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Optical tweezers find applications in various fields, ranging from biology to physics. One of the fundamental steps necessary to perform quantitative measurements using trapped particles is the calibration of the tweezer's spring constant.…
Spin injection and detection in silicon is a difficult problem, in part because the weak spin-orbit coupling and indirect gap preclude using standard optical techniques. We propose two ways to overcome this difficulty, and illustrate their…
The unique electronic properties of amorphous indium gallium zinc oxide (a-IGZO) thin films are closely associated with the complex charge dynamics of the materials. Conventional studies of charge transport in a-IGZO usually involve…
A simple yet precise optical technique for measuring the ambipolar carrier mobility in semiconductors is presented. Using tightly focused Gaussian laser beams in a photo-reflectance system, the modulated reflectance signal is measured as a…
The instantaneous two-dimensional wall shear rate is assessed through an inverse problem using mass transfer data from a three-segment electrodiffusion probe. The method is validated numerically in complex flow conditions involving (i) high…
In this work, we demonstrate the use of tapered optical fibers (TOF) to detect charged particle (ions), irradiated at various energies, fluences and species. The single mode tapered optical fiber has been used in various sensing…
The irradiation represents a useful tool for determining the characteristics of defects in semiconductors as well as a method to evaluate their degradation, fact with important technological consequences. In this contribution, starting from…
Active edge p-on-p silicon pixel detectors with thickness of 100 $\mu$m were fabricated on 150 mm Float zone silicon wafers at VTT. By combining measured results and TCAD simulations, a detailed study of electric field distributions and…
Measurements of transverse profiles using Ionization Profile Monitors (IPMs) for high brightness beams are affected by the electromagnetic field of the beam. This interaction may cause a distortion of the measured profile shape despite…
Photon transport through a diffusing slab can be described by the radiative transfer equation (RTE). When the slab is highly scattering and weakly absorbing, the RTE simplifies to the diffusion equation. In this paper, an inverse diffusion…
Measurement of photon-number statistics of fields composed of photon pairs generated in spontaneous parametric downcoversion pumped by strong ultrashort pulses is described. Final detection quantum efficiencies, noises as well as possible…
We analyze the modulation characteristics of the uncooled terahertz (THz) and infrared (IR) detectors using the variation of the density and effective temperature of the two-dimensional electron-hole plasma in uniform graphene layers (GLs)…
For accurately obtaining the relationship between the carrier mobility and the applied electric field, a new multi-layer sample has been designed. Polyvinyl fluoride (PVF) films were hot pressed on both sides of linear low density…
We present experimental photoemission and inverse photoemission spectra of SrTiO$_{3- \delta}$ representing electron doped $d^0$ systems. Photoemission spectra in presence of electron doping exhibit prominent features arising from electron…
Entangled two-photon absorption can enable a linear scaling of fluorescence emission with the excitation power. In comparison to classical two-photon absorption with a quadratic scaling, this can allow fluorescence imaging or…
In the HEP-experiments of High Luminosity upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC), the application of isolation implants like $p$-stop between $n^+$-electrodes of position sensitive $n$-on-$p$ sensors has been typically considered to…
Experimental evidence of electron spin precession during travel through the phosphorus-doped Si channel of an all-electrical device simultaneously indicates two distinct processes: (i) short timescales (~50ps) due to purely conduction-band…
We consider a two dimensional Turing like system with two diffusing species which interact with each other. Considering the species to be charged, we include the effect of an electric field along a given direction which can lead to a drift…
Doping of strongly layered ionic oxides is an established paradigm for creating novel electronic behavior. This is nowhere more apparent than in superconductivity, where doping gives rise to high temperature superconductivity in cuprates…
The influence of charge trap states in the dielectric boundary material on capacitively coupled radio frequency plasma discharge is investigated with theory and Particle in cell/Monte Carlo Collision simulation. It is found that the trap…