The initial charge separation step in oxygenic photosynthesis

Kavli Affiliate: Graham R. Fleming | First 5 Authors: Yusuke Yoneda, Eric A. Arsenault, Kaydren Orcutt, Masakazu Iwai, Graham R. Fleming | Summary: Photosystem II is crucial for life on Earth as it provides oxygen as a result of photoinduced electron transfer and water splitting reactions. The excited state dynamics of the photosystem II-reaction center […]


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A Resolution-Adaptive 8 mm$^text{2}$ 9.98 Gb/s 39.7 pJ/b 32-Antenna All-Digital Spatial Equalizer for mmWave Massive MU-MIMO in 65nm CMOS

Kavli Affiliate: Alyosha Molnar | First 5 Authors: Oscar Castañeda, Zachariah Boynton, Seyed Hadi Mirfarshbafan, Shimin Huang, Jamie C. Ye | Summary: All-digital millimeter-wave (mmWave) massive multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) receivers enable extreme data rates but require high power consumption. In order to reduce power consumption, this paper presents the first resolution-adaptive all-digital receiver ASIC […]


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A Resolution-Adaptive 8 mm$^text{2}$ 9.98 Gb/s 39.7 pJ/b 32-Antenna All-Digital Spatial Equalizer for mmWave Massive MU-MIMO in 65nm CMOS

Kavli Affiliate: Alyosha Molnar | First 5 Authors: Oscar Castañeda, Zachariah Boynton, Seyed Hadi Mirfarshbafan, Shimin Huang, Jamie C. Ye | Summary: All-digital millimeter-wave (mmWave) massive multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) receivers enable extreme data rates but require high power consumption. In order to reduce power consumption, this paper presents the first resolution-adaptive all-digital receiver ASIC […]


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Resolution-Adaptive All-Digital Spatial Equalization for mmWave Massive MU-MIMO

Kavli Affiliate: Alyosha Molnar | First 5 Authors: Oscar Castañeda, Seyed Hadi Mirfarshbafan, Shahaboddin Ghajari, Alyosha Molnar, Sven Jacobsson | Summary: All-digital basestation (BS) architectures for millimeter-wave (mmWave) massive multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO), which equip each radio-frequency chain with dedicated data converters, have advantages in spectral efficiency, flexibility, and baseband-processing simplicity over hybrid analog-digital solutions. […]


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Resolution-Adaptive All-Digital Spatial Equalization for mmWave Massive MU-MIMO

Kavli Affiliate: Alyosha Molnar | First 5 Authors: Oscar Castañeda, Seyed Hadi Mirfarshbafan, Shahaboddin Ghajari, Alyosha Molnar, Sven Jacobsson | Summary: All-digital basestation (BS) architectures for millimeter-wave (mmWave) massive multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO), which equip each radio-frequency chain with dedicated data converters, have advantages in spectral efficiency, flexibility, and baseband-processing simplicity over hybrid analog-digital solutions. […]


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Inhibited nonradiative decay at all exciton densities in monolayer semiconductors

Kavli Affiliate: Ali Javey | First 5 Authors: Hyungjin Kim, Shiekh Zia Uddin, Naoki Higashitarumizu, Eran Rabani, Ali Javey | Summary: Most optoelectronic devices operate at high photocarrier densities, where all semiconductors suffer from enhanced nonradiative recombination. Nonradiative processes proportionately reduce photoluminescence (PL) quantum yield (QY), a performance metric that directly dictates the maximum device […]


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Inhibited nonradiative decay at all exciton densities in monolayer semiconductors

Kavli Affiliate: Ali Javey | First 5 Authors: , , , , | Summary: Most optoelectronic devices operate at high photocarrier densities, where all semiconductors suffer from enhanced nonradiative recombination. Nonradiative processes proportionately reduce photoluminescence (PL) quantum yield (QY), a performance metric that directly dictates the maximum device efficiency. Although transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) monolayers exhibit […]


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Thermodynamics of light management in near-field thermophotovoltaics

Kavli Affiliate: Eli Yablonovitch | First 5 Authors: Georgia T. Papadakis, Meir Orenstein, Eli Yablonovitch, Shanhui Fan, | Summary: We evaluate near-field thermophotovoltaic (TPV) energy conversion systems focusing in particular on their open-circuit voltage (Voc). Unlike previous analyses based largely on numerical simulations with fluctuational electrodynamics, here, we develop an analytic model that captures the […]


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Femtojoule, femtosecond all-optical switching in lithium niobate nanophotonics

Kavli Affiliate: Alireza Marandi | First 5 Authors: Qiushi Guo, Ryoto Sekine, Luis Ledezma, Rajveer Nehra, Devin J. Dean | Summary: Optical nonlinear functions are crucial for various applications in integrated photonics, such as all-optical information processing, photonic neural networks and on-chip ultrafast light sources. Due to the weak nonlinearities in most integrated photonic platforms, […]


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