Tailoring Luminescence and Scintillation Properties of Tb³⁺-Doped LuYAGG Single Crystals for High-Performance Radiation Detection by Prapon Lertloypanyachai, Prom Kantuptim, Eakapon Kaewnuam, Toshiaki Kunikata, Yusuke Endo, Weerapong Chewpraditkul, Takumi Kato, Daisuke Nakauchi, Noriaki Kawaguchi, Kenichi Watanabe, Takayuki Yanagida

“…In this study, Lu_2.5Y_0.5(Al_2.5Ga_2.5)O₁₂ (LuYAGG) single-crystal scintillators doped with terbium ions (Tb³⁺) at concentrations of 0.5, 1, 5, and 10 mol% were successfully synthesized using the floating zone method. The structural, optical, photoluminescence (PL), and scintillation properties of the Tb³⁺-doped crystals were systematically investigated with a focus on their potential for high-performance scintillator applications. …”
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Energy Consumption Enhancement of Reverse-Biased Silicon-Based Mach–Zehnder Modulators Using Corrugated Slow Light Waveguides by Reza Hosseini, Levon Mirzoyan, Kambiz Jamshidi

“…It is shown that the slow light structures with medium slow down factors (specifically slowdown factors of less than 6) can be reasonable candidates for enhancing the modulator's energy efficiency. …”
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Maximizing light-to-heat conversion of Ti3C2Tx MXene metamaterials with wrinkled surfaces for artificial actuators by Hwansoo Shin, Woojae Jeong, Tae Hee Han

“…The m-MXene is coated onto liquid crystal elastomer (LCE) fibers, as actuating platforms via a dip-coating (m-MXene/aLCE fiber), exhibiting excellent light-driven actuating owing to the synergetic effect of the patterned m-MXene laysers by structural deformation. …”
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Performance Study of Ultraviolet AlGaN/GaN Light-Emitting Diodes Based on Superlattice Tunneling Junction by Zhuang Zhao, Yang Liu, Peixian Li, Xiaowei Zhou, Bo Yang, Yingru Xiang, Junchun Bai

“…In this study, we aim to enhance the internal quantum efficiency (IQE) of AlGaN-based ultraviolet (UV) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) by using the short-period AlGaN/GaN superlattice as a tunnel junction (TJ) to construct polarized structures. …”
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Testing the light scalar meson as a non- q q ¯ $$ q\overline{q} $$ state in semileptonic D decays by Yu-Kuo Hsiao, Shu-Qi Yang, Wen-Juan Wei, Bai-Cian Ke

“…For the first time, the D → S 0 form factors in the two quark structures are both presented. Subsequently, we calculate B $$ \mathcal{B} $$ ( D s + $$ {D}_s^{+} $$ → σ 0 e + ν e , σ 0 → π + π − ) = (20.3 ± 1.8 ± 0.5) × 10 −4 in the q q ¯ $$ q\overline{q} $$ structure, showing significant 9σ deviations from the experimental upper limit of 3.3 × 10 −4. …”
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“He is my savior, my guiding light in the dark”: imagination and domestication in Chinese women’s romantic relationships with AI companions by Liyao Huang, Wenxue Zou, Yanghao Huang

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Features of the Retina Light Sensitivity in Patients with Chronic Cerebral Ischemia, Depending on the Stage of Discirculatory Encephalopathy with the Use of a Neuropeptide by M. A. Frolov, A. M. Gasankhanova

“…Our study was to examine the degree of the light sensitivity impairment of the retina in patients with chronic cerebral ischemia, as well as to reveal the dynamics of these disorders on the background of the neuropeptide, depending on the stage of vascular encephalopathy.Patients and methods. …”
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Hypersonic glide vehicle trajectory prediction based on frequency enhanced channel attention and light sampling-oriented MLP network by Yuepeng Cai, Xuebin Zhuang

“…The model first uses a Frequency Enhanced Channel Attention (FECA) module to facilitate the fusion of different HGV trajectory features, and then subsequently employs a Light Sampling-oriented Multi-Layer Perceptron Network (LSMN) based on simple MLP-based structures to extract long/short-term HGV trajectory features for accurate trajectory prediction. …”
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Photocatalytic Degradation of DIPA Using Bimetallic Cu-Ni/TiO2 Photocatalyst under Visible Light Irradiation by Nadia Riaz, Mohamad Azmi Bustam, Fai Kait Chong, Zakaria B. Man, Muhammad Saqib Khan, Azmi M. Shariff

“…It was found that photocatalyst calcined at 200°C had the highest photocatalyst activities with highest chemical oxygen demand (COD) removal (86.82%). According to the structural and surface analysis, the enhanced photocatalytic activity could be attributed to its strong absorption into the visible region and high metal dispersion.…”
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Porphyrin-Based Supramolecular Self-Assemblies: Construction, Charge Separation and Transfer, Stability, and Application in Photocatalysis by Yingxu Hu, Jingfeng Peng, Rui Liu, Jing Gao, Guancheng Hua, Xiangjiang Fan, Shengjie Wang

“…Among them, porphyrin and its derivatives show great potential in photocatalytic reactions and light therapy due to their unique large-π conjugation structure, high apparent quantum efficiency, tailorable functionality, and excellent biocompatibility. …”
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Centrifugal Force Boosts Self‐Assembly of Gradient Lattice Photonic Crystals by Jingying Zhang, Xinye Wang, Yexiaotong Zhang, Jiaxing Yang, Xuelei Han

“…Gradient photonic crystals, compared to traditional photonic crystals, possess broader photonic bandgaps and more flexible arrangement structures. This article proposes a centrifugal force‐driven self‐assembly method for controllable construction of gradient lattice photonic crystals. …”
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swPHoToNs: Toward trillion‐body‐scale cosmological N‐body simulations on Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer by Zhao Liu, Qiao Wang, Xiaojing Lv, Xu Liu, Hongsong Meng, Guanghui Zhu, Liang Gao, Haohuan Fu, Guangwen Yang

“…Abstract Cosmological N‐body simulations have been essential for astronomers to study the formation of nonlinear structures and hypotheses of dark matter, dark energy, etc. …”
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Adltformer Team-Training with Detr: Enhancing Cattle Detection in Non-Ideal Lighting Conditions Through Adaptive Image Enhancement by Zhiqiang Zheng, Mengbo Wang, Xiaoyu Zhao, Zhi Weng

“…This study proposes an image enhancement detection technique based on Adltformer (Adaptive dynamic learning transformer) team-training with Detr (Detection transformer) to improve model accuracy in suboptimal conditions, addressing the challenge of detecting cattle in real pastures under complex lighting conditions—including backlighting, non-uniform lighting, and low light. …”
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Improvement of Power Efficiency in Phosphorescent White Organic Light-Emitting Diodes Using p-Doped Hole Transport Layer by Hyunkoo Lee, Jun Young Kim, Changhee Lee

“…Based on our results, we have fabricated white organic light emitting diodes (WOLEDs) with multi-emitting layer structures that consist of 1,3-bis(9-carbazolyl)benzene as a host and three phosphorescent dopants: iridium(III) bis[4,6-difluorophenyl]-pyridinato-N,C2′] picolinate as a blue dopant, bis(2-phenylbenxothiozolato-N,C2′)iridium(III) (acetylacetonate) as an orange dopant, and bis(1-phenylisoquinoline) (acetylacetonate) iridium(III) as a red dopant. …”
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Modulations of Photosynthetic Membrane Lipids and Fatty Acids in Response to High Light in Brown Algae (<i>Undaria pinnatifida</i>) by Natalia V. Zhukova, Irina M. Yakovleva

“…In all, we showed that remodeling in photosynthetic membrane lipids accompanied by structural changes in chloroplasts and modulations in photosynthetic performance augmented the ability of <i>U. pinnatifida</i> to counteract high-intensity light, thereby contributing to its survival potential under suboptimal irradiance conditions.…”
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Light-driven conductivity in Quasi-one-dimensional charge density wave insulator (TaSe4)2I by Zhenyang Xiao, Junqinq Guo, Guangjian Liu, Jiaren Yuan, Xiaxia Liao, Yangbo Zhou

“…Such unconventional optoelectronic response can be attributed to the existence of the CDW gap with modulations to structural incommensurability under light illumination. …”
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Tailored bimetallic Zn/Ni and Zn/Ag MCM-41 photocatalysts for enhanced visible-light photocatalytic tetracycline degradation by Mohammed Ahmed Wahba, Rabab K. Khaled, Magdah Dawy

“…Abstract Novel bimetallic-doped-MCM-41(Mobil Composition of Matter No. 41) (Zn/Ni-MCM-41 (ZNM)) and (Zn/Ag-MCM-41 (ZAM)) catalysts were synthesized and characterized for their structural, textural, morphological, and optical properties. …”
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Neurofilament light chain concentration mediates the association between regional cortical thickness and Parkinson’s disease with excessive daytime sleepiness by Jieyu Chen, Guoliang Jiang, Yongyun Zhu, Chunyu Liang, Chenxi Liu, Jianzhun Chen, Baiyuan Yang, Xinglong Yang

“…This study explores the relationship between cortical thickness, functional connectivity (FC), and plasma neurofilament light chain (NfL) levels in PD-EDS.Methods36 PD-EDS patients and 100 PD patients without EDS (PD-non-EDS) underwent structural MRI and resting-state FC analysis, with regions of cortical atrophy serving as regions of interest (ROIs). …”
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Visible light photocatalytic degradation of tetracycline using copper ferrite nanoparticles synthesized via Glycine-Assisted combustion method by A. Dinesh, K. Radhakrishnan, V. Renuga, Rajendra P. Patil, Suriyaprakash Rajadesingu, S. Suthakaran, L. Guganathan, Manikandan Ayyar, Madhappan Santhamoorthy, Lalitha Gnanasekaran, Munawar Iqbal

“…X-ray diffraction (XRD) was used to check the phase’s structure and purity, FT-IR was used to find out what functional groups were present, UV–Vis diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRS) was used to look at the optical properties, and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) was used to see the structure’s shape. …”
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Bounds on variations of the strange quark mass from Big Bang nucleosynthesis by Ulf-G. Meißner, Bernard Metsch, Helen Meyer

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