Titanium and Silicon Dioxide-Coated Fabrics for Management and Tuning of Infrared Radiation.

Far infrared radiation (FIR) is emitted by every body at a given temperature, including the human body. FIR ranging between 4-14 μm is considered useful for cell growth, and the human body emits a maximum of infrared (IR) radiation at the wavelength of approximately 9.3 µm.

Theoretical Modeling for the Thermal Stability of Solid Targets in a Positron-Driven Muon Collider.

A future multi-TeV muon collider requires new ideas to tackle the problems of muon production, accumulation and acceleration. In the Low EMittance Muon Accelerator concept a 45 GeV positron beam, stored in an accumulation ring with high energy acceptance and low angular divergence, is extracted and driven to a target system in order to produce muon pairs near the kinematic threshold. However, this scheme requires an intensity of the impinging positron beam so high that the energy dissipation and the target maintenance are crucial aspects to be investigated.

Correlation between in situ structural and optical characterization of the semiconductor-to-metal phase transition of VO thin films on sapphire.

A detailed structural investigation of the semiconductor-to-metal transition (SMT) in vanadium dioxide thin films deposited on sapphire substrates by pulsed laser deposition was performed by in situ temperature-dependent X-ray diffraction (XRD) measurements. The structural results are correlated with those of infrared radiometry measurements in the SWIR (2.5-5 μm) and LWIR (8-10.