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Sub-wavelength InAs quantum dot micro-disk lasers epitaxially grown on exact Si (001) substrates
(AIP Publishing, 2016)
Subwavelength micro-disk lasers (MDLs) as small as 1 μm in diameter on exact (001) silicon were fabricated using colloidal lithography. The micro-cavity gain medium incorporating five-stacked InAs quantum dot layers was ...
Insights into the biological foundation of human altruistic sentiments
(Elsevier BV, 2016)
The contributions of biology versus socialization practices to the emergence of human altruism have been the focus of a long-standing debate. New research on the development and evolution of helping behaviors provides ...
Instruments of Music Theory
(2016)
This article explores musical instruments as a source for the historical study of music theory. The figure of Pythagoras, and his alleged penchant for the monochord, offers a way into this exploration of the theory-bearing ...
What Drives Currency Revaluation Decisions?
(2016-06-22)
My thesis explores the problem of whether countries that chronically resist revaluations are ever vulnerable to speculative attacks the way countries that resist devaluations are. The theoretical model I introduce sheds ...
Polarization-Insensitive Metalenses at Visible Wavelengths
(American Chemical Society, 2016)
Data Procurement for Shortest Paths on Random Graphs
(2016-06-21)
While Dijkstra's algorithm finds the shortest path between two nodes on a graph with known edge weights, we approach the shortest paths problem for graphs with random edge weights described by known probability distributions. ...
Multispectral Chiral Imaging with a Metalens
(American Chemical Society, 2016)
The vast majority of biologically active compounds, ranging from amino acids to essential nutrients such as glucose, possess intrinsic handedness. This in turn gives rise to chiral optical properties that provide a basis ...
Multispectral Chiral Imaging with a Metalens
(American Chemical Society, 2016)
The vast majority of biologically active compounds, ranging from amino acids to essential nutrients such as glucose, possess intrinsic handedness. This in turn gives rise to chiral optical properties that provide a basis ...
Sharpening the weak gravity conjecture with dimensional reduction
(Springer Science + Business Media, 2016)
We investigate the behavior of the Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) under toroidal compactification and RG flows, finding evidence that WGC bounds for single photons become weaker in the infrared. By contrast, we find that a ...
Three-dimensional simulations of supercritical black hole accretion discs – luminosities, photon trapping and variability
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2016)
We present a set of four three-dimensional, general relativistic, radiation magnetohydrodynamical simulations of black hole accretion at supercritical mass accretion rates, dot{M} > dot{M}_Edd. We use these simulations to ...