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Short Biography:
Dr. Riccardo DeSalvo got his degree in Physics (Time Resolved
Spectroscopy) from Universita’ di Pisa in 1979. He worked in CERN, Geneva, the CLEO
experiment at Cornell University, the VIRGO project at INFN Pisa and recently
joined the LIGO project at Caltech. An instrumentation specialist, he designed
and built several Particle Collider Trackers and developed novel Precision
Calorimetry Techniques for High Energy Physics. He also devised new Light
Detectors for precision photon counting and position sensing in magnetic
fields. Presently he is working on development of advanced Seismic Attenuation
Systems for Gravitational Wave Detectors like Virgo, LIGO and Tama.
Ø Link to LIGO
II / SAS Project website
Ø Presentations
q Glasmet Team (SURF
students):
Michael Hall – Glassy
Metals Introduction (LIGO-G020443-00-R)
Barbara Simoni – Phase
Transition Heat in MoRuB (LIGO-G020439-00-R)
Maddalena Montovani – Hardness and
Elasticity Measurements (LIGO-G020440-00-R)
Stefano Tirelli and Chen
Yang Wang – Stress-Strain
behavior of MoRuB glassy metals (LIGO-G020441-00-R)
Brian Emmerson – X-ray
scattering measurements of crystallite contamination in glassy metals (LIGO-G020444-00-R)
Michael Hall and Valerie
Cervantes – Physical
Property Measurements of Glassy Metals (LIGO-G020443-00-R)
q
Rosalia
Stellacci – Measurement of
Metal Creep in vertical attenuation cantilever blades (LIGO-G020466-00-D)
q
Riccardo
DeSalvo - Pisa (September 2002) – Tools for Low
Frequency Gravitational Wave Interferometric Detectors. Glassy Metal Flex
Joints. Are G.M. better than fused silica for mirror suspensions? (LIGO-G020445-00-R)
Riccardo DeSalvo - SAS Group R&D Results
- Annual
report 2002 (LIGO-G020465-00-D)
Ø Reports
q
Erik Adam Kort - X-Ray
Micro-densitometry of Amorphous MoRuB for LIGO Flex-Joint Mirror Suspensions
(LIGO-G020466-00-D)
Ø Data
q
Vitreloy
Material Properties
Ø Mechanical
& Physical Property Comparisons Between Vitreloy 1 (LM1) & Common
Crystalline Metals
Ø Selected
Transport Properties of Vitreloy 1
Riccardo DeSalvo
Department of Physics
California Institute of Technology
1200
California Blvd.
Pasadena, CA 91125
LIGO Project MS 18-34
Tel: 626 395
2968 ( office)
626 395 8425 ( lab )
e-mail:desalvo@ligo.caltech.edu
(please use e-mail whenever possible)