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Multimode optomechanics with a two-dimensional optomechanical crystal
Guilhem Madiot, Marcus Albrechtsen, Clivia M. Sotomayor-Torres +2
Chip-scale multimode optomechanical systems have unique benefits for sensing, metrology and quantum technologies relative to their single-mode counterparts. Slot-mode optomechanica…
Quantum thermometry with single molecules in portable nanoprobes
V. Esteso, R. Duquennoy, R. C. Ng +8
Understanding heat transport is relevant to develop efficient strategies for thermal management in microelectronics for instance, as well as for fundamental science purposes. Howev…
Intermodulation of optical frequency combs in a multimode optomechanical system
Ryan C. Ng, Paul Nizet, Daniel Navarro-Urrios +6
Phonons offer the possibility to connect the microwave and optical domains while being efficiently transduced with electronic and optical signals. Here, we present a multimodal opt…
Optomechanical generation of coherent GHz vibrations in a phononic waveguide
Guilhem Madiot, Ryan C. Ng, Guillermo Arregui +5
Nanophononics has the potential for information transfer, in an analogous manner to its photonic and electronic counterparts. The adoption of phononic systems has been limited, due…
Excitation and detection of acoustic phonons in nanoscale systems
Ryan C Ng, Alexandros El Sachat, Francisco Cespedes +8
Phonons play a key role in the physical properties of materials, and have long been a topic of study in physics. While the effects of phonons had historically been considered to be…
Room-temperature silicon platform for GHz-frequency nano-electro-opto-mechanical systems
D. Navarro-Urrios, M. F. Colombano, G. Arregui +7
Nano-electro-opto-mechanical systems enable the synergistic coexistence of electrical, mechanical, and optical signals on a chip to realize new functions. Most of the technology pl…
Thermal properties of nanocrystalline silicon nanobeams
Jeremie Maire, Emigdio Chavez-Angel, Guillermo Arregui +7
Controlling thermal energy transfer at the nanoscale has become critically important in many applications and thermal properties since it often limits device performance. In this w…
Optomechanical crystals for spatial sensing of submicron sized analytes
D. Navarro-Urrios, E. Kang, P. Xiao +7
Optomechanical crystal cavities have rich perspectives for detecting and indirectly analysing biological particles, such as proteins, bacteria and viruses. In this work we demonstr…
Injection locking in an optomechanical coherent phonon source
Guillermo Arregui, Martin Facundo Colombano, Jérémie Maire +6
Spontaneous locking of the phase of a coherent phonon source to an external reference is demonstrated in an optomechanical oscillator based on a self-triggered free-carrier/tempera…
Quantifying the robustness of topological slow light
Guillermo Arregui, Jordi Gomis-Bresco, Clivia Marfa Sotomayor-Torres +1
Low-dimensional nanostructured materials can guide light propagating with very low group velocity vg. However, this slow light is significantly sensitive to unwanted imperfections…
High frequency mechanical excitation of a silicon nanostring with piezoelectric aluminum nitride layers
A. Pitanti, T. Makkonen, M. F. Colombano +8
A strong trend for quantum based technologies and applications follows the avenue of combining different platforms to exploit their complementary technological and functional advan…
A self-assembled two-dimensional thermo-functional material for radiative cooling
Juliana Jaramillo-Fernandez, Guy Luke Whitworth, Jose Angel Pariente +4
The regulation of temperature at the macro and microscale is a major energy-consuming process of humankind. Modern cooling systems account for 15% of the global energy consumption…
Ferromagnetic resonance assisted optomechanical magnetometer
M. F. Colombano, G. Arregui, F. Bonell +7
The resonant enhancement of mechanical and optical interaction in optomechanical cavities enables their use as extremely sensitive displacement and force detectors. In this work we…
Properties of Nanocrystalline Silicon Probed by Optomechanics
Daniel Navarro-Urrios, Martin F. Colombano, Jeremie Maire +13
Nanocrystalline materials exhibit properties that can differ substantially from those of their single crystal counterparts. As such, they provide ways to enhance and optimise their…
Coherent generation and detection of acoustic phonons in topological nanocavities
G. Arregui, O. Ortíz, M. Esmann +7
Inspired by concepts developed for fermionic systems in the framework of condensed matter physics, topology and topological states are recently being explored also in bosonic syste…
Synchronization of optomechanical cavities by mechanical interaction
M. F. Colombano, G. Arregui, N. E. Capuj +7
The synchronization of coupled oscillators is a phenomenon found throughout nature. Mechanical oscillators are paradigmatic among such systems, but realising them at the nanoscale…
Unveiled electric profiles within hydrogen bonds suggest DNA base pairs with similar bond strengths
Y. B. Ruiz-Blanco, Y. Almeida, C. M. Sotomayor-Torres +1
Electrical forces are the background of all the interactions occurring in biochemical systems. From here and by using a combination of ab-initio and ad-hoc models, we introduce the…
Optical modulation of coherent phonon emission in optomechanical cavities
J. Maire, N. E. Capuj, M. F. Colombano +4
Optomechanical structures are well suited to study photon-phonon interactions, and they also turn out to be potential building blocks for phononic circuits and quantum computing. I…
Nanocrystalline silicon optomechanical cavities
D. Navarro-Urrios, N. E. Capuj, J. Maire +9
Silicon on insulator photonics has offered a versatile platform for the recent development of integrated optomechanical circuits. However, there are some constraints such as the hi…
Mechanical oscillations in lasing microspheres
A. Toncelli, N. E. Capuj, B. Garrido +4
We investigate the feasibility of activating coherent mechanical oscillations in lasing microspheres by modulating the laser emission at a mechanical eigenfrequency. To this aim, 1…
Orthotropic Piezoelectricity in 2D Nanocellulose
Y. García, Yasser B. Ruiz-Blanco, Yovani Marrero-Ponce +1
The control of electromechanical responses within bonding regions is essential to face frontier challenges in nanotechnologies, such as molecular electronics and biotechnology. Her…
Optomechanical coupling in the Anderson-localization regime
Pedro David García, Robert Bericat-Vadell, Guillermo Arregui +4
Optomechanical crystals, purposely designed and fabricated semiconductor nanostructures, are used to enhance the coupling between the electromagnetic field and the mechanical vibra…
Thermal transport in suspended silicon membranes measured by laser-induced transient gratings
Alejandro Vega-Flick, Ryan A. Duncan, Jeffrey K. Eliason +12
Studying thermal transport at the nanoscale poses formidable experimental challenges due both to the physics of the measurement process and to the issues of accuracy and reproducib…
Nonlinear dynamics and chaos in an optomechanical beam
D. Navarro-Urrios, N. E. Capuj, M. F. Colombano +6
Optical non-linearities, such as thermo-optic effects and free-carrier-dispersion, are often considered as undesired effects in silicon-based resonators and, more specifically, opt…