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IntroductionThe jellyfish Cassiopea has a conspicuous lifestyle, positioning itself upside-down on sediments in shallow waters thereby exposing its photosynthetic endosymbionts (Symbiodiniaceae) to light. Several studies have shown how the photosymbionts b ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2023

Perceived glare from the sun behind tinted glazing: Comparing blue vs. color-neutral tints

Marilyne Andersen, Andreas Schueler, Jan Wienold, Maxime Lagier, Sneha Jain

While the influence of a glare source's spectrum on sensitivity to discomfort glare has been demonstrated repeatedly under electric light conditions, it has not yet been studied under actual daylit conditions. To investigate the influence of spectral alter ...

2023

Visual comfort without borders: Extending daylight glare prediction to dim daylit environments

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Avoiding discomfort glare is one of the critical aspects of maintaining visual comfort, which significantly influences occupants' overall satisfaction with their indoor environment. Discomfort glare prediction models have been developed for various lightin ...

EPFL2022

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Sophia Haussener, Silvan Suter, Mahendra Patel, Etienne Boutin

Photo-electrochemical production of solar fuels from carbon dioxide, water, and sunlight is an appealing approach. Nevertheless, it remains challenging to scale despite encouraging demonstrations at low power input. Higher current densities require notable ...

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Optical metasurfaces: synthesis, nanofabrication, and colorful applications

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EPFL2022

Towards a wearable sensor for spectrally-resolved personal light monitoring

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Given the large impact that the spectrum and intensity of light can have on people's health and well-being, it is of fundamental importance to understand the properties of light received under normal living conditions. Historically, as research into the bi ...

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Brillouin scattering in gas-filled hollow-core fibres

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Edward E. Hagenlocker and William G. Rado demonstrated Brillouin interaction in gas for the first time in 1965, right after the very first demonstrations of stimulated Brillouin scattering in solid materials. In their experiment, they used a megawatt pulse ...

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Finite element modeling of dynamic frictional rupture with rate and state friction

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Numerous laboratory experiments have demonstrated the dependence of the friction coefficient on the interfacial slip rate and the contact history, a behavior generically called rate and state friction. Although numerical models have been widely used for an ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020

Increasing efficiency of perovskite solar cells using low concentrating photovoltaic systems

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Perovskite solar cell (PSC) technology is the flag bearer for the future of photovoltaics allowing unlimited possibilities for its application. This technology is currently limited by issues related to its scale-up, stability and the composition of the mat ...

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Retarding Thermal Degradation in Hybrid Perovskites by Ionic Liquid Additives

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Mounir Driss Mensi, Paul Joseph Dyson, Zhaofu Fei, Felix Daniel Bobbink, Marius Franckevicius, Cristina Roldán Carmona, Nikita Drigo, Zhangjun Huang, Rui Xia

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Resonant Waveguide Gratings for Color-Selective Diffraction

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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 ...

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Modeling spatially dependent functional data via regression with differential regularization

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We propose a method for modelling spatially dependent functional data, based on regression with differential regularization. The regularizing term enables to include problem-specific information about the spatio-temporal variation of phenomenon under study ...

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Nonequilibrium exciton physics in hybrid lead-halide perovskites and anatase titanium dioxide

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The strength of the electron-hole interaction in bulk semiconductors is not only determined by the dielectric environment, but also depends on the presence of other quasiparticles - free charge carriers or phonons - that populate the system. In the former ...

EPFL2019

Modelling of standard and specialty fibre-based systems using finite element methods

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We report on the investigation of an approach for modelling light transmission through systems consisting of several jointed optical fibres, in which the analytical modelling of the waveguides was replaced by Finite Element Modelling (FEM) simulations. To ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2018

Influence of Disorder and Finite-Size Effects on Slow Light Transport in Extended Photonic Crystal Coupled-Cavity Waveguides

Vincenzo Savona, Romuald Houdré, Momchil Minkov, Mohamed Sabry Abdel-Aliem Mohamed

A convenient approach for slowing down light in integrated optical circuits is by utilizing a set of coupled microcavities in a photonic crystal lattice. While this provides for flexibility in dispersion engineering, light transport is influenced by a comb ...

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An integrated concentrated solar fuel generator utilizing a tubular solid oxide electrolysis cell as solar absorber

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We numerically assessed the potential of a solar reactor concept for efficient fuel processing under concentrated solar irradiation. This design integrates a cavity receiver, a tubular solid oxide electrolyzer, and the concentrated photovoltaic cells into ...

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Local activation of surface and hybrid acoustic waves in optical microwires

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Desmond Chow Ming Chia

Elastic vibrations in subwavelength structures have gained importance recently in fundamental light–matter studies and various optoacoustic applications. Existing techniques have revealed the presence of distinct acoustic resonances inside silica microwire ...

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Design rules for customizable optical materials based on nanocomposites

Toralf Scharf, Friedrich Daniel Werdehausen

Nanocomposites with tailored optical properties can provide a new degree of freedom for optical design. However, despite their potential these materials remain unused in bulk optical applications. Here we investigate the conditions under which they can be ...

OPTICAL SOC AMER2018

Distributed analyses using distinct classes of Brillouin scatterings in optical fibres

Desmond Chow Ming Chia

Brillouin scattering is an interaction between light and sound in a material. This inelastic light scattering had been observed in the first optical fibres that were used in cross-continent communication. Via Brillouin scattering, the guided light wave in ...

EPFL2018

Solar-Driven High-Temperature Electrolysis Reactor for Fuel Processing : Modeling, Optimization, and Experimentation

Meng Lin

Solar-driven high-temperature electrolysis (HTE) and thermochemical cycles (TCC) are two promising pathways for fuel processing and energy storage, which are considered in this thesis. The goals of this thesis are: i) offering engineering guidelines at sys ...

EPFL2018