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Unlike the electrical conductance that can be widely modulated within the same material even in deep nanoscale devices, tuning the thermal conductance within a single material system or nanostructure is extremely challenging and requires a…

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The rapidly growing field of integrated photonics is enabling a large number of novel devices for optical data processing, neuromorphic computing and circuits for quantum photonics. While many photonic devices are based on linear optics,…

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All-optical active plasmonic devices are of fundamental importance for designing efficient nanophotonic circuits. We theoretically propose and numerically investigate an active plasmonic device made up of a nonlinear epsilon-near-zero…

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2D hybrid organic-inorganic semiconductors (HOIS) are low-cost, self-assembled semiconductors that have proven to be vital for novel optoelectronic devices due to their inherent stable excitons even at room temperature. 2D HOIS are…

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Metal-based electronics is attractive for fast and radiation-hard electronic circuits and remains one of the longstanding goals for researchers. The emergence of 1T-TaS$_2$, a layered material exhibiting strong charge density wave (CDW)…

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A novel approach towards depth map super-resolution using multi-view uncalibrated photometric stereo is presented. Practically, an LED light source is attached to a commodity RGB-D sensor and is used to capture objects from multiple…

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Transition metal dichalcogenide field-effect transistors (FETs) have been actively explored for low-power electronics, light detection, and sensing. Albeit promising, their performance is strongly limited by low-frequency noise (LFN). Here,…

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Electrical modulation and switching of photoluminescence (PL) have been demonstrated in pure deformed helix ferroelectric liquid crystal (DHFLC) material. The PL intensity increases and peak position shifts towards lower wavelength above a…

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