Publications related to Network synthesis filters

Penalized denoising of vehicle trajectories collected by a swarm of drones

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Emmanouil Barmpounakis, Georgios Anagnostopoulos

Vehicle trajectory datasets collected in urban traffic environments with drones pose unique chal- lenges in terms of denoising due to extensive visual restrictions, perspective distortions and human- induced errors. This article taps into the unexplored po ...

2022

PID-like active impedance control for electroacoustic resonators to design tunable single-degree-of-freedom sound absorbers

Hervé Lissek, Maxime Volery, Xinxin Guo

Sound absorption at low frequencies still remains a challenge in both scientific research and engineering practice. Natural porous materials are ineffective in this frequency range, as well as acoustic resonators which present too narrow bandwidth of absor ...

2022

An Inverse-Filter-Based Method to Locate Partial Discharge Sources in Power Transformers

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Hamidreza Karami

Partial discharge (PD) occurrence in power transformers can lead to irreparable damage to the power network. In this paper, the inverse filter (IF) method to localize PDs in power transformers is proposed. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the ...

2022

A Wideband Low-Power Cryogenic CMOS Circulator for Quantum Applications

Edoardo Charbon, Andrea Ruffino, Yatao Peng, Fabio Sebastiano

Quantum computers require classical electronics to ensure fault-tolerant operation. To address compactness and scalability, it was proposed to implement such electronics as integrated circuits operating at cryogenic temperatures close to those at which qua ...

2020

Observation of coupled mechanical resonance modes within suspended 3D nanowire arrays

Yusuf Leblebici, Yasin Kilinc

Complex yet compact nanoscale mechanisms have largely been absent due to the rather limited availability of components and integration techniques. Especially missing have been efficient interconnects with adjustable characteristics. To address this issue, ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2020

A 6.5-GHz Cryogenic All-Pass Filter Circulator in 40-nm CMOS for Quantum Computing Applications

Edoardo Charbon, Andrea Ruffino, Yatao Peng, Fabio Sebastiano

Cryogenic solid-state quantum processors require classical control and readout electronics; to achieve compactness and scalability, cryogenic integrated circuits have been recently proposed for this goal. Circulators are widely used in readout circuits, ho ...

2019

Analysis of XBAR resonance and higher order spurious modes

Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Soumya Yandrapalli, Victor Plessky

A suspended 400nm thin mono-crystalline ZY cut Lithium Niobate (LN) membrane with narrow interdigital electrodes (IDEs) on top having a pitch of the order of few microns excites standing shear bulk acoustic wave resonance (XBAR) within the membrane through ...

IEEE2019

Growth, Integration, and Functional Characterization of AlScN Thin Films for RF MEMS Devices

Mohammad Fazel Parsapour Kolour

Mobile communication has grown explosively in recent years, leading to a strong demand for cheap, but high-performing bandpass filters with low insertion loss and smaller size. Surface acoustic wave (SAW) and thin film bulk acoustic wave (BAW) resonators r ...

EPFL2019

Analysis and Comparison of Notch Filter and Capacitor Voltage Feedforward Active Damping Techniques for LCL Grid-Connected Converters

Francisco Daniel Freijedo Fernández, Enrique Rodriguez Diaz

The use of LCL filters is a well-accepted solution to attenuate the harmonics created by the pulsewidth modulation. However, inherently LCL filters have a resonance region where the unwanted harmonics are amplified, which can compromise stability. Several ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2019

Modeling and Design Optimization of Medium Frequency Transformers for Medium-Voltage High-Power Converters

Marko Mogorovic

Novel high-power medium-voltage converter technologies offering galvanic insulation are needed to support the development of the emerging medium-voltage direct-current grids and further improve the performance of various other applications such as traction ...

EPFL2019

Efficient Relaxations for Dense CRFs with Sparse Higher-Order Potentials

Mathieu Salzmann

Dense conditional random fields (CRFs) have become a popular framework for modeling several problems in computer vision such as stereo correspondence and multiclass semantic segmentation. By modeling long-range interactions, dense CRFs provide a labeling t ...

SIAM PUBLICATIONS2019

Interfacing Qubits via Cryo-CMOS Front Ends

Edoardo Charbon, Andrea Ruffino, Yatao Peng

This work describes a basic interface between solid-state quantum bits (qubits) and classical environments. We describe a multiplexer, a circulator, and a low noise amplifier, designed for cryogenic temperature operation in a 40 nm CMOS technology node. Th ...

IEEE2018

An Experimental Study of Heterostructure Tunnel FET Nanowire Arrays: Digital and Analog Figures of Merit from 300K to 10K

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Ali Saeidi, Teodor Rosca

In this work, we experimentally report the figures of merit of state-of-the-art heterostructure Tunnel Field-Effect-Transistor (TFET) arrays from room (300K) down to cryogenic temperature (10K) at supply voltages below 400mV. We demonstrate here, for the f ...

IEEE2018

Medium Frequency Transformer Design and Optimization

Drazen Dujic, Marko Mogorovic

This paper describes the technical challenges tied to modeling and design optimization of the medium frequency transformer (MFT) for power electronic applications, namely emerging solid state transformers (SSTs). A detailed analysis and modelling of the ph ...

2017

Electronics Emulation for Real-Time Fault Location in Power Systems

François Pierre Gaugaz

This research presents a high-speed hardware platform dedicated to emulate electrical power networks for the fault location. The solution implements an algorithm based on the Electromagnetic Time-Reversal (EMTR) principle, which allows locating faults in v ...

EPFL2017

Mechanistic Modeling of Genetic Circuits for ArsR Arsenic Regulation

Vassily Hatzimanikatis, Yves Berset

Bioreporters are living cells that generate an easily measurable signal in the presence of a chemical compound. They acquire their functionality from synthetic gene circuits, the configuration of which defines the response signal and signal-to-noise ratio. ...

Amer Chemical Soc2017

W-Band Waveguide Filters Fabricated by Laser Micromachining and 3-D Printing

Emile Jacques de Rijk, Mathieu Billod, Cheng Guo

This paper presents two W-band waveguide bandpass filters, one fabricated using laser micromachining and the other 3-D printing. Both filters are based on coupled resonators and are designed to have a Chebyshev response. The first filter is for laser micro ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016

CMOS ASIC Design of Multi-frequency Multi-constellation GNSS Front-ends

Saeed Ghamari

With the emergence of the new global navigation satellite systems (GNSSs) such as Galileo, COMPASS and GLONASS, the US Global Positioning System (GPS) has new competitors. This multiplicity of constellations will offer new services and a much better satell ...

EPFL2016

OTA-C based high-speed analog processing for real-time fault location in electrical power networks

Maher Kayal, François Krummenacher, François Pierre Gaugaz

This paper explores the potential and limitations of analog integrated circuit techniques for the simulation of low-loss or lossless 1D or 2D transmission mediums. In this approach, a transmission line is mapped into a ladder consisting of N identical LC e ...

Springer Verlag2016

In-Network View Synthesis for Interactive Multiview Video Systems

Pascal Frossard, Laura Toni

In multiview applications, camera views can be used as reference views to synthesize additional virtual viewpoints, allowing users to freely navigate within a 3D scene. However, bandwidth constraints may restrict the number of reference views sent to clien ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2016