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Pulsed laser processing is playing a crucial role in additive manufacturing and nanomaterial processing. However, probing transient temperature during laser interaction with the processed materials is challenging with both high spatial and…
Optical properties of planar thin film metamaterials were measured at room and liquid nitrogen temperatures using terahertz time-domain spectroscopy. The operation of metamaterials at cryogenic temperatures is anticipated to be a promising…
Measurements of resistance vs. temperature have been carried out on a sequence of quench-condensed ultrathin films of amorphous bismuth (a-Bi). The resistance below about 0.1K was found to be temperature independent in a range of films with…
Halide perovskites have recently gained widespread attention for their exceptional optoelectronic properties which have been illuminated by extensive spectroscopic investigations. In this article, nanophotonic surface-engineering using…
Topological insulators (TIs) present a neoteric class of materials, which support delocalised, conducting surface states despite an insulating bulk. Due to their intriguing electronic properties, their optical properties have received…
In recent years, photosensitive materials have been in huge demand because of their fascinating ability to convert absorbed photon energy to generate strain and henceforth tuning the physical properties. In this report we detect the…
Polymers, demonstrating distinctive optical properties alongside facile and mastered fabrication methods, have become increasingly important platforms for realizing a variety of nanophotonic devices. Enhancing these materials with…
Current thermometry techniques lack the spatial resolution required to see the temperature gradients in typical, highly-scaled modern transistors. As a step toward addressing this problem, we have measured the temperature dependence of the…
While the optical properties of thin metal films are well understood in the visible and near-infrared range, little has been done in the mid- and far-infrared region. Here we investigate ultra-thin gold films prepared on Si(111)(7 x 7) in…
The optical properties of thin films of intermetallic Au$_{3}$Hf were experimentally investigated for the first time, which display clear plasmonic properties in the optical and near infrared region with negative permittivity. In contrast…
Density functional theory (DFT) based first-principles investigations of structural, elastic, electronic band structure, and optical properties of superconducting ternary phosphides (BaM2P2; M = Ni, Rh) have been carried out in this study.…
Optomechanical transduction harnesses the interaction between optical fields and mechanical motion to achieve sensitive measurement of weak mechanical quantities with inherently low noise. Lithium niobate combines low optical loss, strong…
Ternary nitride ZnSnN$_2$ is a promising photovoltaic absorber material. In this work, using first-principles calculations, we investigate the stability and electronic properties of "4-8"-type ZnSnN$_2$ thin films. We find that below a…
It was experimentally found that the evolution of dielectric loss with processing temperature displays a common trend in ferroelectric and dielectric thin oxide films: firstly an increase and then a decrease in dielectric loss when the…
In recent years, nanoporous thin films have been widely studied for thermoelectric applications. High thermoelectric performance is reported for nanoporous Si films, which is attributed to the dramatically reduced lattice thermal…
Superconducting qubits are a promising platform for large-scale quantum computing. Besides the Josephson junction, most parts of a superconducting qubit are made of planar, patterned superconducting thin films. In the past, most qubit…
Two-dimensional transition metal di-chalcogenide semiconductors provide unique possibilities to investigate strongly confined excitonic physics and a plasmonic platform integrable to such materials constitutes a hybrid system that can be of…
A novel photonic thermal diode concept operating in the near field and capitalizing on the temperature-dependence of coupled surface polariton modes in nanostructures is proposed. The diode concept utilizes terminals made of the same…
Disorder induced phase slip (PS) events appearing in the current voltage characteristics (IVCs) are reported for two-dimensional TiN thin films produced by a robust substrate mediated nitridation technique. Here, high temperature annealing…