Low-noise millimetre-waves are generated by injection-locking a Kerr microcomb to a dual-wavelength Brillouin laser, which serves as the optical reference. A timing noise floor of 18 zs Hz−1/2 is achi...

The introduction of a layer of quantum dots reduces plasmonic losses in organic light-emitting diodes.

A coordination-regulated chemical bath deposition method yields conformal nickel oxide layers for perovskite solar cells, enabling 27.35% certified cell efficiency, 23.42% module efficiency and durabl...

An integrated semiconductor laser array can directly generate incoherent space–time wave packets with propagation-invariant and self-healing characteristics.

A thin-film lithium niobate integrated circulator with peak isolation up to 37 dB and a broad transmission bandwidth supports bidirectional transmission through single-mode fibre at 800G standard thro...

An organic polymer with a large refractive index and excellent transparency in the infrared regime could bring new opportunities for imaging.

Solvent engineering optimizes fluid motion and crystallization in fully screen-printed perovskite solar cells, resulting in devices with a certified power conversion efficiency of 21.86%, 90.5% of whi...

A thin-film lithium niobate integrated optical parametric oscillator converts a fixed near-infrared pump into 22 THz of electrically tunable mid-infrared light, achieving both broad wavelength coverag...

An in situ dry repair and passivation technique is developed to overcome plasma-induced sidewall damage in nitride-based micro-light-emitting diodes (micro-LEDs), leading to external quantum efficienc...

Researchers demonstrate that a laser wakefield accelerator-based device with a miniaturized permanent magnet beamline can generate and manipulate electron beams suitable for ultrafast electron diffrac...

The researchers use an edge-on device configuration and chloride alloying to increase the response speed of perovskite photon-counting detectors. A response time of 37 ns is achieved, and detectors wi...

A cold-atom comagnetometer based on the nuclear spins of 171Yb and 173Yb is demonstrated. A spin coherence time of 60 s is achieved for both isotopes. The 171Yb–173Yb ratio of nuclear magnetic moments...

Photon bunching is observed in the scintillation process upon excitation by X-rays. The photon intensity correlation function is measured by using Hanbury Brown and Twiss interferometry to extract the...

Radio-frequency electro-optic modulation enables a broadband integrated optical isolator that is magnet-free.

The researchers experimentally demonstrate that correlated electrons can propel high-harmonic emission beyond the single-active-electron limit, markedly increasing the generated photon energies. The t...

The researchers demonstrate amplification of an ultrabroadband pulse in a laser–plasma Raman amplifier, achieving efficiencies of up to 8.7%, final powers of up to 0.3 TW, and final pulse durations of...

An extensible photonic quantum computing architecture based on a fully programmable, scalable linear-optical network has been realized, and is enhanced by two addressable modules: an inline squeezing ...

The introduction of trimethylphosphonium cations results in the formation of one-dimensional perovskitoid structures, enabling all-perovskite tandem solar cells with a power conversion efficiency of 3...

Electronically tunable 2D perovskites optimize charge extraction in wide-bandgap solar cells, enabling perovskite/silicon tandem cells with a certified efficiency of 33.64% and excellent long-term sta...

By combining an array of 48 sensors with a diffractive mask and compressive sensing, researchers developed a 25 gigapixel-per-second computational microscope that can image at micrometre resolution ac...

It has been proposed that coated plasma mirrors could spontaneously form a focusing structure that strengthens the reflected laser intensity to enhance the efficiency of inverse Compton scattering. No...

Modulating exciton–exciton interactions in hybrid chiral metal halide heterostructures suppresses spin relaxation, enabling spin light-emitting diodes that directly emit circularly polarized light wit...

Researchers experimentally demonstrate the real-time equalization of fibre distortions using a silicon photonics chip. The team equalizes a 28-Gbps on–off keying signal and obtains bit error rates as ...

Circularly polarized memory-computing organic light-emitting diodes integrate three-dimensional displays with memory and processing capabilities. Optimized devices achieve luminance of over 22,000 cd ...

Laser tagging in an optofluidic microcavity enables precise hydrogen concentration detection across a broad dynamic range. Using thermal phonon transfer and dynamic resonance tracking, this spectromet...

An adaptive boson sampling architecture is developed to achieve optical evolutions beyond the usual quantum linear optics set-ups via measurement-based feedback. A set of witnesses to certify the nonl...

A hybrid nanophotonic trap for cold caesium atoms uses surface forces for attraction and blue-detuned light for repulsion to achieve efficient loading and enhanced storage and coherence times.

An optical microcantilever sensor achieves piconewton sensitivity for dynamic force measurements in liquid environments, enabling non-invasive monitoring of cellular mechanics. The stethoscope platfor...

Using integrated lithium niobate electro-optic frequency combs with slightly different repetition rates, accurate tracking of the frequency variation in a frequency-modulated laser enables stable and ...

Atomic-scale lightwave-driven scanning tunnelling microscopy with attosecond time resolution observes individual electrons while they are tunnelling through an energy barrier.

Temporally super-resolved time-stretch spectroscopy is developed to sequentially measure non-repetitive spectra in a single shot. Proof-of-concept experiments reveal the spectral evolution of 25-GHz e...

Researchers demonstrate the generation of helical intensity wavepackets at relativistic intensities, reaching peak values above 1.4 × 1018 W cm−2. Controlled spatiotemporal orbital angular momentum, i...

Researchers present a hot-carrier artificial leaf optoelectronic device exhibiting linear performance over a wide range of light intensities, enabling leadless, multimodal optoelectronic modulation an...

The fill factor of organic solar cells is limited by field-dependent charge generation due to exciton/charge-transfer coupling. Modelling coupled with a new guest–host design enables prolonged exciton...

A four-user quantum spine-leaf network over up to 540-km fibre is demonstrated using a twin-field quantum key distribution protocol. It allows the full connections between any two user pairs and is op...

Inspired by Snell’s window effect, a new scanning light-field architecture enables glasses-free 3D display with a 150° viewing angle and nearly 480-pixel resolution.

A wide-temperature-range fluid-phase molecular complex that forms dynamically adaptive grain boundaries in perovskite films enables an efficiency of 26.52% and improved thermal cycling stability in pe...

Attosecond light-field control in doped germanium is demonstrated, reporting sub-cycle manipulation in conductive semiconductors, establishing doping as a route towards petahertz electronics and light...

Tuning the bromine/iodine ratio in evaporated inorganic framework enables the fabrication of hybrid-deposited ultrawide-bandgap perovskites and their use in perovskite/perovskite/silicon tandem solar ...

Spontaneous photoblinking in Yb3+/Ho3+-codoped upconversion nanoparticles enables super-resolution imaging of biological cells with a spatial resolution down to 30 nm at excitation power densities of ...

Barium titanate ferroelectric is used in photonic phase shifters arranged in a hexagonal waveguide mesh, forming a programmable photonic array. The device achieves sub-100-ns switching speeds, while e...

By exploiting optical angular momentum and developing an end-to-end auto-optimization strategy to achieve 14-fold higher mode utilization compared with manual encoding, a deep diffractive neural netwo...

Quantum coherent beating and ultrafast energy transfer have been observed in a polar disubphthalocyanine-fullerene cocrystal. The temperature reached 228 °C within 5 s following 0.5 W cm−2 laser irrad...

Using X-ray free-electron laser pulses with mirror optics to generate a sub-10-nm focal spot and an algorithm to compensate for fluctuations in illumination, this study demonstrates single-shot in-lin...

Stacking faults enhance light out-coupling efficiency in zinc-blende quantum dot light-emitting diodes. The authors report external quantum efficiencies of 34.3% and 31.0% for green CdZnSe- and InP-ba...

A new ternary self-assembled molecular contact enables the fabrication of perovskite solar cells in ambient conditions, with perovskite/silicon tandem devices achieving a power conversion efficiency o...

Infiltrating a bifunctional spacer between perovskite grain boundaries enables perovskite solar cells with a certified power conversion efficiency of 27.01%, 90% of which is maintained after over 2,00...

An on-chip light-programmable valley optoelectronic nanocircuit enabled by meta-waveguide photodetectors integrated with transition metal dichalcogenides is demonstrated. In situ generation, selective...

The authors demonstrate efficient trion modulation in MoS2 enabled by plasmonic HfN gates. A photoluminescence modulation depth of ~24% was achieved over large tunable surface areas.