J. Appl. Cryst.の発刊に際して

Recent startling interest for lanthanide luminescence is stimulated by the continuously expanding need for luminescent materials meeting the stringent requirements of telecommunication, lighting, electroluminescent devices, (bio-)analytical sensors and bio-imaging set-ups. This critical review describes the latest developments in (i) the sensitization of near-infrared luminescence, (ii) “soft” luminescent materials (liquid crystals, ionic liquids, ionogels), (iii) electroluminescent materials for organic light emitting diodes, with emphasis on white light generation, and (iv) applications in luminescent bio-sensing and bio-imaging based on time-resolved detection and multiphoton excitation (500 references).

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Lanthanide luminescence for functional materials and bio-sciences

Lanthanide-based luminescent hybrid materials.

Upconversion luminescent materials: advances and applications.

An object is to provide a semiconductor device of which a manufacturing process is not complicated and by which cost can be suppressed, by forming a thin film transistor using an oxide semiconductor film typified by zinc oxide, and a manufacturing method thereof. For the semiconductor device, a gate electrode is formed over a substrate; a gate insulating film is formed covering the gate electrode; an oxide semiconductor film is formed over the gate insulating film; and a first conductive film and a second conductive film are formed over the oxide semiconductor film. The oxide semiconductor film has at least a crystallized region in a channel region.

Semiconductor device, and manufacturing method thereof

We propose and experimentally demonstrate a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) that operates as an optical equalizer (OE) with multi-rate and multi-channel capability. The OE has the structure of a 3-tap direct form finite impulse response (FIR) filter and is based on the use of micro-ring resonators (MRRs) for the tuning of its delay lines. The PIC is fabricated on TriPleX platform and has 17 reconfigurable elements in total including nine MRRs, five optical couplers and three standalone phase shifters. Using this OE in an on-off keying system with bandwidth limitations we achieve an eye-diagram opening improvement more than 14 dB working with signals at 4.67 and 5.84 Gbaud both in single- and dual-channel operation. Extension to higher modulation formats is direct. Extension to higher symbol rates is also possible via the use of smaller MRRs.

Multi-Rate and Multi-Channel Optical Equalizer Based on Photonic Integration

In this letter, low-loss and highly fabrication-tolerant flip-chip bonded vertical couplers under single-mode condition are demonstrated for the integration of a polymer waveguide chip onto the Si3N4/SiO2 passive platform. The passively aligned vertical couplers have a lateral misalignment between polymer and Si3N4 waveguide cores of $\pm 1.25~\mu \text{m}$ . Low-loss operation has been experimentally demonstrated over a wide spectral window of 1480–1560 nm, with measured coupler losses below 0.8 dB for Si3N4 taper angles below 1.2°, in good agreement with the calculated values. Furthermore, thermal shock test results show less than 0.1 dB degradation, indicating a robust coupling performance.

Low-Loss Highly Tolerant Flip-Chip Couplers for Hybrid Integration of Si 3 N 4 and Polymer Waveguides

In the present work we applied a measurement setup to determine several relevant properties of rare-earth doped nanoparticles dispersed in polymer slab waveguides in a single absorption measurement: background absorption of the polymer host material, water absorption, polymer composition (overtones), rare earth concentration, and ligand contribution (increase of exponential loss trend in the UV). Furthermore, nanoparticle size and concentration in case of a refractive index mismatch (1//spl lambda//sup 4/ and r/sup 6/ dependence of Rayleigh scattering losses in the UV) could be extracted.

Absorption spectroscopy of complex rare earth ion doped hybrid materials over a broad wavelength range

We present two arrayed waveguide gratings fabricated in silicon-oxynitride for near-infrared Raman spectroscopy. Our devices exhibit very low losses and polarization insensitivity over a large spectral range of 156 nm and 214 nm, respectively.

Broadband polarization-insensitive arrayed waveguide gratings for Raman spectroscopy

Results of an optimization study of deeply-etched Bragg gratings in KY(WO4)2:Yb3+ to obtain photonic cavity structures are reported. By optimizing parameters such as dose per area, dwell time and pixel resolution the redeposition effects are minimized and 4.3um-deep gratings are achieved.

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Kerstin Worhoff

Papers

Multi-Rate and Multi-Channel Optical Equalizer Based on Photonic Integration

Low-Loss Highly Tolerant Flip-Chip Couplers for Hybrid Integration of Si 3 N 4 and Polymer Waveguides

Absorption spectroscopy of complex rare earth ion doped hybrid materials over a broad wavelength range

Broadband polarization-insensitive arrayed waveguide gratings for Raman spectroscopy

Bragg Gratings in Crystalline Waveguides Fabricated by Focused Ion Beam Milling