The study of organ tissues, namely, histology, is essential for clinical medicine, as it allows the identification of a wide range of diseases. Traditionally, two major techniques, optical and electron microscopy, have been used for morphological observation of tissue sections. Optical microscopy (OM) allows for fast-acquisition high-throughput imaging, at the expense of diffraction-limited resolution ...

Optical waveguides can be used to trap and transport micro-particles. The particles are held close to the waveguide surface by the evanescent field and propelled forward. We propose a new technique to lift and trap particles above the surface of the waveguides. This is made possible by a gap between two opposing, planar waveguides. The field emitted from each of the waveguide ends diverge fast, away ...

Stable and reproducible trapping in air of 1 µm and 500 nm dielectric particles has been realized using a dual beam optical fiber tweezers with cleaved commercial single mode fibers. The influence of the interference fringes of the two coherent and counter-propagating trapping beam is investigated by controlling the fringe visibility. Optical trapping on a series of upto10 fringes or trapping on ...

The three-dimensional imaging of mesoscopic samples with Optical Projection Tomography (OPT) has become a powerful tool for biomedical phenotyping studies. OPT uses visible light to visualize the 3D morphology of large transparent samples. To enable a wider application of OPT, we present OptiJ, a low-cost, fully open-source OPT system capable of imaging large transparent specimens up to 13 mm tall ...

For Norway to reach the emission limits in the Paris Agreement, a substantial amount of CO2 must be reduced. Road traffic alone accounts for a high percentage of the total emissions during 2021. This thesis will focus on electrifying the transport sector and analyzing charging infrastructure for heavy-duty electric vehicles. New charging infrastructure for heavy-duty Electric Vehicles (EVs) provides ...

Making energy clean, reliable and readily available is essential for fighting climate change and to supply an ever-rising global power demand. The aim of the study is to identify optimal locations for a wind turbine to be joined to a small-scale hybrid system at the main campus of UiT – The Arctic University of Norway. To identify feasible areas for maximizing electric power production, techniques ...

Målet med denne oppgaven er å karakterisere bølgeledere av silisium-rik nitrid, SiRN, med hensyn på koblingstap, propagasjonstap, tall på modi og feltfordeling. Det skal gjøres forsøk på å redusere tapet mest mulig ved å prøve ut forskjellige måter å koble inn lys og forbedre kuttingen av bølgelederene. Det skal også gjøres forsøk på å finne tykkelse og brytningsindeks på bølgelederene ved hjelp av ...

Events associated with shallow gas accumulations are reported all over the Norwegian continental shelf. These accumulations are potentially dangerous geo-hazards related to drilling activity, but they can also be of economic interest if the accumulated volumes are large. Petroleum in the Barents Sea has been influenced by the late periods of uplift and erosion creating a complex province. The exact ...

Understanding the statistics of fluctuation driven flows in the boundary layer of magnetically confined plasmas is desired to accurately model the lifetime of the vacuum vessel components. Mirror Langmuir probes (MLPs) are a novel diagnostic that uniquely allow us to sample the plasma parameters on a time scale shorter than the characteristic time scale of their fluctuations. Sudden large-amplitude ...

The Pan-Eurasian Experiment (PEEX) Science Plan, released in 2015, addressed a need for a holistic system understanding and outlined the most urgent research needs for the rapidly changing Arctic-boreal region. Air quality in China, together with the long-range transport of atmospheric pollutants, was also indicated as one of the most crucial topics of the research agenda. These two geographical ...