Since graphene has been taken as the potential host material for next-generation electric devices, coexistence of high carrier mobility and an energy gap has the determining role in its real applications. However, in conventional methods of band-gap engineering, the energy gap and carrier mobility in graphene are seemed to be the two terminals of a seesaw, which limit its rapid development in e...

The design and engineering of hybrid materials exhibiting tailored phononic band gaps are fundamentally relevant to innovative material technologies in areas ranging from acoustics to thermo-optic devices. Phononic hybridization gaps, originating from the anti-crossing between local resonant and propagating modes, have attracted particular interest because of their relative robustness to struct...

Photonic band gap airbridge microcavity resonances in GaAs/AlxOy waveguides D. J. Ripin, Kuo-Yi Lim, G. S. Petrich, Pierre R. Villeneuve, Shanhui Fan, E. R. Thoen, J. D. Joannopoulos, E. P. Ippen, and L. A. Kolodziejski Department of Physics, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Center for Material Science and Engineering, Massachusetts ...

Based on a semester-long seminar on the topic, this book aims to fill a gap in the current engineering curricula by taking a wide-angle view at the process of engineering design rather than focusing on a more narrow and indepth approach. As part of Artech House Publishers' technology management and professional development library, this is an excellent introduction to the topic and may serve fo...

Techniques from the HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) field have been used for the development of usable software products for a long time, but their use is often not integrated with software engineering practices. In this work we describe an approach for bridging the gap between software engineering and HCI, by offering orientation to software practitioners on the application of HCI techniques ...