Mesoporous hollow nanospherical MnxCo3−xO4 solid solutions synthesized by a facile solvothermal alcoholysis have been developed to catalyze acetone oxidation for the first time.
We propose and demonstrate that optical analog computing of spatial differentiation and edge detection can be realized with a single layer of dielectric metasurface. The optical transfer function for second-order derivation is obtained by engineering the spatial dispersion of electric dipole resonance supported by the silicon nanodisks in the metasurface. Benefiting from this unique mechanism of electric dipole resonance, spatial differentiation can be performed for two dimensions and arbitrary polarization with a large spatial bandwidth and high efficiency at the visible wavelength. Explicitly, we have numerically validated the application with one-dimensional spatial functions as well as an image, and the results show excellent performance. Our study can facilitate the research of optical computing with artificial nanostructures.
We propose and demonstrate that strong optomechanical coupling can be achieved in a chain-like waveguide consisting of silicon nanorods. By employing quasi-bound states in the continuum and mechanical resonances at a frequency around 10 GHz, the optomechanical coupling rate can be above 2 MHz and surpass most microcavities. We have also studied cases with different optical wave numbers and size parameters of silicon, and a robust coupling rate has been verified, benefiting the experimental measurements and practical applications. The proposed silicon chain-like waveguide of strong optomechanical coupling may pave new ways for research on photon–phonon interaction with microstructures.
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