Multilayer films with up to 600 bilayers and 740 nm thickness were fabricated using the alternating deposition of poly allylamine hydrochloride and poly 1p3 -carboxy-4 hydroxyphenylazo benzenesulfonamido -1,2-ethandiyl on glass substrates. Linear relationships for absorbance, thickness, and the square root of the second harmonic intensity versus the number of bilayers demonstrates that the film...

Isotropic Nd-Fe-B thick-film magnets have been prepared using a pulsed laser deposition (PLD) method with the control of laser energy density (LED) followed by post-annealing. The characteristics of the method are a high deposition rate up to several tens of microns per hour together with a reliability of magnetic properties due to the good transfer of composition from an Nd-Fe-B target to a fi...

We demonstrate a micro-electroporation device for cell lysis prior to subcellular analysis. Simple circuit models show that electrical lysis method is advantageous because it is selective towards plasma membrane while leaving organelle membrane undamaged. In addition, miniaturization of this concept leads to negligible heat generation and bubble formation. The designed microdevices were fabrica...

Multiple-layer perovskite Pb0.91La0.09Zr0.65Ti0.35O3/SrTiO3 (PLZT/STO) heterostructures have been grown by pulsed laser deposition (PLD) on (001) MgO/GaAs substrates. The perovskite layers are single phase with 35nm RMS roughness on the top surface. Electrically induced birefringence in the PLZT layers, resulted in both optical phase and optical amplitude modulation. The application of an elect...