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Integrated photon-pair sources on periodically poled thin-film lithium tantalate

This paper demonstrates the first realization of high-efficiency, high-purity, and high-fidelity integrated photon-pair sources on periodically poled thin-film lithium tantalate (TFLT) in both traveling-wave and resonant configurations, establishing the platform as a competitive contender for scalable quantum light generation and photonic quantum information processing.

Di Zhu, Sakthi Sanjeev Mohanraj, Xiaodong Shi, Ran Yang, Lin Zhou2026-06-29
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Quantum Criticality in Monolayer Amorphous Carbon

This study demonstrates that monolayer amorphous carbon, despite being a strictly two-dimensional disordered system where electronic states are typically localized, retains a quantum-critical extended state at the band center due to an emergent chiral symmetry protected by a topological Wess-Zumino-Witten term.

Bent Weber, Rejaul SK, Hanning Zhang, Artem Grebenko, Arsen Herasymchuk, Ranjith Shivajirao, Hongji Zhang, Abee Nelson (…)2026-06-29
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Estimation of Wavenumber Spectra from Particle Tracking Velocimetry Data

This study evaluates four wavenumber spectral estimators for irregularly sampled Particle Tracking Velocimetry data using synthetic Kolmogorov flow, finding that while the fuzzy slot-correlation technique with local normalization provides the only bias-free estimates up to a density-dependent limit, it does so at the cost of significantly increased computational time.

Bozhen Lai, Cameron Tropea, Jian Cao, Jiajun Cao, Yingzheng Liu, Xin Wen2026-06-26
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Thermal Stability and Photovoltaic Enhancement of Double Perovskite (Cs₂InSbCl₆) Based Solar Cell (p-i-n) through Thickness and Bandgap Optimization

This study utilizes SCAPS-1D simulations to demonstrate that optimizing the thickness and bandgap of a Cs₂InSbCl₆-based p-i-n solar cell with an Fe/CuO/CdS/TiO₂ heterostructure yields a high power conversion efficiency of nearly 28% with reduced recombination losses and acceptable thermal stability, establishing it as a promising candidate for next-generation photovoltaics.

Mouad Chettab2026-06-26✓ Author reviewed
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Novel FeSi2 Driven Charge Transport Mechanisms in SnS Based Thin-Film Solar Cells.

This study utilizes SCAPS-1D numerical simulations to demonstrate that FeSi₂-driven SnS-based thin-film solar cells can achieve a maximum efficiency of 25.06% through optimized layer thicknesses and band alignment, while revealing that their performance is significantly limited by thermally activated interface recombination and shallow trap states.

Mouad Chettab, Halima Djaaboube, Selma Rabhi, Yassine Bouachiba, Saïdi Fayçal, Adel Taabouche, Redha Aouati, Merabet Mou (…)2026-06-26