Fast-tuning adiabatic microrings for CROW filters and athermal WDM receivers in a 45 nm SOI CMOS process

Adiabatic microrings with opposing p/n contacts achieve full carrier sweepout in reverse bias and energy-efficient carrier injection in forward bias, exhibiting 200GHz/V peak shift in C-band for athermal tuning over a 220 GHz range.Accepted manuscrip

Nation Branding, Cultural Relations and Cultural Diplomacy at Eurovision: Between Australia and Europe

This chapter explores Australia’s Eurovision history – and its ‘Asiavision’ future – as an articulation of the nation’s complex and ongoing relations with Europe. It considers the ideological dimensions of Eurovision’s own history and the impact this might have on the contest’s future in Asia. While Australia’s participation in Eurovision was tolerated as part of the sixtieth anniversary in 2015, its return performance in 2016 was greeted with some ambiguity, and even outright hostility. The announcement that an Australian broadcasting service (SBS), together with the European Broadcasting Union, would be collaborating on the establishment of a song contest for the Asia-Pacific region brought some commercial sense to the engagement, but also foregrounds a particular conceptualisation of Australia as a bridge between Europe and Asia

Towards a Pedagogy of Cultural Translation: Challenges for an International Classroom

The author explores the epistemological, methodological and ethical conditions of international scholarship in Performance Studies. She begins with a discussion of the differences and common grounds between Anglo-American Performance Studies and continental European Theatre Studies (Theaterwissenschaft). She pleads for considering the histories of the sciences as a point of departure for the question of what the theorization and practice of international performance research could mean under global conditions. What are the challenges concerning the power of discourse? How to avoid unifying concepts and approaches? How to come to terms with the inter-trans-ultra-intra-cultural approaches which seem to lead to an overkill of positivist taxonomies in Performance Studies? The quest for recognition and redistribution in the process of questioning the very sovereignty of national traditions and territories that goes along with this claim informs the discussion of cultural differences in International Performance Research

Scattered Speculations on the 'Internationalization' of Performance Research

The essay looks at what the catchword of ‘internationalisation’ does to the practice of performance research, especially in terms of its pedagogical implications. If internationalisation is seen as the answer, what is the question? What demands does the addition of the qualifier ‘international’ pose to a Humanities department in a city like Amsterdam, historically marked as a global mercantile centre, with a knotted legacy of slavery and prosperity, of colonisation and liberal thought? Finally, what vision of the university could the discipline of Theatre Studies hope to offer, by way of this enticing and ambitious call for internationalisation? Beyond the critique of the financialisation of higher education that most universities and especially Humanities faculties around the world are facing, the essay offers hope generated from the classroom, based on the experiences of the MAIPR Programme from 2008 to 2013. The task that internationalisation confers upon the discipline of Theatre and Performance Studies is the task of thinking and doing beyond the myopic limitations of the national framework. Two aspects of internationalisation, as drawn from the experiences of the day-to-day work of teaching, working with students and co-operating with partner institutions, are charted here. The first aspect relates to the use of English as the language of internationalisation, and the insightful and vexing learning situations it generates. The second aspect reflects on how the idea of performance as epistemology translates into pedagogical practice. The essay pleas for a learning that combines embodiment, live experimentation and reflection, beyond the tired binary of theory and practice. The scope of ‘internationalisation’ of performance research lies in imagining it as a meta-vocational discipline

Computational methods for 2D materials: discovery, property characterization, and application design

The discovery of two-dimensional (2D) materials comes at a time when computational methods are mature and can predict novel 2D materials, characterize their properties, and guide the design of 2D materials for applications. This article reviews the recent progress in computational approaches for 2D materials research. We discuss the computational techniques and provide an overview of the ongoing research in the field. We begin with an overview of known 2D materials, common computational methods, and available cyber infrastructures. We then move onto the discovery of novel 2D materials, discussing the stability criteria for 2D materials, computational methods for structure prediction, and interactions of monolayers with electrochemical and gaseous environments. Next, we describe the computational characterization of the 2D materials' electronic, optical, magnetic, and superconducting properties and the response of the properties under applied mechanical strain and electrical fields. From there, we move on to discuss the structure and properties of defects in 2D materials, and describe methods for 2D materials device simulations. We conclude by providing an outlook on the needs and challenges for future developments in the field of computational research for 2D materials

Computational methods for 2D materials: discovery, property characterization, and application design

The discovery of two-dimensional (2D) materials comes at a time when computational methods are mature and can predict novel 2D materials, characterize their properties, and guide the design of 2D materials for applications. This article reviews the recent progress in computational approaches for 2D materials research. We discuss the computational techniques and provide an overview of the ongoing research in the field. We begin with an overview of known 2D materials, common computational methods, and available cyber infrastructures. We then move onto the discovery of novel 2D materials, discussing the stability criteria for 2D materials, computational methods for structure prediction, and interactions of monolayers with electrochemical and gaseous environments. Next, we describe the computational characterization of the 2D materials' electronic, optical, magnetic, and superconducting properties and the response of the properties under applied mechanical strain and electrical fields. From there, we move on to discuss the structure and properties of defects in 2D materials, and describe methods for 2D materials device simulations. We conclude by providing an outlook on the needs and challenges for future developments in the field of computational research for 2D materials

"If love was a crime, we would be criminals": the Eurovision Song Contest and the queer international politics of flags

Baker uses contestations over flags at the Eurovision Song Contest to illustrate the paradox that, while Eurovision is ostensibly ‘non-political’ and prohibits ‘political’ messages and symbols, organisers, hosts, broadcasters, contestants and fans have regularly articulated narratives of European and national identity using performance, participation and commentary, thus engaging in politicized contentions over meanings and boundaries of European belonging. In 2015–16, several controversies about the display of regional, rainbow and disputed flags during Eurovision broadcasts exposed contestations over how producers, journalists, fans and casual viewers understood the boundaries of ‘the political’ in international competition. Baker concludes this revealed that Eurovision’s supposedly transnational public sphere was still officially conceived state-centrically and in ways that separated sexual and gender ‘diversity’ from politicized LGBT rights claims