Publications related to Applied physics

The 2022 applied physics by pioneering women: a roadmap

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Hui Dong, Hyunjung Kim

Women have made significant contributions to applied physics research and development, and their participation is vital to continued progress. Recognizing these contributions is important for encouraging increased involvement and creating an equitable envi ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

Exploring the potential of the critical shear crack theory for reinforced and post-tensioned glass beams: Initial analysis and experiments

Alain Nussbaumer, Pieter Christian Louter, Jagoda Cupac

In the evolution of structural glass beam elements, the requirements for post-fracture load bearing capacity and safe failure behaviour have led to the development of reinforced and post-tensioned beams. Maximum bending capacity in the post-fracture state ...

2023

Fractal-like Mechanical Resonators with a Soft-Clamped Fundamental Mode

Tobias Kippenberg, Sergey Fedorov, Alberto Beccari, Nils Johan Engelsen

Self-similar structures occur naturally and have been employed to engineer exotic physical properties. We show that acoustic modes of a fractal-like system of tensioned strings can display increased mechanical quality factors due to the enhancement of diss ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2020

Extension of Winkler’s solution to non-isothermal conditions for capturing the behaviour of plane geostructures subjected to thermal and mechanical actions

Lyesse Laloui, Qazim Llabjani, Alessandro Francesco Rotta Loria, Jacopo Zannin

Before this study, no analytical models had been made available for describing the behaviour of plane geostructures subjected to thermal and mechanical actions. This knowledge gap notably represented a limitation for investigations about the behaviour of s ...

2020

Two-Tone Optomechanical Instability and Its Fundamental Implications for Backaction-Evading Measurements

Tobias Kippenberg, Amir Youssefi, Liu Qiu, Itay Shomroni

While quantum mechanics imposes a fundamental limit on the precision of interferometric measurementsof mechanical motion due to measurement backaction, the nonlinear nature of the coupling also leads toparametric instabilities that place practical limits o ...

American Physical Society2019

Twist-Induced Snapping in a Bent Elastic Rod and Ribbon

Tomohiko Sano

Snapping of a slender structure is utilized in a wide range of natural and manmade systems, mostly to achieve rapid movement without relying on musclelike elements. Although several mechanisms for elastic energy storage and rapid release have been studied ...

2019

Emergence of Cracklike Behavior of Frictional Rupture: The Origin of Stress Drops

Jean-François Molinari, Thibault Didier Roch, Fabian Barras

The process of frictional rupture, i.e., the failure of frictional systems, abounds in the technological and natural world around us, ranging from squealing car brake pads to earthquakes along geological faults. A general framework for understanding and in ...

American Physical Society2019

Application of multiphysics model order reduction to doppler/neutronic feedback

Carlo Fiorina

In this paper, a proper orthogonal decomposition based reduced-order model is presented for parametrized multiphysics computations. Our application physics is Doppler feedback in a simplified model of the molten salt fast reactor concept. The reduced model ...

EDP Sciences2019

CFD as an Enginer's Tool for Investigation of Large-Scale-Flow-Phenomena "at Land, Sea and Air"

Michel Deville

Along with prospective fashion of solving the engineering-tasks (if development would allow us a such approach while answering the technology-questions of some project in future), goes alternatively corrective performance of those engineering tools, used t ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2018

Breaking Lorentz reciprocity to overcome the time-bandwidth limit in physics and engineering

Hatice Altug, Kosmas Tsakmakidis

A century-old tenet in physics and engineering asserts that any type of system, having bandwidth Delta omega, can interact with a wave over only a constrained time period Delta t inversely proportional to the bandwidth (Delta t-Delta w similar to 2 pi). Th ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2017

Single florescent nanodiamond in a three dimensional ABEL trap

Aleksandra Radenovic, Metin Kayci

Three dimensional single particle trapping and manipulation is an outstanding challenge in various fields ranging from basic physics to life sciences. By monitoring the response of a trapped particle to a designed environment one can extract its characteri ...

Nature Publishing Group2015

Cavity optomechanics

Tobias Kippenberg

The field of cavity optomechanics is reviewed. This field explores the interaction between electromagnetic radiation and nanomechanical or micromechanical motion. This review covers the basics of optical cavities and mechanical resonators, their mutual opt ...

Amer Physical Soc2014

Simulation of plasma turbulence in scrape-off layer conditions: the GBS code, simulation results and code validation

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Paolo Ricci, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Sébastien Jolliet, Federico David Halpern, Annamaria Mosetto

Based on the drift-reduced Braginskii equations, the Global Braginskii Solver, GBS, is able to model the scrape-off layer (SOL) plasma turbulence in terms of the interplay between the plasma outflow from the tokamak core, the turbulent transport, and the l ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2012

On the Applicability of Oil and Dye Technique During the Design Phase and Operation of Experimental Rigs

Alexandros Terzis

In this paper, an oil and dye flow visualization technique applied in two different cases of experimental testing is described, namely a single fan in crossflow and the wake of a compressor cascade. In both cases, the mixture of paint was prepared using a ...

2011

A simplified description of X-ray free-electron lasers

Giorgio Margaritondo, Primoz Rebernik Ribic

It is shown that an elementary semi-quantitative approach explains essential features of the X-ray free-electron laser mechanism, in particular those of the gain and saturation lengths. Using mathematical methods and derivations simpler than complete theor ...

International Union of Crystallography2011

Combinatorial necklace splitting

Doemoetoer Palvoelgyi

We give a new, combinatorial proof for the necklace splitting problem for two thieves using only Tucker's lemma (a combinatorial version of the Borsuk-Ulam theorem). We show how this method can be applied to obtain a related recent result of Simonyi and ev ...

American Mathematical Society2009

Ultralow-dissipation optomechanical resonators on a chip

Tobias Kippenberg, Albert Schliesser

Cavity-enhanced radiation-pressure coupling of optical and mechanical degrees of freedom gives rise to a range of optomechanical phenomena, in particular providing a route to the quantum regime of mesoscopic mechanical oscillators. A prime challenge in cav ...

Nature Publishing Group2008

Alexandre Sarrasin (1895-1976) et l'esthétique de l'ingénieur

Philippe Mivelaz

Alexandre Sarrasin (1895-1976) studied at Zürich Federal Swiss Institute of Technology (ETH) from 1913 to 1918. Despite First World War's conflicts surrounding the neutral Switzerland, the intellectual climate inside ETH was cosmopolitan and liberal. As un ...

EPFL2007