We demonstrate the polarization-dependent anisotropy of the laser induced nanostructures inside SiO2 and GeO2 glass. Such nanostructures show form birefringence which is controllable by the femtosecond double-pulse configuration. In the case of SiO2 glass, we have also demonstrate polarization imaging filter based on the linear dichroism for the visible light ranging from 400 to 800 nm. While, ...

This study presents a novel system architecture to implement silicon-on-glass (SOG) MEMS devices on Si–glass compound substrate with embedded silicon vias. Thus, the 3D integration of MEMS devices can be accomplished by means of through-wafer silicon vias. The silicon vias connecting to the pads of devices are embedded inside the Pyrex glass. Parasitic capacitance for both vias and microstructu...

An analytically tractable model is introduced which exhibits both, a glass– like freezing transition, and a collection of double–well configurations in its zero– temperature potential energy landscape. The latter are generally believed to be responsible for the anomalous low–temperature properties of glass-like and amorphous systems via a tunneling mechanism that allows particles to move back a...

Abstract: The application of inexpensive materials such as copper, zinc, lead, iron and steel slag in manufacturing of glass and glass-ceramic products in construction industry, lining materials as anti-corrosion and anti-abrasion coatings in metals and etc, has led to considerable progress in glass technology in recent years. The composition of slag glass-ceramics is mainly located in the ...

More than 90% of the Dutch greenhouse area is covered with single glass. Energy losses through the covering are high during the heating period (winter) but energy requirements are also high during the cooling period (summer) in the case of semi-closed greenhouses. Until now, light losses of insulating coverings prevented growers from using double glass or plastic film. However, increasing energ...

CaMnFeTaO6 has been synthesized at 1200 °C under 10 GPa pressure. Powder neutron diffraction shows that adopts a double perovskite structure (tetragonal space group P42/n, lattice parameters = 7.683(3) and c 7.685(7) Å) with cation disorder all transition-metal sites. Magnetization measurements reveal an apparent ferro- or ferrimagnetic transition Tm1 51 K susceptibility peak Tm2 20 K, but no l...