Publications related to Cavity magnetron

Gas generating membrane-less electrolyser

Demetri Psaltis, Pooria Hadikhani, Steven Alexandre Schenk

Electrolyser including a reactor (2) comprising a housing (4), fluidic channels (6a, 6b, 6c) within the housing, and electrodes (16a, 16c) comprising an anode (16a) and a cathode (16c). The fluidic channels include an inter-electrode channel (6b) arranged ...

2023

Zinc carboxylate optimization strategy for extending Al-air battery system's lifetime

Andreas Züttel, Thi Ha My Pham, Liping Zhong, Manhui Wei

Although Al-air batteries are expected to be the candidates for energy conversion systems in renewable energy market due to the higher energy density, richer reserves, and lighter mass of Al metal, the anode self-discharge is seen as a notorious issue that ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2023

From pulsed-DCMS and HiPIMS to microwave plasma-assisted sputtering: Their influence on the properties of diamond-like carbon films

Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Johann Michler, Caroline Hain, David Brown, Thomas Nelis

The fabrication of high-hardness non-hydrogenated diamond-like carbon (DLC) via standard magnetron sputtering (MS) is often hindered by the low sputtering yields and ionisation rates of carbon, therefore investigations into pulsed alternatives of MS, else ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2022

Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics with strongly correlated fermions

Kevin Etienne Robert Roux

This thesis presents the first cavity quantum electrodynamics experiments performed with a degenerate gas of

^6

Li with strong atom-atom interactions. The first part of this manuscript describes the design and the building of the apparatus that has been e ...

EPFL2022

Probing unconventional performance of fiber resonators: light storage, generation and manipulation

Ivan Cardea

This thesis aims at investigating the performance of figure-9 (figure-of-nine) optical fiber resonators as a practical solution for light storage, light generation and manipulation. The first part of the thesis focuses on a theoretical and experimental stu ...

EPFL2021

Strong Coupling of Antiferromagnetic Resonance with Subterahertz Cavity Fields

Jean-Philippe Ansermet, Haiming Yu, Marcin Bialek

Strong coupling of electromagnetic cavity fields with antiferromagnetic spin waves in hematite (alpha-Fe2O3) is achieved above room temperature. A cube of hematite is placed in a metallic tube and the transmission is measured, using a continuous-wave terah ...

American Physical Society (APS)2021

Localization of Electromagnetic Interference Sources Using a Time-Reversal Cavity

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Mohammad Azadifar, Amirhossein Mostajabi, Hamidreza Karami

In this article, we propose and implement a novel technique to locate electromagnetic interference (EMI) sources using the concept of time-reversal (TR) cavity. We show in an intuitive manner that reflections from the surfaces of a cavity can emulate an in ...

2021

Nanoimaging of Ultrashort Magnon Emission by Ferromagnetic Grating Couplers at GHz Frequencies

Dirk Grundler, Ping Che, Andrea Mucchietto, Korbinian Baumgärtl

On-chip signal processing at microwave frequencies is key for modern mobile communication. When one aims at small footprints, low power consumption, reprogrammable filters, and delay lines, magnons in low-damping ferrimagnets offer great promise. Ferromagn ...

American Chemical Society (ACS)2020

Short cavity InGaN-based laser diodes with cavity length below 300 mu m

Nicolas Grandjean, Jean-François Carlin, Raphaël Butté, Denis Martin, Hua Zhang, Ching-Wen Shih

We report on a practical method for developing InGaN-based edge emitting laser diodes of cavity length down to 45 mu m. Samples consisting of one uncoated cleaved facet and one etched facet coated with a high-reflectivity (HR) dielectric distributed Bragg ...

2019

Chopped-Anodic-Phase Charge Balancing Method for Electrical Stimulation

Alexandre Schmid, Reza Ranjandish

Providing safety of stimulation is a critical requirement in the design of biomedical electrical stimulators. Charge balancing circuits are required to guarantee safety of electrical stimulators. Chopped-anodic-phase (CAP) is one of the methods used for ch ...

IEEE2019

High-power gyrotrons for electron cyclotron heating and current drive

Minh Quang Tran

In many tokamak and stellarator experiments around the globe that arc investigating energy production via controlled thermonuclear fusion, electron cyclotron heating and current drive (ECH&CD) are used for plasma start-up, heating, non-inductive current dr ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2019

Broadened Bandwidth Amplified Spontaneous Emission from Blue GaN-Based Short-Cavity Superluminescent Light-Emitting Diodes

Nicolas Grandjean, Jean-François Carlin, Raphaël Butté, Denis Martin, Hua Zhang, Ching-Wen Shih

We report broad bandwidth blue superluminescent light-emitting diodes (SLEDs) based on a short-cavity active region. The dependencies of amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) output power and gain bandwidth on cavity length were investigated in devices whos ...

2019

Study of additive manufactured microwave cavities for pulsed optically pumped atomic clock applications

Anja Skrivervik, Emile Jacques de Rijk

Additive manufacturing (AM) of passive microwave components is of high interest for the cost-effective and rapid prototyping or manufacture of devices with complex geometries. Here, we present an experimental study on the properties of recently demonstrate ...

AIP American Institute of Physics2018

Modeling and design guidelines for direct steam generation solar receivers

Sophia Haussener, Meng Lin

Concentrated solar energy is an ideal energy source for hightemperature energy conversion processes such as concentrated solar power generation, solar thermochemical fuel production, and solar driven hightemperature electrolysis. Indirectly irradiated sola ...

2018

Continuously Fed Density Currents Over Porous Bed

Anton Schleiss, Mário Jorge Rodrigues Pereira Da Franca, Sara Venuleo

Gravity currents impact significantly the environment and human's life. Understanding their internal structure and their dynamics is fundamental for modelling purposes. In this study we observe experimentally how bed porosity affects the dynamics of densit ...

2018

Influence of Disorder and Finite-Size Effects on Slow Light Transport in Extended Photonic Crystal Coupled-Cavity Waveguides

Romuald Houdré, Vincenzo Savona, Momchil Minkov, Mohamed Sabry Abdel-Aliem Mohamed

A convenient approach for slowing down light in integrated optical circuits is by utilizing a set of coupled microcavities in a photonic crystal lattice. While this provides for flexibility in dispersion engineering, light transport is influenced by a comb ...

2018

Quantum-Limited Directional Amplifiers with Optomechanics

Tobias Kippenberg, Nathan Rafaël Bernier, László Dániel Tóth

Directional amplifiers are an important resource in quantum-information processing, as they protect sensitive quantum systems from excess noise. Here, we propose an implementation of phase-preserving and phase-sensitive directional amplifiers for microwave ...

2018

Nonreciprocal reconfigurable microwave optomechanical circuit

Tobias Kippenberg, Nathan Rafaël Bernier, Marie Adrienne Ioannou, László Dániel Tóth, Akshay Koottandavida

Nonreciprocal devices, such as isolators, are required to protect sensitive superconducting quantum circuits. Growing research has focused on integrated alternatives to the existing bulky ferrite technologies. Here we realize a nonreciprocal isolator with ...

IEEE2018

An Active Charge Balancing Method Based on Chopped Anodic Phase

Alexandre Schmid, Reza Ranjandish

A new method for safe electrical neural stimulation is proposed. A negative feedback is used to automatically produce short anodic pulses according to the remaining voltage. The period of the short anodic pulses varies according to the remaining voltage. T ...

IEEE2018

Unidirectional isolator-free 2 micron fiber lasers

Svyatoslav Kharitonov

This thesis presents results of a research on unidirectional isolator-free cavity lasers, exploiting thulium-doped fiber (TDF) as amplification medium and operating in \unit[2]{\mu m} wavelength range. For fibre ring resonator, an optical isolator should b ...

EPFL2017