This thesis explores the fundamentals of a new technique for capturing single or multiple particles using light, and for characterising these particles by Raman or fluorescence spectroscopy.
This thesis explores the fundamentals of a new technique for capturing single or multiple particles using light, and for characterising these particle...
This thesis presents a survey of the present state of the art of VCSELs; a systematic investigation of the various effects limiting present VCSELs; a catalogue of solutions to overcome present limits; detailed progress in modelling, fabricating and testing the most advanced VCSELs at the two commercially most important wavelengths.
This thesis presents a survey of the present state of the art of VCSELs; a systematic investigation of the various effects limiting present VCSELs; a ...
Discrete periodic structures play an important role in physics, and have opened up an exciting new area of investigation in recent years. Questions relating to the control of light in such structures still represent a major challenge. It is this highly active field that is addressed in the present thesis. Using the model system of a photorefractive nonlinearity that allows one to simultaneously create and control photonic lattices by light, the author obtains a comprehensive picture of the control of nonlinear and quantum optics phenomena in photonic lattices. He describes and demonstrates...
Discrete periodic structures play an important role in physics, and have opened up an exciting new area of investigation in recent years. Questions re...
Using digital in-line holography for the first time, this thesis has been nominated for a Springer prize and achieves a complete three-dimensional and real-time motion analysis of Ulva zoospores, both in solution and in the vicinity of different surfaces.
Using digital in-line holography for the first time, this thesis has been nominated for a Springer prize and achieves a complete three-dimensional ...
Proteins act as macromolecular machinery that mediate many diverse biological processes - the molecular mechanisms of this machinery has fascinated biologists for decades. Analysis of the kinetic and thermodynamic features of these mechanisms could reveal unprecedented aspects of how the machinery function and will eventually lead to a novel understanding of various biological processes. This dissertation comprehensively demonstrates how two universally conserved guanosine triphosphatases in the signal recognition particle and its membrane receptor maintain the efficiency and fidelity of...
Proteins act as macromolecular machinery that mediate many diverse biological processes - the molecular mechanisms of this machinery has fascinated...
The centerpiece of the thesis is the search for muon neutrino to electron neutrino oscillations which would indicate a non-zero mixing angle between the first and third neutrino generations ( 13), currently the holy grail of neutrino physics. The optimal extraction of the electron neutrino oscillation signal is based on the novel library event matching (LEM) method which Ochoa developed and implemented together with colleagues at Caltech and at Cambridge, which improves MINOS (Main Injector Neutrino Oscillator Search) reach for establishing an oscillation signal over any other...
The centerpiece of the thesis is the search for muon neutrino to electron neutrino oscillations which would indicate a non-zero mixing angle betwee...
'Targeting Functional Centers of the Ribosome' investigates the mode of function, inhibition, and evolution of the peptidyl transferase center (PTC) by a combination of x-ray crystallography, biochemistry, molecular biology and theoretical studies.
'Targeting Functional Centers of the Ribosome' investigates the mode of function, inhibition, and evolution of the peptidyl transferase center (PTC) b...
This book examines some of the most fundamental and outstanding questions in nanoscience from a theoretical computational perspective. It features interdisciplinary applications for chemistry, physics, and materials science.
This book examines some of the most fundamental and outstanding questions in nanoscience from a theoretical computational perspective. It features int...
In addition to providing a model explaining the spurious signals of the bolometric detectors in the Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events (CUORE) experiment, this volume also shows how to improve its detector operation and data analysis.
In addition to providing a model explaining the spurious signals of the bolometric detectors in the Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events ...
Undertaken with the aim of providing a better understanding of the multiphase fluid flow characteristics of fluid-rock systems during the geo-sequestration process, the research detailed in this volume addresses issues not previously covered in the literature.
Undertaken with the aim of providing a better understanding of the multiphase fluid flow characteristics of fluid-rock systems during the geo-sequestr...
