Due to the excellent electrical and optical properties and their integration capability without lattice matching requirements, low-dimensional materials have received increasing attention in silicon photonic circuits. Bi2O2Se with high carrier mobility, narrow bandgap, and good air stability is very promising for high-performance near-infrared photodetectors. Here, the chemical vapor deposition method is applied to grow Bi2O2Se onto mica, and our developed polycarbonate/polydimethylsiloxane-assisted transfer method enables the clean and intact transfer of Bi2O2Se on top of a silicon waveguide. We demonstrated the Bi2O2Se/Si waveguide integrated photodetector with a small dark current of 72.9 nA, high responsivity of 3.5 A·W–1, fast rise/decay times of 22/78 ns, and low noise-equivalent power of 15.1 pW·Hz–0.5 at an applied voltage of 2 V in the O-band for transverse electric modes. Additionally, a microring resonator is designed for enhancing light–matter interaction, resulting in a wavelength-sensitive photodetector with reduced dark current (15.3 nA at 2 V) and more than a 3-fold enhancement in responsivity at the resonance wavelength, which is suitable for spectrally resolved applications. These results promote the integration of Bi2O2Se with a silicon photonic platform and are expected to accelerate the future use of integrated photodetectors in spectroscopy, sensing, and communication applications.
Rapidly responsive and flexible photonic papers are manufactured by coassembly of cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) and waterborne polyurethane (WPU) latex for fully taking advantage of the chiral nematic structure of CNCs and the flexibility of WPU elastomer. The resulting CNC/WPU composite papers exhibit not only tunable iridescent colors by adjusting the helical pitch size, but also instant optical responses to water and wet gas, ascribed to the easy chain movement of the elastomeric WPU that does not restrict the fast water absorption-induced swelling of CNCs. By choosing water or NaCl aqueous solutions as inks, the colorful patterns on the CNC/WPU photonic paper can be made temporary, durable, or even disguisable. In addition, the photonic paper is simultaneously rewritable for all these three types of patterns, and the disguisable patterns, which are invisible at normal times and show up under stimuli, exhibit a quick reveal conversion just by exhaling on the paper. The rewritability, rapid responsibility, easy fabrication, and the eco-friendly nature of the inks make the flexible photonic paper/ink combination highly promising in sensors, displays, and photonic circuits.