Publications related to Island

Nonlinear saturation of resistive tearing modes in a cylindrical tokamak with and without solving the dynamics

We show that the saturation of resistive tearing modes in a cylindrical tokamak, as well as the corresponding island width, can be directly calculated with a magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equilibrium code without solving the dynamics and without considering r ...

Cambridge University Press2023

Probing Water Dissociation and Oxygen Replacement on Partially Oxygen-Covered Cu(111) by Reflection Absorption Infrared Spectroscopy

Rainer Beck, Mateusz Suchodol, Harmina Vejayan

The presence of chemisorbed oxygen on the Cu(111) surface is known to strongly reduce the activation barrier for water dissociation as compared to bare Cu(111). Here, we present direct experimental evidence for the hydrogen abstraction mechanism responsibl ...

2023

Genomic consequences of colonisation, migration and genetic drift in barn owl insular populations of the eastern Mediterranean

Nicolas Jean Philippe Guex, Eléonore Lavanchy

The study of insular populations was key in the development of evolutionary theory. The successful colonisation of an island depends on the geographic context, and specific characteristics of the organism and the island, but also on stochastic processes. A ...

2022

Rare Earth and Bimetallic Transition Metal Islands at Surfaces

Dimitrios Mousadakos

This thesis reports on the growth and on the magnetic characterization of nanostructures made of 3d-4d transition metals and rare earths. In all the experiments the nanostructures have been grown by atomic beam epitaxy (ABE) in ultra high vacuum conditions ...

EPFL2017

Towards self-consistent plasma modelisation in presence of neoclassical tearing mode and sawteeth: effects on transport coefficients

Olivier Sauter, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle

The neoclassical tearing modes (NTM) increase the effective heat and particle radial transport inside the plasma, leading to a flattening of the electron and ion temperature and density profiles at a given location depending on the safety factor q rational ...

2017

The effect of magnetic islands on ITG turbulence driven transport

In this work, we address the question of the influence of magnetic islands on the perpendicular transport due to steady-state ITG turbulence on the energy transport time scale. We demonstrate that turbulence can cross the separatrix and enhance the perpend ...

American Institute of Physics (AIP)2015

Response of the topological surface state to surface disorder in TlBiSe2

Jan Hugo Dil, Stefan Peter Muff

Through a combination of experimental techniques we show that the topmost layer of the topological insulator TlBiSe2 as prepared by cleavage is formed by irregularly shaped Tl islands at cryogenic temperatures and by mobile Tl atoms at room temperature. No ...

Institute of Physics (IoP) and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft2015

VENUS-LEVIS and its spline-Fourier interpolation of 3D toroidal magnetic field representation for guiding-centre and full-orbit simulations of charged energetic particles

Jonathan Graves, Wilfred Anthony Cooper, David Pfefferlé, Cyril Misev

Curvilinear guiding-centre drift and full-orbit equations of motion are presented as implemented in the code{VENUS-LEVIS} code. A dedicated interpolation scheme based on Fourier reconstruction in the toroidal and poloidal direction and cubic spline in the ...

Elsevier2014

Self-organized ordered silver nanoparticle arrays obtained by solid state dewetting

Fabien Sorin, Arthur Le Bris

Spontaneous dewetting of a silver layer on a templated silica substrate is proposed as a promising low-cost process to produce self-organized metallic nanostructures. Periodic gratings with inverted pyramid pattern and periods ranging from 200 to 1000 nm a ...

Amer Inst Physics2014

Competing islands limit the rate of adaptation in structured populations

Cornelia Pokalyuk

Beneficial mutations can co-occur when population structure slows down adaptation. Here, we consider the process of adaptation in asexual populations distributed over several locations ("islands"). New beneficial mutations arise at constant rate u(b), and ...

Elsevier2013

The Dynamics of Restraint in Cote d'Ivoire

Research on conflict prevention has mainly focused on the causes of war and post-conflict reconstruction. Our knowledge on how civilians manage to contain violence in unstable and conflict environments is, however, very limited. This article aims to unders ...

Wiley-Blackwell2013

Topography and work function measurements of thin MgO(001) films on Ag(001) by nc-AFM and KPFM

Marina Pivetta

The surface topography and local surface work function of ultrathin MgO(001) films on Ag(001) have been studied by noncontact atomic force microscopy (nc-AFM) and Kelvin probe force microscopy (KPFM). First principles calculations have been used to explain ...

2010

Positioning of strained islands by interaction with surface nanogrooves

Klaus Kern, Giovanni Costantini

When strained Stranski-Krastanow islands are used as "self-assembled quantum dots," a key goal is to control the island position. Here we show that nanoscale grooves can control the nucleation of epitaxial Ge islands on Si(001), and can drive lateral motio ...

2008

Permalloy thin films exchange coupled to arrays of cobalt islands

Jürgen Brugger, Marc Antonius Friedrich van den Boogaart

Periodic arrays of elongated cobalt islands exchange coupled to continuous Permalloy thin films were fabricated using silicon nitride stencil masks and the magnetic spin configurations during magnetization reversal were studied with photoemission electron ...

AIP American Institute of Physics2006

Coherent x-ray diffraction from quantum dots

Coherent x-ray diffraction is a new experimental method for studying perfect and imperfect crystals. Instead of incoherent averaging, a coherent sum of amplitudes produces a coherent diffraction pattern originating from the real space arrangement of the sa ...

2005