High-efficiency self-focusing metamaterial grating coupler in silicon nitride with amorphous silicon overlay

W Fraser, D Benedikovic, R Korcek, M Milanizadeh… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Efficient fiber-chip coupling interfaces are critically important for integrated photonics. Since
surface gratings diffract optical signals vertically out of the chip, these couplers can be …

Programmable integrated photonic coherent matrix: Principle, configuring, and applications

B Wu, H Zhou, J Dong, X Zhang - Applied Physics Reviews, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Every multi-input multi-output linear optical system can be deemed as a matrix multiplier that
carries out a desired transformation on the input optical information, such as imaging …

Review of sensing and actuation technologies–from optical MEMS and nanophotonics to photonic nanosystems

Y Ma, W Liu, X Liu, N Wang, H Zhang - International Journal of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Entering the era of the Internet of Things (IoT) and fifth-generation (5G) mobile networks, the
demand for compact, cost-effective, and high-performance sensors and actuators is …

Hidden Regulator-based Rotational Triboelectric Nanogenerator with Tracing Optimal Working Condition

Y Ra, Y Kim, D Lee, D Choi - International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2024 - Elsevier
The research on the rotational triboelectric nanogenerators (R-TENGs) is actively conducted
by numerous groups, but its friction-based operation mechanism makes it challenging to …

Silicon thermo-optic phase shifters: a review of configurations and optimization strategies

J Parra, J Navarro-Arenas… - Advanced Photonics …, 2024 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Silicon photonics (SiPh) has emerged as the predominant platform across a wide range of
integrated photonics applications, encompassing not only mainstream fields such as optical …

New insights on the mechanism of tribochemical interaction-induced wear of H-terminated Si (110)

M Wang, Q Lei, HA Yang - Materials Today Communications, 2024 - Elsevier
Reactive molecular dynamics simulations are employed to reveal the atomic-level
mechanisms of tribochemical interaction-induced wear of H-terminated Si (110) in humid …

Integrating Photonics and Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors with Deep Reinforcement Learning for Advanced Robotic Systems

T Subaranjani, R Jaideep, C Manjula… - … on Computing for …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This research introduces the Photonics-Enhanced Embedded Robotic Intelligence Model
(PEERIM), an innovative approach that integrates fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensors with …