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Well-posedness Issues For the Half-Wave Maps Equation With Hyperbolic And Spherical Targets

This thesis is a study of the global well-posedness of the Cauchy problems for half-wave maps from the Minkowski space of dimension n+1 to the 2-dimensional sphere and the hyperbolic plane. The work is mainly based on the results from Krieger-Sire 17' in ...

EPFL2023

Photonic radar for contactless vital sign detection

Yang Liu

Vital sign detection is used across ubiquitous scenarios in medical and health settings, and contact and wearable sensors have been widely deployed. However, they are unsuitable for patients with burn wounds or infants with insufficient areas for attachmen ...

Nature Publishing Group2023

Waveguide amplifier and waveguide amplifier fabrication method

Tobias Kippenberg, Xinru Ji, Zheru Qiu, Yang Liu

The present invention concerns a waveguide amplifier comprising: - at least one embedding cladding material or layer, and - at least one rare-earth ion implanted silicon nitride material or layer embedded in the at least one embedding cladding material or ...

2023

Covalent bonded bilayers from germanene and stanene with topological giant capacitance effects

Davide Grassano, Yang Liu

The discovery of twisted bilayer graphene with tunable superconductivity has diverted great focus at the world of twisted van der Waals heterostructures. Here we propose a paradigm for bilayer materials, where covalent bonding replaces the van der Waals in ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2023

First Demonstration of Erbium -Doped Waveguide Amplifier Enabled Multi-Tb/s (16x1.6T) Coherent Transmission

Tobias Kippenberg, Xinru Ji, Zheru Qiu, Xi Chen, Yang Liu

We demonstrate the first EDWA-enabled Terabit-class coherent optical communication with 1.6-Tb/s net bit rate per channel and 16 -channel WDM transmission over 81 -km fiber, proving the potential of such on-chip amplification for future coherent applicatio ...

IEEE2023

Quantified Effects of Multiple Parameters on Inputs and Potential Sources of Microplastics from a Typical River Flowing into the Sea

Florian Frédéric Vincent Breider, Yang Liu, Wenxin Liu

As an important connection of terrestrial and marine ecosystems, rivers input multitudinous (micro)plastics into the oceans. However, comparisons of field and estimated riverine inputs of (micro)plastics and contributions of multiple parameters are limited ...

2022

Platicon microcomb generation using laser self-injection locking

Tobias Kippenberg, Rui Ning Wang, Junqiu Liu, Wenle Weng, Jijun He, Yang Liu, Miles Henry Anderson

The past decade has witnessed major advances in the development and system-level applications of photonic integrated microcombs, that are coherent, broadband optical frequency combs with repetition rates in the millimeter-wave to terahertz domain. Most of ...

Nature Portfolio2022

Urea Derivative-Promoted CsPbl(2)Br Perovskite Solar Cells with High Open-Circuit Voltage

Bowen Yang, Yang Liu, Chen Li, Xin Guo

Inorganic perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have witnessed extraordinary advances owing to their prominent stability against thermal aging. However, they suffer from a phase transition from black phase to yellow phase under ambient conditions and serious energ ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2022

The enhancement of DNA fragmentation in a bench top ultrasonic water bath with needle-induced air bubbles: Simulation and experimental investigation

Martinus Gijs, Thomas Lehnert, Yang Liu, Lin Sun

Shearing DNA to a certain size is the first step in many medical and biological applications, especially in next-generation gene sequencing technology. In this article, we introduced a highly efficient ultrasonic DNA fragmentation method enhanced by needle ...

AIP Publishing2022

A photonic integrated circuit-based erbium-doped amplifier

Tobias Kippenberg, Rui Ning Wang, Xinru Ji, Zheru Qiu, Junqiu Liu, Jijun He, Yang Liu, Anton Lukashchuk

Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers revolutionized long-haul optical communications and laser technology. Erbium ions could provide a basis for efficient optical amplification in photonic integrated circuits but their use remains impractical as a result of insuf ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2022