Technical Papers and Presentations

Photovoltaic (PV) devices on its operational life are exposed to the action of environmental conditions, which can produce damage either chemically or mechanically. For this reason, traditional PV panels are made of different materials including glass, encapsulant, solar cells, backsheet ... Read More

Introduction: The influence of delamination in a small area of a large composite plate due to drop-weight impact was studied in this work. Layerwise theory was only applied to the delamination area to save computational memory. The vibration analysis coupling composite shell and acoustic ... Read More

The laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) process involves a highly localized laser heating, resulting in a large thermal gradient that induces residual thermal stress and deformation in the finished build. The excessive residual deformation in the direction normal to in the process plane could ... Read More

Surface plasmon polaritons are electromagnetic modes excited at the conducting-dielectric interface owing to the resonant interaction between incident photons and free electrons at the conducting surface. Plasmonic resonances confine optical power at subwavelength scales, which allows ... Read More

Modeling of fractured porous media systems is currently of high interest in various academic and applied fields, mainly in the geological and material sciences. The very different scales of the region of an application case on the larger end and the fracture on the lower end pose a ... Read More

One of the most destructive modes of corrosion of metals is localized corrosion. This can take many forms depending on the chemical and electrochemical environment of the metal. One important form is crevice corrosion, which occurs where two or more surfaces in close proximity lead to ... Read More

Soft lossy viscoelastic polymers can dissipate significant amounts of energy in the form of heat when subjected to dynamic mechanical stimuli. As a result, structures comprised of such lossy materials may heat up considerably when excited by loads at a frequency that approaches one of ... Read More

State of the art measurements of permanent electric dipoles (EDM) measure accumulated phase in spin-polarized gases over hundreds of seconds and are exquisitely sensitive to magnetic field inhomogeneities. The search for the neutron's EDM at Los Alamos National Laboratory (nEDM@LANL) ... Read More

Thermal ablation driven by an acoustic heat source has tremendous potential for the treatment of diseased tissue. In many applications, such as treating tumors in the liver, bulk removal of tissue is required, and thermal ablation can reliably cause necrosis for a relatively large tissue ... Read More

Recent events underscore the importance of rapid diagnostic tests for detecting viruses such as the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus or for screening cancer biomarkers. Many fluidic-based diagnostics applications require careful control of chemical and biological species concentrations. In this ... Read More