Using a finite-difference time-domain method, we study the band-structure and transmission properties of three-dimensional metallodielectric photonic crystals. The metallodielectric crystals are modeled as perfect electrical conducting objects embedded in dielectric media. We investigate two different lattice geometries: the face-centered-cubic ~fcc! lattice and the diamond lattice. Partial gap...

The stability of quasi-one-dimensional structures of carbon is investigated using a generalized tight-binding molecular-dynamics scheme. Large-scale simulations are made possible by the parallel implementation of the diagonalization routines. Our results show that these structures can be stable provided that their geometries consist of a core of four-fold coordinated atoms, surrounded by a thre...

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An on-chip detection scheme for high frequency signals is used to detect noise generated by a quantum dot formed in a single wall carbon nanotube. The noise detection is based on photon assisted tunneling in a superconductor-insulator-superconductor junction. Measurements of shot noise over a full Coulomb diamond are reported with excited states and inelastic cotunneling clearly resolved. Super...

We demonstrate a modular "click"-based functionalization scheme that allows inexpensive conductive diamond samples to serve as an ultrastable platform for surface-tethered electrochemically active molecules stable out to ∼1.3 V vs Ag/AgCl. We have cycled surface-tethered Ru(tpy)(2) to this potential more than 1 million times with little or no degradation in propylene carbonate and only slightly...

Electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) has been often proposed for generating nonlinear optical effects at the single photon level; in particular, as a means to effect a quantum non-demolition measurement of a single photon field. Previous treatments have usually considered homogeneously broadened samples, but realisations in any medium will have to contend with inhomogeneous broadening...

A simplified version of the specific contact resistance measurement scheme of G. K. Reeves [Solid State Electronics 23, 487 (1980)] has been developed. Its applicability to semiconducting diamond is demonstrated using four sample types: epitaxial films doped to mid 1019 acceptors/cm3 on (100) and (110) type IIa substrates; type IIb diamonds 0.25 mm thick, and type IIb diamonds thinned to 0.035-...

In ab initio theory, defects are routinely modeled by supercells with periodic boundary conditions. Unfortunately, the supercell approximation introduces artificial interactions between charged defects. Despite numerous attempts, a general scheme to correct for these is not yet available. We propose a new and computationally efficient method that overcomes limitations of previous schemes and is...

Carbon coatings of thickness down to 2 nm are needed to increase the storage density in magnetic hard disks and reach the 100-Gbitsyinch target. We show that the combination of surface Brillouin scattering, X-ray reflectivity and Raman spectroscopy 2 measurements allow us to measure the mechanical and structural properties of ultra-thin tetrahedral amorphous carbon films. Densities up to 2.8 gy...

We show stimulated emission depletion microscopy to break the diffraction limit in the all-far-field-optical detection of magnetic fields and resonances. Electron spin resonances from single nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond located at subdiffraction proximities are fully discerned. Since diffraction is overcome by disallowing the signaling state through an optical transition such as stimulat...