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Additive Manufacturing of Alumina‐Reinforced Elastomers

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Vat‐photopolymerized elastomers reinforced with platelet‐shaped alumina exhibited preferential orientation, reduced porosity, and significantly enhanced mechanical performance. A 3 wt% platelet loading increased tensile strength from 12.4 to 45.7 MPa, highlighting the critical role of filler morphology in elastomeric VPP composites.
Majid Barzegar Keyvani, Zongwen Fu, Robert Göstl, Hamed Shokri, Carmine Putignano, Gianluca Percoco, Bilal Gökce   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Enhancing Fatigue Crack Growth Resistance in Heterostructured Aluminum Bimetals by Tailored Interface Design

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Different Al/Al bimetals with a single engineered interface reveal how mechanical mismatch governs fatigue crack growth under cyclic loading. Additionally, loading–unloading–reloading tests link the microyielding behavior to the fatigue crack growth resistance, while crack‐path analysis reveals toughening mechanisms at the interface, highlighting ...
Sebastian Vollath, Philip Manuel Pohl, Heinz Werner Höppel   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Degeneracy Breaking of Wood’s Anomaly for Enhanced Refractive Index Sensing [PDF]

ACS Photonics, 2015
We introduce an ultrasensitive detection technique for refractive index (RI) sensing based on an array of nanometer scale slot-antennas milled in a thin gold layer using a single lithographic step. Our experimental figures of merit (FOMs) of 140-210 in the telecom wavelength range approach the fundamental limit for standard propagating SPR sensors ...
Eitan, Michal, Iluz, Zeev, Yifat, Yuval, Boag, Amir, Hanein, Yael, Scheuer, Jacob   +5 more
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Distinct Microstructural Characteristic Lengths Defining Notch Fatigue Crack Initiation and Propagation, and Defect Tolerance in Advanced Steels

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Schematic representation of modes of microcrack nucleation, growth and temporary arrestment at different boundaries, with the criteria for crack propagation in three scenarios: (1) large notch, (2) defect/small sharp notch, and (3) long crack. This work revisits and integrates results on the fatigue behavior of advanced bainitic steels (in particular ...
Lucia Morales‐Rivas
wiley   +1 more source

Uniform Amorphization of Crystalline Silicon Surfaces Enabled by Deep Ultraviolet Femtosecond Laser Pulses

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Deep‐UV (258 nm) femtosecond pulses enable uniform amorphous silicon writing on Si(100)/(111) with a six‐fold larger fluence amorphization window than NIR methods. Optimized fluence and overlap yield 20–45 nm uniform and continuous amorphous layers. Microscopy shows sharp interfaces, and real‐time reflectivity reveals nanosecond melt–resolidification ...
Wissal Benali, Magali Gregoire, Matys Guyard, Tatiana Itina, David Grojo, Pol Sopeña   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Enhanced Ultrasound Transmission Through Aberration Layers Using Space‐Coiling Acoustic Metamaterials

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Enhancing ultrasound transmission through an aberration layer exhibiting mismatched impedance with the surrounding medium possesses great implications in imaging and treatment. In this study, we show that a space‐coiling acoustic metamaterial with judiciously tailored structural profile can help improve impedance matching.
Maral Ghanami, Hengzhe Ren, Erqian Dong, Ashkan Ghanbarzadeh‐Dagheyan, Chen Shen   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Polymer Asymmetric Mach–Zehnder Interferometer Sensor Model Based on Electrode Thermal Writing Waveguide Technology

Micromachines, 2019
This paper presents a novel electrode thermal writing waveguide based on a heating-induced refractive index change mechanism. The mode condition and the electrode thermal writing parameters were optimized, and the output patterns of the optical field ...
Baizhu Lin, Yunji Yi, Yue Cao, Jiawen Lv, Yue Yang, Fei Wang, Xiaoqiang Sun, Daming Zhang   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sensing refractive index gradients along dielectric nanopillar metasurfaces

Optics Express, 2020
Metasurfaces exhibit unique optical properties that depend on the ratio of their refractive index and that of their surroundings. As such, they are effective for sensing global changes in refractive index based on the shifts of resonances in their reflectivity spectra.
Xiaoyuan Lu, Vini Gautam, Dmitry Shishmarev, Vincent R. Daria   +3 more
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Control of Polarization and Polar Helicity in BiFeO3 by Epitaxial Strain and Interfacial Chemistry

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
In BiFeO3 thin films, the interplay of interfacial chemistry, electrostatics, and epitaxial strain is engineered to stabilize homohelicity in polarization textures at the domain scale. The synergistic use of a Bi2O2‐terminated Aurivillius buffer layer and a highly anisotropic compressive epitaxial strain offers new routes to control the polar‐texture ...
Elzbieta Gradauskaite, Lilia Huynh, Natascha Gray, Quintin N. Meier, Marta D. Rossell, Morgan Trassin   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Refractive index sensor based on a solid-core photonic crystal fiber interferometer

Iraqi Journal of Physics, 2019
Photonic crystal fiber interferometers are widely used for sensing applications. In this work, solid core-Photonic crystal fiber based on Mach-Zehnder modal interferometer for sensing refractive index was presented.
Nawras Ali Salman
doaj   +1 more source