We present a systematic study of the light intensity enhancement in the shell layers of half burrried Ag, Au, Al and SiO2 spherical nanoparticles capped with TiO2. We calculated the light intensity profiles near these ...

We demonstrate that the combination of near-field focusing and a switchable oxide layer permits construction of a modulator with different optical switching thresholds in two opposing directions. For that purpose VO2 layers ...

We probe the strength of electron-electron interactions at intermediate magnetic fields in the classical regime using magnetoconductivity measurements of two-dimensional, non-degenerate electrons on liquid helium. We span ...

We calculated the tunneling rates of single electrons from the quasi-stationary states on both liquid He-4 and He-3 in an extracting electric field. The rates were obtained from the widths of the resonance lineshapes of ...

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A study of the self-organization of colloidal particles during the evaporation of particle solutions on chemically patterned surfaces is presented. On a surface with hydrophilic and hydrophobic regions, colloidal particles ...

We present transmission measurements through tungsten tri-oxide nanostructures and thin films prepared by sol-gel process on micro-contact printed substrates. Identical electrochromic switching times are found for both the ...

The authors compare transmission measurements of near-infrared light through VO2 thin films on smooth substrates and on ordered arrays of silica microspheres. When the samples are heated above the critical temperature for ...