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Nanostructured semiconducting alloys obtain ultra-low thermal conductivity as a result of the scattering of phonons with a wide range of mean-free-paths (MFPs). In these materials, long-MFP phonons are scattered at the nanoscale boundaries…

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Near-field imaging with terahertz (THz) waves is emerging as a powerful technique for fundamental research in photonics and across physical and life sciences. Spatial resolution beyond the diffraction limit can be achieved by collecting THz…

We provide a detailed introduction to a method we recently proposed for calculating the spectrum of excitations of effective strings such as QCD flux tubes. The method relies on the approximate integrability of the low energy effective…

Wireless communications in the terahertz band (0.1-10 THz) is a promising and key wireless technology enabling ultra-high data rate communication over multi-gigahertz-wide bandwidths, thus fulfilling the demand for denser networks. The…

Based on the cross correlation analysis of the Kikuchi diffraction patterns high-resolution EBSD is a well established method to determine the internal stress in deformed crystalline materials. In many cases, however, the stress values…

Superconducting quantum circuits are one of the leading quantum computing platforms. To advance superconducting quantum computing to a point of practical importance, it is critical to identify and address material imperfections that lead to…

Blackbody thermal emission is spatially diffuse. Achieving highly directional thermal emission typically requires nanostructuring the surface of the thermally emissive medium. The most common configuration is a subwavelength grating that…

High-resolution spectroscopy in soft X-rays ($<2$ keV) requires diffractive elements to resolve any astrophysically relevant diagnostics, such as closely spaced lines, weak absorption lines, or line profiles. The Rowland torus geometry…

The recent development of electron sensitive and pixelated detectors has attracted the use of four-dimensional scanning transmission electron microscopy (4D-STEM). Here, we present a precession electron diffraction assisted 4D-STEM…

We have performed an angle-resolved photoemission study of the iron pnictide superconductor KFe2As2 with Tc 4 K. Most of the observed Fermi surfaces show almost two-dimensional shapes, while one of the quasi-particle bands near the Fermi…

We report a computational 3D microscopy technique, termed Fourier ptychographic diffraction tomography (FPDT), that iteratively stitches together numerous variably illuminated, low-resolution images acquired with a low-numerical aperture…

We have investigated Andreev reflection at interfaces between superconducting indium (T_c = 3.4 K) and several normal conducting non-magnetic metals (palladium, platinum, and silver) down to T = 0.1 K as well as zinc (T_c = 0.87 K) in its…

We have investigated the transmission of electrons and holes through interfaces between superconducting aluminum (Tc = 1.2 K) and various normal non-magnetic metals (copper, gold, palladium, platinum, and silver) using Andreev-reflection…

Efficient imaging of biomolecules, 2D materials and electromagnetic fields depends on retrieval of the phase of transmitted electrons. We demonstrate a method to measure phase in a scanning transmission electron microscope using a…

The Pixel Detector (PXD) of the Belle II experiment at superKEKB accelerator in Japan is based in the DEPFET technology. Two layers of 8+12 modules at a radius of 13 and 22 mm will give a spatial resolution below 10 mm. The radiation level…

We have evaluated the performance of a fine pitch CdTe Double-sided Strip Detector (CdTe-DSD), which was originally developed for the focal plane detector of a hard X-ray telescope to observe the Sun. The detector has a thickness of 750 um…

Two novel (and proprietary) strategies for the structural identification of a nanocrystal from either a single high-resolution (HR) transmission electron microscopy (TEM) image or a single precession electron diffraction pattern are…

Uncertainty evaluation is critical in scientific and engineering inverse problems. However, existing benchmarks on Diffusion Inverse Solvers (DIS) primarily focus on reconstruction accuracy but overlook uncertainty and distributional…