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most citedAdvanced Virgo: a 2nd generation interferometric gravitational wave detector

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cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Atomic Structure of Amorphous Optical Coatings of TiO-doped GeO by Grazing-Incidence Total X-ray Scattering Measurements

K. Prasai, J. Jiang, K. Lee +13

Reducing coating thermal noise in future gravitational-wave detectors requires identifying the atomic motifs that control mechanical loss in amorphous optical coatings. We combine…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 31 cited

Comprehensive study of amorphous metal oxide and TaO-based mixed oxide coatings for gravitational-wave detectors

Mariana A. Fazio, Gabriele Vajente, Le Yang +2

High finesse optical cavities of current interferometric gravitational-wave detectors are significantly limited in sensitivity by laser quantum noise and coating thermal noise. The…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 31 cited

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…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 16 cited

Structural evolution of binary oxide nanolaminates with annealing and its impact on room-temperature internal friction

Le Yang, Mariana Fazio, Gabriele Vajente +6

Internal friction in oxide thin films imposes a critical limitation to the sensitivity and stability of ultra-high finesse optical cavities for gravitational wave detectors. Strate…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 11 cited

A method for the experimental measurement of bulk and shear loss angles in amorphous thin films

Gabriele Vajente, Mariana Fazio, Le Yang +4

Brownian thermal noise is a limiting factor for the sensitivity of many high precision metrology applications, among other gravitational-wave detectors. The origin of Brownian nois…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 22 cited

Probing microplasticity in small scale FCC crystals via Dynamic Mechanical Analysis

Xiaoyue Ni, Stefanos Papanikolaou, Gabriele Vajente +2

In small-scale metallic systems, collective dislocation activity has been correlated with size effects in strength and with a step-like plastic response under uniaxial compression…