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Zivari, A. (author)Recently, quantum networks have emerged as a focal point of research and discussion due to their promise in overcoming the limitations of classical networks, offering unparalleled capabilities in secure communication, quantum computation, and distributed quantum information processing. Simply speaking, a quantum network is a network in which the...doctoral thesis 2024
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Wang, W. (author)This thesis explores advanced computational techniques in super-resolution microscopy (SRM), with the primary goal of pushing the limits of achievable resolution towards the 1 nm scale. It includes developments in particle fusion algorithms, data analysis of complex biological structures, and exploration of the impact of molecular dipole...doctoral thesis 2024
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Li, J. (author)Around 10% of the population will have to go through a catheterization procedure for the treatment of a cardiovascular disease at a certain stage of their lives. During such a procedure, smart catheters will be the "eyes and ears" of the surgeons, significantly improving the diagnosis and treatment. However, there have been very limited...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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Overtoom-van Aartrijk, C.M.M. (author)The protease FtsH is a membrane anchored protease that degrades misfolded (membrane) proteins. To study the mechanism behind unfolding and translocation with optical tweezers, the protease had to be purified. However, full-length FtsH has hardly been studied as solubilizing this membrane anchored protease is challenging. Our group (Dr. V....doctoral thesis 2023
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Xiao, Y. (author)Additively manufacturing can bring opportunities and risk factors to the aerospace industry. On one hand, additive manufacturing allows the manufacturing of structures with geometries that are difficult or impossible to fabricatewith conventional machining procedures. This geometry flexibility may lead to components with a greater strength-to...doctoral thesis 2023
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Paredes-Vallés, Federico (author)In the ever-evolving landscape of robotics, the quest for advanced synthetic machines that seamlessly integrate with human lives and society becomes increasingly paramount. At the heart of this pursuit lies the intrinsic need for these machines to perceive, understand, and navigate their surroundings autonomously. Among the senses, vision...doctoral thesis 2023
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Arora, S. (author)The aimof this thesis is to investigate the impact of symmetry on light and how it alters its characteristics. Our research centers around the examination of complex photonic crystals rooted in the concept of photonic topological insulators, which are analogs of topological insulators initially introduced in condensed matter physics. Unlike...doctoral thesis 2023
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Noordam, M.L. (author)In this thesis, we explore the interaction between multiple optical light fields. Although these light fields can interfere with each other in a vacuum, actual interaction can only occur in a medium. This interaction can be amplified in materials with nanoscale dimensions such as a monolayer of WS2 and metallic nanostructures. The shapes of...doctoral thesis 2023
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Hou, Z. (author)In this thesis, we explore how lens design and optimization techniques can adapt to the design (optimization) space in order to increase the lens design efficiency. We extensively discuss the Saddle Point Construction (SPC), a method that can systematically search for new solutions, as well as replace high-dimensional searches with a discrete...doctoral thesis 2023
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Loozen, G.B. (author)Optofluidic lab-on-a-chips (LOCs) employing a dual-waveguide trap for optical trapping and Raman spectroscopy have proven to be attractive and potent tools for high throughput chemical fingerprinting of bio-particles for disease diagnosis. Among the relevant bio-particles are extracellular vesicles (EVs) which a been proven through recent...doctoral thesis 2023
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Wang, X. (author)In this thesis, fibre optic sensing has been investigated as an important technique for structural health monitoring. Distributed fibre optic sensing based on Rayleigh scattering is a fibre optic sensing technique to achieve the spatially continuous strain monitoring for critical locations for the structures. However, the Rayleigh backscattering...doctoral thesis 2023
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Maddalena, L. (author)Optogenetics is a powerful addition to the spectrum of techniques available in neuroscience to investigate neurophysiology and unravel how neural circuit structure is related to circuit function. This technique relies on introducing lightsensitive proteins or molecules as actuators to transduce an optical signal into a physiological perturbation...doctoral thesis 2022
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Chimmalgi, S. (author)Due to the ever increasing global connectivity, the demand on the fiber-optic communication infrastructure is projected to keep increasing rapidly. A major factor currently limiting transmission capacity is the fiber nonlinearity. Some researchers have suggested the application of nonlinear Fourier transforms to exploit the fiber nonlinearity...doctoral thesis 2022
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Nazeer, N. (author)The aerospace industry is an ever-evolving field that has seen many technological advances over the past decades. The desire for aircraft to be not only efficient and reliable but also cheaper and safer has brought about many proposals across the industry. One of these advances is towards morphing aircraft wings to make wings lighter, more...doctoral thesis 2022
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Sun, J. (author)Atmospheric aerosols are solid or liquid particles suspended in the air. The majority of them are produced by natural processes, including sea salt from oceans, mineral dust from (semi-)arid regions, carbon containing particles from wildfires, and sulfates and ash from volcanic activities. Anthropogenic aerosols are produced by industrial...doctoral thesis 2022
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Hortensius, J.R. (author)Excitation of optical transitions in solids using ultrashort pulses of light allows to selectively perturb microscopic degrees of freedom in order to change and control material properties on very short timescales. In this thesis we study how ultrafast resonant excitation of optical transitions can induce coherent structural dynamics in wide...doctoral thesis 2022