Lithium niobate on insulator: an emerging nanophotonic crystal for optimized light control

• Midhun Murali,
• Amit Banerjee and
• Tanmoy Basu

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2024, 15, 1415–1426, doi:10.3762/bjnano.15.114

• transferred onto a DBR structure consisting of 11 layers of SiO2/Ta2O5. The optimized design of the DBR effectively suppresses the leakage of acoustic energy [33]. Superradiance describes a collective effect where excited atoms or molecules emit light much faster than they would individually [33][34]. This

Deterministic placement of ultra-bright near-infrared color centers in arrays of silicon carbide micropillars

• Stefania Castelletto,
• Abdul Salam Al Atem,
• Faraz Ahmed Inam,
• Hans Jürgen von Bardeleben,
• Sophie Hameau,
• Ahmed Fahad Almutairi,
• Gérard Guillot,
• Shin-ichiro Sato,
• Alberto Boretti and
• Jean Marie Bluet

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2019, 10, 2383–2395, doi:10.3762/bjnano.10.229

• design for increased resolution and sensitivity in magnetometry using these emitters [51][52][53][62]. An optimized design based on finite-element method analysis is also proposed for the enhancement of the VSi defect emission. The optimized design is a pillar with a radius of ca. 210 nm radius and a

Optimization of the optical coupling in nanowire-based integrated photonic platforms by FDTD simulation

• Nan Guan,
• Andrey Babichev,
• Martin Foldyna,
• Dmitry Denisov,
• François H. Julien and
• Maria Tchernycheva

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 2248–2254, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.209

• , Russia LPICM-CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, Université Paris-Saclay, 91128 Palaiseau, France, Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University "LETI", ul. Professora Popova 5, 197376 Saint Petersburg, Russia 10.3762/bjnano.9.209 Abstract The optimized design of a photonic platform based on a nanowire light

The role of the Ge mole fraction in improving the performance of a nanoscale junctionless tunneling FET: concept and scaling capability

• Hichem Ferhati,
• Fayçal Djeffal and
• Toufik Bentrcia

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 1856–1862, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.177

• investigated. Moreover, the impact of the Ge mole fraction in the proposed Si1−xGex source region on the electrical figures of merit (FoMs) of the transistor, including the swing factor and the ION/IOFF ratio is analyzed. It is found that the optimized design with 60 atom % of Ge offers improved switching

• , where the optimized design exhibits an improved switching behavior at the nanoscale level. These results make the optimized device suitable for designing digital circuit for high-performance nanoelectronic applications. Keywords: ambipolar conduction; heterojunctions; junctionless tunneling field

• function of the transistor channel length for both the proposed Si1−xGex/Si/Ge DG-HJ-JL TFET design and the conventional Ge-DG-JL TFET structure with tch = 5 nm, xGe = 0.6 and Nd = 1·1019 cm−3. The optimized design provides better scaling capability than the conventional one and exhibits a faster decrease

Thickness-modulated tungsten–carbon superconducting nanostructures grown by focused ion beam induced deposition for vortex pinning up to high magnetic fields

• Ismael García Serrano,
• Javier Sesé,
• Isabel Guillamón,
• Hermann Suderow,
• Sebastián Vieira,
• Manuel Ricardo Ibarra and
• José María De Teresa

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1698–1708, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.162

• minimum at a field value of 2.2 T, two orders of magnitude larger than in the pioneering studies in the 1970s with micrometric thickness modulation [25][27]. As far as we know, this is a record value regarding resistance–field minima caused by vortex pinning, which is explained by the optimized design of

Optimized design of a nanostructured SPCE-based multipurpose biosensing platform formed by ferrocene-tethered electrochemically-deposited cauliflower-shaped gold nanoparticles

• Wicem Argoubi,
• Maroua Saadaoui,
• Sami Ben Aoun and
• Noureddine Raouafi

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2015, 6, 1840–1852, doi:10.3762/bjnano.6.187

• ; nanotechnology; optimized design; screen-printed carbon electrode (SPCE) nanostructuration; Introduction Simplicity of design, cost-effectiveness and lightweight are among the most important requirements for the design of devices that can be used for the development of on-site analytical methods [1][2][3

Some reflections on the understanding of the oxygen reduction reaction at Pt(111)

• Ana M. Gómez-Marín,
• Ruben Rizo and
• Juan M. Feliu

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 956–967, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.108

• step (RDS) on Pt, which would be an essential step toward an optimized design of new ORR electrocatalysts [15]. Results and Discussion Ideally, the surface structure and composition of a catalyst remain unchanged over the whole potential range in which a probe reaction is scrutinized. However, as can