An ultrawide, tunable band rejection filter was experimentally demonstrated operating from 1060 to 1670 nm seamlessly covering all communication bands (O, E, S, C, L, and U bands). The device consists of a micro-optical waveguide made from fused taper fiber coupler mounted over a microactuating platform that systematically applies a highly localized torsional stress over the coupling region. High-band rejection efficiency of 20-30 dB and very low insertion loss of 0.2 dB were experimentally achieved over the whole operating spectral range.
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January 2025
McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering and Texas Material Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States.
Germanium (Ge) colloidal quantum dots (CQDs) were synthesized by thermal decomposition of GeI using capping ligand mixtures of oleylamine (OAm), octadecene (ODE), and trioctylphosphine (TOP). Average diameters could be tuned across a wide range, from 3 to 18 nm, by adjusting reactant concentrations, heating rates, and reaction temperatures. OAm promotes decomposition of GeI to Ge and serves as a weakly bound capping ligand.
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January 2025
Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Applying long wavelength periodic potentials on quantum materials has recently been demonstrated to be a promising pathway for engineering novel quantum phases of matter. Here, we utilize twisted bilayer boron nitride (BN) as a moiré substrate for band structure engineering. Small-angle-twisted bilayer BN is endowed with periodically arranged up and down polar domains, which imprints a periodic electrostatic potential on a target two-dimensional (2D) material placed on top.
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January 2025
School of Optical-Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200093, China.
In recent years, research on chiral bound states in the continuum (BIC) has surged, leading to the development of various chiral metasurfaces with narrow bandwidths by breaking of in-plane and out-of-plane symmetries. However, the ability to dynamically tune the working band remains relatively unexplored, which is valuable for chiral sensing applications. Optical phase-change materials, with tunable dielectric constants and switchable properties during phase transition, offer the potential for dynamic control of optical metasurfaces.
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January 2025
School of Science, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang 212001, China.
Herein, we propose a new GaN/MoSiP van der Waals (vdWs) heterostructure constructed by vertically stacking GaN and MoSiP monolayers. Its electronic, optical, and photocatalytic properties are explored DFT++BSE calculations. The calculated binding energy and phonon spectrum demonstrated the material's high stabilities.
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January 2025
Institute of Nuclear Physics and Chemistry, China Academy of Engineering Physics, Mianyang 621900, Sichuan, China.
CdS/ZnS heterostructures with tunable band gaps are promising photocatalysts for solar- or visible-light-driven H production through water splitting. To predict how the bandgap changes with the heterostructure composition, density functional theory calculations with meta-GGA correction are performed. It is found that the band gaps of CdS and ZnS are reduced by up to 14.
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