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Last updated 2026-04-21
Authors present an imaging-based mid-IR spectroscopy platform using resonance gradient metasurfaces and a broadband quantum cascade laser. Enhanced molecular absorption is captured in a single frame of an imaging dete…
Read at source ↗Two-dimensional (2D) materials are promising for in situ encoding and optoelectronic sensing in computing technologies. This Review discusses integrated optoelectronic sensing based on 2D materials and future challeng…
Read at source ↗Noise in optoelectronic memories causes harmful overlap of photoconductance states and degrades computing precision. Zhou et al. report an optoelectronic memory that achieves thousands of distinguishable states withou…
Read at source ↗Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) are commonly generated with interdigital transducers (IDTs) on a piezoelectric substrate, lacking dynamic reconfigurability. Here, authors develop a programmable IDT array architecture en…
Read at source ↗A new optical imaging study demonstrates that norepinephrine and the state of arousal influence hemodynamic correlations across cerebral cortex, calling for a conceptual shift in interpreting functional magnetic reson…
Read at source ↗Authors present an imaging-based mid-IR spectroscopy platform using resonance gradient metasurfaces and a broadband quantum cascade laser. Enhanced molecular absorption is captured in a single frame of an imaging dete…
Read at source ↗Monolithic three-dimensional (3D) integration of tantalum pentoxide on a lithium niobate substrate enables scalable, multifunctional photonic systems and the incorporation of nonlinear optics directly into existi…
Read at source ↗Reconfigurable chip-to-free-space interfaces based on thin-film lithium niobate microrings generate on-demand nonlinear structured light, including tunable optical vortices, optical skyrmions and spatiotemporal vortex…
Read at source ↗A monolithic mode-locked semiconductor laser with a continuously and widely tunable repetition rate is achieved by using a microwave driving signal that induces a spatiotemporal gain modulation along the ent…
Read at source ↗Two-dimensional (2D) materials are promising for in situ encoding and optoelectronic sensing in computing technologies. This Review discusses integrated optoelectronic sensing based on 2D materials and future challeng…
Read at source ↗An integrated lithium niobate–semiconductor platform generates topological soliton frequency combs on-chip, enabling turn-key, dispersion-agnostic comb sources without high-Q resonators or complex stabilization.
Read at source ↗Noise in optoelectronic memories causes harmful overlap of photoconductance states and degrades computing precision. Zhou et al. report an optoelectronic memory that achieves thousands of distinguishable states withou…
Read at source ↗Researchers demonstrate a minimalist terahertz wireless transceiver in integrated photonics. They break the longstanding constraint between source purity and DSP complexity, realizing 144 Gbps high-speed transmission …
Read at source ↗Nanoscale bandgap tuning in van der Waals heterobilayers using an electro-plasmonic nanocavity provides electrical control of exciton dynamics, producing localized interlayer exciton density gradients and enhanced dif…
Read at source ↗Surface acoustic waves (SAWs) are commonly generated with interdigital transducers (IDTs) on a piezoelectric substrate, lacking dynamic reconfigurability. Here, authors develop a programmable IDT array architecture en…
Read at source ↗A centimetre-scale convolutional spectrometer offers high performance, low cost and ~500-nm bandwidth. The system classifies diverse solid samples and quantifies concentrations of solutions with detection accuracy sur…
Read at source ↗The authors report multifunctional and multimodal sensing embodied in a soft gripper with integrated vision and touch that measures fruit size, shape and firmness, accurately assessing ripeness and harvesting strawber…
Read at source ↗Current artificial vision systems are less effective beyond the visible spectrum. Here, An et al. report an oxide-semiconductor-based vision platform that enables direct near-infrared signal detection, reliable image …
Read at source ↗Sensing and mapping lipid species in living cells has been challenging. Here, we show that hyperspectral fingerprint opto-acoustic microscopy (HyFOPM) achieves label-free visualization of specific lipid species, inclu…
Read at source ↗Hyperspectral fingerprint optoacoustic microscopy enables the differentiation of different lipid classes in living cells, which is of interest in the study of lipid metabolism in health and disease.
Read at source ↗A tool to visualize Hyperspectral data from point and imaging sensors.
Read at source ↗This work demonstrates industrial-scale roll-to-roll fabrication of high-efficiency visible metalenses using nanoimprinting and TiO2 coating, achieving low cost, high throughput and uniform performance, enabling comme…
Read at source ↗High-Q multimodal and intensity configurable guided-surface lattice resonances are generated in index-discontinuous environments through radiation pattern modification by slab waveguides, promoting high-performance bi…
Read at source ↗The authors present a compact photonic chip wavemeter that uses a sparse filter, minimum phase design to measure wavelength with sub-picometer precision, enabling robust and accessible tools for on chip light metrology.
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