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Highly efficient high-harmonic generation was achieved in helium using a two-color laser field that consisted of the fundamental and the second harmonic fields of a femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser. By applying a high intensity second harmonic, the harmonics generated in the orthogonally polarized twocolor field were stronger than those obtained in the fundamental field by more than 2 orders of magnitude, and even stronger than those of the parallel polarization case. A conversion efficiency as high as 5 10 ÿ5 was obtained for the 38th harmonic at 21.6 nm. The physical origin of this enhancement was deduced by analyzing the electron behavior in the two-color field.

Skin-like health care patches (SHPs) are next-generation health care gadgets that will enable seamless monitoring of biological signals in daily life. Skin-conformable sensors and a stretchable display are critical for the development of standalone SHPs that provide real-time information while alleviating privacy concerns related to wireless data transmission. However, the production of stretchable wearable displays with sufficient pixels to display this information remains challenging. Here, we report a standalone organic SHP that provides real-time heart rate information. The 15-μm-thick SHP comprises a stretchable organic light-emitting diode display and stretchable organic photoplethysmography (PPG) heart rate sensor on all-elastomer substrate and operates stably under 30% strain using a combination of stress relief layers and deformable micro-cracked interconnects that reduce the mechanical stress on the active optoelectronic components. This approach provides a rational strategy for high-resolution stretchable displays, enabling the production of ideal platforms for next-generation wearable health care electronics.

There are growing opportunities and demands for image sensors that produce higher-resolution images, even in low-light conditions. Increasing the light input areas through 3D architecture within the same pixel size can be an effective solution to address this issue. Organic photodiodes (OPDs) that possess wavelength selectivity can allow for advancements in this regard. Here, we report on novel push-pull D-π-A dyes specially designed for Gaussian-shaped, narrow-band absorption and the high photoelectric conversion. These p-type organic dyes work both as a color filter and as a source of photocurrents with linear and fast light responses, high sensitivity, and excellent stability, when combined with C60 to form bulk heterojunctions (BHJs). The effectiveness of the OPD composed of the active color filter was demonstrated by obtaining a full-color image using a camera that contained an organic/Si hybrid complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) color image sensor.

Complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) colour image sensors are representative examples of light-detection devices. To achieve extremely high resolutions, the pixel sizes of the CMOS image sensors must be reduced to less than a micron, which in turn significantly limits the number of photons that can be captured by each pixel using silicon (Si)-based technology (i.e., this reduction in pixel size results in a loss of sensitivity). Here, we demonstrate a novel and efficient method of increasing the sensitivity and resolution of the CMOS image sensors by superposing an organic photodiode (OPD) onto a CMOS circuit with Si photodiodes, which consequently doubles the light-input surface area of each pixel. To realise this concept, we developed organic semiconductor materials with absorption properties selective to green light and successfully fabricated highly efficient green-light-sensitive OPDs without colour filters. We found that such a top light-receiving OPD, which is selective to specific green wavelengths, demonstrates great potential when combined with a newly designed Si-based CMOS circuit containing only blue and red colour filters. To demonstrate the effectiveness of this state-of-the-art hybrid colour image sensor, we acquired a real full-colour image using a camera that contained the organic-on-Si hybrid CMOS colour image sensor.

We have achieved very efficient high-harmonic generation in a two-color laser field using a long gas jet of He. With the optimization of laser parameters and target conditions, strong harmonics were produced at 2͑2n +1͒th orders in an orthogonally polarized two-color field. The strongest harmonic at the 38th order ͑21.6 nm͒ reached an energy of 0.6 J with a 6 mm gas jet, giving a conversion efficiency as high as 2 ϫ 10 −4 .

The dynamic characterization of two green-sensitive organic photodetectors (OPDs) using nonfullerene small molecules is investigated by analyzing the electrical parameters based on the experimental results and the simulated data. The two OPDs comprise N,N-dimethyl quinacridone (DMQA) as the common donor and dibutyl-substituted dicyanovinyl terthiophene (DCV3T) or boron-subphthalocyanine chloride (SubPc) as respective acceptors. At the applied voltage of −5 V, the device composed of DMQA/SubPc shows a higher frequency response at 148.3 kHz, by 55 kHz higher than the device based on DMQA/DCV3T. The impedance spectroscopy results indicate that the former device exhibits the low resistance due to the high mobility and the low capacitance linked to the dielectric constant. According to the molecular quantum calculation, the linear structure of DCV3T may promote packing of adjacent molecules in the linear direction, resulting in a high polarizability. In contrast, the fused structure of SubPc leads to a decrease in reorganization energy, and its conical shape tends to counterbalance the net dipole at the axial position in the dimer packing configuration owing to the symmetry of the three-branched units in the molecular periphery, which are related to the high carrier mobility and the low dielectric constant. The OPD comprising SubPc, with the dynamic response surpassing the commercialization level of 100 kHz, also exhibits good static performance with an external quantum efficiency of 60.1% at the wavelength of 540 nm, which can be an interesting candidate for potential applications as image sensors.

Two novel dipolar donor–acceptor molecules approaching the cyanine limit were used for green-light-selective OPDs.