In this paper the amount and morphology of cortical and trabecular bone porosities were estimated using optical microscopy and micro-computed tomography technique. The hierarchical structure of porosity at different s...
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We characterize “blisters”, defects observed in multilayer dielectric (MLD) coatings after exposure to acid cleaning procedures. Nanoindentation is used to make site-specific indentations across blisters to measure ...
We characterize “blisters”, defects observed in multilayer dielectric (MLD) coatings after exposure to acid cleaning procedures. Nanoindentation is used to make site-specific indentations across blisters to measure the mechanical response, especially their compliance under different conditions of loading. Two regions of statistically different mechanical response are identified within a blister defect and compared to the undisturbed regions of the MLD coating. The indentation response of blisters can vary across samples, and we suggest reasons for this variation.
We measure the mechanical response of optical multilayer dielectric (MLD) diffraction gratings, geometries which are constrained in only one transverse direction but free in the other, using nanoindentation. The resul...
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We measure the mechanical response of optical multilayer dielectric (MLD) diffraction gratings, geometries which are constrained in only one transverse direction but free in the other, using nanoindentation. The results are explained using a stress-strain model, which reveals a uniaxial yield stress of 4.1- 4.6 GPa and predicts a similar dependence of yield stress on loads for both fully-elastic and fully-plastic solutions. Following R. Hill’s model of an expanding cavity under internal pressure, we show that the indentation response of the high-aspect ratio “pillar” geometry can be expressed in terms of uniaxial yield stress rather than material hardness.
We investigated ultra-efficient nano-photonic modulators based on silicon photonic crystal slot waveguides infiltrated with electro-optic polymers. The integration of Si 3 N 4 guided mode resonance grating with plasm...
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We investigated ultra-efficient nano-photonic modulators based on silicon photonic crystal slot waveguides infiltrated with electro-optic polymers. The integration of Si 3 N 4 guided mode resonance grating with plasmonic-active nanotubes are also demonstrated for surface enhanced Raman scattering.
We examine the quantum Hall effect in bilayer graphene grown on Cu substrates by chemical vapor deposition. Spatially resolved Raman spectroscopy suggests a mixture of Bernal (A-B) stacked and rotationally faulted (tw...
We examine the quantum Hall effect in bilayer graphene grown on Cu substrates by chemical vapor deposition. Spatially resolved Raman spectroscopy suggests a mixture of Bernal (A-B) stacked and rotationally faulted (twisted) domains. Magnetotransport measurements performed on bilayer domains with a wide 2D band reveal quantum Hall states (QHSs) at filling factors ν=4, 8, 12, consistent with a Bernal stacked bilayer, while magnetotransport measurements in bilayer domains defined by a narrow 2D band show a superposition of QHSs of two independent monolayers. The analysis of the Shubnikov–de Haas oscillations measured in twisted graphene bilayers provides the carrier density in each layer as a function of the gate bias and the interlayer capacitance.
We consider the thermodynamically driven self-assembly of spheres onto the surface of a central sphere. This assembly process forms self-limiting, or terminal, anisotropic clusters (N-clusters) with well-defined struc...
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We consider the thermodynamically driven self-assembly of spheres onto the surface of a central sphere. This assembly process forms self-limiting, or terminal, anisotropic clusters (N-clusters) with well-defined structures. We use Brownian dynamics to model the assembly of N-clusters varying in size from two to twelve outer spheres and free energy calculations to predict the expected cluster sizes and shapes as a function of temperature and inner particle diameter. We show that the arrangements of outer spheres at finite temperatures are related to spherical codes, an ideal mathematical sequence of points corresponding to the densest possible sphere packings. We demonstrate that temperature and the ratio of the diameters of the inner and outer spheres dictate cluster morphology. We present a surprising result for the equilibrium structure of a 5-cluster, for which the square pyramid arrangement is preferred over a more symmetric structure. We show this result using Brownian dynamics, a Monte Carlo simulation, and a free energy approximation. Our results suggest a promising way to assemble anisotropic building blocks from constituent colloidal spheres.
The low-frequency 1/f noise in graphene transistors has been studied extensively owing to the proposed graphene applications in analog devices and communication systems [1-5]. The studies were motivated by the fact th...
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Graphene demonstrated potential for practical applications owing to its excellent electronic and thermal properties. Typical graphene field-effect transistors (FETs) and interconnects built on conventional SiO 2 /Si s...
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Graphene demonstrated potential for practical applications owing to its excellent electronic and thermal properties. Typical graphene field-effect transistors (FETs) and interconnects built on conventional SiO 2 /Si substrates reveal the breakdown current density on the order of 10 8 A/cm 2 , which is ~100× larger than the fundamental limit for the metals but still smaller than the maximum achieved in carbon nanotubes. It was discovered by some of us that graphene has excellent thermal conduction properties with the thermal conductivity K exceeding 2000 W/mK at room temperature [1]. Few-layer graphene largely preserves the heat conduction properties [2]. However, the thermally resistive SiO 2 , with the thermal conductivity in the range from 0.5 to 1.4 W/mK, creates a bottleneck for heat removal. The latter does not allow graphene to demonstrate its true current-carrying potential. We show that by replacing SiO 2 with synthetic diamond one can substantially increase the current-carrying capacity of graphene to as high as ~ 20×10 8 A/cm 2 under ambient conditions. The two-terminal and three-terminal top-gated graphene devices (see Figure 1) were fabricated on synthetic single-crystal diamond (SCD) and ultrananocrystalline diamond (UNCD). To ensure Si integration, the UNCD layers were grown at low temperatures compatible with Si CMOS technology [3]. Our results indicate that graphene's current-induced breakdown is thermally activated. It was found that the current carrying capacity of graphene can be improved not only on SCD but also on an inexpensive UNCD. The latter was attributed to the decreased thermal resistance of UNCD at elevated temperatures (see Figure 2). The obtained results are important for graphene's hetero-integration on Si substrates. The enhanced current-carrying capacity is beneficial for the proposed applications of graphene in interconnects and high-frequency transistors.
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