High-Mobility Tri-Gate β-Ga₂O₃ MESFETs With a Power Figure of Merit Over 0.9 GW/cm²

Epitaxial CrN thin films with high thermoelectric figure of merit.

A large enhancement of the thermoelectric figure of merit is reported in single-crystalline films of CrN. The mechanism of the reduction of the lattice thermal conductivity in cubic CrN is similar to the resonant bonding in IV-VI compounds. Therefore, useful ideas from classic thermo-electrics can be applied to tune functionalities in transition metal nitrides and oxides.

Hybrid nanoparticle and thin film SPR biosensor with a high figure of merit

Due to their extreme sensitivity to refractive index changes, surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensors have long been established as extremely valuable tools for biosensing. In the past few years researchers have begun investigating various other metallic nanostructures as candidates for localized SPR (LSPR) sensing. Although LSPR is not nearly as sensitive to bulk refractive index changes as st...

Interpreting the Dark Energy Figure of Merit

Gate capacitances of high electron mobility transistors

The gate-drain capacitance and the sourcedrain capacitance of High Electron Mobility transistors have been measured on a computer-aided measurement system. The variation of these capacitances with transistor bias voltages is explained and compared with the trend predicted by a capacitance model used in literature. Differences in measured and calculated results arise from the assumptions used in...

Figure of Merit for Multiband Antennas

This communication defines a figure of merit for multiband antennas that gives an objective quantification of the similarities between radiation patterns at the different antenna operating bands.