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Polarizability

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Nature is abundant in material platforms with anisotropic permittivities arising from symmetry reduction that feature a variety of extraordinary optical effects. Principal optical axes are essential characteristics for these effects that define light-matte ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Protein Dielectrophoresis with Gradient Array of Conductive Electrodes Sheds New Light on Empirical Theory

Olivier Martin, Siarhei Zavatski

Dielectrophoresis (DEP) is a versatile tool for the precise microscale manipulation of a broad range of substances. To unleash the full potential of DEP for the manipulation of complex molecular-sized particulates such as proteins requires the development ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Dipole polarizability of time-varying particles

Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Theodoros Koutserimpas, Mohammad Sajjad Mirmoosa

Invariance under time translation (or stationarity) is probably one of the most important assumptions made when investigating electromagnetic phenomena. Breaking this assumption is expected to open up novel possibilities and result in exceeding conventiona ...

2022

Sensing of Surface and Bulk Refractive Index Using Magnetophotonic Crystal with Hybrid Magneto-Optical Response

Serguei Sekatski

We propose an all-dielectric magneto-photonic crystal with a hybrid magneto-optical response that allows for the simultaneous measurements of the surface and bulk refractive index of the analyzed substance. The approach is based on two different spectral f ...

2021

Asymmetric Metal-Dielectric Metacylinders and Their Potential Applications From Engineering Scattering Patterns to Spatial Optical Signal Processing

Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Ali Momeni

We propose a bianisotropic hybrid metal-dielectric structure comprising dielectric and metallic cylindrical wedges wherein the composite metacylinder enables advanced control of electric, magnetic, and magnetoelectric resonances. We establish a theoretical ...

American Physical Society (APS)2021

Influence of Uncertainty of Body Permittivity on Achievable Radiation Efficiency of Implantable Antennas-Stochastic Analysis

Anja Skrivervik

Design of medical sensor implants is very challenging due to numerous restrictions in terms of size and biological acceptability. In addition, large absorption and reflection of electromagnetic waves in body tissues significantly degrades the communication ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

Confined dipole and exchange spin waves in a bulk chiral magnet with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction

Helmuth Berger, Dirk Grundler, Andrea Mucchietto, Ping Che

The Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) has an impact on excited spin waves in the chiral magnet Cu2OSeO3 by means of introducing asymmetry in their dispersion relations. The confined eigenmodes of a chiral magnet are hence no longer the conventional s ...

2021

Crystal Field Effect and Electric Field Screening in Multilayer Graphene with and without Twist

Oleg Yazyev, Quansheng Wu

We address the intrinsic polarization and screening of an external electric field in a broad range of ordered and twisted configurations of multilayer graphene, using an ab initio approach combining density functional theory and the Wannier function formal ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Non-exponential magnetic relaxation in magnetic nanoparticles for hyperthermia

Ferenc Simon

Magnetic nanoparticle based hyperthermia emerged as a potential tool for treating malignant tumours. The efficiency of the method relies heavily on the knowledge of magnetic properties of the samples; in particular, knowledge of the frequency dependent com ...

2021

Physics-enhanced machine learning with symmetry-adapted and long-range representations

Andrea Grisafi

Theoretical and computational approaches to the study of materials and molecules have, over the last few decades, progressed at an exponential rate. Yet, the possibility of producing numerical predictions that are on par with experimental measurements is t ...

EPFL2021

Macroscopic polarization in the nominally ergodic relaxor state of lead magnesium niobate

Dragan Damjanovic, Lukas Riemer, Kanghyun Chu

Macroscopic polarity and its dynamic response to external electric fields and temperature in the nominally ergodic relaxor phase of pristine lead magnesium niobate crystals and ceramics, Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3 (PMN), were investigated. Dynamic pyroelectric measu ...

AIP American Institute of Physics2020

Nonreciprocity in Bianisotropic Systems with Uniform Time Modulation

Xiaoqiang Wang, Mohammad Sajjad Mirmoosa

Physical systems with material properties modulated in time provide versatile routes for designing magnetless nonreciprocal devices. Traditionally, nonreciprocity in such systems is achieved exploiting both temporal and spatial modulations, which inevitabl ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2020

Magnetic structures and quadratic magnetoelectric effect in LiNiPO4 beyond 30 T

Ellen Fogh

Neutron diffraction with static and pulsed magnetic fields is used to directly probe the magnetic structures in LiNiPO4 up to 25 T and 42 T, respectively. By combining these results with magnetometry and electric polarization measurements under pulsed fiel ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2020

Moire Flat Bands in Twisted Double Bilayer Graphene

Oleg Yazyev, Quansheng Wu, Seyedeh Fatemeh Haddadi Givi

We investigate twisted double bilayer graphene (TDBG), a four-layer system composed of two AB-stacked graphene bilayers rotated with respect to each other by a small angle. Our ab initio band structure calculations reveal a considerable energy gap at the c ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Accurate molecular polarizabilities with coupled cluster theory and machine learning

Michele Ceriotti, David Mark Wilkins, Andrea Grisafi

The molecular dipole polarizability describes the tendency of a molecule to change its dipole moment in response to an applied electric field. This quantity governs key intra- and intermolecular interactions, such as induction and dispersion; plays a vital ...

2019

The influence of external electric fields on charge reorganization energy in organic semiconductors

Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Hongguang Liu

Charge reorganization energies (k) of inter-ring carbon-carbon (IRCC) bond connected conjugated polycyclics are shown to exhibit an electric-field-driven anisotropic character. An external electric field parallel to the IRCC linker(s) reduces k while the f ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2019

Using Gaussian process regression to simulate the vibrational Raman spectra of molecular crystals

Michele Ceriotti, Andrea Grisafi, Mariana Rossi Carvalho

Vibrational properties of molecular crystals are constantly used as structural fingerprints, in order to identify both the chemical nature and the structural arrangement of molecules. The simulation of these properties is typically very costly, especially ...

2019

Quantum mechanical static dipole polarizabilities in the QM7b and AlphaML showcase databases

Michele Ceriotti, David Mark Wilkins, Andrea Grisafi

While density functional theory (DFT) is often an accurate and efficient methodology for evaluating molecular properties such as energies and multipole moments, this approach often yields larger errors for response properties such as the dipole polarizabil ...

2019

Parallel integro-differential equation solving via multi-channel reciprocal bianisotropic metasurface augmented by normal susceptibilities

Karim Achouri, Ali Momeni

Analog optical signal processing has dramatically transcended the speed and energy limitations accompanied with its digital microelectronic counterparts. Motivated by recent metasurface?s evolution, the angular scattering diversity of a reciprocal passive ...

2019

Tailored-Potential Semiconductor Quantum Nanostructures Grown in Inverted Pyramids

Mikhail Lazarev

We have focused on the ability to tune the aluminum (Al) content of the AlGaAs alloy along the growth direction in inverted pyramids (by MOVPE), thus tailoring the potential along a QWR nanostructure. Three parabolic-potential QDs (PQDs) of different poten ...

EPFL2019