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Odx: A Fitness Tracker-Based Device For Continuous Bacterial Growth Monitoring, Venkata V.B. Yallapragada, Uday Gowda, David Wong, Liam O'Faolain, Mark Tangney, Ganga C.R. Devarapu
Odx: A Fitness Tracker-Based Device For Continuous Bacterial Growth Monitoring, Venkata V.B. Yallapragada, Uday Gowda, David Wong, Liam O'Faolain, Mark Tangney, Ganga C.R. Devarapu
Cappa Publications
Continuous monitoring of bacterial growth in aqueous media is a crucial process in academic research as well as in the biotechnology industry. Bacterial growth is usually monitored by measuring the optical density of bacteria in liquid media, using benchtop spectrophotometers. Due to the large form factor of the existing spectrophotometers, they cannot be used for live monitoring of the bacteria inside bacterial incubation chambers. Additionally, the use of benchtop spectrometers for continuous monitoring requires multiple samplings and is labour intensive. To overcome these challenges, we have developed an optical density measuring device (ODX) by modifying a generic fitness tracker. The …
Excitable Interplay Between Lasing Quantum Dot States, Michael Dillane, I. Dubinkin, N. Fedorov, T. Erneux, David Goulding, B. Kelleher, E.A. Viktorov
Excitable Interplay Between Lasing Quantum Dot States, Michael Dillane, I. Dubinkin, N. Fedorov, T. Erneux, David Goulding, B. Kelleher, E.A. Viktorov
Cappa Publications
The optically injected semiconductor laser system has proven to be an excellent source of experimental nonlinear dynamics, particularly regarding the generation of excitable pulses. Typically for low-injection strengths, these pulses are the result of a small above-threshold perturbation of a stable steady state, the underlying physics is well described by the Adler phase equation, and each laser intensity pulse is accompanied by a 2π phase rotation. In this article, we show how, with a dual-state quantum dot laser, a variation of type I excitability is possible that cannot be described by the Adler model. The laser is operated so that …
Monolayer Doping Of Silicon-Germanium Alloys: A Balancing Act Between Phosphorus Incorporation And Strain Relaxation, Noel Kennedy, Ray Duffy, Gioele Mirabelli, Luke Eaton, Nikolay Petkov, Justin D. Holmes, Chris Hatem, Lee Walsh, Brenda Long
Monolayer Doping Of Silicon-Germanium Alloys: A Balancing Act Between Phosphorus Incorporation And Strain Relaxation, Noel Kennedy, Ray Duffy, Gioele Mirabelli, Luke Eaton, Nikolay Petkov, Justin D. Holmes, Chris Hatem, Lee Walsh, Brenda Long
Cappa Publications
This paper presents the application of monolayer doping (MLD) to silicon-germanium (SiGe). This study was carried out for phosphorus dopants on wafers of epitaxially grown thin films of strained SiGe on silicon with varying concentrations of Ge (18%, 30%, and 60%). The challenge presented here is achieving dopant incorporation while minimizing strain relaxation. The impact of high temperature annealing on the formation of defects due to strain relaxation of these layers was qualitatively monitored by cross-sectional transmission electron microscopy and atomic force microscopy prior to choosing an anneal temperature for the MLD drive-in. Though the bulk SiGe wafers provided are …
Subwavelength Grating-Based Spiral Metalens For Tight Focusing Of Laser Light, Victor V. Kotlyar, Sergey S. Stafeev, Anton G. Nalimov, Liam O'Faolain
Subwavelength Grating-Based Spiral Metalens For Tight Focusing Of Laser Light, Victor V. Kotlyar, Sergey S. Stafeev, Anton G. Nalimov, Liam O'Faolain
Cappa Publications
In this paper, we investigate a 16-sector spiral metalens fabricated on a thin film (130 nm) of amorphous silicon, consisting of a set of subwavelength binary diffractive gratings and with a numerical aperture that is close to unity. The metalens converts linearly polarized incident light into an azimuthally polarized optical vortex and focuses it at a distance approximately equal to the wavelength of the incident light, k ¼ 633 nm. Using a scanning near-field optical microscope, it is shown experimentally that the metalens forms an elliptical focal spot with diameters smaller than the diffraction limit: FWHMx ¼ 0.32k (60.03k) and …