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Simulation-Based Approach to the Matching of a Dielectric-Filled Circular Waveguide Aperture

Sensors
The circular waveguide aperture or open-end radiator, one of the canonical antenna elements, can be filled with a dielectric material for miniaturization.
Songyuan Xu, Jiwon Heo, Byoung-Kwon Ahn, Chan-Soo Lee, Bierng-Chearl Ahn   +4 more
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Soft Actuators Integrated with Control and Power Units: Approaching Wireless Autonomous Soft Robots

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Soft robots exhibit significant development potential in various applications. However, there are still key technical challenges regarding material improvement, structure design and components integration. This review focuses on the development and challenge of soft actuators, power components, and control components in untethered intelligent soft ...
Renwu Shi, Feifei Pan, Xiaobin Ji
wiley   +1 more source

Self-trapping of light and nonlinear localized modes in 2D photonic crystals and waveguides [PDF]

, 2001
We overview our recent results on the nonlinear localized modes in two-dimensional (2D) photonic crystals and photonic-crystal waveguides. Employing the technique based on the Green function, we describe the existence domains for nonlinear guided modes ...
Kivshar, Yuri S., Mingaleev, Serge F.
core   +3 more sources

Waveguide Photoactuators: Materials, Fabrication, and Applications

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Waveguide photoactuators convert guided light into mechanical motion. Their tethered‐flexible design enables minimally invasive surgery and confined‐space robotics. This review aims to guide materials selection, device design, and system integration, accelerating the transition of waveguide photoactuators from laboratory prototypes to versatile ...
Minjie Xi, Hemin Pan, Yang Zong, Yongfeng Mei, Jizhai Cui   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cherenkov-transition radiation in a waveguide with a dielectric-vacuum boundary

Physical Review Special Topics. Accelerators and Beams, 2012
We analyze the electromagnetic field of a charged particle moving uniformly in a circular waveguide and crossing the boundary between a dielectric and a vacuum.
Tatiana Yu. Alekhina, Andrey V. Tyukhtin
doaj   +1 more source

Dielectric loaded graphene plasmon waveguide

Optics Express, 2015
Dielectric loaded graphene plasmon waveguide (DLGPW) is proposed and investigated. An analytical model based on effective-index method is presented and verified by the finite element method simulations. The mode effective index, propagation loss, cutoff wavelength of higher order modes and single-mode operation region were derived at mid-infrared ...
W, Xu, Z H, Zhu, K, Liu, J F, Zhang, X D, Yuan, Q S, Lu, S Q, Qin   +6 more
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Hybrid Continuum Robot Designs and Architectures for Healthcare Applications

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Hybrid continuum robots represent an emerging class of flexible manipulators that blend materials, structures, and actuation concepts from the established fields of soft and continuum robotics. This review introduces an accessible framework to distinguish key hybridization approaches, surveys current designs aimed at complex clinical applications, and ...
Burak Ozdemir, Muhammad A. Khalid, Manish Chauhan, Pietro Valdastri, James H. Chandler   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Recent Advances in Decoupling Strategies for Soft Sensors

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This review provides an overview of recent advances in decoupling strategies for soft sensors. It summarizes single‐modal sensors that are insensitive to stretching, bending, crosstalk, and other environmental interferences, and highlights emerging multimodal decoupling methods enabled by spatiotemporal information and machine learning.
Yangbo Yuan, Wanqing Zhang, Jia‐Yu Yang, Manqi Peng, Huanyu Cheng   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Spatial‐Wavelength Multiplexing Error‐Controlled Photonic Analog Computing System

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A novel photonic integrated circuit prototype implementing the concept of general‐purpose analog computing and demonstrate its capability in radio frequency applications. The chip features a multichannel architecture and performs fully optical analog computation with frequency‐domain parallel processing. An FPGA‐based error‐correction algorithm aims to
Tao Zhu, Bowen Zhu, Shicheng Zhang, Keren Li, Xianchen Wu, Yazhi Pi, Jie Yan, Daigao Chen, Bingli Guo, Xi Xiao, Lei Wang, Xiaochuan Xu, Xuwei Xue, Shanguo Huang, Zizheng Cao, Shaohua Yu   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Borophene: Crucial Challenges and the Way Forward

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This review explores the challenges and progress in borophene research, focusing on synthesis strategies, structural properties, and potential applications. It highlights key experimental breakthroughs, discusses theoretical insights into borophene's unique features, and addresses pathways for overcoming stability and scalability issues.
Zhixuan Li, Jeyaraman Sankar, Prashant Kumar, Ajayan Vinu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source