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EPFL2024

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American Physical Society (APS)2024

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The SALUTE project aims at evaluating performance of electroacoustic metasurface, employing a surface array of controlled electroacoustic actuators, for smart acoustic lining under grazing turbulent flow to be used in UHBR Technologies Engines. Theoretical ...

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Toward Band n78 Shear Bulk Acoustic Resonators Using Crystalline Y-Cut Lithium Niobate Films With Spurious Suppression

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

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