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Heat transfer simulations of the fused filament fabrication process are an important tool to predict bonding, residual stresses and strength of 3D printed parts. But in order to capture the significant thermal gradients that occur in the…
We report a joint experimental and theoretical study of the structural, vibrational, and electronic properties of layered monoclinic arsenic sulfide (alpha-As2S3), aka mineral orpiment, under compression. X-ray diffraction and Raman…
Thermal annealing is a widely used thin-film processing technique for modifying interfacial optical losses and electronic scattering in plasmonic materials. Here, we investigate how thermal annealing of gold thin films deposited on silicon…
Preparing graphene and its derivatives on functional substrates may open enormous opportunities for exploring the intrinsic electronic properties and new functionalities of graphene. However, efforts in replacing SiO$_{2}$ have been greatly…
In this paper, we have built a numerical p-n Si/GaAs heterojunction model using a quantum-mechanical tunneling theory with various quantum tunneling interfacial materials including two-dimensional semiconductors such as hexagonal boron…
The effects of tensile strain on the current-voltage (I-V) characteristics of hydrogenated-edge armchair graphene nanoribbons (HAGNRs) are investigated by using DFT theory. The strain is introduced in two different ways related to the two…
We present an effective method for transmitting electromagnetic waves as surface waves with a tape-based metasurface design. This design incorporates silver square patches periodically patterned on an adhesive tape substrate. Specifically,…
Lead Zirconate Titanate [(ZrxTi1-x)O3 ]is used to make ultrasound transducers, sensors, and actuators due to its large piezoelectric coefficient. Several surfaces and subsurface micro defects develop within the Lead Zirconate Titanate (PZT)…
We report on a comprehensive theoretical and experimental investigation of thermal conductivity in indium-tin-oxide (ITO) thin films with various Ga concentrations (0-30 at. %) deposited by spray pyrolysis technique. X-Ray diffraction (XRD)…
Ab initio calculations were applied to large size slabs simulations for determination of the properties of the principal structures of the stoichiometric GaN(0001) surface. The results are different from published previously: stoichiometric…
We report on the fabrication and characterization of an optimized comb-drive actuator design for strain-dependent transport measurements on suspended graphene. We fabricate devices from highly p-doped silicon using deep reactive ion etching…
beta-Ga2O3 is a wide bandgap semiconductor with electrical properties better than SiC and GaN which makes it promising for applications of next-generation power devices. However, the thermal conductivity of \b{eta}-Ga2O3 is more than one…
In this work, the structural, electrical, and optical properties of bilayer SiX (X= N, P, As, and Sb) are studied using density functional theory (DFT). Five different stacking orders are considered for every compound and their structural…
The entire graphene field-effect-transistor (FET) devices first fabricated on SiO2/Si are peeled from the surface and placed on a different wafer. Both longitudinal and transverse resistivity measurements of the devices before and after the…
Candidates compounds for new thermoelectric and superconducting materials, which have narrow band gap and flat bands near band edges, were exhaustively searched by a high-throughput first-principles calculation from an inorganic materials…
Despite its attractive features, Congruent-melted Lithium Niobate (CLN) suffers from Photo-Refractive Damage (PRD). This light-induced refractive-index change hampers the use of CLN when high-power densities are in play, a typical regime in…
A dramatic difference between the vertical thermal conductance response of homogeneous and heterogeneous graphene/h-BN interfaces to external mechanical perturbations, is predicted. Homogeneous graphene and h-BN interfaces exhibit strong…
Some highly ordered compounds of graphene oxide (GO), e.g., the so-called clamped and unzipped GO, are shown to have piezoelectric responses via first-principles density functional calculations. By applying an electric field perpendicular…
This paper introduces a simplified and design-oriented version of the EPFL HEMT model [1], focusing on the normalized transconductance-to-current characteristic (Gm/ID ). Relying on these figures, insights into GaN HEMT modeling in relation…
The demand for high-performance electromechanical resonators is ever-growing across diverse applications, ranging from sensing and time-keeping to advanced communication devices. Among the electromechanical materials being explored,…