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Optically responsive dry cholesteric liquid crystal marbles

Dry liquid crystal marbles are structures that consist of cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC) droplets prepared by the mixture of chiral-doped thermotropic LCs encapsulated by cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) that have been dried under ambient conditions. The ch ...

Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science2024

Methods for acute and long-term imaging of the ventral nerve cord in behaving adult Drosophila

Laura Joan Hermans

Understanding how neural circuits remodel and adapt to animal behavior is a central theme in the field of Neuroscience. One strategy to reach this goal is to repeatedly record the same animal's neural circuits and observe how they adapt when facing differe ...

EPFL2022

Sensitivity and spectral control of network lasers

Alexis Arnaudon, Dinika Saxena

Recently, random lasing in complex networks has shown efficient lasing over more than 50 localised modes, promoted by multiple scattering over the underlying graph. If controlled, these network lasers can lead to fast-switching multifunctional light source ...

Nature Portfolio2022

Smooth GaN membranes by polarization-assisted electrochemical etching

Nicolas Grandjean, Jean-François Carlin, Joachim Armand Simonne Ciers

III-nitride membranes offer promising perspectives and improved device designs in photonics, electronics, and optomechanics. However, the removal of the growth substrate often leads to a rough membrane surface, which increases scattering losses in optical ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2021

Narrowband Optical Coupler Using Fano Interference in First Order Diffraction

Olivier Martin, Benjamin Gallinet, Giorgio Quaranta, Fabian Michael Lütolf

Light coupling in waveguides has been extensively investigated in a variety of contexts, from photonic integrated circuits to biosensing and near-eye displays for augmented reality. Here, narrowband diffraction is reported using a Fano interference effect ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Integration of MEMS in Silicon Photonics

Alain Yuji Takabayashi

Like integrated electronics, integrated photonics such as Silicon Photonics benefit from increased device-density on a single chip. Silicon is an excellent material for integrated photonics because its high refractive index allows devices to be made small, ...

EPFL2021

III-nitride photonic cavities

Nicolas Grandjean, Raphaël Butté

Owing to their wide direct bandgap tenability, III-nitride (III-N) compound semiconductors have been proven instrumental in the development of blue light-emitting diodes that led to the so-called solid-state lighting revolution and blue laser diodes that a ...

WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH2020

Fundamentals and perspectives of ultrafast photoferroic recording

Anna Pogrebna

The ability to switch ferroics (ferro-, ferri-, antiferromagnets, ferroelectrics, multiferroics) between two stable bit states is one of the keystones of modern data storage technology. Due to many new ideas, originating from fundamental research during th ...

2020

Observation of Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in Silicon Nitride Integrated Waveguides

Luc Thévenaz, Tobias Kippenberg, Rui Ning Wang, Junqiu Liu, Arslan Sajid Raja, Jijun He, Flavien Gyger

Silicon nitride (Si3N4) has emerged as a promising material for integrated nonlinear photonics and has been used for broadband soliton microcombs and low-pulse-energy supercontinuum generation. Therefore, understanding all nonlinear optical properties of S ...

2020

Crystal Phase Engineering in III-V Semiconductor Films: from Epitaxy to Devices

Philipp Staudinger

Crystal phase engineering is an exciting pathway to enhance the properties of conventional semiconductors. Metastable SiGe presents a direct band gap well suited for optical devices whereas wurtzite (WZ) phosphide alloys enable efficient light emission in ...

EPFL2020

Integrated elastomer-based device for measuring the mechanics of adherent cell monolayers

Herbert Shea, Alexandre Poulin, Cristina Martin Olmos, Francesca Sorba

Cells in the body collectively sustain mechanical deformations in almost all physiological functions. From the morphogenesis stage, cells' ability to sustain stress is essential for the body's well-being. Several pathologies have been associated with abnor ...

2019

Local tuning of fused silica thermal expansion coefficient using femtosecond laser

Yves Bellouard, Pieter Vlugter, Erica Kathleen Block

Femtosecond laser exposure of fused silica in the nonablative regime can lead to various localized bulk modifications of the material structure. In this paper, we show that these laser-induced modifications can be used to tune silica thermal expansion prop ...

2019

Hydraulic performance evaluation of a micro-turbine with counter rotating runners by experimental investigation and numerical simulation

François Avellan, Elena Vagnoni, Loïc Andolfatto, Cécile Münch-Alligné

The development of energy recovery systems on existing water utility networks is a new challenge for increasing the sustainability of electricity generation mix. The concept of the new micro-turbine with counter rotating runners braces this goal by allowin ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2018

Microfabrication of curved sidewall grooves using scanning nanosecond excimer laser ablation

Patrik Willi Hoffmann, André Gabriel Kostro, Jing Gong, Josef Andreas Schuler, Georgios Violakis

Novel glazing with embedded micro-mirrors can significantly reduce the energy consumption due to cooling and lighting in buildings. Especially promising are large arrays of periodic micro compound-parabolic-concentrators (CPCs) with angular-selected transm ...

SPIE2018

All-optically induced quasi phase matching in SiN waveguides for second harmonic generation enhancement

Tobias Kippenberg, Camille Sophie Brès, Davide Grassani, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Svyatoslav Kharitonov, Adrien Billat

We report more than 30dB second harmonic generation enhancement in SiN waveguide by all-optical writing of a persistent χ(2) grating. Phase matching peaks are observed for different writing wavelengths. ...

OSA Publishing2017

Utilizing electromagnetically induced transparency in InAs quantum dots for all-optical transistor design

Hamed Sattari

We propose a multilayer medium with semiconductor quantum dot nano-structures as a defect layer for all-optical control of the 1.55 mu m probe beam. The effect of the coupling field and incoherent pump on absorption and dispersion properties of the quantum ...

Optical Soc Amer2017

Deep Cfht Y-Band Imaging Of Vvds-F22 Field. I. Data Products And Photometric Redshifts

Huanyuan Shan

We present our deep Y-band imaging data of a two square degree field within the F22 region of the VIMOS VLT Deep Survey. The observations were conducted using the WIRCam instrument mounted at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT). The total on-sky time ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2017

Conceptual design and proof-of-principle testing of the real-time multispectral imaging system MANTIS

Basil Duval, Yanis Andrebe, Wouter Vijvers

The Multispectral Advanced Narrowband Tokamak Imaging System (MANTIS) is proposed to resolve the steep temperature and density gradients in the scrape-off layer of tokamaks in real-time. The initial design is to deliver two-dimensional distributions of key ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2017

Bosonic lasing and trapping of a dressed photon fluid in InGaN at room temperature

Munise Nevin Cobet

The generation of a quantum fluid of dressed photons at room temperature is experimentally demonstrated in an InGaN microcavity which is divided into two-and one-dimensional sections, resulting in single- and switchable multilevel coherent light emission. ...

Amer Physical Soc2016

Experimental determination of the bulk Rashba parameters in BiTeBr

Helmuth Berger, Arnaud Magrez, Philippe Bugnon

Shubnikov-de Haas (SdH) oscillations, Hall effect, and optical reflectance (R(omega)) measurements have been performed on single crystals of BiTeBr. Under magnetic fields up to 32 tesla and at temperatures as low as 0.4K, the SdH data shows a single oscill ...

IOP Publishing - EPL Association2016