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We demonstrate a platform for phase and amplitude modulation in silicon nitride photonic integrated circuits via piezo-optomechanical coupling using tightly mechanically coupled aluminum nitride actuators. The platform, fabricated in a CMOS…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 P. R. Stanfield , A. J. Leenheer , C. P. Michael , R. Sims , M. Eichenfield

Infrared (IR) detectors are widely used due to their ability to sense thermal radiation. Recently, a room-temperature infrared detector known as the spintronic Poisson bolometer was introduced. While offering fast digital readout, its…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-02 Ziyi Yang , Leif Bauer , Zubin Jacob

Bolometers are low temperature particle detectors with high energy resolution and detection efficiency. Some types of bolometric detectors are also able to perform an efficient particle identification. A wide variety of radiopure dielectric…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-11-06 Denys Poda , Andrea Giuliani

Over the previous few years, the millimetre wave frequency range and sub-THz range have been received a lot of attention as they include unused frequency spectrum resources that are appropriate for providing a lot of applications such as…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-05-06 Kamel S. Sultan

We demonstrate a substrate-supported thermometry platform to measure thermal conduction in nanomaterials like graphene, with no need to suspend them. We use three-dimensional simulations and careful uncertainty analysis to optimize the…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-07-24 Zuanyi Li , Myung-Ho Bae , Eric Pop

Advancing electromechanical resonators towards terahertz frequencies opens vast bandwidths for phononic signal processing. In quantum phononics, mechanical resonators at these frequencies can remain in their quantum ground state even at…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-08-07 Jiacheng Xie , Weifeng Wu , Mohan Shen , Patrick Fay , Hong X. Tang

Optical-based nanothermometry represents a transformative approach for precise temperature measurements at the nanoscale, which finds versatile applications across biology, medicine, and electronics. The assembly of ratiometric fluorescent…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-01 Mahshid Iraniparast , Nishant Kumar , Igor Sokolov

Driven by a myriad of potential applications such as communications, medical imaging, security, spectroscopy, and so on, terahertz (THz) technology has emerged as a rapidly growing technological field during the last three decades. However,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-01-08 Sara Arezoomandan

Specific heat is a powerful probe offering insights into the entropy and excitation spectrum of the studied material. While it is well established, a key challenge remains the measurements of microcrystals or thin films especially in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-16 Mari C. Cole , Maximilian T. Pelly , Craig V. Topping , Thomas Reindl , Ulrike Waizmann , Jürgan Weis , Andreas W. Rost

Thermoelectric power sensors can now be used as transfer standards, instead of bolometers, in the microcalorimeter technique. This alternative has the technical advantages to be less sensitive to absolute temperature and not downward…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-03-09 L. Brunetti , L. Oberto , E. Vremera

Studying thermal transport at the nanoscale poses formidable experimental challenges due both to the physics of the measurement process and to the issues of accuracy and reproducibility. The laser-induced transient thermal grating (TTG)…

We propose the concept of a terahertz (THz) uncooled bolometer based on n-type and p-type graphene layers (GLs), constituting the absorbing regions, connected by an array of undoped graphene nanoribbons (GNRs). The GLs absorb the THz…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 V. Ryzhii , T. Otsuji , M. Ryzhii , N. Ryabova , S. O. Yurchenko , V. Mitin , M. S. Shur

Sub-nanometer displacement detection lays the solid foundation for critical applications in modern metrology. In-plane displacement sensing, however, is mainly dominated by the detection of differential photocurrent signals from…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-04-23 Miao-Hsuan Chien , Johannes Steurer , Pedram Sadeghi , Nicolas Cazier , Silvan Schmid

Nanodiamond hosting temperature-sensing centers constitutes a closed thermodynamic system, with the only window of energy exchange with the environment without direct contacts of a sensor with intracellular substrates, which is in fact the…

Strong-field mid-infrared pump--terahertz (THz) probe spectroscopy has been proven as a powerful tool for light control of different orders in strongly correlated materials. We report the construction of an ultrafast broadband infrared…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-10-10 S. J. Zhang , Z. X. Wang , T. Dong , N. L. Wang

Rydberg atom-based sensors have emerged as highly sensitive tools for terahertz (THz) metrology, yet most current imaging techniques discard crucial phase information. In this Letter, we present a coherent THz-to-optical conversion scheme…

We present a comprehensive analysis and experimental study of THz hot-electron bolometer (HEB) mixers made from 40-nm-thick sputtered magnesium diboride (MgB2) thin films on high-resistivity silicon substrates. Using a lumped-element…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-22 Changyun Yoo , Changsub Kim , Daniel P. Cunnane , Boris S. Karasik

Nano- and micromechanical oscillators with high quality (Q) factors have gained much attention for their potential application as ultrasensitive detectors. In contrast to micro-fabricated devices, optically trapped nanoparticles in vacuum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-10 Jan Gieseler , Lukas Novotny , Romain Quidant

The Terahertz frequency range bears intriguing opportunities, beyond very advanced applications in spectroscopy and matter control. Peculiar quantum phenomena are predicted to lead to light emission by non-trivial mechanisms. Typically,…

Terahertz waves offer a profound platform for next-generation sensing, imaging, and information communications. However, all conventional terahertz components and systems suffer from a bulky design, sensitivity to imperfections, and…