Empty-bucket techniques for spill-quality improvement at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron by Arrutia Sota, PA, Fraser, MA, Hagmann, G, Kain, V, Papotti, G, Spierer, A, Velotti, FM, Burrows, PN, Piandani, R

“…Synchrotrons can provide long spills of particles by employing resonant extraction where the circulating beam is slowly ejected over thousands to millions of turns by exploiting the amplitude growth caused by a transverse resonance. …”

Multipass steering protocols at Jefferson lab by Bodenstein, RM, Tiefenback, MG

“…The CEBAF recirculating accelerator consists of two CW superconducting RF linacs, through which an electron beam is accelerated for up to 5 passes. Focusing and steering elements affect each pass differently, requiring a multipass steering protocol to correct the orbits. …”

Arbitrary and independent polarization control in situ via a single metasurface by Yan, Libin, Zhu, Weiming, Muhammad Faeyz Karim, Cai, Hong, Gu, Alex Yuandong, Shen, Zhongxiang, Chong, Peter Han Joo, Tsai, Din Ping, Kwong, Dim-Lee, Qiu, Cheng-Wei, Liu, Ai Qun

“…As a proof of concept, a tunable polarization beam splitter, a dynamic beam steering component, and a quarter waveplate are demonstrated using one single metasurface. …”
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Depth-of-focus extension in optical coherence tomography via multiple aperture synthesis by Ge, Xin, Wang, Xianghong, Bo, En, Luo, Yuemei, Chen, Si, Liu, Xinyu, Wang, Nanshuo, Chen, Shufen, Chen, Shi, Li, Jinhan, Liu, Linbo

“…Using confocal optics on a sample arm, we scanned the illumination beam across the under-filled objective lens pupil plane by steering the beam at the pinhole using a microcylindrical lens. …”
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Caustic object construction based on multiple caustic patterns by Tandianus, Budianto, Johan, Henry, Seah, Hock Soon

“…Working backward, from the computed refracted light beam paths we compute the geometry of the caustic object that can produce such light beam paths. …”
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Design of wideband low-loss reconfigurable reflectarray antenna by Zhang, Xiran

“…A systematic investigation of beam scanning antenna technology is conducted, analyzing the characteristics of different beam scanning antenna designs. …”
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Design and fabrication of micromachined RF switches and integrated switching circuits by Tang, Min

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Progressive collapse of reinforced concrete building structures by Dat, Pham Xuan

“…The loss of either a penultimate-internal (PI) or a penultimate-external (PE) column is the most critical scenario since it leaves the associated beam-slab floor structures with lack of external lateral support. …”
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Control system design for EPTB by Tan, Sing Guan

“…Previous research was mainly on the Indoor air quality (IAQ) and the negative ion air performance on passive thermosiphon beam (PTB). This is because thermal comfort is only one of the many factors that contribute to good IAQ. …”
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Mathematical programming approach to elasto-plastic structural analysis by Li, Xuyang.

“…This research focuses on mathematical programming (MP) applications in elastoplastic structural analyses, mainly for structures of frames and submarine pipelines where beam element is used for discretizing the structure. …”
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Intelligent control of nitrogen laser by Tan, Siong Chai.

“…The aim is to apply computational intelligence in stabilizing some output parameters of a nitrogen laser beam. The scope includes explore and implement fuzzy logic algorithms to trol of the output characteristics, explore the use of neutral network control and comparing with using fuzzy logic control.…”
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Design, modeling and performance optimization of active air terminal system by Ke, Ji

“…Among various ACMV schemes, the active air terminals (active chilled beam and active thermosiphon beam) have outstanding performance on energy saving, indoor environment quality improvement and space saving. …”
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Electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) plasma etching study of GaAs and GaInP by Ng, Tien Khee.

“…This thesis presents the Electron Cyclotron Resonance (ECR) plasma etching of GaAs and Ga(0.52)In(0.48)P grown using Solid Source Molecular Beam Epitaxy (SSMBE) with a view of applying the process for future heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs) fabrication.…”
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Laser scanning imaging system for underwater robotics vehicle by Xu, Lin

“…Various illumination volume settings of a laser beam are tested and their output images are evaluated by the MTF (modulation transfer function) assessment. …”
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Design of a GaN-based power converter by Pek, Jonas

“…Many applications, including hybrid and plug-in electric cars, solar power inverters, automotive motor drives, and aerospace, would benefit from GaN systems. …”
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The two-photon exchange experiment at DESY by Alarcon, R., Beck, R., Bernauer, J. C., Broering, M., Christopher, A., Cline, E. W., Dhital, S., Dongwi, B., Fernando, I., Finger, M., Finger, M., Friščić, I., Gautam, T., Grauvogel, G. N., Hasell, D. K., Hen, O., Horn, T., Ihloff, E., Johnston, R., Kelsey, J., Kohl, M., Kutz, T., Lavrukhin, I., Lee, S., Lorenzon, W., Lunkenheimer, S., Maas, F., Milner, R. G., Moran, P., Nazeer, J., Patel, T., Rathnayake, M., Raymond, R., Redwine, R. P., Schmidt, A., Schneekloth, U., Sokhan, D., Suresh, M., Vidal, C., Yang, Z.

“…The proposed two-photon exchange experiment (TPEX) entails a commissioning run at a beam energy of 2 GeV, followed by measurements at 3 GeV, thereby providing new data up to $$Q^2=4.6$$ Q 2 = 4.6  (GeV/c) $$^2$$ 2 (twice the range of current measurements). …”
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Smart antennas for CDMA systems by Wang, Feng

“…The focus is on channel modeling for smart antennas, evaluation of performance improvement of DS-CDMA systems with smart antennas operating in a hostile multiple environment, and comparative study of various smart antenna beam-forming schemes in DS-CDMA systems.…”
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Investigation of Electrochemical Gas Generation in Ion Electrospray Thrusters by Shaik, Saba Z., Lozano, Paulo C.

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Determination of resorption surface areas of bone sample by Margasanti Wijaya.

“…The main concept here is that a time-varying phase shift is introduced between the interference pattern of the reference beam and the test or sample beam in the interferometer. …”
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PostIndependentzia by Calzada, I

“…Rather than providing a prescriptive work and a recipe of answers to be applied, the goal is to foster discussion by identifying questions that may lead towards policy-making projects. Special effort has been made to open up the way towards having a solid and rigorous discussion. …”