GG
Giampiero Gerini
Authored
1 records found
Seismic testing and multi-performance evaluation of full-scale unitized curtain walls
Research overview and preliminary results
Unitized curtain walls are glazing facade systems widely used in modern architecture for mid and high rise buildings, due to their benefits in terms of lightness, quality control, ease of construction and quick installation. However, recent earthquake surveys have shown damages t
...
Contributed
5 records found
Synthetic Aperture Radars (SAR) have demonstrated to be great instruments for space-based Earth observation in the microwave frequency. Metasurface antennas, on the other side, are a new type of planar antennas with a great potential for space applications, as they are compact an
...
This research is focused on the feasibility assessment of a novel technology of metasurfaces in order to design a spectropolarimeter with the thickness of a few micrometers integrated on the detector array. The motivation behind the research is miniaturization of state-of-the-art
...
In this thesis new dielectric metasurfaces in immersion were explored with a periodic distribution of unit cells with multiple silicon cylinder structures on a reflective gold slab with a fused quartz spacer in between. These new metasurfaces were designed with 60 nm and 130 nm g
...
In this thesis a proof-of-principle demonstration is developed that uses the heat flux between a probe and a sample as a proxy for their separation. The proposed architecture uses a probe that consists of a bilayer cantilever with an attached sphere at its free end. The deflectio
...
Electromagnetic metasurfaces in recent years have drawn significant attention in the Optics community due to their novel optical properties and miniaturized integration advantages. Since the optical properties of those materials are complex to model and require finer theory than
...