CORDERO , Maria

The localized heating produced by a tightly focused infrared laser leads to surface tension gradients at the interface of microfluidic drops covered with surfactants, resulting in a net force on the drop whose origin and magnitude are the focus of this paper. First, by colocalization of the surfactant micelles with a fluorescent dye, we...

The temperature increase of a thin water layer is investigated, both experimentally and numerically, when the layer is heated by an infrared laser. The laser is focused to a waist of 5.3 µm inside a 28 µm gap that contains fluorescent aqueous solutions between two glass slides. Temperature fields are measured using the temperature sensitivity...

Natural speech is highly complex and variable. Particularly, spoken language, in contrast to written language, has no clear word boundaries. Adult listeners can exploit different types of information to segment the continuous stream such as acoustic and semantic information. However, the weight of these cues, when co-occurring, remains to be...