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The challenge of power exhaust of the high heat and particle fluxes foreseen for ITER and the forthcoming nuclear fusion reactors can be mitigated by operating in a detached divertor regime. This regime has been the object of three decades of studies, as i ...

EPFL2023

Bridging Native and Intrinsic Structures of Microhydrated Biomolecules by Cold Ion Spectroscopy

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Solving native structures of such large molecules, like biomolecules, is often challenging, particularly due to the potentially infinite number of non-covalent interactions with water. In this thesis, we report the use of cold ion gas-phase action spectros ...

EPFL2023

Euclid preparation XXX. Performance assessment of the NISP red grism through spectroscopic simulations for the wide and deep surveys

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EDP SCIENCES S A2023

Gaia Focused Product Release: Spatial distribution of two diffuse interstellar bands

Stephan Morgenthaler, Shuangqing Liao

Diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) are absorption features seen in optical and infrared spectra of stars and extragalactic objects that are probably caused by large and complex molecules in the galactic interstellar medium (ISM). Here we investigate the Gal ...

Edp Sciences S A2023

Chemical characterization of organic aerosols with a focus on biomass burning and mid-infrared spectroscopy

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Aerosols play a significant role in the atmosphere through affecting the radiative budget, cloud condensation nuclei activity, and visibility. They also cause adverse health effects leading to premature deaths. A major fraction of aerosols is organic matte ...

EPFL2022

Ultrafast Laser Direct-Writing of Self-Organized Microstructures in Ge-Sb-S Chalcogenide Glass

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The structuring of mid-IR materials, such as chalcogenide glass (ChG), at the micro and nano scales, is of high interest for the fabrication of photonic devices in general, and for spectroscopy applications in particular. One efficient method for producing ...

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Broadband Optical Spectrum Downconversion to RF Using Integrated Dual-Comb Source

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Combining all the benefits of Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy in a chip scale spectroscopic sensor looks promising for mobile and wearable platform development. Dual-comb spectroscopy enables downconversion of optical absorption spectra into ...

IEEE2021

Supercontinuum generation in silicon nitride (Si_3N_4) waveguides for middle infrared spectroscopy

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The middle-infrared (mid-IR) spectral range hosts the most intense roto-vibrational absorption lines of many important molecules. Particularly, mid-IR spectroscopy constitutes a unique tool for identifying and quantifying molecular species through their mi ...

EPFL2021

Application of Thomson scattering to helicon plasma sources

Patrick Blanchard, Alan Howling, Ivo Furno, Yanis Andrebe, Alban Sublet, Rémy Jacquier, Riccardo Agnello

The possibility of performing electron density and temperature measurements in a high power helicon plasma is a crucial issue in the framework of the AWAKE (Advanced WAKefield Experiment) project, which demonstrates acceleration of particles using GeV m(-1 ...

Cambridge University Press2020

Koopmans Meets Bethe-Salpeter: Excitonic Optical Spectra without GW

Paolo Umari, Nicola Marzari, Nicola Colonna

The Bethe Salpeter equation (BSE) can be applied to compute from first-principles optical spectra that include the effects of screened electron hole interactions. As input, BSE calculations require single-particle states, quasiparticle energy levels, and t ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

Atmospheric particulate matter characterization by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy: a review of statistical calibration strategies for carbonaceous aerosol quantification in US measurement networks

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Atmospheric particulate matter (PM) is a complex mixture of many different substances and requires a suite of instruments for chemical characterization. Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy is a technique that can provide quantification of multi ...

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Analysis of functional groups in atmospheric aerosols by infrared spectroscopy: systematic intercomparison of calibration methods for US measurement network samples

Satoshi Takahama, Matteo Reggente

Peak fitting (PF) and partial least squares (PLS) regression have been independently developed for estimation of functional groups (FGs) from Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectra of ambient aerosol collected on Teflon filters. PF is a model that quant ...

Copernicus GmbH2019

All-dielectric Metasurfaces for Infrared Absorption Spectroscopy Applications

Hatice Altug, Filiz Yesilköy, Andreas Tittl, Aleksandrs Leitis, Mingkai Liu

We present a nanophotonic method capable of detecting mid-infrared molecular fingerprints without the need for spectrometry, frequency scanning, or moving mechanical parts. We leverage dielectric metasurfaces featuring ultra-sharp resonances each tuned to ...

IEEE2019

Mid infrared gas spectroscopy using efficient fiber laser driven photonic chip-based supercontinuum

Tobias Kippenberg, Camille Sophie Brès, Hairun Guo, Davide Grassani, Clemens Herkommer, Eirini Tagkoudi

Directly accessing the middle infrared, the molecular functional group spectral region, via supercontinuum generation processes based on turn-key fiber lasers offers the undeniable advantage of simplicity and robustness. Recently, the assessment of the coh ...

Nature Research2019

An open platform for Aerosol InfraRed Spectroscopy analysis - AIRSpec

Satoshi Takahama, Rudolf Höhn, Matteo Reggente

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Self-Similar Multiresonant Nanoantenna Arrays for Sensing from Near- to Mid-Infrared

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Experimental and theoretical studies on electropolymerization of polar amino acids on platinum electrode

Christophe Roussel

The anodic oxidation of polar amino acids (L-serine, L-threonine, L-asparagine, and L-glutamine) in aqueous electrolyte on smooth platinum electrode was carried out by cyclic voltammetry coupled to electrochemical quartz crystal microbalance (EQCM). pH (zw ...

Elsevier2017

Predicting ambient aerosol thermal–optical reflectance (TOR) measurements from infrared spectra: extending the predictions to different years and different sites

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Organic carbon (OC) and elemental carbon (EC) are major components of atmospheric particulate matter (PM), which has been associated with increased morbidity and mortality, climate change, and reduced visibility. Typically OC and EC concentrations are meas ...

Copernicus GmbH2016

Gas-phase probes of kinetically trapped peptides

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Gas-phase techniques are promising for studying intrinsically disordered peptides and proteins, as they can be implemented in a conformer-selective way. One of the issues that prevent them from finding a broader use is the question of to which extent the s ...

EPFL2016

Airborne hyperspectral sensor radiometric self-calibration using near-infrared properties of deep water and vegetation

Bertrand Merminod, Kevin Sylvain Barbieux, Vincent Maurice Nouchi

Retrieving the water-leaving reflectance from airborne hyperspectral data implies to deal with three steps. Firstly, the radiance recorded by an airborne sensor comes from several sources: the real radiance of the object, the atmospheric scattering, sky an ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2016