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Review of Thermally Activated Twisted Coiled Polymer Actuators: A Materials Science Perspective

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Thermally activated twisted and coiled polymer actuators (TCPAs) combine lightweight design, large deformation, and scalable fabrication for soft robotic and wearable applications. This review connects polymer structure, processing history, helix geometry, and thermomechanical characterization to actuator performance, highlighting current challenges in
Nadja Schenk, Lukas Benecke, Chokri Cherif, Johannes Mersch   +3 more
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Passive and hybrid mode locking in multi-section terahertz quantum cascade lasers

New Journal of Physics, 2018
It is believed that passive mode locking is virtually impossible in quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) because of too fast carrier relaxation time. Here, we revisit this possibility and theoretically show that stable mode locking and pulse durations in the ...
P Tzenov, I Babushkin, R Arkhipov, M Arkhipov, N Rosanov, U Morgner, C Jirauschek   +6 more
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Surprising Water Slipping Performance on Highly Hydrophilic PEG‐Derived Monolayer‐Covered Surfaces: Preparation, Mechanism, and Application

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Highly hydrophilic surfaces (water contact angle, ≈17.7°) exhibiting surprising water slipping performance (sliding angle, ≈7.3°) are successfully prepared via simple chemisorption of polyethylene glycol (PEG) organosilane and subsequent alkali‐treatment.
Hyeonjin Kim, Kouki Akaike, Jerred Wassgren, Hiroshi Kakiuchida, Masahisa Okada, Atsushi Hozumi   +5 more
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Shaping Matter with Acoustic Waves: From Particles to Functional Structures

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Acoustic‐directed assembly is reviewed as a materials‐oriented strategy for organizing particles, polymers, metals, and biological systems into functional structures. The review distinguishes reversible manipulation from permanent structure formation through medium fixation, particle fixation, and in situ material generation, highlighting routes toward
Avraham Kenigsberg, Shelly Zlotnikov, Maya Fiorentino, Yuval Elias, Ornit Nagler‐Avramovitz, Hagay Shpaisman   +5 more
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Transport of a colloidal particle driven across a temporally oscillating optical potential energy landscape

New Journal of Physics, 2019
A colloidal particle is driven across a temporally oscillating one-dimensional optical potential energy landscape and its particle motion is analysed. Different modes of dynamic mode locking are observed and are confirmed with the use of phase portraits.
Joshua L Abbott, Arthur V Straube, Dirk G A L Aarts, Roel P A Dullens   +3 more
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All‐Solution‐Processed HgTe Quantum Dot Photodetectors for Extended Short‐Wavelength Infrared Range Enhanced by Plasmonic ITO Nanocrystals

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
All‐solution‐processed, low‐cost extended short‐wavelength infrared photodetectors are realized by coupling colloidal HgTe quantum dots to plasmonic In2O3:Sn,F nanocrystals. Localized surface plasmon resonances boost and spectrally tailor light absorption between 1500 and 3000 nm, enabling responsivities above 40 A W−1.
Kseniia A. Sergeeva, Anastasiia V. Sokolova, Chenxi Guo, Yuanfei Huo, Yulia V. Kuznetsova, Ran An, Aleksandr A. Sergeev, Kam Sing Wong, Tianshuo Zhao, Andrey L. Rogach   +9 more
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Microscopic Origin of Temperature‐Dependent Anisotropic Heat Transport in Ultrawide‐Bandgap Rutile GeO2

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Rutile GeO2${\rm GeO}_{2}$ exhibits orientation‐dependent heat transport with temperature‐dependent anisotropy, showing higher cross‐plane thermal conductivity along [001] than along the equivalent in‐plane [100] and [010] directions. Temperature‐dependent TDTR measurements and first‐principles phonon calculations identify the microscopic phonon ...
Pouria Emtenani, Marta Loletti, Felix Nippert, Eduardo Bedê Barros, Zbigniew Galazka, Hans Tornatzky, Christian Thomsen, Juan Sebastián Reparaz, Riccardo Rurali, Markus R. Wagner   +9 more
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Waveguide Array Fiber Laser

IEEE Photonics Journal, 2012
A waveguide array fiber laser is demonstrated. An AlGaAs waveguide array is used as a saturable absorber to achieve passive mode-locking in an erbium-doped fiber laser. The output consists of a very regular train of pulses. Autocorrelations show that the
Qing Chao, Darren D. Hudson, J. Nathan Kutz, S. T. Cundiff   +3 more
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Strain Engineering of Magnetoresistance and Magnetic Anisotropy in CrSBr

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Biaxial compressive strain significantly enhances magnetoresistance and critical saturation fields in thin flakes of the 2D magnet CrSBr, along all three crystallographic axes. First‐principles calculations link these effects to strain‐induced increases in exchange interactions and magnetic anisotropy.
Eudomar Henríquez‐Guerra, Alberto M. Ruiz, Marta Galbiati, Álvaro Cortés‐Flores, Daniel Brown, Esteban Zamora‐Amo, Lisa Almonte, Andrei Shumilin, Juan Salvador‐Sánchez, Ana Pérez‐Rodríguez, Iñaki Orue, Andrés Cantarero, Andres Castellanos‐Gomez, Federico Mompeán, Mar Garcia‐Hernandez, Efrén Navarro‐Moratalla, Enrique Diez, Mario Amado, José J. Baldoví, M. Reyes Calvo   +19 more
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Critical Cavities Design for High-Repetition-Frequency Self-Starting Kerr-Lens Mode-Locked Lasers

Photonics
The mode-locking mechanism of Kerr-lens mode-locked lasers is analyzed using the nonlinear ABCD matrix formalism. Our findings demonstrate that positioning the Kerr medium at the beam waist and operating the resonator near the stability boundary ...
Xinxin Wang, Xing Chen, Zhigang Zhang, Bin Luo, Song Yu   +4 more
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