• Ultra-robust icephobic coatings with high toughness, strong substrate adhesion and self-healing capability 

      Zhuo, Yizhi; Håkonsen, Verner; Liu, Siqi; Li, Tong; Wang, Feng; Luo, Sihai; Xiao, Senbo; He, Jianying; Zhang, Zhiliang (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Enabling surfaces with passive anti-icing properties is an emerging, facile, economical, and energy-saving strategy to mitigate the harm caused by ice accretion. However, the combination of icephobicity and robustness still ...
    • Ultra-short pulsed Tm- and Er-doped all-fiber MOPA lasers and supercontinuum sources. 

      Klimentov, Dmitry (Doctoral thesis, 2016-12-12)
      The present work describes the results of the development of a family of novel diode-pumped ultra-short and short pulsed Er- and Tm-fiber laser systems in the “eye-safe” near- and mid-Infrared (mid-IR) wavelength range for ...
    • Ultra-Short-Chain PFASs in the Sources of German Drinking Water: Prevalent, Overlooked, Difficult to Remove, and Unregulated 

      Neuwald, Isabelle J.; Hübner, Daniel; Wiegand, Hanna L.; Valkov, Vassil; Borchers, Ulrich; Nödler, Karsten; Scheurer, Marco; Hale, Sarah; Arp, Hans Peter; Zahn, Daniel (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) have been a focal point of environmental chemistry and chemical regulation in recent years, culminating in a shift from individual PFAS regulation toward a PFAS group regulatory ...
    • Ultrabroad Continuous-Wave Tuning of Ceramic Cr:ZnSe and Cr:ZnS Lasers 

      Sorokin, Evgeni; Sorokina, Irina T; Mirov, M.; Fedorov, V.; Moskalev, I.; Mirov, S. (Chapter, 2010)
      Using a single set of optics, we demonstrate ultrabroad tuning over more than 1300 nm from 1973 to 3349 nm in Cr:ZnSe and from 1962 to 3195 nm in Cr:ZnS at <10 GHz linewidth.
    • Ultrafast control of spin interactions in honeycomb antiferromagnetic insulators 

      Losada, Juan Manuel; Brataas, Arne; Qaiumzadeh, Alireza (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Light enables the ultrafast, direct, and nonthermal control of the exchange and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions. We consider two-dimensional honeycomb lattices described by the Kane-Mele-Hubbard model at half filling ...
    • Ultrafast fiber-based lasers beyond 2 µm 

      Sorokina, Irina T; Tolstik, Nikolai; Richter, Roland; Chahal, Radwan; Sorokin, Evgeni (Chapter, 2017)
      The talk reviews recent advances in fiber based ultrafast mid-IR lasers and frequency combs, outlines the trends in materials as well as novel approaches for generation of ultra-broadband spectra above 2 mm.
    • Ultrafast generation and dynamics of isolated skyrmions in antiferromagnetic insulators 

      Khoshlahni, Rohollah; Qaiumzadeh, Alireza; Bergman, Anders; Brataas, Arne (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Based on atomistic spin dynamics simulations, we report the ultrafast generation of single antiferromagnetic (AFM) skyrmions in a confined geometry. This process is achieved through an effective magnetic field induced by ...
    • Ultrafast magnon-phonon dynamics 

      Erik Sefland Samuelsen (Master thesis, 2022)
      Kontroll av magnetisme ved bruk av ultraraske laserpulser har tiltrukket seg mye oppmerksomhet de siste tiårene. Dette har resultert i intensiv forskning, både teoretisk og eksperimentell, for å forstå de mikroskopiske ...
    • Ultrafast manipulation of Heisenberg exchange and Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interactions in antiferromagnetic insulators 

      Losada, Juan Manuel (Master thesis, 2019)
      Light enables ultrafast, direct and nonthermal control of the exchange and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions. We consider two-dimensional honeycomb lattices described by the Kane-Mele-Hubbard model at half filling and in ...
    • Ultrafast Microscopy Imaging of Acoustic Cluster Therapy Bubbles: Activation and Oscillation 

      van Wamel, Annemieke; Mühlenpfordt, Melina; Hansen, Rune; Healey, Andrew; Villanueva, Flordeliza S.; Kotopoulis, Spiros; Davies, Catharina de Lange; Chen, Xucai (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Acoustic Cluster Therapy (ACT®) is a platform for improving drug delivery and has had promising pre-clinical results. A clinical trial is ongoing. ACT® is based on microclusters of microbubbles–microdroplets that, when ...
    • Ultrafast nonlocal collective dynamics of Kane plasmon-polaritons in a narrow-gap semiconductor 

      Charnukha, A; Sternbach, A; Stinson, HT; Schlereth, R; Brüne, Christoph; Molenkamp, Laurens W; Basov, DN (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      The observation of ultrarelativistic fermions in condensed-matter systems has uncovered a cornucopia of novel phenomenology as well as a potential for effective ultrafast light engineering of new states of matter. While ...
    • Ultrafast Two-Magnon Excitation in Two-Dimensional Antiferromagnetic Insulators 

      Haug, Trond Hjerpekjøn (Master thesis, 2020)
      Spinneksitasjoner i todimensjonale antiferromagnetiske materialer manifesteres som spinnbølger som også er kjent som magnoner. Magnoner er bosoniske kvasipartikler som kan eksiteres ved hjelp av en laserindusert forstyrrelse ...
    • Ultrafiltration of Partially Degraded Starch Solution 

      Demessie, Berhanu (Dr.ingeniøravhandling, 0809-103X; 2002:87, Doctoral thesis, 2002)
      Desizing wastewater is largely responsible for the chemical oxygen demand (COD) load in the textile industry wastewater. A larger portion of COD comes from degraded starch in desizing wastewater. Removing the starch from ...
    • Ultrafiltration of Saithe (Pollachius virens) Protein Hydrolysates and Its Effect on Antioxidative Activity 

      Hjellnes, Veronica Hammer; Rustad, Turid; Jensen, Ida-Johanne; Eiken, Elin; Pettersen, Stine Marie; Falch, Eva (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      The whitefish industry generates a huge amount of rest raw material, which is currently wasted or underutilized in the production of low-value products such as animal feed. While fish muscle is the primary product of use ...
    • Ultrahigh thermoelectric performance in Cu2−ySe0.5S0.5 liquid-like materials 

      Zhao, Kunpeng; Qiu, Pengfei; Song, Qingfeng; Blichfeld, Anders Bank; Eikeland, Espen; Ren, Dudi; Ge, Binghui; Iversen, Bo B; Shi, Xun; Chen, Lidong (Journal article, 2017)
      Liquid-like thermoelectric materials have recently received heightened attentions due to their exceptional thermal and electrical transport properties. As a typical example, Cu2−ySe has good electrical transport properties ...
    • Ultrahigh-pressure form of Si O2 glass with dense pyrite-type crystalline homology 

      Murakami, M.; Kohara, S; Kitamura, N.; Akola, Jaakko; Inoue, H; Hirata, A; Hiraoka, Y; Onodera, Y; Obayashi, I; Kalikka, J; Hirao, N; Musso, T; Foster, Adam S; Idemoto, Y; Sakata, O; Ohishi, Y (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      High-pressure synthesis of denser glass has been a longstanding interest in condensed-matter physics and materials science because of its potentially broad industrial application. Nevertheless, understanding its nature ...
    • Ultrasonic imaging as a means of monitoring gonadal development in lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus) 

      Mlingi, Frank Thomas; Puvanendran, Velmurugu; Burgerhout, Erik; Tveiten, Helge; Tomkiewicz, Jonna; Kjørsvik, Elin; Mommens, Maren (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      The commercial farming of juvenile lumpfish requires monitoring of gonadal development to achieve synchronized production. Conventional methods such as gonadosomatic index (GSI), sex hormone analyses, gonadal histology, ...
    • Ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging for group stratification and treatment monitoring in the transgenic adenocarcinoma of the mouse prostate model 

      Fagerland, Stein-Martin Tilrum; Hill, Deborah Katherine; van Wamel, Annemieke; Davies, Catharina de Lange; Kim, Jana (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Background:The transgenic adenocarcinoma of the mouse prostate (TRAMP) is a widelyused genetically engineered spontaneous prostate cancer model. However, both thedegree of malignancy and time of cancer onset vary. While ...
    • Ultrasound and microbubble treatment for improved delivery of nanomedicine to tumours and the brain 

      Olsman, Marieke (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2021:138, Doctoral thesis, 2021)
      The combined use of ultrasound and intravascular microbubbles, referred to as ultrasound and microbubble treatment, has emerged as a promising technique to enhance delivery of nanomedicine to tumours and the brain. Even ...
    • Ultrasound and Microbubbles Increase the Uptake of Platinum in Murine Orthotopic Pancreatic Tumors 

      Haram, Karin Margrete; Snipstad, Sofie; Berg, Sigrid; Mjønes, Patricia; Rønne, Elin; Lage Fernandez, Jessica; Mühlenpfordt, Melina; Davies, Catharina de Lange (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Objective Currently available cytotoxic treatments have limited effect on pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) because desmoplastic stroma limits drug delivery. Efforts have been made to overcome these barriers by drug ...