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Advanced Virgo during the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA fourth observing run
Virgo Collaboration, F Acernese, A Agapito +546
From April 10, 2024 to November 18, 2025 Advanced Virgo participated in the fourth observing run of the network of gravitational-wave detectors, together with Advanced LIGO and KAG…
Elastic and structural anisotropy in silica thin films for gravitational-wave detectors
Brenda Bracco, Michele Magnozzi, Stefano Colace +11
The thermal noise of mirror coatings for gravitational-wave detectors critically depends on the elastic properties of the constituent materials. Data analyses and theoretical model…
Advanced Virgo Plus for O5 -- Design Report Overview
F. Acernese, A. Agapito, D. Agarwal +578
This document presents an overview of the design, implementation, and expected performance of the Advanced Virgo Plus (AdV+) upgrades in view of the O5 observing run. Following the…
Development of ion-beam sputtered silicon nitride thin films for low-noise mirror coatings of gravitational-wave detectors
A. Amato, M. Bazzan, G. Cagnoli +32
Brownian thermal noise of thin-film coatings is a fundamental limit for high-precision experiments based on optical resonators such as gravitational-wave interferometers. Here we p…
Tamm Plasmon Resonance as Optical Fingerprint of Silver/Bacteria Interaction
Simone Normani, Pietro Bertolotti, Francesco Bisio +8
Incorporation of responsive elements into photonic crystals is an effective strategy for building up active optical components to be used as sensors, actuators and modulators. In t…
Virgo Detector Characterization and Data Quality: tools
F. Acernese, M. Agathos, A. Ain +491
Detector characterization and data quality studies -- collectively referred to as {\em DetChar} activities in this article -- are paramount to the scientific exploitation of the jo…
Virgo Detector Characterization and Data Quality: results from the O3 run
F. Acernese, M. Agathos, A. Ain +491
The Advanced Virgo detector has contributed with its data to the rapid growth of the number of detected gravitational-wave (GW) signals in the past few years, alongside the two Adv…
Effects of mixing and annealing on the optical and mechanical properties of TiO:TaO amorphous coatings
Alex Amato, Michele Magnozzi, Nikita Shcheblanov +7
Amorphous mixed titania-tantala coatings are key components of Bragg reflectors in the gravitational wave detectors (GWDs). Attaining the lowest possible values of optical absorpti…
Virgo Detector Characterization and Data Quality during the O3 run
F. Acernese, M. Agathos, A. Ain +491
The Advanced Virgo detector has contributed with its data to the rapid growth of the number of detected gravitational-wave signals in the past few years, alongside the two LIGO ins…
The Virgo O3 run and the impact of the environment
F. Acernese, M. Agathos, A. Ain +486
Sources of geophysical noise (such as wind, sea waves and earthquakes) or of anthropogenic noise impact ground-based gravitational-wave interferometric detectors, causing transient…
Measurement and simulation of mechanical and optical properties of sputtered amorphous SiC coatings
G. Favaro, A. Amato, F. Arciprete +15
In this work We report on the extensive characterization of amorphous silicon carbide (a-SiC) coatings prepared by physical deposition methods. We compare the results obtained on t…
Thermometric Calibration of the Ultrafast Relaxation Dynamics in Plasmonic Au Nanoparticles
Marzia Ferrera, Giuseppe Della Valle, Maria Sygletou +8
The excitation of plasmonic nanoparticles by ultrashort laser pulses sets in motion a complex ultrafast relaxation process involving the gradual re-equilibration of the system's el…
Thermal stability of monolayer in BEOL conditions
Simona Pace, Marzia Ferrera, Domenica Convertino +8
Monolayer tungsten disulfide () has recently attracted large interest as a promising material for advanced electronic and optoelectronic devices such as photodetectors, modul…
Fast detection of water nanopockets underneath wet-transferred graphene
Michele Magnozzi, Niloofar Haghighian, Vaidotas Miseikis +4
We report an investigation of the graphene/substrate interface morphology in large-area polycrystalline graphene grown by chemical-vapour deposition and wet-transferred onto Si waf…
Electronic properties of WS on epitaxial graphene on SiC(0001)
Stiven Forti, Antonio Rossi, Holger Büch +12
This work reports an electronic and micro-structural study of an appealing system for optoelectronics: tungsten disulphide WS on epitaxial graphene (EG) on SiC(0001). The WS$_2…