应用物理
Additive manufacturing is an expanding multidisciplinary field encompassing applications including medical devices, aerospace components, microfabrication strategies, and artificial organs. Among additive manufacturing approaches,…
Recent years have witnessed the use of pervasive wireless signals (e.g., Wi-Fi, RFID, and mmWave) for sensing purposes. Due to its non-intrusive characteristic, wireless sensing plays an important role in various intelligent sensing…
Fatigue failure driven by stress gradients associated to casting defects was studied in two cast nickel-based superalloys. The experimental campaign revealed complex damage phenomena linked to spongeous shrinkages, characterized by their…
The Airy wave packet is a solution to the potential-free Schrodinger equation that exhibits remarkable properties such as self-acceleration, non-diffraction, and self-healing. Although Airy beams are now routinely realized with…
Single-molecule surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy based on a particle trapped in a plasmonic nanopores provides a unique method for continued and controlled detection of peptide and DNA oligonucleotides in liquid medium. However, the…
The porosities and tortuosities are commonly utilized to characterize the microstructure of a Li-ion battery's separator and are adopted as key input parameters in advanced battery models. Herein, a general classification of the tortuosity…
Reconstructing the structure of thin films and multilayers from measurements of scattered X-rays or neutrons is key to progress in physics, chemistry, and biology. However, finding all structures compatible with reflectometry data is…
Blockage of blood flow in arteries or veins by blood clots can lead to serious medical conditions. Mechanical thrombectomy (MT), minimally invasive endovascular procedures that utilize aspiration, stent retriever, or cutting mechanisms for…
Recently created diffusive memristors have garnered significant research interest owing to their distinctive capability to generate a diverse array of spike dynamics which are similar in nature to those found in biological cells. This gives…
There is increased interest in the heterogeneous integration of various compound semiconductors with Si for a variety of electronic and photonic applications. This paper focuses on integrating GaAsSb (with absorption in the C-band at…
We report a monolithic bidirectional dual-gate metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET) fabricated on epitaxially grown beta-Ga2O3, demonstrating efficient two-way conduction and blocking. It features two independently…
Lightsails using Earth-based lasers for propulsion require passive stabilization to stay within the beam. This can be achieved through the sail's scattering properties, creating optical restoring forces and torques. Undamped restoring…
We have experimentally demonstrated the effectiveness of beta-gallium oxide (beta-Ga2O3) ferroelectric fin field-effect transistors (Fe-FinFETs) for the first time. Atomic layer deposited (ALD) hafnium zirconium oxide (HZO) is used as the…
The continuous technological development of electronic devices and the introduction of new materials leads to ever greater demands on the fabrication of semiconductor heterostructures and their characterization. This work focuses on…
Normal microwave (MW) electromagnetic field detectors convert microwave power into voltages, which results in the loss of the vector characteristics of the microwave field. In this work, we developed a MW magnetic field (h-field) vector…
The coldness of the universe is a thermodynamic resource that has largely remained untapped for renewable energy generation. Recently, a growing interest in this area has led to a number of studies with the aim to realize the potential of…
Scanning Kelvin probe microscopy (SKPM) is a powerful technique for investigating the electrostatic properties of material surfaces, enabling the imaging of variations in work function, topology, surface charge density, or combinations…
Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) data transmission through surface reflection is pivotal for enhancing the reach and efficiency of terahertz (THz) communication systems. However, this innovation also introduces significant eavesdropping risks,…
We provide a general treatment for the temporal coupled-mode theory with arbitrary numbers of modes and ports, and derive tight bounds for the coupling phases in addition to coupling strengths under time-reversal symmetry. We report…
Achieving high quantum efficiency (QE) with low dark count is essential for highly sensitive photodetectors (PDs), including single photon avalanche detectors (SPADs). However, high QE requires a thicker absorber region, which leads to high…