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Electric susceptibility

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Universal Casimir attraction between filaments at the cell scale

Anne-Florence Raphaëlle Bitbol

The electromagnetic Casimir interaction between dielectric objects immersed in salted water includes a universal contribution that is not screened by the solvent and therefore long-ranged. Here, we study the geometry of two parallel dielectric cylinders. W ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2024

Highly dispersed nanomaterials in polymer matrix via aerosol-jet-based multi-material 3D printing

Michael James Henry Smith

Polymer-based nanocomposites emerged in the 1960s as a groundbreaking approach to advanced materials. By incorporating robust, durable, and multifunctional nanomaterials into a polymer matrix, the performance of nanocomposites has significantly surpassed t ...

Elsevier2024

Wandering principal optical axes in van der Waals triclinic materials

Arslan Mazitov

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

How to Make Elastomers Piezoelectric?

Frank Nüesch, Francis Owusu

Piezoelectrics play a significant role in modern electronics and electric devices. Thermal or mechanical stress on such materials induces a change in polarization generating an electric response, which is the sole effect of why they are so interesting. How ...

Wiley2023

Exploring Novel Modalities for Optical Diffraction Tomography

Amirhossein Saba Shirvan

In the past decade, optical diffraction tomography has gained a lot of attention for its ability to create label-free three-dimensional (3D) images of the refractive index distribution of biological samples using scattered fields measured through holograph ...

EPFL2023

Surface Charge Boundary Condition Often Misused in CO2 Reduction Models

Sophia Haussener, Etienne Boutin, Evan Fair Johnson

The Poisson-Nernst-Planck equations have been used to model species transport in electrochemical CO2 reduction, where the surface charge boundary condition accounts for the potential drop across the Stern layer. A direct comparison of the published models ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Nonlinear electro-mechanical coupling and thermally stimulated currents in relaxor ferroelectrics

Lukas Riemer

In this work, the emergence of polarization and electro-mechanical coupling in Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3 and Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3 â PbTiO3 was investigated by means of thermally stimulated current, and nonlinear dielectric and electro-mechanical measurements. The pre ...

EPFL2022

Negative Capacitance in HfO2 Gate Stack Structures With and Without Metal Interlayer

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Igor Stolichnov, Ali Saeidi, Francesco Bellando, Matteo Cavalieri, Carlotta Gastaldi, Eamon Patrick O'Connor

In this work, we experimentally explore and compare FET gate stacks with and without an inner metal plane between a linear dielectric (SiO2) and a ferroelectric layer (Si-doped HfO2) operating in the negative capacitance (NC) regime. The use of nanosecond- ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Surface Susceptibilities as Characteristic Models of Reflective Metasurfaces

Karim Achouri, Shourya Dutta Gupta, Ville Tuovi Tiukuvaara

While metasurfaces (MSs) are constructed from deeply subwavelength unit cells, they are generally electrically large and full-wave simulations of the complete structure are computationally expensive. Thus, to reduce this high computational cost, nonuniform ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Ferroelectric Effects Probed by in situ Transmission Electron Microscopy

Reinis Ignatans

Ferroelectric perovskite oxides are widely used in sensors, actuators and optical modulators and, at the same time, they show promise for implementation in future applications such as energy storage, memory and cooling devices. At the infancy of the discov ...

EPFL2022

Mapping the local dielectric constant of a biological nanostructured system

Juan Pablo Vasco Cano

The aim of this work is to determine the varying dielectric constant of a biological nanostructured system via electrostatic force microscopy (EFM) and to show how this method is useful to study natural photonic crystals. We mapped the dielectric constant ...

BEILSTEIN-INSTITUT2021

Fabrication and applications of AuAg alloy metasurfaces and hybrid metal dielectric nanoantennas

Debdatta Ray

The most prevalent materials used in the field of plasmonics are Au and Ag. However, for the past few years, the plasmonic community has also been looking for alternative materials that have lower losses than Au and higher stability than Ag. This thesis is ...

EPFL2021

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

Multi-scale approach for the prediction of atomic scale properties

Michele Ceriotti, Andrea Grisafi, Jigyasa Nigam

Electronic nearsightedness is one of the fundamental principles that governs the behavior of condensed matter and supports its description in terms of local entities such as chemical bonds. Locality also underlies the tremendous success of machine-learning ...

2021

Successive training of a generative adversarial network for the design of an optical cloak

Olivier Martin, André-Pierre Blanchard-Dionne

At the nanoscale level, optical properties of materials depend greatly on their shape. Finding the right geometry for a specific property remains a fastidious and long task, even with the help of modelling tools. In this work, we overcome this challenge by ...

2021

ICRF modelling in 2D and 3D magnetic configurations using a hot plasma model

Jonathan Graves, Wilfred Anthony Cooper, Mike Machielsen

The generation of energetic trapped ions is important for experiments investigating their confinement in 3D magnetic fields, for plasma heating, for studies into unwanted drive of instabilities, and improved transport regimes. An effective way to generate ...

2021

Gate energy efficiency and negative capacitance in ferroelectric 2D/2D TFET from cryogenic to high temperatures

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Ali Saeidi, Matteo Cavalieri, Teodor Rosca, Carlotta Gastaldi, Sadegh Kamaei Bahmaei, Luca Capua

We report the fabrication process and performance characterization of a fully integrated ferroelectric gate stack in a WSe2/SnSe2 Tunnel FETs (TFETs). The energy behavior of the gate stack during charging and discharging, together with the energy loss of a ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2021

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