We have experimentally explored a new approach to local anodic oxidation (LAO) of a semiconductor heterostructures by means of atomic force microscopy (AFM). We have applied LAO to an InGaP/AlGaAs/GaAs heterostructure. Although LAO is usually applied to oxidize GaAs/AlGaAs/GaAs-based heterostructures, the use of the InGaP/AlGaAs/GaAs system is more advantageous. The difference lies in the use o...

We have created a hybrid i-motif composed of two DNA and two peptide nucleic acid (PNA) strands from an equimolar mixture of a C-rich DNA and analogous PNA sequence. Nano-electrospray ionization mass spectrometry confirmed the formation of a tetrameric species, composed of PNA-DNA heteroduplexes. Thermal denaturation and CD experiments revealed that the structure was held together by C-H+-C bas...

Recently, it has been shown that it is feasible to realize 29.5 Gb/in recording density employing hexagonal barium ferrite (H-BaFe) nanoplatelets [1]. Although H-BaFe nanoplatelets are a potential candidate for high density recording media, their greatest disadvantage is their dispersibility and agglomeration by forming poker-chip-like stacks due to mutual magnetic interactions [2-3]. To achiev...

In this work, a novel design of an electro-tunable narrow channel based on anisotropic epsilon-near-zero metamaterial is presented. The ENZ condition can be flexibly tuned by applied gate voltage. This permittivity-tunable composed periodic alternating layers graphene and nanoglass with thickness 3 nm. Additionally, dual output light modulator utilized to expand its application. Numerical analy...

A novel method of integration a silver-polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) nanocomposite in microfluidic channel for the realization lab-on-a-chip is reported this work. By using silver nitrate aqueous precursor solution, nanostructures are formed on, and under surface PDMS, by situ reduction. The aggregates reduction have wide absorbance plasmon band UV–Visible range. Separated nano-islands, having na...

We predict and investigate the emission of high-order harmonics by atoms that cross intense laser hot spots that last for a nanosecond or longer. An atom that moves through a nanometer-scale hot spot at characteristic thermal velocity can emit high-order harmonics in a similar fashion to an atom that is irradiated by a short-duration (picosecond-scale) laser pulse. We analyze the collective emi...

Anomalous transport of heat and particles is known to be a key issue for fusion devices. In the present paper the anomalous transport of fast ions is investigated. High transit frequencies of the fast ions lead to the assumption that there is only very weak interaction with the low-frequency turbulence. However, our results indicate a significant fast ion particle transport due to the turbulenc...

We report the first experimental demonstration of combined spatial and temporal control of light transmission through opaque media. This control is achieved by solely manipulating spatial degrees of freedom of the incident wave front. As an application, we demonstrate that the present approach is capable of forming bandwidth-limited ultrashort pulses from the otherwise randomly transmitted ligh...

Piezoelectric materials capable of converting between mechanical and electrical energy have a great range of potential applications in micro- and nano-scale smart devices; however, their performance tends to be greatly degraded when reduced to a thin film due to the large clamping force by the substrate and surrounding materials. Herein, we report an effective method for synthesizing isolated p...