Dan Kelly

TL;DR: In this article, a material system and fabrication process for indium phosphide (InP)-based beam-type electrostatic actuators is presented, and a beam profile measurements, nanoindentation, beam bending, and electrostatic testing methods are evaluated.

TL;DR: In this article, an optical waveguide MEMS switch fabricated on an indium phosphide (InP) substrate for operation at 1550 nm wavelength is presented, which utilizes evanescent coupling between two closely-spaced waveguides fabricated side by side.

TL;DR: In this article, the substrate is removed from underneath the waveguide by sacrificial etching, and the suspended waveguide is supported by lateral tethers, which allows segments of the waveguides to be moved and prevents substrate leakage loss in the fixed segments.

TL;DR: In this article, a reinterpretation and critical look at the previously published thermodynamic values for desorption of water from PuO 2 [J. Phys. Chem. 77 (1973) 581] are reexamined in light of more recent mathematical treatments of thermal desorptions data from high surface area materials.

TL;DR: In this paper, small-pixel transition-edge sensor microcalorimeters for solar physics and astrophysics applications have been developed on solid silicon substrates and are designed to have high energy resolution, and accommodate count-rates of up to a few hundred counts per second per pixel for X-ray photon energies up to 8 keV.