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Coordinated Architectural and Chemical Reinforcement in the Crushing Mandible of a Soldier Termite

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
The crushing mandible of a soldier termite withstands substantial biting loads despite lacking mineral. Its cuticle is partitioned: convex teeth pair hardness and zinc enrichment with aligned chitin fibers for contact durability, while stiffer concave regions between teeth carry bending loads.
Andrew Tran Nguyen, Patryk Wąsik, Juan Fernando Cucuyame Morales, Marie Kate Palau, Adrian Francisco Duran Ornelas, Phani Saketh Dasika, Jin Hee Kim, Radhika Laxminarayana, Eric Hintsala, Greta Chang, Junzhi Liao, Lizhi Sun, Nathan Lord, Atsushi Arakaki, Paul Bardunias, Pablo Zavattieri, David Kisailus   +16 more
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A Four-Channel DWDM Tunable Add/Drop Demultiplexer Based on Silicon Waveguide Bragg Gratings

IEEE Photonics Journal, 2019
We demonstrate a thermally tunable four-channel add/drop demultiplexer based on silicon grating-assisted contra-directional couplers (contra-DCs) for 200 GHz dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) systems.
Debin Mu, Huiye Qiu, Jianfei Jiang, Xiaofei Wang, Zhilei Fu, Yuehai Wang, Xiaoqing Jiang, Hui Yu, Jianyi Yang   +8 more
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Anisotropic Phonon Dynamics and Directional Transport in Actinide Van der Waals Semiconductor Uranium Triselenide

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
USe3 is introduced as an actinide van der Waals semiconductor that mirrors the quasi‐one‐dimensional physics of transition‐metal trichalcogenides. Polarization‐resolved Raman spectroscopy on exfoliated flakes maps strong in‐plane phonon anisotropy and strain‐tunable mode shifts.
Aljoscha Söll, Valentino Jadriško, Sourav Dey, Nassima Benchtaber, Kalyan Sarkar, Borna Radatović, Jan Luxa, Fedor Lipilin, Kseniia Mosina, Vojtěch Kundrát, Jakub Zalesak, Jana Vejpravová, Martin Žáček, Szymon J. Zelewski, Nikolas Antonatos, Christoph Gadermaier, José J. Baldoví, Zdeněk Sofer   +17 more
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Autonomous Multi‐Objective Nanoscale Characterization of Combinatorial (Al, Sc, B)N Films Reveals Composition‐Dependent Ferroelectric Regimes

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Autonomous scanning probe microscopy and multi‐objective Bayesian optimization navigate a ternary (Al,Sc,B)N combinatorial library. Registered photoluminescence, electron‐probe compositional mapping, and X‐ray diffraction connect local electromechanical function to defect‐sensitive emission, composition, and crystal structure.
Yu Liu, Aditya Raghavan, Utkarsh Pratiush, Ian Mercer, Pochun Hsieh, Albert Suceava, Chih‐Yu Lee, Edgar Dimitrov, Mauricio Terrones, Ichiro Takeuchi, Venkatraman Gopalan, Jon‐Paul Maria, Sergei V. Kalinin   +12 more
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Shallow grates

Theoretical Computer Science, 1994
This note gives a construction for a family of weak grates; that is, acyclic digraphs of logarithmic depth with this property: A superlinear number of pairs of vertices remain connected after removing any sufficiently small linear sized vertex set. The construction is based on one by Schnitger for acyclic digraphs with a similar property.
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Interaction between luminance gratings and disparity gratings

Spatial Vision, 2004
It was shown from geometry and photographic measurement that the shading pattern for a sinusoidal corrugated surface of frequency f approximates to a luminance-defined grating of frequency f, 2f or f + 2f in specific relative phase. It was confirmed that a luminance grating modifies the appearance of a suprathreshold stereoscopic corrugated surface ...
Michael, Wright, Tim, Ledgeway
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Nano Borophene as a Programmable 2D Scaffold for Organized DNA Assembly and Long‐Range Energy Transfer

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Borophene is introduced as a programmable 2D bio‐interface that organizes DNA through dual boron–sulfur and nucleobase interactions. This molecular architecture enables efficient long‐range nanosurface energy transfer, establishing new design principles for functional nano–bio interfaces and amplification‐free optical biosensing.
Teresa Aditya, Pranay Saha, John M. Sansalone, Shraddha Krishnakumar, Matthew Molinaro, André J. van der Vlies, Nada Maher, Adrienne Griffiths, Zakhro Zakirova, Ketan Dighe, Narayana R. Aluru, Dipanjan Pan   +11 more
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Diffraction at a Curved Grating: Approximation by an Infinite Plane Grating

Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, 1996
The effect of curvature of a cylindrical grating on the diffraction of TE and TM polarized electromagnetic plane waves is considered. For every ratio of the wavelength \(\lambda\) to the period \(d\) a local approximation is established in the planar field by a plane infinite grating, when the radius \(R\) of the circular grating goes to infinity ...
Abboud, Toufic, Ammari, Habib
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Drop‐on‐Demand Printed Negative Dielectric Anisotropy Liquid Crystal Droplets for Adaptive Complex Beam Manipulation and Assessment

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Printed negative‐dielectric‐anisotropy liquid‐crystal droplets enable multidimensional full‐vectorial optical‐field sensing across polarization, phase, and wavelength, while also generating tunable skyrmionic‐like complex optical fields. ABSTRACT Adaptive manipulation of vectorial optical fields is important for optical metrology, imaging, and ...
Jinge Guo, Xuke Qiu, Runchen Zhang, Qihao Han, Liangyu Deng, Yishun Lu, Zimo Zhao, Mengmeng Li, Waqas Kamal, Junseok Ma, Yongge Ma, Steve J. Elston, Alfonso A. Castrejón‐Pita, Stephen M. Morris, Chao He   +14 more
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Distributed and Side-Pumped Fiber Laser Using a Laser Diode Bar Stack

IEEE Access, 2018
A distributed, side-pumped Yb3+-doped fiber laser is demonstrated using a laser diode stack as a pump source. Four subwavelength gratings fabricated on the same fused-silica substrate were aligned with four laser diode bars of the laser diode stack ...
Yin-Wen Lee, Wei-Chun Huangfu, Yen-Yin Li, I-Chou Wu, Sheng-Lung Huang, Shien-Kuei Peter Liaw, Mark Dubinskii   +6 more
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