Event time:
Tuesday, December 10, 2024 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Location:
Sloane Physics Laboratory (), Room 48
217 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT
06511
Event description:
“On-chip nano-aligned origami at bullet-like, 2000 times the acceleration of gravity”
Borrowing hygroscopic principles used in nature for seed-release, we harness surface tension using lasers to melt on-chip SiO2 sheets, generating snap-motion foldings with nano-resolution alignment, at 19,600 m/s2 acceleration. Our extremely rapid on-chip folding method might impact 3D-integrated electro-opto-mechanical circuits by allowing 3D nano-alignment capabilities, structural freedom, as well as ultrahigh optomechanical Qs, and size-to-weight ratios. I will also report on a new type of optical vortex allowing droplet carousel where acceleration reaches 1224 times the acceleration of gravity.
Host: Jack Harris
Contact:
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