Prof. Jelena Vučković (Stanford University) discusses her research and inspirations, in conversation with Advanced Photonics Early Career Editorial Board Member Prof. Menjie Yu (University of Southern California).

The substantial and unstable dark current in metal halide perovskite photodetectors hampers their continued advancement. To address this issue, an innovative architecture has been proposed to effectively overcome the challenge of dark current in perovskite photoconductor-type devices, resulting in an almost negligible dark current and an exceptionally low dark current drift.

Professor Guoqing Chang (Chinese Academy of Sciences) interviewed Professor Din Ping Tsai (City University of Hong Kong) on behalf of Advanced Photonics.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023 was awarded to Moungi G. Bawendi, Alexei I. Ekimov, and Louis E. Brus for “the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots (QDs)”. Here we review the history of QDs, bridge the connection between colloidal QDs and epitaxial QDs, revisit the milestones of their applications in optoelectronics, and provide insights into the future advancements of QDs.

Advanced Photonics spoke with Sir John Pendry of Imperial College London, United Kingdom, about the history of transformation optics.