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    | Open Access

    We develop a method for providing high-quality, holographic, three-dimensional augmented-reality images in a small form factor suitable for incorporation in eyeglass-scale wearables, using high-refraction-index glass waveguides with nanoscale metasurfaces, and incorporating artificial intelligence.

    • Manu Gopakumar
    • , Gun-Yeal Lee
    •  & Gordon Wetzstein

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    Wafer-scale realization of a nanoscale magnetic tunnel junction hosting a single, ambient skyrmion enables its large readout, efficient switching, and compatibility with lateral manipulation, and thereby provides the backbone for all-electrical skyrmionic device architectures.

    • Shaohai Chen
    • , James Lourembam
    •  & Anjan Soumyanarayanan

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    High-density, intrinsically stretchable transistors with high driving ability and integrated circuits with high operation speed and large-scale integration were enabled by a combination of innovations in materials, fabrication process design, device engineering and circuit design.

    • Donglai Zhong
    • , Can Wu
    •  & Zhenan Bao

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    | Open Access

    Vectorial optoelectronic metasurfaces are described, showing that light pulses can be used to drive and direct local charge flows around symmetry-broken plasmonic nanostructures, leading to tunable responses in terahertz emission.

    • Jacob Pettine
    • , Prashant Padmanabhan
    •  & Hou-Tong Chen

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    | Open Access

    Silicon photonic nanocavities based on surface forces and conventional lithography and etching are developed, demonstrating pioneering technology that integrates atomic dimensions with the scalability of planar semiconductors.

    • Ali Nawaz Babar
    • , Thor August Schimmell Weis
    •  & Søren Stobbe

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    The development of a 400,000-pixel superconducting nanowire single-photon detector array is described, improving the current state of the art by a factor of 400 and showing scalability well beyond the present demonstration.

    • B. G. Oripov
    • , D. S. Rampini
    •  & A. N. McCaughan

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    The challenges and opportunities for the design of field-effect transistors are discussed and a vision of future transistors and potential innovation opportunities is provided.

    • Wei Cao
    • , Huiming Bu
    •  & Kaustav Banerjee

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    A method is presented to harness the paper-folding mechanism of reconfigurable macroscale systems to create reconfigurable DNA origami structures, in anticipation that it will advance the development of complex molecular systems.

    • Myoungseok Kim
    • , Chanseok Lee
    •  & Do-Nyun Kim

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    The orbital Hall effect is observed in the light metal titanium, confirming the orbital Hall effect and indicating that orbital angular momentum is an important degree of freedom in solids.

    • Young-Gwan Choi
    • , Daegeun Jo
    •  & Hyun-Woo Lee

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    Under strong excitation, inhomogeneously broadened solid-state emitters coupled with high cooperativity to a cavity demonstrate collectively induced transparency and dissipative many-body dynamics, resulting from cavity–ion coupling.

    • Mi Lei
    • , Rikuto Fukumori
    •  & Andrei Faraon

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    A two-dimensional field-effect transistor made of indium selenide is shown to outperform state-of-the-art silicon-based transistors, operating at lower supply voltage and achieving record high transconductance and ballistic ratio.

    • Jianfeng Jiang
    • , Lin Xu
    •  & Lian-Mao Peng

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    Through microscopic manipulation of radiofrequency fields, a new class of compact terahertz devices is proposed, setting the stage for next-generation ultrafast semiconductor electronics.

    • Mohammad Samizadeh Nikoo
    •  & Elison Matioli

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    Chiral metasurfaces have been produced, with experimental observation of intrinsic chiral bound states in the continuum, which may lead to applications in chiral light sources and detectors, chiral sensing, valleytronics and asymmetric photocatalysis.

    • Yang Chen
    • , Huachun Deng
    •  & Cheng-Wei Qiu

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    | Open Access

    An electrically driven motor on the molecular scale based on [3]catenane is described, in which two cyclobis(paraquat-p-phenylene) rings operate by means of redox reactions, demonstrating highly unidirectional movement around a circular loop.

    • Long Zhang
    • , Yunyan Qiu
    •  & J. Fraser Stoddart

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    Optomechanical lattices in one and two dimensions with exceptionally low disorder are realized, showing how the optomechanical interaction can be exploited for direct measurements of the Hamiltonian, beyond the tight-binding approximation.

    • Amir Youssefi
    • , Shingo Kono
    •  & Tobias J. Kippenberg

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    Spin correlation experiments are demonstrated in an electron entangler device based on the ‘splitting’ of Cooper pairs from a superconductor, which can potentially be used to investigate many fundamental phases and processes related to the electron spin.

    • Arunav Bordoloi
    • , Valentina Zannier
    •  & Andreas Baumgartner

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    A molecular ratchet, in which a crown ether is pumped from solution onto an encoded molecular strand by a pulse of chemical fuel, opens the way for the reading of information along molecular tapes.

    • Yansong Ren
    • , Romain Jamagne
    •  & David A. Leigh

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    | Open Access

    The universal control of six qubits in a 28Si/SiGe quantum dot array is demonstrated, achieving Rabi oscillations for each qubit with visibilities of 93.5–98.0%, implying high readout and initialization fidelities.

    • Stephan G. J. Philips
    • , Mateusz T. Mądzik
    •  & Lieven M. K. Vandersypen

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    | Open Access

    A compute-in-memory neural-network inference accelerator based on resistive random-access memory simultaneously improves energy efficiency, flexibility and accuracy compared with existing hardware by co-optimizing across all hierarchies of the design.

    • Weier Wan
    • , Rajkumar Kubendran
    •  & Gert Cauwenberghs

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    Clean van der Waals contacts of high-work-function metals have been demonstrated on few- and single-layered MoS2 and WSe2, leading to p-type characteristics on single-layer MoS2 and purely p-type characteristics on WSe2.

    • Yan Wang
    • , Jong Chan Kim
    •  & Manish Chhowalla

  • Perspective |

    Developments, challenges and opportunities in using two-dimensional materials for the next generation of non-volatile spin-based memory technologies are reviewed, and possible disruptive improvements are discussed.

    • Hyunsoo Yang
    • , Sergio O. Valenzuela
    •  & Stephan Roche

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    Light-field control of real and virtual charge carriers in a gold–graphene–gold heterostructure is demonstrated, and used to create a logic gate for application in lightwave electronics.

    • Tobias Boolakee
    • , Christian Heide
    •  & Peter Hommelhoff

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    A solid-state single-electron qubit platform is demonstrated based on trapping and manipulating isolated single electrons on an ultraclean solid neon surface in vacuum, which performs near the state of the art for a charge qubit.

    • Xianjing Zhou
    • , Gerwin Koolstra
    •  & Dafei Jin

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    Piezoelectric coupling of a single superconducting qubit to two phononic crystal nanoresonators results in an integrated device that is able to control and read out the quantum state of the two mechanical resonators.

    • E. Alex Wollack
    • , Agnetta Y. Cleland
    •  & Amir H. Safavi-Naeini

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    The molecular chemical ‘fuelling’ of the catalysis-driven motor 1-phenylpyrrole 2,2′-dicarboxylic acid, which operates by a Brownian information ratchet mechanism, facilitates dynamics that are otherwise kinetically inaccessible.

    • Stefan Borsley
    • , Elisabeth Kreidt
    •  & Benjamin M. W. Roberts

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    In the standard Si transistor gate stack, replacing conventional dielectric HfO2 with an ultrathin ferroelectric–antiferroelectric HfO2–ZrO2 heterostructure exhibiting the negative capacitance effect demonstrates ultrahigh capacitance without degradation in leakage and mobility, promising for ferroelectric integration into advanced logic technology.

    • Suraj S. Cheema
    • , Nirmaan Shanker
    •  & Sayeef Salahuddin

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    Ultra-scaled transistors based on two-dimensional MoS2 with physical gate lengths of 0.34 nm are reported, which show relatively good electrical characteristics and can be switched off.

    • Fan Wu
    • , He Tian
    •  & Tian-Ling Ren

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    Via spin-exchange interactions with 51V5+ ions, an optically addressed 171Yb3+ qubit in a nuclear-spin-rich yttrium orthovanadate crystal is used to implement a reproducible nuclear-spin-based quantum memory, and entangled Yb–V Bell states are demonstrated.

    • Andrei Ruskuc
    • , Chun-Ju Wu
    •  & Andrei Faraon

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    Single- and two-qubit gate fidelities above the fault-tolerance threshold for quantum computation are demonstrated in silicon quantum dots by fast electrical control using a micromagnet-induced gradient field and tunable coupling.

    • Akito Noiri
    • , Kenta Takeda
    •  & Seigo Tarucha

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    Universal quantum logic operations with fidelity exceeding 99%, approaching the threshold of fault tolerance, are realized in a scalable silicon device comprising an electron and two phosphorus nuclei, and a fidelity of 92.5% is obtained for a three-qubit entangled state.

    • Mateusz T. Mądzik
    • , Serwan Asaad
    •  & Andrea Morello

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    Engineering of the coupling between optical modes in a lithium niobate chip enables the realization of tunable, bi-directional and low-loss electro-optic frequency shifters controlled using only continuous and single-tone microwaves.

    • Yaowen Hu
    • , Mengjie Yu
    •  & Marko Lončar

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    In a tiny chip-based particle accelerator, phase-space control of the emerging electron beam demonstrates guiding over a length of nearly 80 micrometres and an indispensable prerequisite to electron acceleration to high energies.

    • R. Shiloh
    • , J. Illmer
    •  & P. Hommelhoff

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    Gold nanoflake pairs form by self-assembly in an aqueous ligand solution and offer stable and tunable microcavities by virtue of equilibrium between attractive Casimir forces and repulsive electrostatic forces.

    • Battulga Munkhbat
    • , Adriana Canales
    •  & Timur O. Shegai

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    High-performance optoelectronic devices that operate in the infrared regime at room temperature exhibit wide-range, active and reversible tunability of the operating wavelengths with black phosphorus.

    • Hyungjin Kim
    • , Shiekh Zia Uddin
    •  & Ali Javey

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