"Engineers are more and more focusing on not only optimising just one single property in a material or device, light a brighter screen or higher pixel density, but rather on satisfying several design and performance criteria simultaneously," he added.
Generally, it is also possible to include constraints in the algorithms to account for experimental imperfections or requirements related to a specific material or device.
Emerging demands of new functionalities at the material or device level for 3D integration have allowed increasing the level of maturity of these technologies.
These models can help quantify the contributions of various physical or chemical phenomena that contribute to the overall behavior, thereby enabling the scientist to control and manipulate these phenomena, and thus to optimize the performance of the material or device.
For endeavors in optics and photonics, it is always an advantage to be able to manipulate resonance in the index of refraction (n) of a specific material or device of interest.
The accurate assessment of the dynamic characteristics of a magnetostrictive material or device is a difficult task, since the behavior is affected by significant phenomena like dynamic mechanical and magnetic hysteresis.
The potential of nanotechnological applications to the life sciences arises from the fact that they exhibit bulk mesoscale and macroscale chemical and/or physical properties that are unique to the engineered material or device and not necessarily possessed by the molecules alone.
The reasons can be manifolds, for example, such that the material or device of interest may manifest some desirable spectral behavior, e.g., resonance peaks or resonance absorptions around certain frequencies (Ωs), or a modified shape of the refractive index vs. frequency relation.
At these scales, consideration of individual molecules and interacting groups of molecules in relation to the bulk macroscopic properties of the material or device becomes important, since it is control over the fundamental molecular structure that allows control over the macroscopic chemical and physical properties.
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