Authenticating products and documents with security inks is vital to global commerce,
security and health. Lanthanide complexes are widely used in luminescent security inks …

From small molecules to entire organisms, evolution has refined biological structures at the
nanoscale, microscale and macroscale to be chiral—that is, mirror dissymmetric. Chirality …

Optoelectronic effects differentiating absorption of right and left circularly polarized photons
in thin films of chiral materials are typically prohibitively small for their direct photocurrent …

Detection of circularly polarized light (CPL) has a high potential for development of various
optical technologies. Conventional photodetectors require optical polarizers on the device to …

Circularly polarized light (CPL) detection is required in various fields such as drug
screening, security surveillance and quantum optics. Conventionally, CPL photodetector …

BACKGROUND The interdisciplinary field of animal coloration is growing rapidly, spanning
questions about the diverse ways that animals use pigments and structures to generate …

Liquid crystals (LCs) are omnipresent in living matter, whose chirality is an elegant and
distinct feature in certain plant tissues, the cuticles of crabs, beetles, arthropods, and …

The manipulation and characterization of light polarization states are essential for many
applications in quantum communication and computing, spectroscopy, bioinspired …

Circularly polarized light is utilized in various optical techniques and devices. However,
using conventional optical systems to generate, analyse and detect circularly polarized light …

Polarization‐sensitive photodetectors are gaining numerous attention since polarization
detection is important in geological remote sensing, atmospheric monitoring, military recon …