Acoustic Fresnel lens to focus ultrasound for in vitro neuromodulation

In vitro neuromodulation studies play a crucial role in understanding the underlying interaction mechanisms between cells and ultrasound, which is important in the development of new therapies for various neurological disorders. Acoustic focusing, the ability to focus ultrasound at a specific focal length with high spatial resolution, provides a...

Exoplanet surface mapping for Fresnel light curves

This thesis develops a method to map the surface of an exoplanet. The problem of exoplanet mapping sounds easy to solve. Take a few photographs of an exoplanet and sew them together to create a map of the surface. The telescope required to do this is far beyond our technological capabilities. However, our current telescopes could allow us to...

Exoplanet surface mapping with composite light reflection models

In the near future, next-generation telescopes will be able to observe Earth-like exoplanets illuminated by their parent stars for long periods of time. As the distance between exoplanet and observer is enormous, exoplanets will only make up a pixel on our image. However, the observed intensity of this pixel will fluctuate over time as the...

MEMS Solutions For More Than Illumination

The development of solid state lighting (SSL) has been involving with improving the luminaire efficiency and integrating non-luminous functions, also known as More than Illumination. The objective of this thesis is to investigate different solutions for the concept of More than Illumination for SSL applications, to combine general lighting with...

A Localized Heating System for the Dutch Built Environment

This document covers the design process of a localized heating system suitable for retrofitting to buildings in the Netherlands

Solar concentrating façade

The search for renewable energy sources is a wide area in which significant progress is still expected. This paper focuses on an energy system that uses Fresnel lenses to concentrate sunlight on a tubing system to heat up the working fluid. Fresnel lenses are lighter, thinner and cheaper to build than ordinary lenses. The model is designed to be...

Compressive Sensing for Near-field Source Localization

Near-field source localization is an important aspect in many diverse areas such as acoustics, seismology, to list a few. The planar wave assumption frequently used in far-field source localization is no longer valid when the sources are in the near field. Near-field sources can be localized by solving a joint direction-of-arrival and range...