Nyquist limits	59
A versatile photodetector assisted by photovoltaic and bolometric effects	59
Chip-integrated van der Waals PN heterojunction photodetector with low dark current and high responsivity	59
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	59
Photonic amorphous topological insulator	58
Internal OH− induced cascade quenching of upconversion luminescence in NaYF4:Yb/Er nanocrystals	58
High-performance position-sensitive detector based on the lateral photoelectrical effect of two-dimensional materials	58
Low-loss single-mode hybrid-lattice hollow-core photonic-crystal fibre	58
Real-time whole-brain imaging of hemodynamics and oxygenation at micro-vessel resolution with ultrafast wide-field photoacoustic microscopy	58
Time-expanded phase-sensitive optical time-domain reflectometry	57
Enhancing the graphene photocurrent using surface plasmons and a p-n junction	57
Optical coherent dot-product chip for sophisticated deep learning regression	57
Ultracompact meta-imagers for arbitrary all-optical convolution	56
Top-emitting thermally activated delayed fluorescence organic light-emitting devices with weak light-matter coupling	56
Dual-color terahertz spatial light modulator for single-pixel imaging	56
Foveated glasses-free 3D display with ultrawide field of view via a large-scale 2D-metagrating complex	56
Angular momentum holography via a minimalist metasurface for optical nested encryption	56
Routing valley exciton emission of a WS2 monolayer via delocalized Bloch modes of in-plane inversion-symmetry-broken photonic crystal slabs	55
Deep learning acceleration of multiscale superresolution localization photoacoustic imaging	55
Thouless pumping in disordered photonic systems	54
Electrically controllable laser frequency combs in graphene-fibre microresonators	54
High-performance polarization management devices based on thin-film lithium niobate	54
Towards standardizing retinal optical coherence tomography angiography: a review	54
Efficiency limits of concentrating spectral-splitting hybrid photovoltaic-thermal (PV-T) solar collectors and systems	53
Magnetic plasmon resonances in nanostructured topological insulators for strongly enhanced light–MoS2 interactions	53
Unsupervised content-preserving transformation for optical microscopy	53
Physics and applications of Raman distributed optical fiber sensing	53
Mechanism of the trivalent lanthanides’ persistent luminescence in wide bandgap materials	52

All-optical synthesis of an arbitrary linear transformation using diffractive surfaces	52
Dirac-like cone-based electromagnetic zero-index metamaterials	52
End-to-end learning of 3D phase-only holograms for holographic display	51
Modulating the optical and electrical properties of MAPbBr3 single crystals via voltage regulation engineering and application in memristors	51
One step synthesis of efficient red emissive carbon dots and their bovine serum albumin composites with enhanced multi-photon fluorescence for in vivo bioimaging	51
A metasurface-based light-to-microwave transmitter for hybrid wireless communications	51
Compressively sampling the optical transmission matrix of a multimode fibre	51
Common-path interferometric label-free protein sensing with resonant dielectric nanostructures	51
Multiple fields manipulation on nitride material structures in ultraviolet light-emitting diodes	50
Opto-thermoelectric microswimmers	50
Bandwidth limits of luminescent solar concentrators as detectors in free-space optical communication systems	49
Adaptive optics two-photon microscopy enables near-diffraction-limited and functional retinal imaging in vivo	49
Phase characterisation of metalenses	49
Divergence-degenerate spatial multiplexing towards future ultrahigh capacity, low error-rate optical communications	49
Towards efficient near-infrared fluorescent organic light-emitting diodes	48
Broadband terahertz wave generation from an epsilon-near-zero material	48
A monolithic InP/SOI platform for integrated photonics	48
Ultrafast hydrogen bond dynamics of liquid water revealed by terahertz-induced transient birefringence	48
Deep learning-enabled virtual histological staining of biological samples	48
Octupole corner state in a three-dimensional topological circuit	47
Loss-induced nonreciprocity	47
Entangled photons enabled time-frequency-resolved coherent Raman spectroscopy and applications to electronic coherences at femtosecond scale	47
Quasi-phase-matching-division multiplexing holography in a three-dimensional nonlinear photonic crystal	47
Self-assembled liquid crystal architectures for soft matter photonics	46
Enhanced blue-light excited cyan-emitting persistent luminescence of BaLu2Al2Ga2SiO12:Ce3+, Bi3+ phosphors for AC-LEDs via defect modulation	46
Ultra-broadband reflectionless Brewster absorber protected by reciprocity	46
Persistent X-ray-activated phosphors: mechanisms and applications	45
Quantum engineering of non-equilibrium efficient p-doping in ultra-wide band-gap nitrides	45
Understanding and tuning blue-to-near-infrared photon cutting by the Tm3+/Yb3+ couple	45
0.75 Gbit/s high-speed classical key distribution with mode-shift keying chaos synchronization of Fabry–Perot lasers	45
Microglia modulation with 1070-nm light attenuates Aβ burden and cognitive impairment in Alzheimer’s disease mouse model	45
Liquid crystal-based structural color actuators	44
Polarization multiplexed diffractive computing: all-optical implementation of a group of linear transformations through a polarization-encoded diffractive network	44
Hollow nanoparticles synthesized via Ostwald ripening and their upconversion luminescence-mediated Boltzmann thermometry over a wide temperature range	44
High-fidelity carbon dots polarity probes: revealing the heterogeneity of lipids in oncology	44
Efficient full-path optical calculation of scalar and vector diffraction using the Bluestein method	44
Freeform imaging systems: Fermat’s principle unlocks “first time right” design	44
Anti-scattering light focusing by fast wavefront shaping based on multi-pixel encoded digital-micromirror device	44
Less is more: dimensionality reduction as a general strategy for more precise luminescence thermometry	43
Direct observation of photonic Landau levels and helical edge states in strained honeycomb lattices	43
One-step printable platform for high-efficiency metasurfaces down to the deep-ultraviolet region	43
Deep-blue organic light-emitting diodes based on a doublet d–f transition cerium(III) complex with 100% exciton utilization efficiency	42
Modeling the optical properties of twisted bilayer photonic crystals	42
Towards high-power, high-coherence, integrated photonic mmWave platform with microcavity solitons	42
Direct demonstration of triplet excimer in purely organic room temperature phosphorescence through rational molecular design	42
Air pollution and meteorological conditions significantly contribute to the worsening of allergic conjunctivitis: a regional 20-city, 5-year study in Northeast China	42
Harnessing a multi-dimensional fibre laser using genetic wavefront shaping	42
Observation of polarity-switchable photoconductivity in III-nitride/MoSx core-shell nanowires	42
Machine learning powered ellipsometry	42
In vivo flow cytometry reveals a circadian rhythm of circulating tumor cells	42
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
Phase-matching-induced near-chirp-free solitons in normal-dispersion fiber lasers	41
High-sensitivity nanophotonic sensors with passive trapping of analyte molecules in hot spots	41
Fourier Imager Network (FIN): A deep neural network for hologram reconstruction with superior external generalization	41
Operando monitoring transition dynamics of responsive polymer using optofluidic microcavities	41
Multimodal nonlinear endomicroscopic imaging probe using a double-core double-clad fiber and focus-combining micro-optical concept	41
Modulation of photocarrier relaxation dynamics in two-dimensional semiconductors	41
Asymmetric optical camouflage: tuneable reflective colour accompanied by the optical Janus effect	40
Engineered tunneling layer with enhanced impact ionization for detection improvement in graphene/silicon heterojunction photodetectors	40
Merging bound states in the continuum by harnessing higher-order topological charges	40
Light-induced irreversible structural phase transition in trilayer graphene	40
Confocal-based fluorescence fluctuation spectroscopy with a SPAD array detector	40
Structured 3D linear space–time light bullets by nonlocal nanophotonics	39
Toward optical coherence tomography on a chip: in vivo three-dimensional human retinal imaging using photonic integrated circuit-based arrayed waveguide gratings	39
Spontaneous and stimulated electron–photon interactions in nanoscale plasmonic near fields	39
Light-modulated vertical heterojunction phototransistors with distinct logical photocurrents	39
Special Issue: Rare earth luminescent materials	39
Design of coherent wideband radiation process in a Nd3+-doped high entropy glass system	39
High-operating-temperature mid-infrared photodetectors via quantum dot gradient homojunction	39
Ultra-low-loss on-chip zero-index materials	38
Holo-imprinting polarization optics with a reflective liquid crystal hologram template	38
Photonic structures in radiative cooling	38
Biopsy-free in vivo virtual histology of skin using deep learning	38
Active terahertz beam steering based on mechanical deformation of liquid crystal elastomer metasurface	38
Challenges and strategies in high-accuracy manufacturing of the world’s largest SiC aspheric mirror	38
SERS monitoring of photoinduced-enhanced oxidative stress amplifier on Au@carbon dots for tumor catalytic therapy	37
Bright, high-repetition-rate water window soft X-ray source enabled by nonlinear pulse self-compression in an antiresonant hollow-core fibre	37
Label-free SARS-CoV-2 detection and classification using phase imaging with computational specificity	37
Slow light bimodal interferometry in one-dimensional photonic crystal waveguides	37
Organic photovoltaics for simultaneous energy harvesting and high-speed MIMO optical wireless communications	37
Shot-noise limited, supercontinuum-based optical coherence tomography	37
Hybrid Dirac semimetal-based photodetector with efficient low-energy photon harvesting	37
Metastatic status of sentinel lymph nodes in breast cancer determined with photoacoustic microscopy via dual-targeting nanoparticles	37
Pancharatnam–Berry phase reversal via opposite-chirality-coexisted superstructures	36
Excitation spectral microscopy for highly multiplexed fluorescence imaging and quantitative biosensing	36
Color-selective three-dimensional polarization structures	36
Revealing the nature of optical activity in carbon dots produced from different chiral precursor molecules	36
Surface plasmons interference nanogratings: wafer-scale laser direct structuring in seconds	36
Upconversion time-stretch infrared spectroscopy	36
Optical synaptic devices with ultra-low power consumption for neuromorphic computing	36
A flexible capacitive photoreceptor for the biomimetic retina	36
Laser particles with omnidirectional emission for cell tracking	36
Powerful terahertz waves from long-wavelength infrared laser filaments	36
Polarimetric parity-time symmetry in a photonic system	35