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Vacuum Ultraviolet Spectral Measurements for Superorbital Earth Entry in X2 Expansion Tube

Experiments were conducted using the X2 expansion tube at two conditions representative of flight velocities of 10.0 km/s and 12.2 km/s for a vehicle entry into Earth's atmosphere. Calibrated spectral measurements were made of radiating shock layers ac ...

2015

Electric-Field-Induced Skyrmion Distortion and Giant Lattice Rotation in the Magnetoelectric Insulator Cu2OSeO3

Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Arnaud Magrez, Ivica Zivkovic, Helmuth Berger, Jonathan White, Krunoslav Prsa, Ping Huang, Arash Alahgholipour Omrani

Uniquely in Cu2OSeO3, the Skyrmions, which are topologically protected magnetic spin vortexlike objects, display a magnetoelectric coupling and can be manipulated by externally applied electric (E) fields. Here, we explore the E-field coupling to the magne ...

American Physical Society2014

Plasma turbulence in the tokamak scrape-off layer

Paolo Ricci, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Mario Ludovico Podesta, Sébastien Jolliet, Federico David Halpern, Fabio Riva, Annamaria Mosetto, Christoph Wersal

In the tokamak scrape-off layer (SOL) the magnetic field lines are open, channeling particles and heat onto plasma facing components, and constraining their lifetime. This is a critical issue for ITER and future devices -- safe operation of fusion devices ...

2014

Visualizing street orientation and solar radiation in relation to complex topography

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Nahid Mohajeri Pour Rayeni

Street networks can be visualized in various ways depending on the purpose. Here we introduce (in the present context) a new technique for visualizing the orientation of street networks in relation to complex topography. The technique is tested on the city ...

EuroGraphics Digital Library2014

Theory framework for scrape-off layer turbulence in limited tokamaks

Paolo Ricci, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Sébastien Jolliet, Federico David Halpern, Fabio Riva, Annamaria Mosetto, Christoph Wersal

In the present work we address the physical mechanisms determining the SOL width of a simple inner-wall limited (IWL) configuration. This seemingly simple configuration has important implications for ITER start-up plasmas, and has triggered an important IT ...

2014

Mesoporous TiO2 Beads Offer Improved Mass Transport for Cobalt-Based Redox Couples Leading to High Efficiency Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

Michael Graetzel, Fabrizio Giordano, Thomas Moehl, Leo-Philipp Heiniger

Overcoming ionic diffusion limitations is essential for the development of high-efficiency dye-sensitized solar cells based on cobalt redox mediators. Here, improved mass transport is reported for photoanodes composed of mesoporous TiO2 beads of varying po ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag Berlin2014

An organic hydrophilic dye for water-based dye-sensitized solar cells

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Liang Sun

In this study we report the first organic hydrophilic dye employed for 100% water-based electrolyte DSSCs. We show that the replacement of alkyl by glycolic chains in the dye structure is able to provide excellent wettability, resulting in an efficient sys ...

2014

Highly Stable Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Based on Novel 1,2,3-Triazolium Ionic Liquids

Michael Graetzel, Paul Joseph Dyson, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Hoi Nok Tsao

We describe the design and synthesis of novel low viscosity bicyclic 1,2,3-triazolium ionic liquids. These new salts are applied as nonvolatile electrolytes in dye-sensitized solar cells, affording efficiencies up to 7.07% at low light intensities, and 6.0 ...

Amer Chemical Soc2014

Human needs as a driver for lighting design

Marilyne Andersen

Thanks to fundamental discoveries from neuroscience, biology and others, we have achieved a deeper understanding of how we interact with our environment. It is time to bring this knowledge back to architecture: we have access to the essential ingredients o ...

2013

Transient perturbation growth in time-dependent mixing layers

Cristobal Manuel Arratia Martinez

We investigate numerically the transient linear growth of three-dimensional (3D) perturbations in a homogeneous time-evolving mixing layer in order to identify which perturbations are optimal in terms of their kinetic energy gain over a finite, predetermin ...

Cambridge University Press2013

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