Indium tin oxide is found to exhibit strong nonlinear optical functionality in a specific wavelength regime.
Inset: corresponding nonlinear tuning functions.
Well-defined multifunctional polymers, bearing charge transporting (CT) and nonlinear optical (NLO) functionality covalently attached to each repeat unit, were synthesized and characterized.
The Takagi Sugeno (TS) model is presented as a convex combination of linear models through the nonlinearities represented below, a combination which enables the testing of both the simplicity versus complexity of the nonlinear systems and their functionality, via the application of an estimator.
In order to combine analogue functionality for the RF front end and digital functionality for high-speed signal processing nonlinear circuit concepts must be used and CMOS technology has to be applied.
By exploiting nonlinear effects in a semiconductor optical amplifier, different functionalities for all-optical digital signal processing are implemented.
The examples of poly(1,6-heptadiyne)s having such peculiar functionalities as side-chain liquid crystalline, nonlinear optical, photoconductive, photorefractive, and self-dopable ionic groups were presented.
The role of antiphase boundaries on the functionalities observed in the constrained wires (e.g., nonlinear I V characteristics and large magnetoresistance) is discussed on the basis of these microscopic observations.
The nonlinear responses of sutures are particularly attractive to augment the properties and functionalities of inherently brittle materials such as ceramics and glasses.
Such nonlinear properties of sub-networks are often described and assigned to a certain functionality of the system.
