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New article online: Quantum fusion of independent networks based on multi-user entanglement swapping.

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Quantum fusion of independent networks based on multi-user entanglement swapping - Nature Photonics
The quantum fusion of two independent 10-user networks is demonstrated based on multi-user entanglement swapping. Active temporal and wavelength multiplexing schemes are developed to merge the two net...
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December 29, 2025 at 11:45 AM
New article online: Vapour-assisted surface treatment for highly stable fully printed carbon-electrode perovskite solar modules.

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Vapour-assisted surface treatment for highly stable fully printed carbon-electrode perovskite solar modules - Nature Photonics
A vapour post-treatment strategy enables fully printed carbon-electrode perovskite solar modules with an area of about 50 cm2 and a certified power conversion efficiency of 19.26%. The modules show no...
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December 24, 2025 at 1:03 AM
New article online: Quadrature-dependent lattice dynamics of dissipative microcombs.

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Quadrature-dependent lattice dynamics of dissipative microcombs - Nature Photonics
The quantum noise of Kerr combs is found to exhibit oscillatory lattice dynamics through state transitions, with implications for squeezing and comb formation.
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December 22, 2025 at 11:23 PM
New open access article online: Frequency-stable nanophotonic microcavities via integrated thermometry.

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Frequency-stable nanophotonic microcavities via integrated thermometry - Nature Photonics
Integrating a thin-film resistance thermometer above a high-Q SiN microresonator enables local temperature monitoring and active stabilization of its resonance wavelength. The emission wavelength of a...
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December 22, 2025 at 7:19 AM
New open access article online: Scalable nanopatterning of organic light-emitting diodes beyond the diffraction limit.

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Scalable nanopatterning of organic light-emitting diodes beyond the diffraction limit - Nature Photonics
Nanostencil etching and lithography enable the fabrication of green-emitting nanoscale organic light-emitting diode pixels with size as small as 100 nm, densities as high as 100,000 pixels per inch an...
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December 19, 2025 at 4:17 AM
New open access article online: Perturbation-resilient integer arithmetic using optical skyrmions.

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Perturbation-resilient integer arithmetic using optical skyrmions - Nature Photonics
Optical skyrmions offer new opportunities for noise-resistant mathematical operations using light.
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December 18, 2025 at 12:20 AM
New article online: 3R-stacked transition metal dichalcogenide non-local metasurface for efficient second-harmonic generation.

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3R-stacked transition metal dichalcogenide non-local metasurface for efficient second-harmonic generation - Nature Photonics
Exploiting non-local optical resonances on 3R-MoS2 flakes, researchers demonstrate single-pass second-harmonic conversion efficiencies of ~10−4 over only 160-nm-thick van der Waals nonlinear metastruc...
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December 16, 2025 at 10:13 PM
New article online: Plasmon-enhanced ultralow-threshold solid-state triplet fusion upconversion.

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Plasmon-enhanced ultralow-threshold solid-state triplet fusion upconversion - Nature Photonics
Performance of solid-state triplet fusion upconversion films is enhanced by surface plasmons, intensity threshold is reduced by a factor of 17 and external quantum efficiency is enhanced by a factor o...
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December 16, 2025 at 4:32 AM
New article online: Fully thermally evaporated perovskite solar cells based on reverse layer-by-layer deposition.

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Fully thermally evaporated perovskite solar cells based on reverse layer-by-layer deposition - Nature Photonics
A layer-by-layer thermal evaporation strategy enables thermally evaporated inverted perovskite solar cells with a power conversion efficiency of 25.19%, maintaining about 95% of their initial efficien...
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December 15, 2025 at 4:50 AM
New article online: Perovskite crystallization control via an engineered self-assembled monolayer in perovskite–silicon tandem solar cells.

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Perovskite crystallization control via an engineered self-assembled monolayer in perovskite–silicon tandem solar cells - Nature Photonics
An engineered self-assembled monolayer improves perovskite crystallization, enabling perovskite–silicon tandem solar cells with a certified power conversion efficiency of 33.59%, 90% of which is maint...
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December 12, 2025 at 1:29 AM
New article online: Continuous terahertz band coverage through precise electron-beam tailoring in free-electron lasers.

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Continuous terahertz band coverage through precise electron-beam tailoring in free-electron lasers - Nature Photonics
High-power, tunable accelerator-based terahertz radiation is demonstrated. By electron-beam manipulation through laser heater beating, tunable capability from 7.8 to 30.8 THz, narrow spectral bandwidt...
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December 10, 2025 at 10:23 PM
New open acces article online: Frequency-modulated high-power photonic-crystal surface-emitting lasers for long-distance coherent free-space optical communications.

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Frequency-modulated high-power photonic-crystal surface-emitting lasers for long-distance coherent free-space optical communications - Nature Photonics
Researchers realize watt-class frequency modulation using compact coherent optical transmitters based on frequency-modulated photonic-crystal surface-emitting lasers. The system has implications for l...
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December 8, 2025 at 7:44 AM
New article online: Temporal characterization of tunable few-cycle vacuum ultraviolet pulses.

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Temporal characterization of tunable few-cycle vacuum ultraviolet pulses - Nature Photonics
The temporal characterization of few-femtosecond vacuum ultraviolet pulses bring new opportunities for investigating ultrafast light-matter interactions.
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December 8, 2025 at 5:04 AM
New article online: Single-chain ultrasmall fluorescent polymer dots enable nanometre-resolution cellular imaging and single protein tracking.

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December 3, 2025 at 8:19 AM
New article online: Boundary-induced excitation of higher-order hyperbolic phonon polaritons.

The high-contrast boundary between a gold–air hybrid structure & its sharp features provide the momentum required for the excitation of higher-order hyperbolic phonon polaritons.

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Boundary-induced excitation of higher-order hyperbolic phonon polaritons - Nature Photonics
The high-contrast dielectric boundary between a gold–air hybrid structure and its sharp spatial features are exploited to provide the momentum required for the excitation of higher-order hyperbolic ph...
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November 27, 2025 at 10:14 PM
New article online: Observation of quantized vortex in atomic Bose–Einstein condensate at Dirac point with emergent spin–orbit coupling.

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November 25, 2025 at 12:45 AM
New article online: A miniaturized cascaded-diode-array spectral imager.

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A miniaturized cascaded-diode-array spectral imager - Nature Photonics
A miniaturized ultraviolet spectral imager based on a cascaded AlGaN/GaN photodiode with a compositionally graded active region enables spectral imaging in the 250–365 nm range. The device allows the ...
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November 24, 2025 at 4:14 AM
New article online: Universal routing of light via optical thermodynamics.

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November 20, 2025 at 4:41 AM
New open access article online: Light-based electron aberration corrector.

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Light-based electron aberration corrector - Nature Photonics
Irradiation with a pulsed Laguerre–Gaussian laser beam of charge one enables correcting the third-order spherical aberration of an electron beam.
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November 18, 2025 at 3:42 AM
New article online: Directional strong coupling at the nanoscale between hyperbolic polaritons and organic molecules.

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Directional strong coupling at the nanoscale between hyperbolic polaritons and organic molecules - Nature Photonics
Researchers observe directional strong coupling on the nanoscale between hyperbolic phonon polaritons and pentacene molecules.
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November 16, 2025 at 8:21 PM
New article online: Topological microwave isolator with >100 dB isolation.

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November 11, 2025 at 8:33 AM
New article online: Terahertz field control of surface topology probed with subatomic resolution.

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November 6, 2025 at 11:08 PM
New article online: Organic permeable base transistors for high-performance photodetection with photo-memory effect.

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Organic permeable base transistors for high-performance photodetection with photo-memory effect - Nature Photonics
Organic permeable base transistors featuring a porous aluminium electrode within the semiconductor channel enable high photo-gain and charge storage simultaneously. The transistors achieve retention t...
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November 3, 2025 at 7:12 AM
New article online: Multi-octave frequency comb from an ultra-low-threshold nanophotonic parametric oscillator.

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Multi-octave frequency comb from an ultra-low-threshold nanophotonic parametric oscillator - Nature Photonics
Using low-threshold and dispersion engineering, a 2.6-octave frequency comb is generated on a LiNbO3 chip via an optical parametric oscillator with only 121 fJ. The optical parametric oscillator desig...
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November 3, 2025 at 7:09 AM