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General invariance and equilibrium conditions for lattice dynamics in 1D, 2D, and 3D materials

Nicola Marzari, Samuel Poncé, Changpeng Lin

The long-wavelength behavior of vibrational modes plays a central role in carrier transport, phonon-assisted optical properties, superconductivity, and thermomechanical and thermoelectric properties of materials. Here, we present general invariance and equ ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022

Polarization-sensitive optics diffraction tomography

Demetri Psaltis, Joowon Lim, Amirhossein Saba Shirvan

Polarization of light has been widely used as a contrast mechanism in two-dimensional (2D) microscopy and also in some three-dimensional (3D) imaging modalities. In this paper, we report the 3D tomographic reconstruction of the refractive index (RI) tensor ...

2021

Long-distance distributed pressure sensing based on frequency-scanned phase-sensitive optical time-domain reflectometry

Luc Thévenaz, Zhisheng Yang, Li Zhang

In this paper, a long-distance distributed pressure sensing system based on a special fiber and using frequency-scanned phase-sensitive optical time-domain reflectometry is proposed. The fiber shows high pressure sensitivity (159 MHz/bar) and low loss (3 d ...

2021

Reciprocal Metasurfaces for On-axis Reflective Optical Computing

Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Karim Achouri, Ali Momeni

Analog computing has emerged as a promising candidate for real-time and parallel continuous data processing. This paper presents a reciprocal way for realizing asymmetric optical transfer functions (OTFs) in the reflection side of the on-axis processing ch ...

2021

A cryogenic electro-optic interconnect for superconducting devices

Tobias Kippenberg, Anton Lukashchuk, Nathan Rafaël Bernier, Liu Qiu, Itay Shomroni, Amir Youssefi, Philipp Johann Uhrich

A major challenge to the scalability of cryogenic computing platforms is the heat load associated with the growing number of electrical cable connections between the superconducting circuitry and the room-temperature environment. Compared with electrical c ...

2021

X-Band Aom On Chip

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Anat Siddharth, Terence Albert Emile Blésin

Silicon Nitride integrated photonic circuits have drawn much attention owing to its ultra-low loss and large Kerr nonlinearity. However, the lack of Pockels effect makes it difficult to be modulated clectro-optically, which posts a major challenge for the ...

IEEE2021

Intraocular Lens Refractive Index and Its Impact on External Surface Reflections

Georges Wagnières

PURPOSE: To determine and compare the origin of the external surface reflections produced by commonly used intraocular lenses (IOLs). ...

SLACK INC2021

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

Methods to Enhance Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Sensitivity at High Magnetic Field

Claudia Christina Zanella

MR is a well-established technique routinely used in preclinical and clinical studies. This thesis focussed on the improvement of sensitivity of different methods in MR. Hyperpolarized 129Xe gas is used for studying pulmonary disease or cerebral perfusion ...

EPFL2021

Interplay of anomalous strain relaxation and minimization of polarization changes at nitride semiconductor heterointerfaces

Yi Wang, Nicolas Grandjean, Jean-François Carlin, Raphaël Butté

We present a methodology to quantify polarization and electron affinity changes at interfaces by combining scanning tunneling spectroscopy, off-axis electron holography in transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and self-consistent calculations of the elec ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2020

Absolute Structure from Scanning Electron Microscopy

Philip Johannes Walter Moll

The absence of centrosymmetry in chiral and polar crystal structures is the reason for many technical relevant physical properties like optical birefringence or ferroelectricity. Other chirality related properties that are actually intensively investigated ...

Nature Research2020