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FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Ion cyclotron heating in laboratory and space plasmas with flows

Current-driven ion cyclotron instabilities are the class of plasma instabilities that have the lowest threshold current to grow in a wide range of parameters relevant to space plasmas. Theoretical and experimental evidence have been given that for shear ed plasma flows parallel to the magnetic ...

Awarded: NOK 5.7 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Norwegian utilization of the Swedish Solar Telescope on La Palma

The Swedish 1m Solar Telescope (SST) on La Palma is the world leading facility for high resolution observations of the Sun. The SST has an advanced adaptive optical system that corrects distortions of the images caused by the Earth's atmosphere. This sys tem improves the images dramatically but ...

Awarded: NOK 2.6 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Oslo

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Polarized radiative transfer in media with non-uniform refractive-index distributions

The oceans are home to most of the animal and plant life on Earth and therefore very important for the food supply. To avoid overharvesting of oceanic resources it is necessary to have a solid understanding of the marine environment. Optical remote sensi ng is becoming a very important tool to o...

Awarded: NOK 4.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Vestland

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

Role of Bursts in Fracture Front Propagation

This project relates to the study of the dynamics of a crack front propagating through a weak plane of a transparent block made of two Plexiglass (PMMA) plates annealed together. The main goal of the project is to study in a systematic and controlle d way, both experimentally and by simulat...

Awarded: NOK 4.3 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Fundamental investigations of solute clustering and nucleation of precipitation

The major aim of the project is to contribute to the understanding of how solute atoms diffuse and interact in solid solution, and how they form aggregates that subsequently nucleate or grow into precipitates. Only recently, techniques for detailed invest igations, sufficient computing power for ...

Awarded: NOK 6.6 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Coherent quantum effects in many-particle systems

This is a project in theoretical physics, aimed at studies of problems in modern quantum physics. It includes problems in quantum information theory, with focus on quantum entanglement, as well as problems in quantum many-particle physics more generally. The main focus will be on coherent quantum...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Oslo

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Challenging atomistic processes in SiC

This proposal addresses fundamental issues regarding atomistic phenomena occurring during modification and processing of silicon carbide (SiC). SiC is a novel wide bandgap semiconductor with an outstanding potential beyond the silicon era. However, to rea lize this potential, a number of critical...

Awarded: NOK 4.8 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

F-FYS-Naturvitenskap, fysikk

Evolution from Cellular to Social Scales

The Geilo-Schools are internationally considered to be among the best in the world of its kind, and has provided research activities in Norway unique opportunities to gain knowledge of breakthrough research and the possibility to establish worldwide netwo rks in central areas of materials science...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Oslo

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Quantum Hall physics in the 2D electron gas and in rotating Bose condensates

The quantum Hall effect, occurring in a two-dimensional electron gas exposed to a strong magnetic field at low temperatures, is one of the most studied systems in condensed matter physics over the past 20 years. One of the main reasons is that this system displays new and exotic quantum mechanic...

Awarded: NOK 5.4 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Study of entanglement and quantum information in condensed matter systems.

The quantum computer is a hypothetical computer that utilizes the superposition principle of quantum mechanics to perform certain computational tasks much faster than any classical computer can. Entanglement is one of the most curious phenomena in Nature, which involves the collapse of the quant...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Investigation of equiaxed dendritic alloy solidification by in-situ synchrotron X-radiography and phase-field modelling

Important aspects of alloy solidification is poorly understood due to lack of means to observe the microstructure formation processes in situ during solidification. A new method, developed by the applicant, for in-situ acquisition of high resolution sync hrotron X-radiograms will be used to obta...

Awarded: NOK 6.9 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Shear-selection of galaxy clusters in the KIDS survey.

Gravitational lensing is an excellent tool for studying the mass distribution in the Universe, because it does not make assumptions about the nature or the dynamical state of the gravitating matter. In particular, lensing does not discriminate between the luminous and dark matter, and is thus a ...

Awarded: NOK 1.5 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Ukjent Fylke

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Point Contact Investigations of Structured Magnetic Materials

The research proposed here will provide information on transport properties through thransport measurements through magnetic structures utilising laterally resolved point contact measurements. We will use the combined powers of surface science technique s, lithography, optical characterisation ...

Awarded: NOK 5.2 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

The physics of solar filaments based on their dynamics at ultra-small scales

Solar filaments, called prominences when viewed beyond the solar limb, are fascinating features suspended high in the solar corona. Like other structures in the universe, They owe their existence to magnetic fields. It is generally believed that the magne tic fields serve to support the cool dens...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Oslo

FRINATEK-Fri prosj.st. mat.,naturv.,tek

CHARACTERISATION OF PARTICLES FROM NUCLEAR WEAPONS FALLOUT OVER NORWEGIAN TERRITORIES

A significant fraction of actinides released by nuclear weapons tests is associated with radioactive particles. For particle contaminated areas, radiological impact assessments will suffer from large uncertainties unless particle characteristics, weatheri ng and mobiisation of associated actinide...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2012

Location: Akershus

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Interconnected Physical Phenomena as manifested in Nano - Layered Silicates (Clays).

Members of a nationally Coordinated Research Team (CRT) from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), the University of Oslo (UiO) and the Institute for Energy Technology (IFE) proposes to continue and to enhance further a research activ ity for the study of Nanostructured Soft ...

Awarded: NOK 5.8 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Studies of the electronic structure of materials at the nanoscale

We plan to study the electronic structure of materials at the nanoscale with unsurpassed level of sensitivity and precision, first and foremost by further improving existing and developing new experimental quantitative electron diffraction techniques. Qua ntitative electron diffraction, electron ...

Awarded: NOK 7.9 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Oslo

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Structure and Dynamics of Complex Excited Atomic Systems

In this project we plan to develop dimension-independent algorithms for solving the Schrödinger equation based on basis states related to a fictional single particle N-dimensional central field problem. The key ingredient will be to relate the formal ide ntity between the quantal many particle p...

Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Vestland

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Computational Subatomic Physics

Subatomic physics is a very special branch of science, addressing unusual and complex problems. The reason is that atomic nuclei are too large to approach microscopically every constituent (of the order of 100 hadrons or 1000 partons), but too small and n on-linear to treat them statistically or ...

Awarded: NOK 3.9 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Vestland

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Thermodynamic and electromagnetic properties of atomic nuclei

Various aspects of nuclear structure at high excitation energy and low spin will be investigated. The heating of the nucleus is performed through the bombardment by light ions. The increased energy of the protons and neutrons resluts in higher temperature inside the nucleus. A powerful detector ...

Awarded: NOK 4.4 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2009

Location: Oslo

F-FYS-Naturvitenskap, fysikk

Northern Optics 2006 (conference)

Northern Optics is a series of conferences with the aim of bringing together optical scientists and people from the optics industry and optics companies in the Nordic and Baltic countries. NO 2006 is the third conference in the series, the previous were held in Sweden in 2000 and in Finland in 2...

Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2006

Location: Akershus

F-FYS-Naturvitenskap, fysikk

Modeling Energetic Heavy Ion Reactions: Calculation of Measurables from Collective Models

The planned post-doctoral project is targeting studies of fundamental matter under extreme conditions by means of high energy heavy ion reactions. This field is of high priority of current international physics research. One of the largest CERN projects, ALICE, is addressing this subject. The Uni...

Awarded: NOK 1.2 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Oslo

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Applications of Regularized Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics to gravitationally dominated fluids in astrophysics

Gravitation plays a dominant role in the evolution of many astrophysical systems ranging in length scales from the large-scale structuring of the universe, to the formation and interaction of galaxies, stars, and individual proto-planetary discs. With st eadily increasing resolution, observation...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2008

Location: Oslo

F-FYS-Naturvitenskap, fysikk

Quenched disorder effect on farcture front propagation

This project relates to the study of the dynamics of a crack front propagating through a weak plane of a transparent Plexiglass (polymethylmethacrylate, PMMA) block made of two annealed Plexiglass plates. The main goal of this proposal is to study in a systematic and controlled way, in p...

Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Oslo

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Scale invariance in plasma and geospace systems. A cross-disciplinary approach to self-organized critical behavior.

The project consolidates a cross-disciplinary venture started in 2004 and brings together theorists and experimentalists, young outstanding researchers and highly qualified established scientists, with the purpose to work out tests of recently formulate d paradigms for the description of comple...

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2008

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions in the Critical Region of Possible Deconfinement Phase Transition

Up to now relativistic heavy ion collisions are the only means to investigate the new state of dense and hot nuclear matter, Quark-Gluon Plasma, experimentally. Here the main question is to find the observables which are most sensitive to creation even a small amount of the plasma. Norway as a...

Awarded: NOK 1.9 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Oslo

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Distributed embedded and re-configurable control and monitoring system for large-scale detectors

Controlling and monitoring the complex front-end electronics of large-scale detector systems like the TPC, TRD, PHOS and the HLT systems in the ALICE experiment at the LHC/CERN requires a distributed, fault-tolerant control system for the front-end electr onics containing up to 2000 nodes. Each n...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2008

Location: Vestland

F-FYS-Naturvitenskap, fysikk

Strong Turbulence in Magnetized Plasmas.

The proposed project involves a theoretical, numerical and empirical investigation of nonlinear waves in plasmas. Both analytical and numerical tools will be developed and used to explore mechanisms of wave-wave and wave-particle interactions in modulatio nally unstable waves. A core part of the ...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2007

Location: Oslo

FRINAT-Matematikk og naturvitenskap

Quantum Correlations for Secret Key Distribution

Quantum mechanics allows secure communication against eavesdropping. The security relies on fundamental laws of physics and, therefore, it cannot be broken by any advance in computational power of potential adversaries. The reason for this is that any att empt to eavesdrop on the signals will hav...

Awarded: NOK 1.2 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2009

Location: Ukjent Fylke

F-FYS-Naturvitenskap, fysikk

The Role of Damage in Fracture Dynamics

A propagating crack tip in a medium poses immense intellectual challenges. Despite the apparent simplicity by which the tip moves, the underlying mechanisms are not at all trivial. In fact only the simplest configurations with a moving crack tip have to t his date been solved. An important aspect...

Awarded: NOK 0.97 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2007

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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