Stress-to-Light Conversion in an Earth-Abundant Oxide Semiconductor.

Tomoki Uchiyama, Koki Otonari, Reona Omori, Guangfa Yang, Eiji Nishibori, Ying Chen, Xu-Guang Zheng, Chao-Nan Xu

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Article in Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Tomoki UchiyamaDepartment of Material Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4880-7498

Koki OtonariDepartment of Material Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan.

Reona OmoriDepartment of Material Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan.

Guangfa YangDepartment of Material Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan.

Eiji NishiboriDepartment of Physics, Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, Tsukuba Research Center for Energy Materials Science, Hydrogen Boride Research Center (HBRC), Tsukuba Institute for Advanced Research (TIAR), University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4192-6577

Ying ChenGlobal Learning Center, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3533-0208

Xu-Guang ZhengDepartment of Material Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan.

Chao-Nan XuDepartment of Material Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7713-7131

Funding

Additional support was provided by JST-CREST 2024A1665Additional support was provided by JST-CREST 2024B1770Additional support was provided by JST-CREST 2025A1653Additional support was provided by JST-CREST 2025B1031Additional support was provided by JST-CREST JPMJCR25S3DFT calculations were performed at the Center for Computational Materials Science, Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University 202412-SCKXX-0511Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 19H00835Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 22H00269Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 23K22799Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 24H00415Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 25H00790Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 25K01866TEM observations were supported by the Technical Division, School of Engineering, Tohoku University, ARIM JPMXP1225TU1071

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Abstract

Stress-to-light conversion in solids represents a unique photonic functionality, yet it has never been realized in a chemically simple and sustainable material. Zinc oxide (ZnO) is an earth-abundant compound widely used in cosmetics, food supplements, paints, and medicinal products since prehistoric times. It is also a promising semiconductor for electronics and photonics owing to its high transparency, high electron mobility, and wide bandgap, more than three times that of silicon. Here, we show that the sustainable semiconductor ZnO exhibits strong near-infrared (NIR) luminescence under elastic stress when defect-engineered to stabilize a p-type state. This transformation overcomes the intrinsic n-type character of ZnO through the partial substitution of Zn

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rare‐earth‐freeself‐powered photonicsstress‐to‐light conversionzinc oxide

Identifiers

PMID42102369

DOI10.1002/advs.75587

PMCPMC13335826

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