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Precise control of tensile stress and intrinsic damping is crucial for the optimal design of nanomechanical systems for sensor applications and quantum optomechanics in particular. In this letter we study the in uence of oxygen plasma on…
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The interface stresses at of the solid-melt interface are, in general, anisotropic. The anisotropy in the interfacial stress can be evaluated using molecular dynamics (MD) and phase field crystal (PFC) models. In this paper, we report our…
We attract attention to the fact that the ultimate (shot-noise-limited) polarimetric sensitivity can be enhanced by orders of magnitude leaving the photon flux incident onto the photodetector on the same low level. This opportunity is of…
The demonstration of strong photoluminescence polarization anisotropy in semiconducting nanowires embodies both technological promise and scientific challenge. Here we present progress on both fronts through the study of the…
In this work, optical profilometry and finite-element simulations are applied on buckled micro-machined membranes for the stress analysis of ion-beam-sputtered $\mathrm{Ta_{2}O_{5}}$ and $\mathrm{SiO_{2}}$ thin films. Layers with different…
In the context of a recoil damping analysis, we have designed and produced a membrane resonator equipped with a specific on-chip structure working as a "loss shield" for a circular membrane. In this device the vibrations of the membrane,…
The inherent crystal anisotropy of hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) sustains naturally hyperbolic phonon polaritons, i.e. polaritons that can propagate with very large wavevectors within the material volume, thereby enabling optical…
Pattern formation induced by wrinkling is a very common phenomenon exhibited in soft-matter substrates. In all these systems wrinkles develop in presence of compressively stressed thin films lying on compliant substrates. Here we…
We investigate the electromechanical actuation of a pair of suspended silicon nitride membranes forming a monolithic optomechanical array. By controlling the membrane resonators' tensile stress via a piezoelectrically controlled compressive…
Anisotropy in strongly correlated materials is a central parameter in determining the electronic ground state and is tuned through the local crystalline electric field. This is notably the case in the CeCo$_{x}$Rh$_{1-x}$In$_{5}$ system…
Strain and composition play a fundamental role in semiconductor physics, since they are means to tune the electronic and optical properties of a material and hence develop new devices. Today it is still a challenge to measure strain in…
Silicon nitride (Si3N4) ring resonators are critical for a variety of photonic devices. However the intrinsically high film stress of silicon nitride has limited both the optical confinement and quality factor (Q) of ring resonators. We…
A numerical model able to simulate solid-state constrained sintering is presented. The model couples an existing kinetic Monte Carlo (kMC) model for free sintering with a finite element model (FEM) for calculating stresses on a…
Strain plays a critical role in the properties of materials. In silicon and silicon-germanium, strain provides a mechanism for control of both carrier mobility and band offsets. In materials integra-tion, strain is typically tuned through…
We propose and design a stoichiometric silicon-nitride membrane resonator featuring highly reflective at multi-wavelengths and high mechanical quality factor. The membrane resonator has a thickness of 100 nm and 2D-photonic and phononic…
Optical forces in guided-wave nanostructures have recently been proposed as an effective means of mechanically actuating and tuning optical components. In this work, we study the properties of a photonic crystal optomechanical cavity…
We investigate the mechanical properties of freely suspended nanostrings fabricated from tensile-stressed, crystalline In$_{1-x}$Ga$_{x}$P. The intrinsic strain is a consequence of the epitaxial growth given by the lattice mismatch between…
We present experimental results on the observation of a bulk second-order nonlinear susceptibility derived from both free-space and integrated measurements in silicon nitride. Phase-matching is achieved through dispersion engineering of the…
The interaction of polarized light with photonic crystals exhibit unique features due to its sub-wavelength nature on the surface and the periodic variation of refractive index in the depth of the crystals. Here, we present a detailed study…