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most citedLow mechanical loss TiO:GeO coatings for reduced thermal noise in Gravitational Wave Interferometers

67 citations · 67 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for

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cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Intrinsic Defects in Amorphous Optical Coatings of TiO-doped GeO for Gravitational-wave Detectors

K. Prasai, K. Lee, R. Bassiri +6

The increased laser power of future gravitational-wave detectors will require mirror coatings with optical absorption below 0.1 ppm per mirror. TiO-doped GeO, currently the…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Network Topology of Hafnia-Based Amorphous Optical Coatings by Grazing-Incidence X-ray Total Scattering and Atomic Modeling

K. Prasai, B. LaBell, K. H. Lee +4

Amorphous hafnia-based films are promising optical-coating materials for cryogenic GW detectors, but their performance depends on how doping and annealing modify the atomic network…

astro-ph.HE2025

GW241011 and GW241110: Exploring Binary Formation and Fundamental Physics with Asymmetric, High-Spin Black Hole Coalescence

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1783

We report the observation of gravitational waves from two binary black hole coalescences during the fourth observing run of the LIGO--Virgo--KAGRA detector network, GW241011 and GW…

astro-ph.HE2024

Observation of Gravitational Waves from the Coalescence of a Compact Object and a Neutron Star

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1793

We report the observation of a coalescing compact binary with component masses and (all measurements quoted at the 90% credible le…

physics.ins-det202167 cited

Low mechanical loss TiO:GeO coatings for reduced thermal noise in Gravitational Wave Interferometers

Gabriele Vajente, Le Yang, Aaron Davenport +11

The sensitivity of current and planned gravitational wave interferometric detectors is limited, in the most critical frequency region around 100 Hz, by a combination of quantum noi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021

Enhanced Medium Range Order in Vapor Deposited Germania Glasses at Elevated Temperatures

Le Yang, Gabriele Vajente, Mariana Fazio +9

Glasses are nonequilibrium solids with properties highly dependent on their method of preparation. In vapor-deposited molecular glasses, structural organization could be readily tu…