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Polyiodides present high bonding flexibility already at ambient conditions, and undergo significant pressure-induced structural deformations. Resonant Raman spectroscopy has been widely used to study I-I bonds in various polyiodides, but it carries a risk ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2024

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This thesis introduces spectroscopy-free Raman biosensing, which may find increasing use in the next generation of wearable devices for preventive healthcare. While wearables have made substantial advancements in detecting physical biomarkers, they have ye ...

EPFL2024

Resonant Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy of a Single-Molecule Kondo System

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Tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS) under ultrahigh vacuum and cryogenic conditions enables exploration of the relations between the adsorption geometry, electronic state, and vibrational fingerprints of individual molecules. TERS capability of reflecti ...

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EPFL2024

Impact of microwave beam scattering by density fluctuations on the electron-cyclotron power deposition profile in tokamaks

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Electron-cyclotron waves are a tool commonly used in tokamaks, in particular to drive current. Their ability to drive current in a very localized manner renders them an optimal tool for MHD mode mitigation. However, such applications require high accuracy ...

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Advanced Silicon and SWIR Single-Photon Avalanche Diodes: Design, Simulation, and Characterization

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Dataset to accompany publication "Best practices in measuring absorption at the macro- and microscale"

Giulia Tagliabue, Fateme Kiani Shahvandi, Jiaming Ma, Alan Richard Bowman

This dataset accompanies the publication "Best practices in measuring absorption at the macro- and microscale" published in APL Photonics. The data can be used to reproduce original plots in figures 1-4 in the main text and all original plots in the suppor ...

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Electronic structure and lattice dynamics of 1T-VSe2:Origin of the three-dimensional charge density wave

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To characterize in detail the charge density wave (CDW) transition of 1T-VSe2, its electronic structure and lattice dynamics are comprehensively studied by means of x-ray diffraction, muon spectroscopy, angle resolved photoemission (ARPES), diffuse and ine ...

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Subsurface fluorescence time-of-flight imaging using a large-format single-photon avalanche diode sensor for tumor depth assessment

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SPIE Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers2024

Dielectric metasurfaces and their applications for optical biosensing

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Broadband spectroscopy and inelastic light scattering on the canted antiferromagnet hematite for antiferromagnetic magnonics

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Collective spin excitations propagating in magnetically ordered materials are called spin waves (SWs) or magnons. They are promising for low-power and beyond-CMOS information processing, which do not suffer from the ohmic losses. SWs in ferromagnets (antif ...

EPFL2023

Toward Metantennas: Metamaterial-Based Antennas for Wireless Communications

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Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2023

A comprehensive analysis of electron emission from a-Si:H/Al2O3 at low energies

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IOP Publishing Ltd2023

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EPFL2023

Cavity-Mediated Coupling of Terahertz Antiferromagnetic Resonators

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Coupling of space-separated resonators is interesting for quantum and communication technologies. In this work, we show that antiferromagnetic resonance in separated parallel-plane slabs of hematite (alpha-Fe2O3) couple cooperatively to terahertz electroma ...

American Physical Society (APS)2023

Resonators with tailored optical path by cascaded-mode conversions

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Nature Portfolio2023

Lightning interaction with the ionosphere

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Lightning discharges, including cloud-to-ground (CG) and intracloud (IC) lightning, are known to emit electromagnetic pulses (EMPs) in a wide frequency band ranging from few Hz up to hundreds MHz [1]. During the breakdown and ionization processes (mostly f ...

IET2023

Exact Expressions for Lightning Electromagnetic Fields: Application to the Rusck Field-To-Transmission Line Coupling Model

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein

An exact analytical expression for the electric field of the return stroke as excited by a propagating step current source is derived in this paper. This expression could be advantageously used to evaluate the disturbances caused by lightning on overhead l ...

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Spin wave dispersion of ultra-low damping hematite ( α−Fe2O3 ) at GHz frequencies

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Low magnetic damping and high group velocity of spin waves (SWs) or magnons are two crucial parameters for functional magnonic devices. Magnonics research on signal processing and wave-based computation at GHz frequencies focused on the artificial ferrimag ...

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