The throughput is an important parameter for label-free biosensors. Acoustic resonators like the quartz crystal microbalance have a low throughput because the number of sensors which can be used at the same time is limited. Here we present an array of 64 CMOS-integrated film bulk acoustic resonators. We compare the performance with surface plasmon resonance and the quartz crystal microbalance a...

This paper deals with variational principles on thin films with linear PDE constraints represented by a constant-rank operator A, and studies the effective behavior, in the sense of Γ-convergence, of integral functionals as the thickness of the domain tends to zero. The limit integral functional turns out to be determined by the A-quasiconvex envelope of the original energy density and is const...

It is known that the free surface of an axisymmetric viscous film flowing down the outside of a thin vertical fiber under the influence of gravity becomes unstable to interfacial perturbations. We present an experimental study using fluids with different densities, surface tensions, and viscosities to investigate the growth and dynamics of these interfacial perturbations and to test the assumpt...

The effect of surface phonon scattering on the electrical resistivity has been observed in Co/Ni superlattices, with reproducible film microstructure, independent of the film thickness. The temperaturedependent part of the resistivity increases rapidly with decreasing film thickness for films thinner than the electronic mean free path. The resistivity shows a universal behavior well characteriz...

The electrical resistivity of a pure sample of a thin metallic film is found to depend on the boundary conditions. This conclusion is supported by a freeelectron model calculation and confirmed by an ab initio relativistic KorringaKohn-Rostoker computation. The low-temperature resistivity is found to be zero for a free-standing film (reflecting boundary conditions) but nonzero when the film is ...

The photo-induced alignment quality of a ferroelectric liquid crystas (FLC) onto a photochemical stable azodye film was studied for various procedures of the azodye film photo-treatment and the FLC structure. The alignment quality of FLC depends mainly on the order parameter of the azodye film, however the structure of FLC layer is also important. So, the photo-aligned deformed helix ferroelect...

We present the concept of a locally resonant nanophononic metamaterial for thermoelectric energy conversion. Our configuration, which is based on a silicon thin film with a periodic array of pillars erected on one or two of the free surfaces, qualitatively alters the base thin-film phonon spectrum due to a hybridization mechanism between the pillar local resonances and the underlying atomic lat...

Compressively-stressed elastic films on finite-thickness viscous substrates can undergo a buckling instability that relieves stresses but destroys the planarity of the film. A linear-stability analysis is performed to determine the onset and maximally unstable mode of this buckling instability as a function of misfit strain, viscous layer thickness, and viscosity. We find that the onset of the ...

The asymptotic behavior of the micromagnetic free energy governing a ferromagnetic film is studied as its thickness gets smaller and smaller compared to its cross section. Here the static Maxwell equations are treated as a Murat’s constant rank PDE constraint on the energy functional. In contrast to previous work this approach allows to keep track of the induced magnetic field without solving t...

Cinema industry has chosen Digital Cinema Package (DCP) as encoding format for the distribution of digital films. DCP uses JPEG2000 for video compression. An efficient implementation of coding and decoding for this format is complex, however. Currently deployed equipment is expensive and has high maintenance costs, preventing art-house cinema theaters from acquiring it. Therefore, we conduct th...