We demonstrate how micromachined photonic crystals can be used to negatively refract terahertz frequency light. The photonic crystals, which are constructed from conventional dielectric materials, manipulate the incident beam via interaction with their photonic bands. Consequently, we show that different components of a broadband beam incident on the structure may be positively or negatively re...

A Study of thin films preparation faces many challenges due to the environmentally sensitivity that could initiate effect towards device performance. Requirement to fabricate the passive device like capacitor at such nanoscaled thickness is quite challenges that would initiate the effect on the device performance. Nowadays, capacitor not just only existed by conventional dielectric material, it...

To meet measurement needs in harsh environments, such as high temperature and rotating applications, a wireless passive Low Temperature Co-fired Ceramics (LTCC) temperature sensor based on ferroelectric dielectric material is presented in this paper. As a LC circuit which consists of electrically connected temperature sensitive capacitor and invariable planar spiral inductor, the sensor has its...

A novel basis function, called as the Modified Phase Extracted (MPE) basis function, has been proposed to analyze threedimensional scattering problems for electrically large, thin dielectriccoated targets. The MPE basis function, which can be defined on large (e.g., a wavelength or more) curvilinear geometrical elements, is developed for quadrilateral cells. Consequently, combining with the thi...

A noninvasive, in situ calibration method for total internal reflection microscopy (TIRM) based on optical tweezing is presented, which greatly expands the capabilities of this technique. We show that by making only simple modifications to the basic TIRM sensing setup and procedure, a probe particle's absolute position relative to a dielectric interface may be known with better than 10 nm preci...

This paper presents details on ultra thin (silicon dioxide and silicon nitride based composite structures) dielectrics that have the potential for meeting future device requirements. The increase in gate leakage current is a major problem for scaled conventional gate oxide in advanced device technology. Approaches to minimize this problems have been reviewed. Various Gate, Interlayer and DRAM d...

This paper presents an analytical model to estimate the motional resistance for partial air gap capacitivelytransduced MEMS resonators. This model serves as a link between the well formulated analytical models for conventional air gap and internal dielectric transduction schemes, thereby helping decide which scheme is optimal for a given design frequency. Using this model, we simulate and exper...

The authors realize a 50% length reduction of short-slot couplers in a post-wall dielectric substrate by two techniques. One is to introduce hollow rectangular holes near the side walls of the coupled region. The difference of phase constant between the TE10 and TE20 propagating modes increases and the required length to realize a desired dividing ratio is reduced. Another is to remove two refl...

All-dielectric metamaterials offer a potential low-loss alternative to plasmonic metamaterials at optical frequencies. Here, we experimentally demonstrate a silicon based large-scale magnetic metamaterial, which is fabricated with standard photolithography and conventional reactive ion etching process. The periodically arrayed silicon sub-wavelength structures possess electric and magnetic resp...

Bismuth sodium zirconate titanate ceramics with the formula Bi0.5Na0.5Zr1-xTixO3 [BNZT], where x = 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, and 0.6, were prepared by a conventional solid-state sintering method. Phase identification was investigated using an X-ray diffraction technique. All compositions exhibited complete solubility of Ti4+ at the Zr4+ site. Both a decrease of unit cell size and phase transition from an ...