two potassium oxalate doped tio2 samples, designated as k1-tio2 and k2-tio2, were synthesized by the base-catalyzed sol-gel process. these samples were impregnated into rubber sheets. two commercial tio2 samples, anatase and degussa p25, were used as reference materials with which the synthesized samples were to be compared. anatase and p25 were also impregnated into rubber sheets and designate...

The signature of correlated electron materials (CEMs) is the coupling between spin, charge, orbital and lattice resulting in exotic functionality. This complexity is directly responsible for their tunability. We demonstrate here that the broken symmetry, through cubic to orthorhombic distortion in the lattice structure in a prototype manganite single crystal, La(0.69)Ca(0.31)MnO(3), leads to an...

We study how the magneto-optical activity in polar configuration of continuous Au/Co/Au trilayers is affected by the excitation of localized plasmon resonances of an array of Au nanodiscs fabricated on top of them over a dielectric SiO(2) spacer. We show that the effect of the nanodiscs array is twofold. First, it optimizes the absorption of light at specific photon energies corresponding to th...

The nonlinear magneto-optical response of sand d-wave superconductors is discussed. We carry out the symmetry analysis of the nonlinear magneto-optical susceptibility in the superconducting state. Due to the surface sensitivity of the nonlinear optical response for systems with bulk inversion symmetry , we perform a group theoretical classification of the superconducting order parameter close t...

The magneto-electric coupling and magneto-capacitance effect of a layer composite ferromagnet/ piezoelectric/ferromagnet was investigated. Several resonant peaks were observed on the curves of the capacitance versus frequency. The resonant peaks were found to shift under an applied magnetic field, and the impedance of the sample can be changed from capacitive to inductive ones with changing the...

A facile method termed magneto-mechanical drawing is used to produce polymer composite microfibers. Compared with electrospinning and other fiber spinning methods, magneto-mechanical drawing uses magnetic force generated by a permanent magnet to draw droplets of polymer/magnetic nanoparticle suspensions, leading to fabrication of composite microfibers. In addition, because of the rotating colle...

Nonlinear Magneto-Optic Effects with Ultra-Narrow Widths Dmitry Budker , Valeriy Yashchuk , and Max Zolotorev a Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-7300 b E. O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720 c B. P. Konstantinov Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia 188350 Abstract Several dispersion-like features in th...

The basis of haptic teleoperation focuses on augmenting a user’s ability to perform a task in a remote environment. Using an energetically passive haptic master assures that the energy can only be redirected or removed from the humanmanipulator pair, guaranteeing the user’s safety. However using a passive master complicates the display of haptic forces due to the device’s limitations. The maste...

Density pumpout and edge-localized mode (ELM) suppression by applied n=2 magnetic fields in low-collisionality DIII-D plasmas are shown to be correlated with the magnitude of the plasma response driven on the high-field side (HFS) of the magnetic axis but not the low-field side (LFS) midplane. These distinct responses are a direct measurement of a multimodal magnetic plasma response, with each ...

In this study, we consider the vibration mitigation problem for a structural system using a magneto-rheological (MR) damper. For this purpose, through the use of Lyapunov-based design techniques, a nonlinear adaptive controller which can compensate the parametric uncertainties related to both the structural system and the MR damper has been constructed. To overcome effects of the unmeasurable i...