Smooth particle hydrodynamics study of surface defect machining for diamond turning of silicon

Acknowledgments The authors would like to thank EPSRC (EP/ K018345/1) and Royal Society-NSFC International Exchange Scheme for providing financial support to this research.

Experimentally estimated dead space for GaAs and InP based planar Gunn diodes

The authors would like to thank the staff of the James Watt Nanofabrication Centre at the University of Glasgow for help in fabricating the devices which is reported in this paper. ‘Part of this work was supported by ESPRC through EP/H011862/ 1, and EP/H012966/1.