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Research Article | Open Access | Just Accepted

Biphasic interface-regulated ultrastable narrow-linewidth colloidal quantum well liquid lasers

Rui Duan1,2, Bei Xu1( ), Yuan Wang2, Lin Wang3, Guodan Wei2, Hao Wang1, Kailei Lu1, Yanli Shi1, Xuyong Yang3, Yan Wang4( ), Jianqi Qi1( ), Handong Sun2( )

1 College of Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610000, China

2 Macao Centre for Research and Development in Advanced Materials, Institute of Applied Physics and Materials Engineering, University of Macau, Taipa, Macao 999078, China

3 Key Laboratory of Advanced Display and System Applications of Ministry of Education, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200072, China

4 School of Electronics and Information, Academy for Quantum Science and Technology, Zhengzhou University of Light Industry, Zhengzhou 450001, China

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Liquid nanocrystal microlasers are promising miniaturized coherent light sources, yet their development remains constrained by the difficulty of simultaneously preserving colloidal gain media, stabilizing liquid-cavity morphology, and maintaining low-loss optical feedback. Here, we report, to the best of our knowledge, the first colloidal quantum well (CQW)-based biphasic liquid microsphere laser and establish biphasic interfacial engineering as an active strategy for liquid nanocrystal lasing. Green-emitting CdSe/CdSe1-xSx core/crown CQWs and red-emitting CdSe/Cd1-xZnxS core/shell CQWs are incorporated into glycerol/toluene biphasic microspheres to construct whispering gallery mode (WGM) microlasers with chromaticity-tunable emission. The glycerol/toluene interface functions as a multifunctional regulatory boundary that stabilizes the spherical microcavity, preserves the CQW microenvironment, and provides refractive-index contrast for WGM confinement. Consequently, the green- and red-emitting CQW microsphere lasers show low-threshold, spectrally pure lasing with a linewidth of ~0.02 nm, a polarization degree of 0.923, and a quality factor up to 3.27 × 104. The red-emitting device exhibits negligible decay after 800 min at 10-fold threshold pumping. Furthermore, co-confinement of red and green CQWs within a single microsphere enables continuously tunable dual-color lasing. These results establish biphasic liquid-liquid interfaces as active mediators of nanocrystal photophysics, cavity stability, and optical feedback for stable and chromaticity-tunable liquid microlasers.

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Duan R, Xu B, Wang Y, et al. Biphasic interface-regulated ultrastable narrow-linewidth colloidal quantum well liquid lasers. Nano Research, 2026, https://doi.org/10.26599/NR.2026.94909183

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Received: 01 July 2026
Revised: 01 September 2026
Accepted: 10 September 2026
Available online: 10 September 2026

© The Author(s) 2026. Published by Tsinghua University Press.

This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)