Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School

Characterization of a Resistively Multiplexed SiPM Readout for Position-Sensitive Scintillating Fibre Radiation Detectors

Active stoppers based on scintillating fibres provide fast signal formation, fine segmentation and compact geometry. On the other hand, their implementation requires a readout that can handle many silicon photomultiplier channels and a wide range of light intensities. We present...

Bulk mesophases modeling of ferroelectric nematic liquid crystals

Abstract Ferroelectric nematic liquid crystals (FNLCs) are emerging materials that combine orientational order with spontaneous macroscopic polarization. They exhibit distinctive properties, such as polar domain formation, field-tunable textures, and strong electro-elastic coupli...

Incremental Graph Construction Enables Robust Spectral Clustering of Texts

Abstract Neighborhood graphs over document embeddings are a common component of text-mining pipelines, supporting topic discovery, deduplication, semi-supervised label propagation, and retrieval-index construction, and they are a critical but fragile step in spectral clustering o...

Evaluating fine-tuned, embedding-based, and zero-shot models for aspect-based sentiment analysis in South Slavic news

In the contemporary digital media landscape, the ability to automatically distill public opinion from a vast and continuous stream of information is highly important. Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) offers this granular capability. In this work, we address a specific, indu...

From Climate Risk Assessment to Adaptation Priorities: A System-Wide Framework for Climate-Resilient National Energy Planning

National energy planning increasingly needs to account for climate risks, yet adaptation priorities in National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs) often remain too generic to guide infrastructure, regulatory, and investment decisions. This paper develops a policy-facing framework f...

In situ ALD growth of ZnO thin films incorporating Cu nanoparticles for Solar-driven photocatalysis

This study investigates ZnO thin films incorporating copper nanoparticles (Cu NPs) as efficient photocatalysts for solar-driven wastewater treatment. The ZnO@Cu composite films were fabricated by in-situ integration of Cu NPs into the ZnO during atomic layer deposition (ALD) grow...

Coupling electric and magnetic dipoles in Janus nanoplatelets via surface-selective hybridization

Coupling electric and magnetic dipoles within nanoscale building blocks offers a promising strategy for creating hybrid materials with coupled magnetic and electric functionality. Here, we demonstrate a proof-of-concept approach for realizing this concept in Janus nanoparticles t...

In Vitro Evaluationof Silica-Coated Bi2Se3 Nanoplatelets as PhotothermalNanomaterials

Abstract Silica-coated Bi2Se3 nanoplatelets were evaluated in vitro for their photothermal properties and biological response as a more biocompatible alternative to previously reported glycol-coated Bi2Se3 systems. The assessment was performed using HeLa cells under 808 nm laser...