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View article: Chinese provincial-level new records for 96 resident bird species reveal poleward range shifts
Chinese provincial-level new records for 96 resident bird species reveal poleward range shifts Open
Anthropogenic climate change is altering species distributions globally. While species distributions are expected to shift to higher latitudes and elevations under global warming, empirical evidence on distribution shifts is mixed, and fac…
View article: Global Burden, Projection, and Inequalities Analysis of Cancer Attributable to Occupational Carcinogen Exposure in Individuals Aged Over 40 Years
Global Burden, Projection, and Inequalities Analysis of Cancer Attributable to Occupational Carcinogen Exposure in Individuals Aged Over 40 Years Open
Background In this study, we investigated the global burden, projection, and inequalities of cancer attributable to occupational carcinogen exposure in individuals aged over 40 years. Methods Using the Global Burden of Disease 2021 dataset…
View article: Photonic Interfaces: an Innovative Wearable Sensing Solution for Continuous Monitoring of Human Motion and Physiological Signals
Photonic Interfaces: an Innovative Wearable Sensing Solution for Continuous Monitoring of Human Motion and Physiological Signals Open
Flexible integrated photonic sensors are gaining prominence in intelligent wearable sensing due to their compact size, exceptional sensitivity, rapid response, robust immunity to electromagnetic interference, and the capability to enable p…
View article: Femto-joule threshold reconfigurable all-optical nonlinear activators for picosecond spiking neural networks
Femto-joule threshold reconfigurable all-optical nonlinear activators for picosecond spiking neural networks Open
Achieving optical computing with thousands of tera-operations per second per watt per square millimeter (TOPs/W/mm 2 ) is the key to surpassing electrical computing. This realization requires a breakthrough in the design of a ne…
View article: Tunable Containing Malononitrile Aiegens with Reversible Mechanochromic Behaviors and Promising Applications
Tunable Containing Malononitrile Aiegens with Reversible Mechanochromic Behaviors and Promising Applications Open
View article: Implantation-assistance-free flexible waveguide probe for optogenetic stimulation
Implantation-assistance-free flexible waveguide probe for optogenetic stimulation Open
View article: Chalcogenide glass mid-infrared on-chip sensor for chemical sensing
Chalcogenide glass mid-infrared on-chip sensor for chemical sensing Open
Chemical sensing in the mid-infrared (mid-IR) has been considered to be significant for molecular detection for decades, but until recently has mostly relied on benchtop spectroscopic instruments like Fourier transform infrared spectromete…
View article: On-Chip Vectorial Structured Light Manipulation via Inverse Design
On-Chip Vectorial Structured Light Manipulation via Inverse Design Open
On-chip structured light, with potentially infinite complexity, has emerged as a linchpin in the realm of integrated photonics. However, the realization of arbitrarily tailoring a multitude of light field dimensions in complex media remain…
View article: Monolithic back-end-of-line integration of phase change materials into foundry-manufactured silicon photonics
Monolithic back-end-of-line integration of phase change materials into foundry-manufactured silicon photonics Open
Monolithic integration of novel materials without modifying the existing photonic component library is crucial to advancing heterogeneous silicon photonic integrated circuits. Here we show the introduction of a silicon nitride etch stop la…
View article: Inverse design of compact nonvolatile reconfigurable silicon photonic devices with phase-change materials
Inverse design of compact nonvolatile reconfigurable silicon photonic devices with phase-change materials Open
In the development of silicon photonics, the continued downsizing of photonic integrated circuits will further increase the integration density, which augments the functionality of photonic chips. Compared with the traditional design metho…
View article: Ultra-thin, zoom capable, flexible metalenses with high focusing efficiency and large numerical aperture
Ultra-thin, zoom capable, flexible metalenses with high focusing efficiency and large numerical aperture Open
The ever-growing demand for miniaturized optical systems presents a significant challenge in revolutionizing their core element – the varifocal lens. Recent advancements in ultra-thin, tunable metasurface optics have introduced new approac…
View article: On-chip silicon electro-optical modulator with ultra-high extinction ratio for fiber-optic distributed acoustic sensing
On-chip silicon electro-optical modulator with ultra-high extinction ratio for fiber-optic distributed acoustic sensing Open
Ultra-high extinction ratio (ER) optical modulation is crucial for achieving high-performance fiber-optic distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) for various applications. Bulky acousto-optical modulators (AOM) as one of the key devices in DAS …
View article: Graphene/silicon heterojunction for reconfigurable phase-relevant activation function in coherent optical neural networks
Graphene/silicon heterojunction for reconfigurable phase-relevant activation function in coherent optical neural networks Open
Optical neural networks (ONNs) herald a new era in information and communication technologies and have implemented various intelligent applications. In an ONN, the activation function (AF) is a crucial component determining the network per…
View article: Ultra-compact scalable spectrometer with low power consumption
Ultra-compact scalable spectrometer with low power consumption Open
An ultra-compact on-chip spectrometer was demonstrated based on an array of add-drop micro-donut resonators (MDRs). The filter array was thermally tuned by a single TiN microheater, enabling simultaneous spectral scanning across all physic…
View article: “Zero change” platform for monolithic back-end-of-line integration of phase change materials in silicon photonics
“Zero change” platform for monolithic back-end-of-line integration of phase change materials in silicon photonics Open
Monolithic integration of novel materials for unprecedented device functions without modifying the existing photonic component library is the key to advancing heterogeneous silicon photonic integrated circuits. To achieve this, the introdu…
View article: "Zero change" platform for monolithic back-end-of-line integration of phase change materials in silicon photonics
"Zero change" platform for monolithic back-end-of-line integration of phase change materials in silicon photonics Open
Monolithic integration of novel materials for unprecedented device functions without modifying the existing photonic component library is the key to advancing heterogeneous silicon photonic integrated circuits. To achieve this, the introdu…
View article: Polycrystalline silicon 2 × 2 Mach-Zehnder interferometer optical switch
Polycrystalline silicon 2 × 2 Mach-Zehnder interferometer optical switch Open
In this paper, we demonstrate a broadband Mach-Zehnder interferometer optical switch based on polycrystalline silicon (poly-Si), which enables the development of multilayer photonics integrated circuits. The poly-Si is deposited under a lo…
View article: Integrated Bragg grating filters based on silicon-Sb<sub>2</sub>Se<sub>3</sub> with non-volatile bandgap engineering capability
Integrated Bragg grating filters based on silicon-Sb<sub>2</sub>Se<sub>3</sub> with non-volatile bandgap engineering capability Open
Integrated optical filters show outstanding capability in integrated reconfigurable photonic applications, including wavelength division multiplexing (WDM), programmable photonic processors, and on-chip quantum photonic networks. Present s…
View article: Electrically programmable phase-change photonic memory for optical neural networks with nanoseconds in situ training capability
Electrically programmable phase-change photonic memory for optical neural networks with nanoseconds in situ training capability Open
Optical neural networks (ONNs), enabling low latency and high parallel data processing without electromagnetic interference, have become a viable player for fast and energy-efficient processing and calculation to meet the increasing demand…
View article: Graphene/silicon heterojunction for reconfigurable phase-relevant activation function in coherent optical neural networks
Graphene/silicon heterojunction for reconfigurable phase-relevant activation function in coherent optical neural networks Open
Optical neural networks (ONNs) herald a new era in information and communication technologies and have implemented various intelligent applications. In an ONN, the activation function (AF) is a crucial component determining the network per…
View article: Two-dimensional heterostructure quasi-BIC photonic crystal surface-emitting laser with low divergence
Two-dimensional heterostructure quasi-BIC photonic crystal surface-emitting laser with low divergence Open
High beam quality, large-area output, and small footprint are significant pursuing goals for vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs), which impose strict requirements on tight light confinements with minimized radiation losses. To…
View article: CCDC 2141808: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination
CCDC 2141808: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination Open
An entry from the Cambridge Structural Database, the world’s repository for small molecule crystal structures. The entry contains experimental data from a crystal diffraction study. The deposited dataset for this entry is freely available …
View article: On-chip optoelectronic logic gates operating in the telecom band
On-chip optoelectronic logic gates operating in the telecom band Open
Optoelectronic Logic Gates at Communication Band
View article: Self-Driven Photo-Polarized Water Molecule-Triggered Graphene-Based Photodetector
Self-Driven Photo-Polarized Water Molecule-Triggered Graphene-Based Photodetector Open
Flowing water can be used as an energy source for generators, providing a major part of the energy for daily life. However, water is rarely used for information or electronic devices. Herein, we present the feasibility of a polarized liqui…
View article: Optical Temperature Sensor Based on Polysilicon Waveguides
Optical Temperature Sensor Based on Polysilicon Waveguides Open
Traditional temperature detection has limitations in terms of sensing accuracy and response time, while chip-level photoelectric sensors based on the thermo-optic effect can improve measurement sensitivity and reduce costs. This paper pres…
View article: Efficient and compact sol-gel TiO<sub>2</sub> thermo-optic microring resonator modulator
Efficient and compact sol-gel TiO<sub>2</sub> thermo-optic microring resonator modulator Open
Thermo-optic (TO) modulators play an increasingly important role in wavelength routers, lidar, optical computing, and other reconfigurable photonic systems. Highly efficient TO tunable microring resonators (MRRs) were first demonstrated ba…
View article: Scalable 3D Silicon Optical Switch Based on CLOS Architecture
Scalable 3D Silicon Optical Switch Based on CLOS Architecture Open
To achieve complex functionality with small size, weight and power, photonic integrated circuits (PIC) are expanded from two-dimensional (2D) to three-dimensional (3D). In this paper, a new design for a scalable 3D silicon optical switch i…
View article: Flexible passive integrated photonic devices with superior optical and mechanical performance
Flexible passive integrated photonic devices with superior optical and mechanical performance Open
Flexible integrated photonics is a rapidly emerging technology with a wide range of possible applications in the fields of flexible optical interconnects, conformal multiplexing sensing, health monitoring, and biotechnology. One major chal…
View article: Magnetron-sputtered and thermal-evaporated low-loss Sb-Se phase-change films in non-volatile integrated photonics
Magnetron-sputtered and thermal-evaporated low-loss Sb-Se phase-change films in non-volatile integrated photonics Open
Chalcogenide phase change materials (PCMs), featuring a large contrast in optical properties between their non-volatile amorphous and crystalline states, have triggered a surge of interest for their applications in ultra-compact photonic i…
View article: Tunable narrow-band single-channel add-drop integrated optical filter with ultrawide FSR
Tunable narrow-band single-channel add-drop integrated optical filter with ultrawide FSR Open
Free-spectral-range (FSR)-free optical filters have always been a critical challenge for photonic integrated circuits. A high-performance FSR-free filter is highly desired for communication, spectroscopy, and sensing applications. Despite …