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The 2024 Magnonics Roadmap

Dirk Grundler, Thomas Yu, Ping Che, Qi Wang

Magnonics is a research field that has gained an increasing interest in both the fundamental and applied sciences in recent years. This field aims to explore and functionalize collective spin excitations in magnetically ordered materials for modern informa ...

2024

Decomposition method to evaluate district heating/cooling network potential at urban scale

François Maréchal, Luc Girardin, Ana Catarina Gouveia Braz, Bingqian Liu

In this work, a tool to design district heating networks (DHN) is presented and applied to the city of Lausanne as a case study. The evaluation of the buildings’ heat/cooling demand is performed using a Geographic Information System (GIS) database, built f ...

Associazione Italiana Di Ingegneria Chimica2024

Spatiotemporal energy‐density distribution of time‐reversed electromagnetic fields

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Nicolas Mora Parra, Hamidreza Karami, Elias Per Joachim Le Boudec

Time reversal exploits the invariance of electromagnetic wave propagation in reciprocal and lossless media to localize radiating sources. Time-reversed measurements are back-propagated in a simulated domain and converge to the unknown source location. The ...

2024

Synthesis of polysiloxane elastomers modified with sulfonyl side groups and their electromechanical response

Holger Frauenrath, Yauhen Sheima

Dielectric elastomer transducers are elastic capacitors that respond to mechanical or electrical stress. They can be used in applications such as millimeter-sized soft robots and harvesters of the energy contained in ocean waves. The dielectric component o ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2023

Toward Metantennas: Metamaterial-Based Antennas for Wireless Communications

Yuanyan Su

Antennas have historically been the most common electromagnetic (EM) technology for wireless communication systems. Antenna as hardware is entirely dependent on the EM properties of the materials used, mostly related to the permittivity and permeability. I ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2023

Nanoscale thermal control of a single living cell enabled by diamond heater-thermometer

Aleksandra Radenovic, Evgenii Glushkov

We report a new approach to controllable thermal stimulation of a single living cell and its compartments. The technique is based on the use of a single polycrystalline diamond particle containing silicon-vacancy (SiV) color centers. Due to the presence of ...

Nature Portfolio2023

JET D-T scenario with optimized non-thermal fusion

Javier García Hernández, Mikhail Maslov, Haomin Sun, Michele Marin

In JET deuterium-tritium (D-T) plasmas, the fusion power is produced through thermonuclear reactions and reactions between thermal ions and fast particles generated by neutral beam injection (NBI) heating or accelerated by electromagnetic wave heating in t ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

Scattering from Time-Modulated Transmission-Line Loads: Theory and Experiments in Acoustics

Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Matthieu Francis Malléjac

Scattering wave systems that are periodically modulated in time offer many new degrees of freedom to control waves in both the spatial and frequency domains. Such systems, albeit linear, do not conserve frequency and require the adaptation of the usual the ...

American Physical Society (APS)2023

Low and high frequency electromagnetic forces: numerical modelling and practical applications

Marco Riccardi

The understanding and manipulation of nanoscale analytes is a central theme in nanotechnology and has been one of the main driving forces behind the development of this field as we know it today. Furthermore, such a technology has the potential to also rev ...

EPFL2022

Inflight Microwave Drying Process of Micro-droplets for High Resolution 3D printing

Kwanghoon Choi

A new Additive-Manufacturing (AM) or 3D printing concept is proposed to improve the printing resolution for metal additive manufacturing in the frame of the SFA-AM project, Powder Focusing for Beam-Induced Laser 3D Printing. The project aims to transport s ...

EPFL2022

Customized Neural Network training to predict the highly imbalanced data of domestic hot water usage

Dolaana Khovalyg, Amirreza Heidari

Despite space heating and cooling, the energy use for hot water production has not changed significantly over time and accounts for a big share in modern, well-insulated buildings. The main challenge of hot water generation lies in the highly stochastic na ...

CLIMA 2022 conference2022

Designing a District Energy Infrastructure-a Case-Study in Lisbon

François Maréchal, Sébastien Cajot, Nils Christian Schüler

The paper describes a case study on the design of district energy infrastructure for the green-field project of the Vale de Santo Antonio (Lisbon, Portugal). The methodology is based on a novel framework built on the sequential integration of three softwar ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2022

Combining thermal insulation and mobile communication in buildings: influence of laser-treated glazing on microwave propagation

Andreas Schueler, Josef Andreas Schuler, Luc Burnier, Jérémy Jacques Antonin Fleury, Héloïse Ludivine Delaporte

With the purpose of reducing the heating energy in buildings, it is common practice to install energy-efficient windows to increase the thermal insulation of a façade. These insulating glass units (IGIJ) include a thin silver coating acting as an infrared ...

IOP2022

First-Principles Density Limit Scaling in Tokamaks Based on Edge Turbulent Transport and Implications for ITER

Olivier Sauter, Alessandro Pau, Paolo Ricci, Maurizio Giacomin

A first-principles scaling law, based on turbulent transport considerations, and a multimachine database of density limit discharges from the ASDEX Upgrade, JET, and TCV tokamaks, show that the increase of the boundary turbulent transport with the plasma c ...

2022

Dipole-Fed Rectangular Dielectric Resonator Antennas for Magnetic Resonance Imaging at 7 T: The Impact of Quasi-Transverse Electric Modes on Transmit Field Distribution

Rolf Gruetter, Daniel Wenz

Shortened dipole antennas based on rectangular dielectric blocks play an important role in ultrahigh field magnetic resonance imaging (UHF-MRI) radio frequency (RF) coil design. However, the generally assumed direct contact with the subject is difficult to ...

2021

Quantum coherent microwave-optical transduction using high-overtone bulk acoustic resonances

Tobias Kippenberg, Terence Albert Emile Blésin

A device capable of converting single quanta of the microwave field to the optical domain is an outstanding endeavor in the context of quantum interconnects between distant superconducting qubits, but likewise can have applications in other fields, such as ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2021

Automatic raclette machine

Hugo Calamandrei, Luc Michael Mathias Castanet, Romain Lilian Douat

Provided herein is A raclette cheese scraping machine comprising a support for a raclette cheese wheel, said support having a motorized rotating shaft, said shaft being insertable into a raclette cheese wheel and being capable of driving said cheese wheel ...

2021

Designing compliant mechanisms composed of shape memory alloy and actuated by induction heating

Yves Perriard, Paolo Germano, Thomas Guillaume Martinez, Adrien Jean-Michel Thabuis, Sean Thomas

Shape Memory Alloys (SMAs) are a type of smart materials that reacts mechanically to heat. Due to their complex behavior, they are often used in a simple geometry such as wires. This constrains the output displacement of the alloy to a simple linear contra ...

2021

ICRF modelling in 2D and 3D magnetic configurations using a hot plasma model

Jonathan Graves, Wilfred Anthony Cooper, Mike Machielsen

The generation of energetic trapped ions is important for experiments investigating their confinement in 3D magnetic fields, for plasma heating, for studies into unwanted drive of instabilities, and improved transport regimes. An effective way to generate ...

2021

Long decay length of magnon-polarons in BiFeO3/La0.67Sr0.33MnO3 heterostructures

Jean-Philippe Ansermet, Dirk Grundler, Peng Gao, Haiming Yu, Mohammad Hamdi

Magnons can transfer information in metals and insulators without Joule heating, and therefore are promising for low-power computation. The on-chip magnonics however suffers from high losses due to limited magnon decay length. In metallic thin films, it is ...

Nature Research2021