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Submicrometer Hall devices fabricated by focused electron-beam-induced deposition

Jürgen Brugger, Niels Quack, Giovanni Boero, Patrik Willi Hoffmann, Radivoje Popovic, Pavel Kejik, Schahrazede-Lila Mouaziz, Tristan Bret

Hall devices having an active area of about (500 nm)(2) are fabricated by focused electron-beam-induced deposition. The deposited material consists of cobalt nanoparticles in a carbonaceous matrix. The realized devices have, at room temperature, a current ...

American Institute of Physics2005

Low power optical phase shifter using liquid crystal actuation on a silicon photonics platform

Niels Quack, Alain Yuji Takabayashi

Low-power and compact phase shifters are crucial for large photonic circuits, both to cope with variability and to create programmable waveguide circuits scaling to thousands of tuning elements. This work demonstrates a liquid crystal phase shifter where a ...

Optica Publishing Group2022

Enhancement of optical quality factor by thermal annealing of single crystal diamond micro-resonators

Niels Quack, Teodoro Graziosi, Marcell Kristof Kiss, Sichen Mi

We report on the increase in optical quality factor of a suspended single crystal diamond micro-disk resonator by thermal annealing. The resonators are fabricated by Deep Reactive Ion Etching (DRIE) to obtain circular pillars in bulk single crystal diamond ...

IEEE2018

High-quality single crystal diamond diffraction gratings fabricated by crystallographic etching

Olivier Martin, Toralf Scharf, Niels Quack, Christian Santschi, Teodoro Graziosi, Marcell Kristof Kiss, Adrien Marc Toros

We demonstrate a novel method for fabricating single crystal diamond diffraction gratings based on crystallographic etching that yields high-quality diffraction gratings from commercially available diamond plates. Both V-groove and rectangular gratin ...

2019

Characterization of crystallographically etched single crystal diamond diffraction gratings

Olivier Martin, Toralf Scharf, Niels Quack, Marcell Kristof Kiss, Adrien Marc Toros

We report on the fabrication and experimental characterization of single crystal diamond diffraction gratings fabricated with crystallographic dry etching. High aspect ratio atomic force microscopy reveals a characteristic V-groove profile exhibiting smoot ...

IEEE2018

Wafer-Level Vacuum Sealing for Packaging of Silicon Photonic MEMS

Niels Quack, Alain Yuji Takabayashi, Hamed Sattari

Silicon (Si) photonic micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), with its low-power phase shifters and tunable couplers, is emerging as a promising technology for large-scale reconfigurable photonics with potential applications for example in photonic accele ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2021

Neuronal growth on high-aspect-ratio diamond nanopillar arrays for biosensing applications

Hilal Lashuel, Niels Quack, Christophe Marcel Georges Galland, Somanath Jagannath, Maurizio Ferdinando Pezzoli, Elena Losero, Hossein Babashah, Valentin Luc Adrien Goblot

Monitoring neuronal activity with simultaneously high spatial and temporal resolution in living cell cultures is crucial to advance understanding of the development and functioning of our brain, and to gain further insights in the origin of brain disorders ...

Nature Portfolio2023

Highly Scalable Digital Silicon Photonic MEMS Switches

Niels Quack

Optical circuit switches with fast switching times can provide rapidly reconfigurable bandwidth in data center networks. Silicon photonic switches are attractive candidates with their fast response times and CMOS process compatibility. In this paper, we re ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2016

Fully Reconfigurable Coupled-Resonator Optical Waveguides (CROWs) with 10 nW Static Power MEMS

Niels Quack, Alain Yuji Takabayashi

We report on fully reconfigurable CROWs with MEMS-tunable waveguides. Resonatorto-resonator and resonator-to-waveguide coupling are fully tunable. Resonance of a resonator is also widely tunable to cover its full FSR. The static power consumption per tunab ...

IEEE2021

Size control of self-organized gold nanoparticles on nanopatterned single crystal diamond

Olivier Martin, Niels Quack, Christian Santschi, Marcell Kristof Kiss, Sichen Mi

Surface patterning using plasmonic nanoparticles has attracted increasing interest owing to their wide use in sensing, imaging and medical applications. In this report we demonstrate bottom-up engineering of size distribution of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) ...

IEEE2018

Scalable Row/Column Addressing of Silicon Photonic MEMS Switches

Niels Quack

In this letter, we demonstrate a scalable addressing scheme for silicon photonic MEMS switches. For a crossbar architecture switch fabric of dimension N x N, the row/column addressing scales with 2 . N electrodes, much reduced from the N-2 electrodes in in ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2016

Broadband Mechanically Tunable Metasurface Reflectivity Modulator in the Visible Spectrum

Olivier Martin, Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Niels Quack, Andrei Kiselev, Dorian Giraud Herle

Reflectivity modulation is a critical feature for applicationsin telecommunications, 3D imaging and printing, advanced laser machining,or portable displays. Tunable metasurfaces have recently emerged asa promising implementation for miniaturized and high-p ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

MORPHIC: Programmable photonic circuits enabled by silicon photonic MEMS

Niels Quack, Alain Yuji Takabayashi, Hamed Sattari, Banafsheh Abasahl

In the European project MORPHIC we develop a platform for programmable silicon photonic circuits enabled by waveguide-integrated micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS). MEMS can add compact, and low-power phase shifters and couplers to an established sili ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2020

Smart Slit Assembly Employing Continuously Tunable MEMS Shutter

Niels Quack, Hamed Sattari, Gergely Huszka, Anton Lagosh

We present the concept and detailed design of a Smart Slit Assembly for next generation spectrometers, and we experimentally demonstrate operation of an individual 221 mu m x 111 mu m smart slit channel employing a MEMS actuated shutter to continuously mod ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2021

Vacuum-sealed silicon photonic MEMS tunable ring resonator with an independent control over coupling and phase

Niels Quack, Alain Yuji Takabayashi

Ring resonators are a vital element for filters, optical delay lines, or sensors in silicon photonics. However, reconfigurable ring resonators with low-power consumption are not available in foundries today. We demonstrate an add-drop ring resonator with t ...

Optica Publishing Group2023

Broadband Compact Single-Pole Double-Throw Silicon Photonic MEMS Switch

Niels Quack, Alain Yuji Takabayashi, Hamed Sattari

Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) benefit from the technology advances in the semiconductor industry to incorporate an ever-increasing number of photonic components on a single chip to create large-scale photonic integrated circuits. We here present a br ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2021

16-Core Recirculating Programmable Si Photonic MEMS

Niels Quack, Alain Yuji Takabayashi

We report on a 16-core recirculating programmable photonic array based on MEMS-tunable directional couplers. The photonic array has a compact footprint (0.04mm(2)/cell) and negligible static power consumption. Waveguide-coupled single-ring resonators, CROW ...

IEEE2021

Single crystalline diamond part production method for stand alone single crystalline mechanical and optical component production

Niels Quack, Pascal Gallo, Teodoro Graziosi, Marcell Kristof Kiss, Adrien Marc Toros

The present invention relates to a free-standing single crystalline diamond part and a single crystalline diamond part production method. The method includes the steps of: - providing a single crystalline diamond substrate or layer; - providing a first adh ...

2019

Silicon Photonic MEMS: Exploiting Mechanics at the Nanoscale to Enhance Photonic Integrated Circuits

Niels Quack, Alain Yuji Takabayashi, Hamed Sattari, Banafsheh Abasahl, Shiv Ashish Kumar

With the maturing and the increasing complexity of Silicon Photonics technology, novel avenues are pursued to reduce power consumption and to provide enhanced functionality: exploiting mechanical movement in advanced Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuits pr ...

IEEE2019

Electronic-Photonic Integrated Circuit for 3D Microimaging

Niels Quack

An integrated electronic-photonic phase-locked loop (PLL) modulates the frequency of a tunable laser for use in frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) lidar 3D imaging. The proposed lidar can perform 180k range measurements per second. The rms depth pr ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2017