Far field X-ray grating interferometry achieves extraordinary phase sensitivity in imaging weakly absorbing samples, provided that the grating period is within the transverse coherence length of the X-ray source. Here we describe a cost-efficient process to fabricate large area, 100 nm half-pitch hard X-ray phase gratings with an aspect ratio of 32. The nanometric gratings are suitable for ordi...

We present a study of the highly nonlinear optical excitation of noble gases in tapered hollow waveguides using few-femtosecond laser pulses. The local plasmonic field enhancement induces the generation of a nanometric plasma, resulting in incoherent extreme-ultraviolet fluorescence from optical transitions of neutral and ionized xenon, argon, and neon. Despite sufficient intensity in the waveg...

A nanoscale data summation architecture is proposed and experimentally demonstrated based on the optical near-field interaction between quantum dots. Based on local electromagnetic interactions between a few nanometric elements via optical near fields, we can combine multiple excitations at a certain quantum dot, which allows construction of a summation architecture. Summation plays a key role ...

For what we believe to be the first time, digital holographic microscopy is applied to perform optical diffraction tomography of a pollen grain. Transmission phase images with nanometric axial accuracy are numerically reconstructed from holograms acquired for different orientations of the rotating sample; then the three-dimensional refractive index spatial distribution is computed by inverse ra...

Water permeation through nanometric channels, generally a coupled many-body process, is described in this study by a single collective coordinate. A collective diffusion model is proposed in which water movement at equilibrium is characterized as an unbiased diffusion along this coordinate and water transport in the presence of a chemical potential difference is described as one-dimensional dif...

Linking material property acquisition and modeling in the nanometric scale with those on the macro-scale is currently one of the most challenging fields of research in material science in general and in micromachining in particular. Due to computational limitations it is presently impossible to inflate atomic level models and simulations to the macro sized components we work with daily. This kn...

We present a new theoretical and numerical framework for the study of the optical properties of micrometric and nanometric three-dimensional structures of arbitrary shape. We show that the field distribution induced inside and outside such a structure by different external monochromatic sources can be obtained from a unique generalized field propagator expressed in direct space. An application ...

Novel architectures with nanometric are very promising as building blocks for future nanotechnological applications. Metallic substrates with ordered morphology have been shown to be very effective for surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS). The sensitivity of detection is increased by several orders of magnitude by using this technique. In this paper we investigate SERS on thermal evaporated...

cd1-xmnxs (x = 0, 0.1, 0.2) nanoparticles, prepared by co-precipitation method under ultrasonic irradiation, were studied by means of x-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, ftir and uv-vis  spectroscopy measurements. the average particle size of nanoparticles from the scanning electron microscopy image is about 20-30 nm. results show that partial substitution of cd by mn leads to a re...