The commercial success of radio-frequency acoustic filters in wireless communication
systems has launched aluminum nitride (AlN) as one of the most widely used …

Integrated photonics based on silicon has drawn a lot of interests, since it is able to provide
compact solution for functional devices, and its fabrication process is compatible with the …

Label-free bio-sensing is a critical functionality underlying a variety of health-and security-
related applications. Micro-/nano-photonic devices are well suited for this purpose and have …

Silicon photonics has offered a versatile platform for the recent development of integrated
optomechanical circuits. However, silicon is limited to wavelengths above 1.1 μm and does …

We demonstrate a wide-bandgap semiconductor photonics platform based on
nanocrystalline aluminum nitride (AlN) on sapphire. This photonics platform guides light at …

We propose a potentially practical scheme to precisely measure the charge number of small
charged objects by using optomechanically induced transparency (OMIT) in optomechanical …

Silicon photonics has gained great success mainly due to the promise of realizing compact
devices in high volume through the low-cost foundry model. It is burgeoning from laboratory …

We propose to use the intrinsic two-level system (TLS) defect states found naturally in
integrated optomechanical devices for exploring cavity QED-like phenomena with localized …

Based on density functional theory, we investigate the ferroelectric and piezoelectric
properties of the AlN/ScN superlattice, consisting of ScN and AlN buckled monolayers …

The discovery of two-dimensional (2D) materials has gained worldwide attention owing to
their extraordinary optical, electrical, and mechanical properties. Due to their atomic layer …