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High-resolution scintillation detector for two-dimensional reconstruction

Arnaud Bertsch, Alessandro Mapelli, Fabrizio Carbone, Veronica Leccese

A scintillation device including a silicon plate having a rectangular shape and having a first side and a second side opposite the first side, wherein the first side includes a plurality of first channels arranged to be in parallel with each other extendin ...

2023

Investigations on Caesium Dispersion and Molybdenum Coating on SPIDER Components

Michele Fadone

SPIDER is the 100 keV full-size Negative Ion Source prototype of the ITER Neutral Beam Injector, operating at Consorzio RFX in Padova, Italy. The largest Negative Ion Source in the world, SPIDER generates an RF driven plasma from which Deuterium or Hydroge ...

2023

Polysaccharide Layer-by-Layer Coating for Polyimide-Based Neural Interfaces

Silvestro Micera

Implantable flexible neural interfaces (IfNIs) are capable of directly modulating signals of the central and peripheral nervous system by stimulating or recording the action potential. Despite outstanding results in acute experiments on animals and humans, ...

MDPI2022

Lippmann Photography: A Signal Processing Perspective

Martin Vetterli, Gilles Baechler, Arnaud Latty, Adam James Scholefield, Michalina Wanda Pacholska

Lippmann (or interferential) photography is the first and only analog photography method that can capture the full color spectrum of a scene in a single take. This technique, invented more than a hundred years ago, records the colors by creating interferen ...

2022

Study of Thin Film LiNbO3 Laterally Excited Bulk Acoustic Resonators

Victor Plessky, Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Hüseyin Baris Atakan, Soumya Yandrapalli

This work presents an in-depth study of simulation and measurement results of laterally excited shear bulk acoustic resonators (XBAR) in Lithium Niobate, at 5 GHz with high electromechanical coupling factor (k(t)(2)) as high as 25%, and with impedances at ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2022

Engineering multi-state transparency on demand

Olivier Martin, Sebastian Mader

Materials are, in general, either transparent or not. In principle, it is impossible to switch a material from a reflective optical state to a fully transparent one. Transparency has received relatively less research attention compared to other optical pro ...

2021

Surface-based luminescence measurement substrate

Raphaël Barbey, Nicolas Maxime André Descharmes

Surface-based measurement substrate including: • - at least one optical cavity layer (7); • - a first optical mirror (9) and a second optical mirror (11), the first and second optical mirrors enclosing the optical cavity layer and defining an optical cavit ...

2020

Molecular Basis of CLC Antiporter Inhibition by Fluoride

Ursula Röthlisberger, Paolo Carloni, Thomas Beck, Simone Meloni, Viacheslav Bolnykh

CLC channels and transporters conduct or transport various kinds of anions, with the exception of fluoride, which acts as an effective inhibitor. Here, we performed sub-nanosecond DFT-based QM/MM simulations of the E. coli anion/proton exchanger ClC-ec1 an ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Blue-shift ultrasensitivity using rhombus-shaped plasmonic crystal on Si3N4 membrane

Dordaneh Etezadi, Mahdi Tamizifar, Bahareh Ghadiani, Yasaman Jahani, Foziyeh Sohrabi, Ershad Mohammadi

Harnessing ultrasensitivity from optical structures to detect tiny changes in the targeted samples is the main goal of scientists in the field of sensor design. In this study, an uncommon rhombus-shape plasmonic structure is proposed for providing blue-shi ...

OPTICAL SOC AMER2020

Optimization of front SiNx/ITO stacks for high-efficiency two-side contacted c-Si solar cells with co-annealed front and rear passivating contacts

Christophe Ballif, Sylvain Nicolay, Xavier Niquille, Franz-Josef Haug, Frank Meyer, Andrea Ingenito

In this contribution, we present an electron selective passivating contact metallised with a low temperature process to target front side applications in crystalline silicon (c-Si) solar cells. In addition to an interfacial silicon oxide (SiOx) and an in-s ...

2020

A General Framework for Pearlescent Materials

Wenzel Alban Jakob, Ibon Guillen Serrano

The unique and visually mesmerizing appearance of pearlescent materials has made them an indispensable ingredient in a diverse array of applications including packaging, ceramics, printing, and cosmetics. In contrast to their natural counterparts, such syn ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2020

Reproducibility warning: The curious case of polyethylene glycol 6000 and spheroid cell culture

Francesco Stellacci, Quy Ong Khac, Zhi Luo, Ahmet Bekdemir

Reproducibility of results is essential for a well-designed and conducted experiment. Several reasons may originate failure in reproducing data, such as selective reporting, low statistical power, or poor analysis. In this study, we used PEG6000 samples fr ...

2020

Spectrally Selective Mid-Wave Infrared Detection Using Fabry-Perot Cavity Enhanced Black Phosphorus 2D Photodiodes

Christophe Ballif, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Wei Yan

Thin two-dimensional (2D) material absorbers have the potential to reduce volume-dependent thermal noise in infrared detectors. However, any reduction in noise must be balanced against lower absorption from the thin layer, which necessitates advanced optic ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Broadened Bandwidth Amplified Spontaneous Emission from Blue GaN-Based Short-Cavity Superluminescent Light-Emitting Diodes

Jean-François Carlin, Denis Martin, Nicolas Grandjean, Raphaël Butté, Hua Zhang, Ching-Wen Shih

We report broad bandwidth blue superluminescent light-emitting diodes (SLEDs) based on a short-cavity active region. The dependencies of amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) output power and gain bandwidth on cavity length were investigated in devices whos ...

2019

A kilometre-range distributed relative humidity sensor

Luc Thévenaz, Kenny Hey Tow, Li Zhang, Tiago Filipe Pimentel Das Neves

Fibre optics sensors have been identified as very good candidates for environmental monitoring inside the silicon detectors operated at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. In this study, we present the results from the first highly sensitive relative humidity di ...

SPIE2019

Experiments and modelling for glow discharge plasmas applied to niobium sputter deposition in superconducting radiofrequency cavities

Thibaut François Hugo Richard

Thin film coatings are ubiquitous in modern daily lives, from the semi-conductor industry to aesthetic applications, and rely on the modification of a given material to enhance its surface properties. At CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), t ...

EPFL2019

Embedded Polarizing Filters to Separate Diffuse and Specular Reflection

Gilles Baechler, Laurent Valentin Jospin, Adam James Scholefield

Polarizing filters provide a powerful way to separate diffuse and specular reflection; however, traditional methods rely on several captures and require proper alignment of the filters. Recently, camera manufacturers have proposed to embed polarizing micro ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2019

Resonant Waveguide Gratings for Color-Selective Diffraction

Giorgio Quaranta

Resonant waveguide gratings (RWGs), also known as guided mode resonant (GMR) gratings or waveguide-mode resonant gratings, are dielectric structures where these resonant diffractive elements benefit from lateral leaky guided modes and can operate from UV t ...

EPFL2019

Energy performance and occupancy-based analysis of visual and thermal comfort for transmittance level and layout variations of semi-transparent photovoltaics

Marilyne Andersen, Giuseppe Peronato, Giorgia Chinazzo, Jan Wienold

This paper investigates the impact of transmittance level and layout variations of semi-transparent photovoltaics (STPV) on both energy performance and occupancy-based visual and thermal comfort, simulating a reference office with a fully south-oriented gl ...

IBPSA2019

Extracting High Resolution Snow Distribution Information with Inexpensive Autonomous Cameras

Wolf Hendrik Huwald, Steven Vincent Weijs

This study details a procedure to derive high resolution snow cover information using low-cost autonomous cameras. Images from time lapse photography of target areas are used to obtain temporally resolved binary snow-covered area information. Various image ...

EasyChair2018

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