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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
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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

Cross‐Scale Hierarchical Targeted Delivery System Based on Small‐Scale Magnetic Robots

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This article reviews a cross‐scale hierarchical targeted delivery system that integrates magnetic continuum robots and magnetic microrobots. By combining rapid long‐range navigation with precise microscale targeting, the system overcomes key limitations of single‐scale approaches.
Junjian Zhou, Zhiqiang Chen, Yuanbiao Ma, Zhiqiang Tang, Qianqian Wang   +4 more
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Propulsion of polymer particles on caesium ion-exchanged channel waveguides for stem cell sorting applications

, 2009
Optical trapping of particles has become a powerful non-mechanical and nondestructive technique for precise particle positioning. The manipulation of particles in the evanescent field of a channel waveguide potentially allows for sorting and trapping of ...
Mohamad Shahimin, Mukhzeer
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A Low‐Cost, Handheld Optical Stiffness Sensor for Minimally Invasive Surgery

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
A novel handheld stiffness sensor is presented for real‐time tissue stiffness characterization. By simultaneously sensing contact force and tissue deformation, the device enables accurate stiffness quantification without requiring precise manual control. This approach offers a promising solution for intraoperative tumor detection and minimally invasive
Qianyu Ma, Ruxiang Jiang, Kaspar Althoefer, Nicolas Herzig, Hareesh Godaba   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Inverse scattering designs of dispersion-engineered single-mode planar waveguides

, 2014
We use an inverse-scattering (IS) approach to design single-mode waveguides with controlled linear and higher-order dispersion. The technique is based on a numerical solution to the Gelfand-Levitan-Marchenko integral equation, for the inversion of ...
Poletti, F., May, A.R., Zervas, M.N., Alexander R. May, Michalis N. Zervas, Francesco Poletti   +5 more
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Photonic‐Enabled Energy‐Efficient Transparent Neuromorphic Computing Devices: A Review

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Transparent photonic neuromorphic computing devices merge optics and brain‐inspired computing to overcome von Neumann bottlenecks with ultrafast, low‐energy processing. By exploiting transparent oxides, 2D materials, phase‐change materials, and hybrid heterostructures, these platforms enable photonic synapses, memory, and logic for see‐through edge ...
Shuvaraj Ghosh, Ki‐bum Lee, Junghyeon Lee, Seunghee Cho, Malkeshkumar Patel, Hangfei Li, Yu Wen, Ye Zhou, Joondong Kim   +8 more
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A Simple Nonlinear Classifier Using a Multimode Optical Chip

Advanced Photonics Research
Neural network accelerator based on photonic‐integrated circuits is emerging as a promising technology for fast, power‐efficient, and parallel computing.
Zhangqi Dang, Zeyu Deng, Tao Chen, Zhenming Ding, Ziyang Zhang   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Efficient Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Waveguide Polarizing Splitters for High‐Sensitivity Chip‐Scale Atomic Magnetometry

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
An integrated polarimetry architecture based on a cholesteric liquid crystal waveguide polarization splitter overcomes the volumetric bottleneck in chip‐scale atomic magnetometers. By leveraging Bragg‐selective reflection and total‐internal‐reflection‐induced helicity inversion, this ultrathin device enables efficient circular polarization splitting ...
Zhibo Cui, Chuang Wang, Xiangyang Zhou, Gaopu Hou, Jinsheng Hu, Mao Ye, Xu Xiao, Zhen Chai, Yishi Weng, Yuning Zhang   +9 more
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Defect‐Symmetry Engineered Gyroidal Photonic Crystals Achieve Monotonic Modulation of Bandgap Width With a Stable Mid‐Gap

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Inspired by the twin grain boundary discovered in natural gyroidal networks, a series of gyroid‐derived photonic crystals are constructed based on defect‐symmetry engineering. The new series of structures enables monotonic tuning of the width of the photonic bandgap (PBG) while the central frequency of the PBG maintains stable.
Shuo Huang, Yang Zhou, Wenxin Ning, Hengliang Wang, Lu Han, Xueyan Feng   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source