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Extreme light confinement observed in periodic photonic structures, such as the vortex singularities in momentum (k) space, has been associated with their topological nature. Consequently, by exploiting and tuning their ...

Hydrogen is widely recognized as a clean and sustainable energy carrier, driving the urgent need for safe and efficient solid-state storage materials. In this study, the structural, thermodynamic, electronic, optical, an...

Optical imaging is a powerful tool for investigating the structure and function of tissues. Tissue optical imaging technologies are generally discussed under two broad regimes: microscopic and macroscopic, while the latt...

The significant rise in implementation and applications of plasmonic nanosystems in biophysics, biochemistry, and medicine has culminated in the emergence of refined plasmonic enabling reagents, or “nanoagents”. Thes...

The ability of modulating optical properties at a lateral subwavelength scale is of crucial importance due to its potential applications for wide-angle holographic displays, optical communications, and interferometric se...

Artificial nanostructures in metasurfaces induce strong spin–orbit interactions (SOIs), by which incident circularly polarized light can be transformed into two opposite spin components. The component with an opposite ...

Semiconductor lasers (SLs) that are subject to delayed optical feedback and external optical injection have been demonstrated to perform information processing using the photonic reservoir computing paradigm. Optical inj...

The unusual electromagnetic responses of nanostructured metasurfaces endow them with an ability to manipulate the four fundamental properties (amplitude, phase, polarization, and frequency) of lightwave at the subwavelen...

Abstract This work investigates the impact of a generalized quadratic-cubic form of self-phase modulation together with nonlinear chromatic dispersion on perturbed quiescent optical solitons governed by the Fokas–Lenel...

Two-dimensional (2D) organic-inorganic hybrid perovskites have attracted growing attention recently due to their naturally formed quantum-well structure, unique photoelectric properties and better environmental stability...

Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) has been widely investigated and employed as a powerful optical analytical technique providing fingerprint vibrational information of molecules with high sensitivity and resolu...

In view of the recent increased interest in light-induced manipulation of magnetism in nanometric length scales this work presents metal clusters as promising elementary units for generating all-optical ultrafast magneti...

Antimicrobial active films are studied to increase fresh food shelf life. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of process and storage conditions on physical properties and antimicrobial activity of alginate-b...

Silicon is the dominant material in complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) imaging devices because of its outstanding electrical and optical properties, well-established fabrication methods, and abundance in natu...

Nanostructures composed of dielectric, metallic or metalo-dielectric structures are receiving significant attention due to their unique capabilities to manipulate light for a wide range of functions such as spectral colo...

What makes three dimensional semiconductor quantum nanostructures so attractive is the possibility to tune their electronic properties by careful design of their size and composition. These parameters set the confinement...

Abstract The photocatalytic efficiency of pristine titanium dioxide nanoparticles (TiO2 NPs) remains suboptimal due to its poor visible light absorption and rapid charge carrier recombination, necessitating fine structu...

In the Northern Patagonian Andes, the austral beech Nothofagus pumilio dominates the upper limit of the temperate forest and is an important source of allochthonous dissolved organic matter (DOM) in mountain lakes. In ad...

Modern integrated photonic platforms should combine low-loss guiding, spectral flexibility, high light confinement, and close packing of optical components. One of the prominent platforms represents a one-dimensional pho...

Large language models (LLMs) have gained significant prominence in language processing, demonstrating remarkable performance across a wide range of tasks. Recently, LLMs have been explored in various scientific fields be...

Semiconductor nanowires have been used in a variety of passive and active optoelectronic devices including waveguides, photodetectors, solar cells, light-emitting diodes (LEDs), lasers, sensors, and optical ant...

Metallic nanostructures with nanometer gaps support hybrid plasmonic modes with an extremely small mode volume and strong local field intensity, which constitutes an attractive plasmonic platform for exploring novel ligh...

In recent years, two-dimensional (2D) niobium oxide dihalides (e.g., NbOI2) have garnered significant research interest in nonlinear photonics due to their prominent second-order nonlinear optical properties. Integrating...

This paper discusses the use of semiconductor solar cells based on thin-film cadmium telluride (CdTe) in modern energy production. The advantages and disadvantages of using CdTe thin-film solar cells are analyzed, and ar...