Core-Shell Plasmonic Nanohelices

We introduce core-shell plasmonic nanohelices, highly tunable structures that have a different response in the visible for circularly polarized light of opposite handedness. The glass core of the helices is fabricated using electron beam induced deposition and the pure gold shell is subsequently sputter coated. Optical measurements allow us...

Designing a Portable and Low Cost Home Energy Management Toolkit

In this paper we describe the design of a home energy and comfort management system. The system has three components such as a smart plug with a wireless module, a residential gateway and a mobile app. The combined system is called a home energy management and comfort toolkit. The design is inspired with the fact that making energy visible and...

Application of Local Defect Correction in a 3d turbulent channel flow

To investigate the behavior of the concentration of a passive scalar in a turbulent flow with realistic high Schmidt numbers, one needs a very fine grid to capture all length-scales that are present in the concentration. An efficient method to increase the spatial resolution without a drastic raise of the computational costs is to apply a Local...

Interface unit

The invention relates to an interface unit comprising at least a display unit for communication with a user, which is designed for being coupled with a control unit for at least one or more parameters in a living or working environment, such as the temperature setting in a house, which control unit comprises a processor for receiving and...