2 papers
cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026
HF Etching and Silanization: Evidence for the Role of Surface Hydroxyl Groups in Silicon Nitride Resonator Loss
Ariane Giesriegl, Nicola Cavalleri, Robert West +4
Silicon nitride nanomechanical resonators are central to sensing, quantum technologies, and fundamental physics experiments due to their exceptional mechanical quality fact…
physics.optics2025
Probing Optical Magnetic Dipole Transitions in Eu using Structured Light and Nanoscale Sample Engineering
Elizaveta Gangrskaia, Thomas Schachinger, Christoph Eisenmenger-Sittner +5
At optical frequencies, interactions of the electric field component of light with matter are dominating, whereas magnetic dipole transitions are inherently weak and challenging to…