2 papers
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…
physics.ins-det2025
Low thermal noise mirror coatings utilising titanium dioxide and germanium dioxide mixtures
M. Fazio, I. W. Martin, P. Hill +16
Upgrades to ground-based gravitational-wave observatories will require mirror coatings with reduced thermal noise, enabling improved detector sensitivity and extended astrophysical…