Recent years have witnessed significant progresses in realizing skyrmions in chiral magnets1-4 and asymmetric magnetic multilayers5-13, as well as their electrical manipulation2,7,8,10. Equally important, thermal gene...
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Exceptional points (EPs) are singularities that arise in non-Hermitian physics. Current research efforts focus only on systems supporting isolated EPs characterized by increased sensitivity to external perturbations, ...
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Exceptional points (EPs) are singularities that arise in non-Hermitian physics. Current research efforts focus only on systems supporting isolated EPs characterized by increased sensitivity to external perturbations, which makes them potential candidates for building next generation optical sensors. On the downside, this feature is also the Achilles heel of these devices: they are very sensitive to fabrication errors and experimental uncertainties. To overcome this problem, we introduce a new design concept for implementing photonic EPs that combine the robustness required for practical use together with their hallmark sensitivity. Particularly, our proposed structure exhibits a hypersurface of Jordan EPs embedded in a larger space, and having the following peculiar features: (1) A large class of undesired perturbations shift the operating point along the exceptional surface (ES), thus, leaving the system at another EP which explains the robustness; (2) Perturbations due to back reflection or backscattering force the operating point out of the ES, leading to enhanced sensitivity. Importantly, our proposed geometry is relatively easy to implement using standard photonics components and the design concept can be extended to other physical platforms such as microwave or acoustics.
We thoroughly investigate the electromagnetic response of intelligent functional metasurfaces. We study two distinct designs operating at different frequency regimes, namely, a switch-fabric-based design for GHz frequ...
An energy-efficient voltage controlled domain wall device for implementing an artificial neuron and synapse is analyzed using micromagnetic modeling in the presence of room temperature thermal noise. By controlling th...
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Electrons commonly couple through Fröhlich interactions with longitudinal optical phonons to form polarons. However, trions possess a finite angular momentum and should therefore couple instead to rotational opti...
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We report a new physical mechanism, cycling excitation process (CEP), that produces intrinsic gain for photocurrent. The CEP process has shown much greater efficiency and lower noise than the impact ionization process...
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(纸本)9781538662359
We report a new physical mechanism, cycling excitation process (CEP), that produces intrinsic gain for photocurrent. The CEP process has shown much greater efficiency and lower noise than the impact ionization process, the mechanism for avalanche photodetectors. Using the CEP process, we have obtained detectors of low excess noise and a record high gain-bandwidth product of over 2 THz. Above all, such performance was obtained from a thin (30nm) layer of amorphous silicon as the gain medium.
Localized surface plasmons (LSPs) in metal nanostructures have attracted much attention for their role in generating non-equilibrium hot carriers (HCs) for photochemistry1-3, photodetection4,5 and photoluminescence6. ...
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