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When moving from native to light activated bacteriorhodopsin, modification of charge transport consisting of an increase of conductance is correlated to the protein conformational change. A theoretical model based on a map of the protein…

Optical switches are one of the most important elements of integrated photonics. Here, we designed, fabricated and characterized several nanophotonic optical switches (NOSs) in silicon that exhibit ultra-compact footprint, along with…

Proteresis, a complementary effect to well-known hysteresis, is an interesting phenomenon to be explored. As we know, the hysteric device is a bistable switch whose states depend on the system's history whereas the proteretic device states'…

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