Comprehensive geoneutrino analysis with Borexino

M Agostini, K Altenmüller, S Appel, V Atroshchenko… - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
This paper presents a comprehensive geoneutrino measurement using the Borexino
detector, located at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS) in Italy. The analysis is the …

High‐speed (104 °C/s) scanning microcalorimetry with monolayer sensitivity (J/m2)

SL Lai, G Ramanath, LH Allen, P Infante, Z Ma - Applied physics letters, 1995 - pubs.aip.org
We introduce a high sensitivity (1J/m2) scanning microcalorimeter that can be used at high
heating rates (104° C/s). The system is designed using ultrathin SiN membranes that serve …

Tunability of the dielectric function of heavily doped germanium thin films for mid-infrared plasmonics

J Frigerio, A Ballabio, G Isella, E Sakat, G Pellegrini… - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
Heavily doped semiconductor thin films are very promising for application in mid-infrared
plasmonic devices because the real part of their dielectric function is negative and broadly …

Real-time 50-Gbit/s spatially multiplexed quantum random number generator based on vacuum fluctuation

K Tanizawa, K Kato, F Futami - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Unpredictable random number (RN) generation is an essential technology for cryptographic
applications. Quantum RN generators (QRNGs) have attracted significant attention owing to …

Entanglement transfer through the turbulent atmosphere

AA Semenov, W Vogel - Physical Review A—Atomic, Molecular, and Optical …, 2010 - APS
The propagation of polarization-entangled states of light through fluctuating loss channels in
the turbulent atmosphere is studied, including the situation of strong losses. We consider …

Simulation and implementation of decoy state quantum key distribution over 60km telecom fiber

Y Zhao, B Qi, X Ma, HK Lo… - 2006 IEEE International …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Decoy state quantum key distribution (QKD) has been proposed as a novel approach to
improve dramatically both the security and the performance of practical QKD set-ups …

Temperature-dependent photoluminescence in Ge: Experiment and theory

J Menéndez, CD Poweleit, SE Tilton - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
We report a photoluminescence study of high-quality Ge samples at temperatures 12 K≤
T≤ 295 K, over a spectral range that covers phonon-assisted emission from the indirect gap …

Ab initio mobility of single-layer MoS2 and WS2: comparison to experiments and impact on the device characteristics

Y Lee, S Fiore, M Luisier - 2019 IEEE International Electron …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We combine the linearized Boltzmann Transport Equation (LBTE) and quantum transport by
means of the Non-equilibrium Green's Functions (NEGF) to simulate monolayer MoS 2 and …

Accidental double Dirac cones and robust edge states in topological anisotropic photonic crystals

XD Chen, WM Deng, FL Zhao… - Laser & Photonics …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Dirac cones in photonic systems have many profound applications such as achieving zero‐
index materials and nontrivial photonic phases. It is shown that double Dirac cones at the …

Kinetics and nucleation model of the C49 to C54 phase transformation in TiSi2 thin films on deep‐sub‐micron n+ type polycrystalline silicon lines

JA Kittl, DA Prinslow, PP Apte, MF Pas - Applied physics letters, 1995 - pubs.aip.org
A detailed kinetic study of the C49 to C54 phase transformation in TiSi2 thin films was
performed, to obtain the full time, temperature, and linewidth dependence of the fraction …