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Gregory Spektor, David Carlson, Zachary Newman, Jinhie Lee Skarda, Neil Sapra, Logan Su, Sindhu Jammi, Andrew Ferdinand, Amit Agrawal, Jelena Vuckovic, Scott Papp
Visible wavelength lasers control quantum matter of atoms and molecules, enable frontiers of physical sensing, and are foundational for various applications. The development of visible integrated photonics opens the possibility for scalable circuits with
Andrei Kolmakov, Trey Diulus, Kurt D. Benkstein, Stephen Semancik, Majid Kazemian, Matteo Amati, Maya Kiskinova, Luca Gregoratti
With size reduction of active elements in microelectronics to tens of nanometers and below, the effect of surface and interface properties on overall device performance becomes crucial. High resolution spectroscopic and imaging techniques provide a
Babak Nikoobakht, Yuqin Zong, Okan Koksal, Amit Agrawal, Christopher B. Montgomery, Jacob Leach, Michael Shur
Previously, we showed within a sub-micron fin shape heterojunction, as current density increases, the non-radiative Auger recombination saturates mediated by the extension of the depletion region into the fin, resulting in a droop-free behavior. In this
Anouar Rahmouni, Lijun Ma, Ruixuan Wang, Jingwei Li, Xiao Tang, Thomas Gerrits, Qing Li, Oliver T. Slattery
We demonstrate efficient photon pair generation via implementing spontaneous four-wave mixing in a compact, high-quality-factor microring resonator in the 4H-silicon-carbide-on-insulator platform. Photon pairs with coincidence-to-accidental ratio up to 600
Adam McCaughan, Yao Zhai, Boris Korzh, Jason Allmaras, Bakhrom Oripov, Matthew Shaw, Sae Woo Nam
Although superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) are a promising technology for quantum optics, metrology, and astronomy, they currently lack a readout architecture that is scalable to the megapixel regime and beyond. In this work, we
Marzieh Savadkoohi, Pius Suh, Daniel Gopman, Pawan Tyagi
Spin based photovoltaic (P.V.) effect is a novel concept in the solar energy harvesting area utilizing earth-abundant metals. Unlike previous approaches where Copper and Zinc like metals are oxidized or chemically transformed to yield a photovoltaic effect
Thomas P. Moffat, Trevor Braun, David Raciti, Daniel Josell
CONSPECTUS: State-of-the-art manufacturing of electronics involves the electrodeposition of Cu to form 3-D circuitry of arbitrary complexity. This ranges from nanometers wide interconnects between individual transistors to increasingly large multilevel
Pei Lay Yap, Farzaneh Farivar, Victoria Coleman, Asa Jamting, Sam Gnaniah, Elisabeth Mansfield, Cheng Pu, Sandra Marcela Landi, Marcus Vinicius David, Emmanuel Flahaut, Paul Finnie, Mary Gallerneault, M. Dominque Locatelli, Sebastien Jacquinot, Carltoa Gray Slough, Jan Hanss, Jorg Menzel, Stefen Schmolzer, Lingling Ren, Andrew Pollard, Dusan Losic
Graphene materials are strongly emerging from academic research labs into industrial sectors with many developed products on market. Characterizations and quality control of graphene materials are very critical with an urgent demand for reliable
Erdem Coskun, Pawel Jaruga, Miral M. Dizdar, Bryant C. Nelson, Neenu Singh, Leona Scanlan, Shareen Doak
Aim: To quantitatively evaluate the inhibition of human DNA repair proteins APE1 and MTH1 by dextran-coated γ-Fe2O3 ultrasmall superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (dUSPIONs). Materials & methods: Liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry with
Keiichiro Maegawa, Fan Zhang, Qiaxian Johnson, Mihaela Jitianu, Tan Wai Kian, Go Kawamura, Atsunori Matsuda, Andrei Jitianu
Layered double hydroxides (LDHs) are mixed M(II) and M(III) hydroxides with positively charged lamellar brucite layers and interlayered anions. LDHs attracted significant attention due to their anion and cation-exchange ability, adsorption capacity, and
Andrew J. Allen, Eric J. Cockayne, Winnie Wong-Ng, Jeffrey Culp, Ivan Kuzmenko
The structural and microstructural responses of a model metal-organic framework (MOF) material, Ni(3-Methy-4,4'-bipyridine)[Ni(CN)4] (Ni-BpyMe or PICNIC 21), to CO2 adsorption and desorption are reported for in situ small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) and
We give a review of the multiscale Green's function method for modeling modern two-dimensional nanomaterials such as graphene and other Xenes. The method is applicable to materials at different space and time scales and is computationally efficient. This
Seulki Cho, Alexander Zaslavsky, Curt A. Richter, Jacob Majikes, James Alexander Liddle, Francois Andrieu, Sylvain Barraud, Arvind Balijepalli
Double gate fully depleted SOI transistors operating in a remote gate configuration and under closed-loop feedback allow noise performance that exceeds their single gate counterparts by more than an order of magnitude. We leverage this high performance to
Peng Zheng, Saransh Arora, Krishanu Ray, Stephen Semancik, Ishan Barman
Abstract Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in nanodiamond hold great promise for creating superior biological labels and quantum sensing methods. Yet, inefficient photon generation and extraction from excited NV centers restricts the achievable sensitivity and
Han Li, Christopher Sims, Rui Kang, Frank Biedermann, Jeffrey Fagan, Benjamin Flavel
Sorting single-chirality enantiomers is the ultimate goal for single-wall carbon nanotube (SWCNT) separation. In this work, aqueous two-phase extraction (ATPE) is used to obtain highly purified (>80%) left- and right-handed (6,5) SWCNTs with limited
Ty Gong, Hamdan Alghamdi, David Raciti, Anthony Shoji Hall
The electrochemical oxidation of H2 is > 100 times slower in alkaline electroltyes in comparison to acidic electrolytes. Here, we report that ordered intermetallic PtSb is a potent catalyst for the alkaline hydrogen oxidation reaction. PtSb exhibits higher
Miela Gross, Walid Al Misba, Kensuke Hayashi, Dhritiman Bhattacharya, Daniel Gopman, Jayasimha Atulasimha, Caroline Ross
Voltage-tuning of the magnetic anisotropy is dempnstrated in ferrimagnetic insulating rare earth iron garnets on a piezoelectric substrate, (011)-oriented PMN-PT. A yttrium-substituted dysprosium iron garnet (YDyIG) film 42 nm thick is grown via pulsed
Jordan Stone, Xiyuan Lu, Gregory Moille, Kartik Srinivasan
Optical parametric oscillators are a ubiquitous technology used to generate coherent light at frequencies not accessible by conventional laser gain. However, chip-based parametric oscillators operating in the visible spectrum have suffered from pump-to
As an important development of the last decades, mechanical properties of nanoscale materials have been extracted from nanoindentation and atomic force microscopy. These techniques rely on contact mechanics models to convert the measured probe response
From microcircuits to metamaterials, micropatterning surfaces adds valuable functionality. For non-planar surfaces, however, incompatibility with conventional microlithography requires transferring originally planar micropatterns onto those surfaces but
Tae Joon Cho, Vincent A. Hackley, Vytas Reipa, Alessandro Tona, Christopher Sims, Natalia Farkas
Polyethyleneimine (PEI) conjugated gold nanoparticles (Au-PEIs) have potential use as positively charged gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) for nanomedical applications, due to their cationic surface that promotes cellular uptake and gene transfection. We report
Evgheni Strelcov, Lin You, Yaw S. Obeng, Joseph J. Kopanski
In recent years, scanning probe microscopy (SPM) has drawn substantial attention for subsurface imaging, since the ultra-sharp AFM tip (≈10 nm in radius) can deliver and detect, mechanical and electrical signals right above the material's 3D volume with