Imagine a guitar string strummed more than a billion times a second. No human can hear the sound, but this ultra-high-frequency hum may one day power the world’s most sensitive transducers or help to unlock the secrets of the quantum realm.
Scientists are using vibrating nanoscale drumheads to study how magnetism moves and changes inside special materials — a discovery that could help power the next generation of fast, energy-efficient computers.
A team of physicists and engineers has discovered a new way to eavesdrop on some of the most elusive and subtle magnetic phenomena in nature — using membranes so thin and sensitive they can hear what no traditional probes could see or sense.
Congratulations to recent IMG graduate, Dr. Wen Sui, and his advisor Prof. Philip Feng, on the publication of their research article, “AlScN-on-SiC microelectromechanical Lamb wave resonators operating at high temperature up to 800°C”, in Applied Physics Letters.
Paper link: https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0185606
Congratulations to IMG Ph.D. student, Tahmid Kaisar, and IMG Professor, Dr. Philip Feng, for their research article, “Parametric Frequency Divider Based Ising Machines”, recently published in Physical Review Letters. In this work, they report on a new class of Ising machines (IMs) that rely on coupled parametric frequency dividers (PFDs) as macroscopic artificial spins.
Congratulations to IMG Member Sunghyun Hwang and IMG Professor Yong-Kyu Yoon, on their recent publication in the journal IEEE Photonics Technology Letters! In this work, titled, “Silicon Phononic Nanowires Enable Ultra-Low Thermal Conductivity Measured by Raman Spectroscopy”, a novel device structure and precise measurement technique were introduced to assess the thermal conductivity of PnC-supported Si MEMS pixels using vacuum-based Raman spectroscopy.
Congratulations to IMG Professor, Dr. Xin Tang, and IMG Members, Keming Li, Miao Huang, and Chenyu Liang, on their recent publication in the journal Oncogene! This work, titled “Biophysics in tumor growth and progression: from single mechano-sensitive molecules to mechanomedicine”, highlights cancer mechanics ranging from molecular and cellular level to tissue level and clarifies functional crosstalk between mechanotransduction and oncogenic signaling.
Congratulations to IMG member Faysal Hakim from Tabrizian Group on his recent Nature Electronics publication titled “A ferroelectric-gate fin microwave acoustic spectral processor.”
In this article, Faysal and co-authors have demonstrated how extending the active area of nano-acoustic resonators to the third dimension enables extensive benefits for frequency scaling, massive arraying, and integration.
Congratulations to UF ECE and IMG Ph.D. student Tahmid Kaisar, S M Enamul Haque Yousuf, and Prof. Philip Feng, and their collaborators (Dr. Mina Rais-Zadeh at NASA JPL, and Dr.
Congratulations to IMG members, Troy Tharpe and Dr. Roozbeh Tabrizian on their recent Nature Electronics publication titled “Nanoelectromechanical resonators for gigahertz frequency control based on hafnia–zirconia–alumina superlattices.”
Congratulations to IMG Members Suhas Tamvada and Dr. Saeed Moghaddam on their recent publication in Applied Thermal Engineering! Titled “Data Center energy efficiency enhancement potential of a membrane-assisted phase-change heat sink”, This work demonstrates a new cooling technology which can help decarbonize Data Centers by efficiently cooling electronic chips.