Toward thin GaSb Buffer Layers Grown on On‐Axis (001) Silicon by Molecular Beam Epitaxy by A. Gilbert, M. Ramonda, G. Patriarche, E. Tournié, J.‐B. Rodriguez

“…Abstract The monolithic integration of III‐Vs on Silicon (Si) is of great interest for the development of active photonic integrated circuits (PICs). The main challenge is to achieve a high‐quality epitaxy of the III‐V on the Si substrate, as the differences between the materials are responsible for the formation of crystal defects, in particular threading dislocations (TDs) and antiphase domains (APDs) delineated by antiphase boundaries (APBs), which degrade the device's performance. …”
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Transverse optical gradient force in untethered rotating metaspinners by Einstom Engay, Mahdi Shanei, Vasilii Mylnikov, Gan Wang, Peter Johansson, Giovanni Volpe, Mikael Käll

“…Illuminated by weakly focused light, a metaspinner generates torque via photon recoil through the metasurfaces’ ability to bend light towards high angles despite their sub-wavelength thickness, thereby creating orbital angular momentum. …”
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Probing Scalar and Pseudoscalar Solutions to the g−2 Anomaly by Fayez Abu-Ajamieh

“…Similar analysis can be readily applied to other proposed solutions to the anomaly, such as solutions with Z′ or with the dark photon.…”
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Effects of Homogenization Scheme of TiO2 Screen-Printing Paste for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells by Seigo Ito, Kaoru Takahashi, Shin-ich Yusa, Takahiro Imamura, Kenji Tanimoto

“…To analyze the photovoltaic characteristics, we measured the incident photon-to-current efficiency, light absorption spectroscopy, and electrical impedance spectroscopy of DSCs.…”
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Crystallographic defects induced F-Center and optical enhancements in CeO2-TiO2 nanocomposites by Samor Boonphan, Suriyong Prachakiew, Chaiyuth Nontakoat, Yanee Keereeta, Chatdanai Boonruang, Arrak Klinbumrung

“…As observed through photoluminescence analysis, F-center defects improved optical density, making the material potential in visible-light-driven photonic technologies. The results suggest that CeO2-TiO2 nanocomposites with abundant F-center defects offer novel opportunities in optical devices and coloration improvement.…”
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Modulation of surface phonon polaritons in MoO3 via dynamic doping of SiC substrate by Garcia-Pomar Juan Luis, Fandan Rajveer, Calle Fernando, Pedrós Jorge

“…Here, we present a study on the propagation of surface phonon polaritons (SPhPs) in a photonic architecture based on a thin layer of α-MoO3 deposited on a semiconducting 4H-SiC substrate, whose carrier density can be tuned through photoinduction. …”
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The Interplay of Surface Composition, Mineralogy, and Physical Conditions That Affect the Surface Release Processes and Particle Environment of Mercury by Peter Wurz, Noah Jäggi, André Galli, Audrey Vorburger, Deborah Domingue, Paul S. Szabo, Johannes Benkhoff, Océane Barraud, Daniel Wolf Savin

“…The external drivers for the particle release from the surface are solar photons, solar wind plasma, and micrometeoroid impacts. …”
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Facile Conversion and Optimization of Structured Illumination Image Reconstruction Code into the GPU Environment by Kwangsung Oh, Piero R. Bianco

“…Superresolution, structured illumination microscopy (SIM) is an ideal modality for imaging live cells due to its relatively high speed and low photon-induced damage to the cells. The rate-limiting step in observing a superresolution image in SIM is often the reconstruction speed of the algorithm used to form a single image from as many as nine raw images. …”
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Opportunities for gas-phase science at short-wavelength free-electron lasers with undulator-based polarization control by Markus Ilchen, Enrico Allaria, Primož Rebernik Ribič, Heinz-Dieter Nuhn, Alberto Lutman, Evgeny Schneidmiller, Markus Tischer, Mikail Yurkov, Marco Calvi, Eduard Prat, Sven Reiche, Thomas Schmidt, Gianluca Aldo Geloni, Suren Karabekyan, Jiawei Yan, Svitozar Serkez, Zhangfeng Gao, Bangjie Deng, Chao Feng, Haixiao Deng, Wolfram Helml, Lars Funke, Mats Larsson, Vitali Zhaunerchyk, Michael Meyer, Tommaso Mazza, Till Jahnke, Reinhard Dörner, Francesca Calegari, Olga Smirnova, Caterina Vozzi, Giovanni De Ninno, Jonas Wätzel, Jamal Berakdar, Sadia Bari, Lucas Schwob, Jérémy R. Rouxel, Shaul Mukamel, Klaus Bartschat, Kathryn Hamilton, Luca Argenti, Nicolas Douguet, Nikolay M. Novikovskiy, Philipp V. Demekhin, Peter Walter

“…Free-electron lasers (FELs) are the world's most brilliant light sources with rapidly evolving technological capabilities in terms of ultrabright and ultrashort pulses over a large range of photon energies. Their revolutionary and innovative developments have opened new fields of science regarding nonlinear light-matter interaction, the investigation of ultrafast processes from specific observer sites, and approaches to imaging matter with atomic resolution. …”
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Physicochemical and Luminescent Properties of Copolymers Composed of Three Monomers: Polythiophenes Based on 3-Hexylthiophene and 3,4-Ethylenedioxythiophene by Marco Antonio Ramírez-Gómez, Karla Karina Guzmán-Rabadán, Edgar González-Juárez, Marisol Güizado-Rodríguez, Gabriel Ramos-Ortiz, Jorge Enrique Alba-Rosales, Huehueteotl Panzo-Medrano, Victor Barba, Mario Rodríguez, José Luis Maldonado, Miguel Ángel Basurto-Pensado

“…Characterizations by 1H NMR, FT-IR, DSC-TGA, GPC, UV-vis, cyclic voltammetry, fluorescence quantum yield, excited state lifetime, and two-photon absorption cross-section were carried out. …”
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Distinguishing black holes with and without spontaneous scalarization in Einstein-scalar-Gauss–Bonnet theories via optical features by Xi-Jing Wang, Yuan Meng, Xiao-Mei Kuang, Kai Liao

“…In this paper, we shall examine the optical features of Gauss–Bonnet black holes with spontaneous scalarization, which is governed by the coupling parameter $$\lambda $$ λ . We find that the photon sphere, critical impact parameter and innermost stable circular orbit all decrease as the increasing of $$\lambda $$ λ . …”
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Revisiting the Flaring Activity in Early 2015 of BL Lacertae Object S5 0716+714 by Zhihao Ouyang, Hubing Xiao, Marina Manganaro, Shangchun Xie, Jingyu Wu, Jianzhen Chen, Rui Xue, Gege Wang, Shaohua Zhang, Junhui Fan

“…In contrast, the SSC plus EC model successfully fits the SEDs under the assumption of weak external photon fields but requires a high Doppler factor. …”
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Photokinetics of Photothermal Reactions by Mounir Maafi

“…It was then used to describe and quantify several situations of photothermal reactions, such as the effects of initial concentration, spectator molecules, and incident radiation intensity, and the impact of the latter on the photonic yield. The model equation facilitated a general elucidation method to determine the intrinsic reaction parameters (quantum yields and absorptivities of the reactive species) for any photothermal mechanism whose number of species is known. …”
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Preparation and Optical Properties of Compound Nanopowder Art Ceramics by Yulan Li

“…In order to play the role of nanoparticles in optoelectronic or photonic devices, it is necessary to explore the preparation process and performance research of dielectric ceramics. …”
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Crystal structure of 72,73,75,76-tetrafluoro-25,44-dimethyl-31,33,36,38-tetraoxo-31,32,33,36,37,38-hexahydro-3(2,7)-benzo[lmn][3,8]phenanthrolina-1,5(4,1)-dipyridin-1-iuma-2,4(1,2)... by Wang Xiuteng, Wei Wei

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Transparency, nonclassicality, and nonreciprocity in chiral waveguide quantum electrodynamics by Qingtian Miao, G. S. Agarwal

“…In particular, for two qubits detuned antisymmetrically with respect to the central waveguide frequency, we find transparency in forward transmission and in photon numbers for arbitrary values of the input powers provided the phase separation between qubits is an integer multiple of π. …”
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Retiming dynamics of harmonically mode-locked laser solitons in a self-driven optomechanical lattice by Xiaocong Wang, Benhai Wang, Wenbin He, Xintong Zhang, Qi Huang, Zhiyuan Huang, Xin Jiang, Meng Pang, Philip. St. J. Russell

“…Here, in a series of carefully designed experiments, we elucidate the retiming dynamics of laser pulses generated in a soliton fiber laser harmonically mode-locked at GHz frequencies to the acoustic resonance in a photonic crystal fiber (PCF) core. We characterize the self-driven optomechanical lattice, which is distributed along the PCF and provides the structure that supports harmonic mode-locking, using a homodyne setup. …”
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Bi2O3–BiOCl/poly-m-methyl aniline nanocomposite thin film for broad-spectrum light-sensing by Ben Gouider Trabelsi Amira, Alkallas Fatemah H., Kusmartsev Fedor V., Rabia Mohamed

“…The composite has been tested electrically using the CHI608E device, demonstrating its potential for efficient light absorption and photon trapping, making it a promising candidate for advanced light sensing applications.…”
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CryoEM structure and small-angle X-ray scattering analyses of porcine retinol-binding protein 3 by Vineeta Kaushik, Luca Gessa, Nelam Kumar, Matyáš Pinkas, Mariusz Czarnocki-Cieciura, Krzysztof Palczewski, Jiří Nováček, Humberto Fernandes

“…The vertebrate visual cycle hinges on enzymatically converting all-trans-retinol (at-ROL) into 11-cis-retinal (11c-RAL), the chromophore that binds to opsins in photoreceptors, forming light-responsive pigments. When struck by a photon, these pigments activate the phototransduction pathway and initiate the process of vision. …”
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A Cu(I)-Based MOF with Nonlinear Optical Properties and a Favorable Optical Limit Threshold by Jing Cui, Zhaohui Yang, Yu Zhang, Zhaoxuan Fan, Jianquan Wang, Xiaoyun Qin, Lijun Gao, Haoran Yang, Shuangliang Liu, Liming Zhou, Shaoming Fang, Zhen Zhang

“…Furthermore, the mechanism of the third-order NLO properties was illustrated as one-photon absorption (1PA). These results investigate the relationship between the structure and the nonlinear optical properties of Cu-bpy, and provide an experimental and theoretical basis for its use in optical limiting applications.…”
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