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A modular multiple frequency inductive link to wirelessly power multiple miniaturized implants

Sandro Carrara, Diego Ghezzi, Gian Luca Barbruni

A modular multiple frequency coils inductive link system to wirelessly provide power for at least a medical implant at an output of a receiving coil, whereby the receiving coil is configured to be implanted in an organism. The modular multiple frequency co ...

2024

First characterization of the SPIDER beam AC component with the Beamlet Current Monitor

SPIDER is the full scale prototype for the ITER Heating Neutral Beam source, hosted at the Neutral Beam Test Facility in Padova, Italy. The behavior of the beam must be thoroughly investigated to bring the machine's performance in line with ITER's requirem ...

2023

Autonomous oil flow generated by self-oscillating polymer gels

Vito Cacucciolo

The previously reported gel and polymer actuators require external inputs, such as batteries, circuits, electronic circuits, etc., compared with autonomous motions produced by the living organisms. To realize the spontaneous motions, here, we propose to in ...

Nature Research2020

High-Current Low-Voltage Power Supply for Superconducting Magnets

Émilien Luc Henri Coulinge

In the wide range of applications for power supplies, the ones dedicated to feeding superconducting magnets occupy a niche. This particular kind of magnets has the intrinsic property of having zero resistance, and is only used in high-end facilities for fu ...

EPFL2020

MAGNETIC: Multi-Agent Machine Learning-Based Approach for Energy Efficient Dynamic Consolidation in Data Centers

David Atienza Alonso, Marina Zapater Sancho, Ali Pahlevan, Kosar Haghshenas

Improving the energy efficiency of data centers while guaranteeing Quality of Service (QoS), together with detecting performance variability of servers caused by either hardware or software failures, are two of the major challenges for efficient resource m ...

2022

An autonomous untethered fast soft robotic insect driven by low-voltage dielectric elastomer actuators

Yves Perriard, Herbert Shea, Yoan René Cyrille Civet, Matthias Imboden, Xinru Ji, Vito Cacucciolo, Xiaobin Ji, Xinchang Liu

Insects are a constant source of inspiration for roboticists. Their compliant bodies allow them to squeeze through small openings and be highly resilient to impacts. However, making subgram autonomous soft robots untethered and capable of responding intell ...

2019

Comparative Study of Two-Quadrant DC/DC Stage in Power Supply for Superconducting Magnets

Drazen Dujic, Émilien Luc Henri Coulinge, Serge Pittet

To improve the performances of the present European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a new family of power supplies for Superconducting Magnets (SCM) is being designed to enhance the operating cycle and recover magnetic ...

2018

MVDC Supply Technologies for Marine Electrical Distribution Systems

Drazen Dujic, Francisco Daniel Freijedo Fernández, Uzair Javaid, Wim Van der Merwe

The increase in the popularity of the medium voltage dc (MVDC) electrical distribution, as a possible evolution of the medium voltage ac (MVAC) electrical distribution for the ship on-board power systems, arises a need for a comparative evaluation and demo ...

2018

Peta-pico-Voltron: An open-source high voltage power supply

Samuel Rosset, Samuel Schlatter

We present the design (hardware + software) of “Peta-pico-Voltron”, a low-current high voltage power supply for electrostatic actuators. Developed primarily for dielectric elastomer actuators, it offers a low-cost solution to generate user controllable vol ...

2018

Design techniques for a stable operation of cryogenic field-programmable gate arrays

Edoardo Charbon, Harald Arjan Robert Homulle

In this paper, we show how a deep-submicron field-programmable gate array (FPGA) can be operated more stably at extremely low temperatures through special firmware design techniques. Stability at low temperatures is limited through long power supply wires ...

2018

Physical Design Considerations of One-level RRAM-based Routing Multiplexers

Giovanni De Micheli, Xifan Tang, Pierre-Emmanuel Julien Marc Gaillardon, Edouard Giacomin

Resistive Random Access Memory (RRAM) technology opens the opportunity for granting both high-performance and low- power features to routing multiplexers. In this paper, we study the physical design considerations related to RRAM- based routing mult ...

ACM2017

Circuit Designs of High-Performance and Low-Power RRAM-Based Multiplexers Based on 4T(ransistor)1R(RAM) Programming Structure

Giovanni De Micheli, Xifan Tang, Pierre-Emmanuel Julien Marc Gaillardon, Edouard Giacomin

Routing multiplexers based on pass-transistors or transmission gates are an essential components in many digital integrated circuits. However, whatever structure is employed, CMOS multiplexers have two major limitations: 1) their delay is linearly related ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2017

Remotely-Powered Batteryless Implantable Local Temperature Monitoring System for Freely Moving Mice

Brown adipose fat tissue of a mouse dissipates the animal’s energy in the form of heat. Chronically recording the temperature of this tissue helps biologists to study the metabolism of the animal and gain new insights about the obesity in humans. Such temp ...

EPFL2014

Design of a parallel low power flash A/D converter for the sub-sampling IR-UWB receiver

Catherine Dehollain, Shenjie Wang

This paper presents the design of a dual-channel 4-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC) for the sub-sampling impulse radio ultra-wideband receiver with the sampling rate of 2.112 GS/s. The ADC's specifications are optimized at the system level. Two parall ...

Springer Verlag2013

A 16-channel 220 µW neural recording IC with embedded delta compression

Alexandre Schmid, Yusuf Leblebici, Vahid Majidzadeh Bafar

A 16-channel neural action potential recording IC suitable for large-scale integration with multi-electrode arrays (MEAs) is presented. A closed-loop gain of 60 dB in the action potential band is achieved by cascading differential gain-stages utilizing a n ...

2011

LHCb Silicon Tracker DAQ and ECS Online Systems

Olivier Schneider, Aurelio Bay, Guido Haefeli, Frédéric Blanc, Tatsuya Nakada, Christophe Salzmann, Minh Tâm Tran, Raluca Anca Muresan, Mark Tobin, Johan Luisier, Anne Keune, Matthew Needham, Marc-Olivier Bettler, Vincent Fave, Cédric Potterat, Mathias Oleg Knecht, Christophe Bauer, Géraldine Conti, Reto Frei, Louis Nicolas, Aurélie Perrin

The LHCb experiment at CERN is designed to perform precision measurements of b quark decays. The Silicon Tracker plays a crucial role in reconstructing particle trajectories and consists of two silicon micro-strip detectors, the Tracker Turicensis and the ...

2010

High-efficiency dynamic supply CMOS audio power amplifier for low-power applications

Maher Kayal, Marc Pastre

This paper describes the analysis and design of a dynamic supply CMOS audio power amplifier for low-power applications. The dynamic supply technique is used to increase the efficiency of a class AB power amplifier. The polarization of its output stage is a ...

2009

A Low-Noise CMOS Receiver Frontend for NMR-based Surgical Guidance

Giovanni Boero, Jens Anders

In this paper a novel architecture for an integrated NMR receiver front-end for surgical guidance applications is described. While the chip consumes only 9 mA supply current from a 3.3 V power supply it has a measured input referred noise density of 0.7 nV ...

Springer, 233 Spring Street, New York, Ny 10013, United States2009

Modeling of Long stator Linear Motors – Application to the Power Supply of Multi Mobile System

Yves Perriard, Jean-Jacques Simond, Basile Kawkabani

n large cities, due to expensive land price, high-rise buildings are built, in which the space dedicated to the elevators is considerable and reduces the rented surfaces. To decrease these lost surfaces, a Multi Mobile System is proposed. It consists of se ...

2008

What is the design objective for portable power generation: Efficiency or energy density?

Benoît Chachuat

Recently, various alternatives to batteries, such as microfabricated fuel cell systems, have been proposed for portable power generation. In large-scale power production plants emphasis is placed on energy conversion efficiency. On the other hand, the intr ...

2007