We demonstrate tunable superluminal propagation in a silicon microphotonic device in a solid-state room-temperature device of tens of micrometers in dimension allowing easy integration with high-bandwidth room-temperature systems. We achieve tunable negative delays up to 85 ps and effective group indices tunable between -1158 and -312.

caco3 nanoparticles have been synthesized via heat-treatment of a new precursor and solid state reaction. effect of calcinations temperature and quantity of surfactant on particle size has been investigated. the products were characterized by x-ray diffraction (xrd), scanning electron microscopy (sem), transmission electron microscopy (tem) and fourier transform infrared (ft–ir) spectroscopy.

indoor radon and thoron have been measured in the houses ofmoradabad district, uttar pradesh india, by means of solid state nuclear trackdetectors. radon, an invisible radioactive gas, occurs naturally in indooratmospheres and along with thoron is the most important contribution of humanexposure to natural sources. radon exists in soil gas building materials and indooratmosphere to name but a f...

2014 The interest of the scanning acoustic microscope previously demonstrated in the biomedical field is extended to microelectronic applications. The properties of penetrating and focusing of acoustic waves in solids are particularly suitable for non destructive observation of surface and subsurface of solid state structure and device such as integrated circuit, epitaxial, implanted and diffus...

in this paper, absorption spectra of both solution and films of cyano azobenzene polymer are investigated. the analysis of overlapped absorption spectra of polymer, related to trans and cis isomers, shows that the population of cis isomers is higher than trans isomers. it means that, cyano azobenzene molecules have a folded structure in polymer, in thermal equilibrium. presence of cyano molecul...

Modern electrical dryers are often equipped with end-ofcycle alarms, making their use more efficient and reducing the need for periodic monitoring. We believe that lowerincome households as well as ecologically aware consumers, drying their laundry on a clothesline, could benefit from a similar mechanism. Such an alarm must be simple to use, compatible with existing systems and low-cost. This w...

Computer simulations of realistic ion channel structures have always been challenging and a subject of rigorous study. Simulations based on continuum electrostatics have proven to be computationally cheap and reasonably accurate in predicting a channel's behavior. In this paper we discuss the use of a device simulator, SILVACO, to build a solid-state model for KcsA channel and study its steady-...

We report on the quantum storage and retrieval of photonic polarization quantum bits onto and out of a solid state storage device. The qubits are implemented with weak coherent states at the single photon level, and are stored for a predetermined time of 500 ns in a praseodymium doped crystal with a storage and retrieval efficiency of 10%, using the atomic frequency comb scheme. We characterize...