Planar defects in three-dimensional chalcogenide glass photonic crystals
Here we report on the direct laser writing fabrication of Fabry-Perot-type planar microcavities in a threedimensional (3D) photonic crystal (PhC) embedded within a high-refractive nonlinear...
View ArticleUltrahigh nonlinear nanoshell plasmonic waveguide with total energy confinement
Dielectric nonlinear waveguides have reached their maximum potential in achieving high nonlinearity due to the limitation of mode confinement beyond the diffraction limit. We theoretically demonstrate...
View ArticleGeneration of λ/12 nanowires in chalcogenide glasses
Nanowires have been widely studied and have gained a lot of interest in the past decade. Because of their high refractive index and high nonlinearity, chalcogenide glasses (ChGs) are a good candidate...
View ArticleChemical kinetics of gold nanorod growth in aqueous CTAB solutions
The chemical kinetics of the silver-mediated growth of gold nanorods prepared by the reduction of gold precursor in aqueous cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) solution has been systematically...
View ArticleType-II core/shell nanoparticle induced photorefractivity
We demonstrate engineering the photocharge generation efficiency of nanoparticles on the nanometer scale by using a type-II band-gap structure. Compared to bare CdSe cores, the dispersion of type-II...
View ArticleObservation of the inverse Doppler effect in negative-index materials at...
The Doppler effect is a fundamental frequency shift phenomenon that occurs whenever a wave source and an observer are moving with respect to one another. It has well-established applications in...
View ArticleStress-strain model of FRP confined concrete under cyclic loading
A stress-strain model is proposed for fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) confined concrete subjected to cyclic compression. This model employs an existing monotonic stress-strain relationship as the...
View ArticleMicrofluidic sensing: State of the art fabrication and detection techniques
Here we introduce the existing fabrication techniques, detection methods, and related techniques for microfluidic sensing, with an emphasis on the detection techniques. A general survey and comparison...
View ArticleMonitoring and prediction of an epidemic outbreak using syndromic observations
The paper presents a method for syndromic surveillance of an epidemic outbreak due to an emerging disease, formulated in the context of stochastic nonlinear filtering. The dynamics of the epidemic is...
View ArticleEthnography, co-design and emergence: Slow activism for sustainable design
In this article I take the novel step of examining how ethnographic understandings of the futures and intervention orientation of indirect forms of activism can inform design practice. To do this I...
View ArticleSocial inclusion practices of elite universities in Australia and Malaysia: a...
Social inclusion as a concept in higher education features the broader elements of outreach activities, access initiatives and engagement of students in the teaching and learning process. The increased...
View ArticleTheory of unbundled and non-territorial governance
This thesis is theoretical in nature, falling into the field of political economy. It provides a theoretical analysis of two hitherto underappreciated principles of political organisation: unbundling...
View ArticleEvaluation of pharmacological properties of Danshen compounds by...
Endothelial dysfunction, caused by imbalance of responses to endothelium derived vasodilators and contracting factors, plays an important role in the pathogenesis of vascular diseases. Endothelial...
View ArticleBayesian likelihood-free localisation of a biochemical source using multiple...
Localisation of a source of a toxic release of biochemical aerosols in the atmosphere is a problem of great importance for public safety. Two main practical difficulties are encountered in this...
View ArticleModelling and performance analysis of a network of chemical sensors with...
The problem of environmental monitoring using a wireless network of chemical sensors with a limited energy supply is considered. Since the conventional chemical sensors in active mode consume vast...
View ArticleGeneral stress-strain model for steel and FRP confined concrete
A new and general stress-strain model for concrete confined by steel or fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) is developed in this work. One additional variable and one constant are added to the well-known...
View ArticleBernoulli particle/box-particle filters for detection and tracking in the...
This work presents sequential Bayesian detection and estimation methods for nonlinear dynamic stochastic systems using measurements affected by three sources of uncertainty: stochastic, set-theoretic...
View ArticleThe mediator authorization-security model for heterogeneous semantic...
Many organizations often need to share semantic knowledge base content with selected members of other organizations. However, sharing semantic knowledge across different organizations is a critical...
View ArticleMechanical behavior of steel-reinforced concrete-filled steel tubular...
In this paper, the mechanical behaviors and failure mechanism of steel-reinforced concrete-filled steel tubular (SRCFST) columns were numerically investigated with the software of ABAQUS/standard...
View ArticleFabrication and characterization of three-dimensional biomimetic chiral...
Here we show the fabrication and characterization of a novel class of biomimetic photonic chiral composites inspired by a recent finding in butterfly wing-scales. These three-dimensional networks have...
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