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Energy piles represent an innovative technology that can help provide sustainable geothermal heating or cooling energy for thermal conditioning purposes. In hot-dominated climates, the interest is to inject heat in the ground and extract energy for space-c ...

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Magneto-Thermoelectric Transport in Graphene Quantum Dot with Strong Correlations

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Disorder at etched edges of graphene quantum dots (GQD) enables random all-to-all interactions between localized charges in partially filled Landau levels, providing a potential platform to realize the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model. We use quantum Hall edg ...

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High-order geometric integrators for the variational Gaussian wavepacket dynamics and application to vibronic spectra at finite temperature

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A model of non-Maxwellian electron distribution function for the analysis of ECE data in JET discharges

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Electromechanical investigations and quench experiments on sub-size HTS cables for high field EU-DEMO Central Solenoid

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EPFL2022

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TU Delft OPEN2022

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VO2:Ge based thermochromic solar absorber coatings

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Multi-configuration evaluation of a megajoule-scale high-temperature latent thermal test-bed

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