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In this paper, we study the multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) wireless power transfer (WPT) system so as to enhance the output DC power of the rectennas. To that end, we revisit the rectenna nonlinearity considering multiple receive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-15 Shanpu Shen , Bruno Clerckx

We present optical nanoantennas designed for applications that require processing temperatures larger than 800{\deg}C. The antennas consist of arrays of Re/Pt bilayer strips fabricated with a lift-off-free technique on top of etched…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-12 Christian Bäuml , Tobias Korn , Christoph Lange , Christian Schüller , Christoph Strunk , Nicola Paradiso

Electrical current rectification is an interesting electronic feature, popularly known as a diode. Achieving a high rectification ratio in a molecular junction has been a long-standing goal in molecular electronics. The present work…

In this letter, we present an accurate method for the measurement of activation energy. This method combined the excitation power dependent photoluminescence and temperature dependent photoluminescence together to obtain activation energy.…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Xiang-Bai Chen , Jesse Huso , John L. Morrison , Leah Bergman

A thermostat senses the temperature of a physical system and switches heating or cooling devices on or off, regulating the flow of heat to maintain the system's temperature near a desired setpoint. Taking advantage of recent advances in…

Real-world passive radiative cooling requires highly emissive, selective, and omnidirectional thermal emitters to maintain the radiative cooler at a certain temperature below the ambient temperature while maximizing the net cooling power.…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-06-12 Yinan Zhang , Yinggang Chen , Tong Wang , Qian Zhu , Min Gu

Infrared plasmons in doped graphene nanostructures produce large optical absorption that can be used for narrow-band thermal light emission at tunable frequencies that strongly depend on the doping charge. By virtue of Kirchhoff's law,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-27 Alejandro Manjavacas , Sukosin Thongrattanasiri , Jean-Jacques Greffet , F. Javier García de Abajo

We study direct current (DC) generation induced by microwave irradiation to ferroelectric materials. The DC generation originates from microwave absorption called dielectric loss due to the delay of dielectric response. Such current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-17 Takahiro Morimoto , Naoto Nagaosa

I report on the experimental observation of DC instability and self-amplification through stimulated emission of 0.2 and 1.63 THz radiation using InGaAs/GaAs HEMT operating in the deep saturation regime at room temperature. I demonstrate…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Tamer Elkhatib

This work aims to present the current state of simulations of electroluminescence (EL) produced in gas-based detectors with special interest for NEXT --- Neutrino Experiment with a Xenon TPC. NEXT is a neutrinoless double beta decay…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-05-23 C. A. B. Oliveira , M. Sorel , J. Martin-Albo , J. J. Gomez-Cadenas , A. L. Ferreira , J. F. C. A. Veloso

Thermal emission is naturally spatially incoherent and lacks directionality. Here, we demonstrate that by precisely controlling the spatial temperature distribution within a solid, directional thermal emission can be achieved across a broad…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-03 Florian Herz , Riccardo Messina , Philippe Ben-Abdallah

In conventional inductive wireless power devices, the energy is transferred via only reactive near fields, which is equivalent to non-radiative F\"orster energy transfer in optics. Radiation from transmitting and receiving coils is usually…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-02-07 N. Ha-Van , C. R. Simovski , F. S. Cuesta , P. Jayathurathnage , S. A. Tretyakov

Phase change thermal diodes (PCTD) suffer from fairly low thermal rectification ratio, which hampers their widespread utilization as thermal management and control units for cutting-edge technologies, encompassing photovoltaics,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-11-06 Zhaonan Meng , Raza Gulfam , Peng Zhang , Fei Ma

In this paper we report on a high current density ion beam profile diagnostics with a slit-based system as a reliable method, capable of high thermal load applications. The task arose in frames of a point-like neutron source development for…

Silicon is now firmly established as a high performance photonic material. Its only weakness is the lack of a native electrically driven light emitter that operates CW at room temperature, exhibits a narrow linewidth in the technologically…

Quantum correlated, highly non-degenerate photons can be used to synthesize disparate quantum nodes and link quantum processing over incompatible wavelengths, thereby constructing heterogeneous quantum systems for otherwise unattainable…

Optics · Physics 2017-09-14 Yong Meng Sua , Heng Fan , Amin Shahverdi , Jia-Yang Chen , Yu-Ping Huang

We show that a perfect absorber/thermal emitter exhibiting an absorption peak of 99.9% can be achieved in metallic nanostructures that can be easily fabricated. The very high absorption is maintained for large angles with a minimal shift in…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Marcus Diem , Thomas Koschny , Costas M. Soukoulis

The plasma in low-luminosity accretion flows, such as the one around the black hole at the center of M87 or Sgr A* at our Galactic Center, is expected to be collisioness and two-temperature, with protons hotter than electrons. Here,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-12 Michael E. Rowan , Lorenzo Sironi , Ramesh Narayan

In this study we present an inversion method which provides thermal plasma population parameters from characteristics of chorus emissions only. Our ultimate goal is to apply this method to ground based data in order to derive the lower…

Space Physics · Physics 2019-08-13 Lilla Juhász , Yoshiharu Omura , János Lichtenberger , Reinhard H. Friedel

The term beta-beam has been coined for the production of a pure beam of electron neutrinos or their antiparticles through the decay of radioactive ions circulating in a storage ring. This concept requires radioactive ions to be accelerated…