Investigations on Caesium Dispersion and Molybdenum Coating on SPIDER Components

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Investigations on Caesium Dispersion and Molybdenum Coating on SPIDER Components

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Electron-beam based nanoscale quantum controls

Structural study of nickelate based heterostructures

Inter-discharge optimization for fast, reliable access to ASDEX Upgrade advanced tokamak scenario

Gyrokinetic turbulence modeling of a high performance scenario in JT-60SA

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Study of impurity C transport and plasma rotation in negative triangularity on the TCV tokamak

Microsecond Time-Resolved Cryo-Electron Microscopy

Characterization of low-temperature plasmas generated by dielectric barrier discharges for bacterial inactivation

Long plasma duration operation analyses with an international multi-machine (tokamaks and stellarators) database

Inversing the actuation cycle of dielectric elastomer actuators for a facial prosthesis

Pore size estimation in axon-mimicking microfibers with diffusion-relaxation MRI

Re-design of EU DEMO with a low aspect ratio

Revealing the Mechanism Underlying 3D-AFM Imaging of Suspended Structures by Experiments and Simulations

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

Overview of fast particle experiments in the first MAST Upgrade experimental campaigns

Controlling crystal cleavage in focused ion beam shaped specimens for surface spectroscopy

DEMO toroidal field coil fast discharge unit integration studies

Sensitivity Analysis of the Lumped Thermal Model of the EU 170 GHz Gyrotron Magnetron Injection Gun

A continuous-wave and pulsed X-band electron spin resonance spectrometer operating in ultra-high vacuum for the study of low dimensional spin ensembles

Scenario optimization for the tokamak ramp-down phase in RAPTOR. Part B: safe termination of DEMO plasmas