Targeted manipulation of complex genomes often requires the introduction of a double-strand break at defined locations by site-specific DNA endonucleases. Here, we describe a monomeric nuclease domain derived from GIY-YIG homing endonucleases for genome-editing applications. Fusion of the GIY-YIG nuclease domain to three-member zinc-finger DNA binding domains generated chimeric GIY-zinc finger ...

The temperature and yttrium-iron-garnet (YIG) thickness dependences of the spin Peltier effect (SPE) have been investigated using a Pt/YIG junction system at temperatures ranging from room to Curie YIG by lock-in thermography method. By analyzing dependence an exponential decay model, characteristic length SPE in is estimated be 0.9 $\mu$m near almost constant even temperature. high-temperature...

Photonic integrated circuits require magneto-optical (MO) materials for making nonreciprocal devices such as isolators and circulators. The most successful MO materials are rare-earth-substituted iron garnets, but these can be challenging to grow on silicon without a seed layer, which introduces spacing loss between the waveguide and the MO cladding. A pulsed-laser deposition (PLD) method is us...

The scattering of synchrotron radiation by nuclei is extensively explored in this thesis. From the multipole electric field expansion resulting from time-dependent nonrelativistic perturbation theory, a dynamical scattering theory is constructed. This theory is shown, in the many particle limit, to be equivalent to the semi-classical approach where a quantum mechanical scattering amplitude is u...

Hybridizing collective spin excitations and a cavity with high cooperativity provides a new research subject in the field of cavity quantum electrodynamics and can also have potential applications to quantum information. Here we report an experimental study of cavity quantum electrodynamics with ferromagnetic magnons in a small yttrium-iron-garnet (YIG) sphere at both cryogenic and room tempera...

The microwave properties of structures in the form 2 μm iron-yttrium garnet (YIG) films, grown by ion beam sputtering deposition method on epitaxially mismatched substrates ferroelectric ceramics based lead zirconate titanate (PZT, PbZr0.45Ti0.55O3), are discussed. obtained were formed and pre-smoothed planarization with use an anti-diffusion layer titanium dioxide TiO2. atomic force microscopy...

Yittrium iron garnet, Y3Fe5O12 (YIG), is a material used widely in electronic devices for the microwave region as well as the magnetic bubble domain-type memories. Yittrium iron garnet (Y3Fe5O12) was produced by mechanochemical synthesis from Y2O3 and Fe2O3 with particle size of around 150 nm. PMMA/YIG composite films were prepared by solution casting method at diffferent concentration (i.e. 10...

Spin-phonon interaction is an important channel for spin and energy relaxation in magnetic insulators. Understanding this critical developing insulator-based spintronic devices. Quantifying yttrium iron garnet (YIG), one of the most extensively investigated insulators, remains challenging because large number atoms a unit cell. Here, we report temperature-dependent polarization-resolved Raman m...

Nucleotide excision repair is a highly conserved DNA repair mechanism present in all kingdoms of life. The incision reaction is a critical step for damage removal and is accomplished by the UvrC protein in eubacteria. No structural information is so far available for the 3' incision reaction. Here we report the crystal structure of the N-terminal catalytic domain of UvrC at 1.5 A resolution, wh...

Thin Pt films on an yttrium iron garnet (YIG = Y(3)Fe(5)O(12)) show ferromagneticlike transport properties, which may impact the functionality of Pt in spin current detection, but do not provide direct quantitative information on the Pt magnetization. We report magnetic x-ray magnetic circular dichroism measurements of YIG/Pt(1.5 nm) showing an average Pt moment of 0.054 μ(B) at 300 K and 0.076...