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Verhelst, H.M. (author)Wrinkles are ubiquitous in the world around us. In our daily lives, we encounter wrinkles in various forms, whether in our clothes or on our skin. Wrinkles emerge as a result of a delicate interplay between bending, membrane, and foundation stiffness contributions within membranes. While experimental investigations provide insights into the...doctoral thesis 2024
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Zhang, H. (author)In recent decades, dielectric lens antennas have been more and more adopted and developed for sensing and imaging applications at sub-millimeter (sub-mm) wavelengths because they can achieve high gain while keeping their physical size and weight acceptable at these wavelengths. More recently, as low-loss and low-cost lens materials have become...doctoral thesis 2024
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de Vos, B. (author), Remis, R.F. (author), Webb, A. (author)MRI systems have a thin conducting layer placed between the gradient and RF coils, this acts as a shield at the RF-frequency, minimizing noise coupled into the experiment, and decreasing the coupling between the RF and gradient coils. Ideally, this layer should be transparent to the gradient fields to reduce eddy currents. In this work the...journal article 2024
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Guo, Y. (author), Sharma, S. (author), Kumar, Siddhant (author)Smooth and curved microstructural topologies found in nature—from soap films to trabecular bone—have inspired several mimetic design spaces for architected metamaterials and bio-scaffolds. However, the design approaches so far are ad hoc, raising the challenge: how to systematically and efficiently inverse design such artificial...journal article 2024