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The current work covers the evaluation of ultrasonic and electromagnetic (EM) techniques applied to temperature measurement and flow characterization for Enhanced Geothermal System (EGS). We have evaluated both ultrasonic techniques and…
In recent years, the progress on low temperature detector technologies has allowed design of large scale experiments aiming at pushing down the sensitivity on the neutrino mass below 1\,eV. Even with outstanding performances in both energy…
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We present a technique to locally and rapidly heat water drops in microfluidic devices with microwave dielectric heating. Water absorbs microwave power more efficiently than polymers, glass, and oils due to its permanent molecular dipole…
Thermal conductivities are routinely calculated in molecular dynamics simulations by keeping the boundaries at different temperatures and measuring the slope of the temperature profile in the bulk of the material, explicitly using Fourier's…
Sub-continuum gas conduction is an essentially important phenomenon in disparate fields of applications ranging from aerospace vehicles to biomedical sensors, and has been the focus of many computational studies over the past decades. These…
The aim of this work is to study heat pump cycles, using CO 2 based mixtures as working fluids. Since adding other chemicals to CO 2 moves the critical point and generally equilibrium lines, it is expected that lower operating pressures as…
We show that studying of low-frequency internal friction (LFIF) of solid samples at low temperatures allows determining the presence of various gases absorbed, for some reasons, in pores and caverns of the solids. The gases come over to a…
Using the strong temperature dependent resistance of a normal metal wire in proximity to a superconductor, we have been able to measure the local temperature of electrons heated by flowing a dc current in a metallic wire to within a few…
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In low-dimensional systems, the combination of reduced dimensionality, strong interactions, and topology has led to a growing number of many-body quantum phenomena. Thermal transport, which is sensitive to all energy-carrying degrees of…
The conditions of stability of the superfluid phase in double layer systems with pairing of spatially separated electrons and holes in the low density limit are studied. The general expression for the collective excitation spectrum is…
We report on temperature dependent photocurrent measurements of high-quality dual-gated monolayer graphene (MLG) p-n junction devices. A photothermoelectric (PTE) effect governs the photocurrent response in our devices, allowing us to track…
Nanofluids are suspensions of nanoparticles in a base heat-transfer liquid. They have been widely investigated to boost heat transfer since they were proposed in the 1990's. We present a statistical correlation analysis of experimentally…
We employ dual-gated 30{\deg}-twisted bilayer graphene to demonstrate simultaneous ultra-high mobility and conductivity (up to 40 mS at room temperature), unattainable in a single-layer of graphene. We find quantitative agreement with a…
Low temperature water electrolyzers (LTWEs) and low temperature hydrogen fuel cells (LTFCs) present a promising technological strategy for the productions and usages of green hydrogen energy towards a net-zero world. However, the…
We propose a method to directly measure the temperature of a gas of weakly interacting fermionic atoms loaded into an optical lattice. This technique relies on Raman spectroscopy and is applicable to experimentally relevant temperature…
We report on the realization of a high sensitivity RF noise measurement scheme to study small current fluctuations of mesoscopic systems at milliKelvin temperatures. The setup relies on the combination of an interferometric ampli- fication…