Publications related to String instrument

A compact approach to higher-resolution resonant inelastic x-ray scattering detection using photoelectrons

The detection of inelastically scattered soft x-rays with high energy resolution usually requires large grating spectrometers. Recently, photoelectron spectrometry for analysis of x-rays (PAX) has been rediscovered for modern spectroscopy experiments at sy ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2024

QCD worldsheet axion from the bootstrap

Andrea Guerrieri, Victor Gorbenko

The worldsheet axion plays a crucial role in the dynamics of the Yang-Mills confining flux tubes. According to the lattice measurements, its mass is of order the string tension and its coupling is close to a certain critical value. Using the S-matrix Boots ...

Springer Nature2024

High brightness neutron source optimized for very high pulsed magnetic field experiments

Mina Akhyani

Conducting neutron scattering experiments in the presence of high pulsed magnetic fields, namely above 40 T, provides valuable information about the magnetic structures of materials. However, these experiments are challenging and time-consuming because the ...

EPFL2024

Investigation of room-temperature single-photon emitters in GaN-based materials and GaN/AlN quantum dots

Johann Nicolaï Stachurski

Over the past decade, quantum photonics platforms aiming at harnessing the fundamental properties of single particles, such as quantum superposition and quantum entanglement, have flourished. In this context, single-photon emitters capable of operating at ...

EPFL2024

Measurement of the 171Tm beta spectrum

Lesya Shchutska, Alexey Boyarsky

The beta spectrum of the main transition of the 171Tm was measured using a double focalizing spectrometer. The instrument was lately improved in order to reduce its low energy threshold to 34 keV. We used the spectrometer to measure the energy end-point of ...

2023

Observation of non-reciprocal harmonic conversion in real sounds

Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Hervé Lissek, Xinxin Guo

Reciprocity guarantees that in most media, sound transmission is symmetric between two points of space when the location of the source and receiver are interchanged. This fundamental law can be broken in non-linear media, often at the cost of detrimental i ...

2023

Design and construction of a microfluidics workstation for high-throughput multi-wavelength fluorescence and transmittance activated droplet analysis and sorting

Christoph Merten, Jatin Panwar, Alexis Louis Autour

Droplet microfluidics has revolutionized quantitative high-throughput bioassays and screening, especially in the field of single-cell analysis where applications include cell characterization, antibody discovery and directed evolution. However, droplet mic ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2023

Aerosol optical absorption coefficients at seven wavelengths in 10 min resolution measured in the Swiss container during MOSAiC 2019/2020

Julia Schmale, Benjamin Jérémy Laurent Heutte, Ivo Fabio Beck, Lubna Dada

This dataset contains aerosol optical absorption coefficients at seven different wavelengths (babs(λ)), averaged to 10 min time resolution, measured during the year-long MOSAiC expedition from October 2019 to September 2020. The measurements were performed ...

Zenodo2023

Advancing atomic force microscopy through open source instrumentation

Mustafa Kangül

Atomic force microscopy (AFM), a member of the scanning probe microscopy (SPM) family, holds a unique position as a nano-characterization instrument in the fields of physics, chemistry, and biology. Its ability to provide atomic resolution and operate in v ...

EPFL2023

Comparing the psychometric properties of two primary school Computational Thinking (CT) assessments for grades 3 and 4: The Beginners' CT test (BCTt) and the competent CT test (cCTt)

Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Barbara Bruno, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy

Introduction: With the increasing amount of research around Computational Thinking (CT) and endeavors introducing CT into curricula worldwide, assessing CT at all levels of formal education is of utmost importance to ensure that CT-related learning objecti ...

Frontiers Media2022

Influence of amount of shear reinforcement and its post-yield response on the shear resistance of reinforced concrete members

Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Frédéric Monney

The minimum amount of shear reinforcement to be provided in reinforced concrete members has been a topic of debate and research for decades without reaching a consensus. Defining such values is however instrumental to build in an economic manner and to saf ...

ERNST & SOHN2022

Health data privacy through homomorphic encryption and distributed ledger computing: an ethical-legal qualitative expert assessment study

Marcello Ienca

Background: Increasingly, hospitals and research institutes are developing technical solutions for sharing patient data in a privacy preserving manner. Two of these technical solutions are homomorphic encryption and distributed ledger technology. Homomorph ...

BMC2022

Equivalent black carbon concentration in 10 minutes time resolution, measured in the Swiss container during MOSAiC 2019/2020

Julia Schmale, Benjamin Jérémy Laurent Heutte, Ivo Fabio Beck, Lubna Dada

This dataset contains equivalent black carbon (eBC) concentrations, averaged to 10 min time resolution, measured during the year-long MOSAiC expedition from October 2019 to September 2020. The measurements were performed in the Swiss container on the D-dec ...

Zenodo2022

Quantum Circuits for the Preparation of Spin Eigenfunctions on Quantum Computers

Alessandro Carbone

The application of quantum algorithms to the study of many-particle quantum systems requires the ability to prepare wave functions that are relevant in the behavior of the system under study. Hamiltonian symmetries are important instruments used to classif ...

MDPI2022

Beyond Tolerance Factor: Using Deep Learning for Prediction Formability of ABX3 Perovskite Structures

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Tom Theodorus Antonius Lummen, Valentin Ianis Emmanuel Queloz, Alexander Fedorovskiy

Deep learning (DL) is a modern powerful instrument for multiple purposes, including classification. In this study, this technique is applied to the task of perovskites formability. A commonly known perovskite dataset is used to try to make an instrument su ...

2021

Praxisorientierte Forschung im Bereich Wasserbau und Ökologie [Practice-oriented research in hydraulic engineering and ecology]

Giovanni De Cesare

Wasserbau und Ökologie (W&Ö) ist ein schweizweites Forschungsprogramm zu den Themen Renaturierung, Biodiversitätsförderung, Wassernutzung und Naturgefahren im Bereich von Fliessgewässern und den davon direkt beeinflussten Mündungsbereichen und Ufern der Se ...

ETH2021

Concerning the research “Material history of the built environment and the conservation project” (2008–2020), methodology and results

Franz Graf, Giulia Marino

Recent successes in the reuse and rehabilitation of 20th century architecture have shown that design begins with the study of history. Study of the material history of built structures, together with historical and critical investigation, supported by diag ...

CRC Press/Balkema2021

Concerning the research “Material history of the built environment and the conservation project” (2008–2020), methodology and results

Franz Graf, Giulia Marino

Recent successes in the reuse and rehabilitation of 20th century architecture have shown that design begins with the study of history. Study of the material history of built structures, together with historical and critical investigation, supported by diag ...

CRC Press/Balkema - Taylor & Francis2021

Stochastic gravitational-wave background from metastable cosmic strings

Valerie Fiona Domcke

A metastable cosmic-string network is a generic consequence of many grand unified theories (GUTs) when combined with cosmic inflation. Metastable cosmic strings are not topologically stable, but decay on cosmic time scales due to pair production of GUT mon ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2021

Advantages of patient-specific cutting guides with disposable instrumentation in total knee arthroplasty: a case control study

Brigitte Jolles-Haeberli

BackgroundTotal knee arthroplasty (TKA) is most frequently planned using conventional two-dimensional weight-bearing lower limb radiographs and is performed with conventional femoral and tibial cutting guides. Questions have been raised about the accuracy ...

BMC2021