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- Yunus, F. (author) doctoral thesis 2023
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Perez SAlgado, Barbara (author)Following the 2015 Paris Agreement, many countries are switching from fossil fuel to a more renewable energy supply. However, the CO$_2$ concentration in the atmosphere keeps increasing which makes difficult to accelerate the transition to a net-zero emission. In 2020, a new record of CO$_2$ concentration at 412.5 ppm was achieved, the highest...master thesis 2023
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Flipse, Delano (author)The placement of a subwoofer has significant impact on the quality of its sound reproduction. This paper present a method to optimise subwoofer placement in a room. Resonances caused by room boundaries (called "room modes") cause localised peaks and lows for specific lower frequencies. The goal is to minimize the simulated frequency response...bachelor thesis 2023
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van de Water, W. (author)I comment on the recent article Grüneisen approach for universal scaling of the Brillouin shift in gases by Liang et al (2022 New J. Phys. 24 103005). While the result of this article indeed provides a parametrization of measured Rayleigh Brillouin scattering spectra, I argue that the association with the Grüneisen effect is fortuitous. The...review 2023
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Robin, M.P. (author), Guis, R.H. (author), Arabul, Mustafa Umit (author), Zhou, Zili (author), Pandey, Nitesh (author), Verbiest, G.J. (author)Conoscopic interferometry is a promising detection technique for ultrafast acoustics. By focusing a probe beam through a birefringent crystal before passing it through a polarizer, conoscopic interferences sculpt the spatial profile of the beam. The use of these patterns for acoustic wave detection revealed a higher detection sensitivity over...journal article 2023
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Makris, K. (author), Langeveld, J.G. (author), Clemens-Meyer, François H.L.R. (author), Watts, Joanna (author), Begum, Hasina (author), Horoshenkov, Kirill V. (author)This article explores the potential of vibro-acoustics to detect physical ageing of plastic pipes. For this purpose, two different topics are combined: the ability of vibro-acoustics to estimate the storage modulus of a plastic pipe, and the sensitivity of the estimated storage modulus to changes due to ageing. Concerning the first topic, a...journal article 2023
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Luschmann, Thomas (author), Jung, Alexander (author), Geprägs, Stephan (author), Haslbeck, Franz X. (author), Marx, Achim (author), Filipp, Stefan (author), Groeblacher, S. (author), Gross, Rudolf (author), Huebl, Hans (author)Lithium niobate (LNO) is a well established material for surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices including resonators, delay lines and filters. Recently, multi-layer substrates based on LNO thin films have become commercially available. Here, we present a systematic low-temperature study of the performance of SAW devices fabricated on LNO-on...journal article 2023
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Husseini, Abbas Ali (author), Yazdani, Ali Mohammad (author), Ghadiri, Fatemeh (author), Sisman, A.S. (author)We developed a microchip device using surface acoustic waves (SAW) and sharp-edge glass microparticles to rapidly lyse low-level cell samples. This microchip features a 13-finger pair interdigital transducer (IDT) with a 30-degree focused angle, creating high-intensity acoustic beams converging 6 mm away at a 16 MHz frequency. Cell lysis is...journal article 2023
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Montazerolghaem, M.A. (author), de Vreede, L.C.N. (author), Babaie, M. (author)This article presents a wideband blocker tolerant receiver (RX) for fifth-generation (5G) user equipment applications. Two programmable zeros around the channel bandwidth are introduced to sufficiently suppress the close-in blockers of 5G applications. Since the effect of zeros gradually diminishes at larger out-of-band offset frequencies, an...journal article 2023
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Shan, Jichao (author)Proteins play a key role in many biological processes and are thus useful indicators of health and disease states. Since the size of proteins is few hundred nanometers, it is necessary to explore new techniques to manipulate and 'read' them. This thesis aims to identify and build a platform that enables sub-micron bead manipulation, which will...master thesis 2022
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Cranney, Trey (author)This report will investigate the manipulation of biomolecules on 2D hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) crystal surfaces. The goal of this research is to explore the potential for a device that utilizes the interaction between biomolecules and hBN as a new approach to protein sequencing. Our hypothesis is that molecules adsorbed to hBN surfaces can be...master thesis 2022
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Scherders, Eva (author)Imaging by inversion of acoustic or electromagnetic wave fields have applications in a wide variety of areas, such as non-destructive testing, biomedical applications, and geophysical explorations. Unfortunately, each modality suffers from its own application specific limitations, typically being difficulties in distinguishing different...master thesis 2022
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Yeh, Jia-Jun (author)Particle sorting is an important step in many biological and biomedical techniques. One sorting technique that has received a lot of attention is based on acoustophoresis. Manipulating cells with acoustic forces allows for a sorting method based on physical properties in a non-invasive, label-free, and biocompatible manner. To date, acoustic...master thesis 2022
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Kawasaki, S. (author), Yeh, Jia-Jun (author), Saccher, M. (author), Li, Jian (author), Dekker, R. (author)The main limitation of acoustic particle separation for microfluidic application is its low sorting efficiency. This is due to the weak coupling of surface acoustic waves (SAWs) into the microchannel. In this work, we demonstrate bulk acoustic wave (BAW) particle sorting using capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers (CMUTs) for the first...conference paper 2022
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van der Neut, J.R. (author), Brackenhoff, J.A. (author), Meles, G.A. (author), Zhang, L. (author), Slob, E.C. (author), Wapenaar, C.P.A. (author)A Green's function in an acoustic medium can be retrieved from reflection data by solving a multidimensional Marchenko equation. This procedure requires a priori knowledge of the initial focusing function, which can be interpreted as the inverse of a transmitted wavefield as it would propagate through the medium, excluding (multiply)...journal article 2022
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Huloux, Nicolas (author), Willemet, L. (author), Wiertlewski, M. (author)The contact between the fingertip and an object is formed by a collection of micro-scale junctions, which collectively constitute the real contact area. This real area of contact is only a fraction of the apparent area of contact and is directly linked to the frictional strength of the contact (i.e., the lateral force at which the finger...journal article 2021
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Hassan, A.M. (author), Ayoub, M. (author), Eissa, M. (author), Musa, T. (author), Bruining, J. (author), Zitha, P.L.J. (author)This paper deals with on line viscosity measurements using integrated circuit technology, and is building on a previous paper on the use radio frequency identifier (RFID) technology for determining dielectric coefficients. It is asserted that the progress in RFID technology and integrated circuits, in particular in micro–electro–mechanical...journal article 2019
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Bui, T.H. (author)The thesis focuses on the investigation of thin-film surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices for liquid sensing applications. The piezoelectric material is a thin film of Aluminum Nitride (AlN), a CMOS compatible material, deposited by pulse DC reactive sputtering technique. A CMOS compatible process is developed and employed to fabricate the AlN/Si...doctoral thesis 2018
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Ozdemir, Ozgur (author), Oncu, Ahmet (author), van Dongen, K.W.A. (author)Ultrasound and microwave scanners are developed to scan the breast on the presence of cancer. Typically, these modalities are used independently. Here we investigate if we can achieve an improved resolution if we merge both modalities into a single device. In particular, we test if we can improve the resolution of the resulting images by...conference paper 2018
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Oosting, R.M. (author)Ultrasound imaging is known to be non-invasive, fast, and cost-effective. However, a drawback is its reflection on bone. Therefore, an alternative acoustic wave propagating technique is being developed that eventually should be able to diagnose osteochondral defects (OCDs) that are now often missed with conventional imaging techniques. A novel...master thesis 2016