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Humidity sensing is important to a variety of technologies and industries, ranging from environmental and industrial monitoring to medical applications. Although humidity sensors abound, few available solutions are thin, transparent,…

Underneath the ear skin there are richly branching vascular and neural networks that ultimately connecting to our heart and brain. Hence, the three-dimensional (3D) mapping of auricular electrophysiological signals could provide a new…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-13 Q. Huang , C. Wu , S. Hou , H. Sun , K. Yao , J. Law , M. Yang , A. L. R. Vellaisamy , X. Yu , H. Y. Chan , L. Lao , Y. Sun , W. J. Li

We demonstrate that the intrinsic properties of monolayer graphene allow it to act as a more effective saturable absorber for mode-locking fiber lasers compared to multilayer graphene. The absorption of monolayer graphene can be saturated…

Graphene has the great potential to be used for humidity sensing due to ultrahigh surface area and conductivity. However, the impact of different atomic layers of graphene on SiO2/Si substrate on the humidity sensing have not been studied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-03 Qiang Gao , Hongliang Ma , Chang He , Xiaojing Wang , Jie Ding , Wendong Zhang , Xuge Fan

Previous statistical studies on the mechanical properties of chemical-vapor-deposited (CVD) suspended graphene membranes have been performed by means of measuring individual devices or with techniques that affect the material. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-08 Santiago J. Cartamil-Bueno , Peter G. Steeneken , Alba Centeno , Amaia Zurutuza , Herre S. J. van der Zant , Samer Houri

Infrared spectroscopy is the technique of choice for chemical identification of biomolecules through their vibrational fingerprints. However, infrared light interacts poorly with nanometric size molecules. Here, we exploit the unique…

The unique properties and atomic thickness of two-dimensional (2D) materials enable smaller and better nanoelectromechanical sensors with novel functionalities. During the last decade, many studies have successfully shown the feasibility of…

Electronic textiles (e-textiles) are about to face tremendous environmental and resource challenges due to the complexity of sorting, the risk to supplies and metal contamination in textile recycling streams. This is because e-textiles are…

Plasmonic metasurfaces are able to modify the wavefront by altering the light intensity, phase and polarization state. Active plasmonic metasurfaces would allow dynamic modulation of the wavefront which give rise to interesting application…

Patterning of graphene into micro- and nano-ribbons allows for the tunability in emerging fields such as flexible electronic and optoelectronic devices, and is gaining interest for the production of more efficient reinforcement for…

The properties of surface plasmons localized at the interface between graphene and kerr-type nonlinear medium in three dimensions are investigated. Compared with surface plasmons at the surface of metal, with the inevitable nonlinear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Lei Wang , Wei Cai , Xinzheng Zhang , F. J. Garcia de Abajo , Jingjun Xu

Micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) microphones (mics) with two acoustic ports are currently receiving considerable interest, with the promise of achieving higher directional sensitivity compared to traditional one-port architectures.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-21 Francis Doyon-D'Amour , Carly Stalder , Timothy Hodges , Michel Stephan , Lixiue Wu , Triantafillos Koukoulas , Stephane Leahy , Raphael St-Gelais

Electronic carriers in graphene show a high carrier mobility at room temperature. Thus, this system is widely viewed as a potential future charge-based high-speed electronic-material to complement- or replace- silicon. At the same time, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-04 R. G. Mani , J. Hankinson , C. Berger , W. A. de Heer

We carried out measurements on nanoelectromechanical systems based on multilayer graphene sheets suspended over trenches in silicon oxide. The motion of the suspended sheets was electrostatically driven at resonance using applied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 D. Garcia-Sanchez , A. M. van der Zande , A. San Paulo , B. Lassagne , P. L. McEuen , A. Bachtold

The optical absorption properties of graphene wrapped dielectric particles have been investigated by using Mie scattering theory and exact multi-scattering method. It is shown that subwavelength strong absorption in infrared spectra can…

Optics · Physics 2015-02-11 Bing Yang , Tong Wu , Yue Yang , Xiangdong Zhang

Graphene-derived nanomaterials are emerging as ideal candidates for postsilicon electronics. Elucidating the electronic interaction between an insulating substrate and few-layer graphene (FLG) films is crucial for device applications. Here,…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-05-08 Sujit S. Datta , Douglas R. Strachan , E. J. Mele , A. T. Charlie Johnson

This article reviews recent research for development of sensitive graphene photon detectors in the infrared/far infrared/THz range. For this range, graphene has promising potential in thermal photon detectors. Graphene has ultra-small…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-20 Xu Du , Daniel E. Prober , Heli Vora , Chris Mckitterick

Graphene covered metal nanoparticles constitute a novel type of hybrid materials, which provide a unique platform to study plasmonic effects, surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS), and metal-graphene interactions at the nanoscale. Such a…

Transistor structures comprising graphene and sub-wavelength metal gratings hold a great promise for plasmon-enhanced terahertz detection. Despite considerable theoretical effort, little experimental evidence for terahertz plasmons in such…

Membranes of suspended two-dimensional materials show a large variability in mechanical properties, in part due to static and dynamic wrinkles. As a consequence, experiments typically show a multitude of nanomechanical resonance peaks,…