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Optical coupling enables intermediate- and long-range interactions between distant quantum emitters. Such interaction may be the basic element in bottom-up approaches of coupled spin systems or for integrated quantum photonics and quantum…
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We describe opportunities and challenges with wireless robotic materials. Robotic materials are multi-functional composites that tightly integrate sensing, actuation, computation and communication to create smart composites that can sense…
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Although the invention of the metamaterials has stimulated the interest of many researchers and possesses many important applications, the basic design idea is very simple: composing effective media from many small structured elements and…
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Hole formation in a polycrystalline Ni film on an $\alpha$-Al$_2$O$_3$ substrate coupled with a continuum diffusion analysis demonstrates that Ni diffusion along the Ni/$\alpha$-Al$_2$O$_3$ interface is surprisingly fast. Ab initio…