Publications related to Proximity fuze

Planning urban proximities: An empirical analysis of how residential preferences conflict with the urban morphologies and residential practices

Vincent Kaufmann, Luca Giovanni Pattaroni, Marc-Edouard Baptiste Grégoire Schultheiss

Urban proximity planning is foreseen as a solution to foster a “sustainable” city, including economic viability, environmental soundness and social inclusivity. This paper focuses on the inclusivity aspects by questioning the adoption of urban proximities: ...

2024

Innovative dud detection based on JET DT experience

Olivier Sauter, Alessandro Pau

DT operations at JET gave a unique and invaluable opportunity to design, develop and test real -time controllers that will be applied in future burning plasma devices, as ITER and SPARC. Among them, the dud detector [L. Piron et al. 2019 Fusion Eng. Design ...

Elsevier Science Sa2024

Glacier-Fed Stream Biofilms Harbor Diverse Resistomes and Biosynthetic Gene Clusters

Tom Ian Battin, Hannes Markus Peter, Susheel Bhanu Busi, Grégoire Marie Octave Edouard Michoud, Leïla Ezzat, Massimo Bourquin, Matteo Tolosano, Paraskevi Pramateftaki, Vincent Henri De Staercke, Tyler Joe Kohler, Michail Styllas, Stylianos Fodelianakis

Antimicrobial resistance is an omnipresent phenomenon in the anthropogenically influenced ecosystems. However, its role in shaping microbial community dynamics in pristine environments is relatively unknown. ...

AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY2023

Non-invasive investigation of the morphology and optical properties of the upside-down jellyfish Cassiopea with optical coherence tomography

Anders Meibom, Niclas Heidelberg Lyndby, Sandrine Denise Françoise Bessette, Michael Kühl

The jellyfish Cassiopea largely cover their carbon demand via photosynthates produced by microalgal endosymbionts, but how holobiont morphology and tissue optical properties affect the light microclimate and symbiont photosynthesis in Cassiopea remain unex ...

ROYAL SOC2023

Nothing New Under the Sun: Novelty Constructs and Measures in Social Studies

Davide Bavato

The concept of novelty is central to questions of creativity, innovation, and discovery. Despite the prominence in scientific inquiry and everyday discourse, there is a chronic ambiguity over its meaning and a surprising variety of empirical measures, whic ...

Emerald Publishing Limited2022

Design and printing of a coplanar capacitive proximity sensor to detect the gap between dielectric foils edges

Danick Briand, Rubaiyet Iftekharul Haque, Martin Lubej

This paper presents the design and development of a coplanar capacitive proximity sensor for the detection of the gap between the edges of dielectric foils. The finite element analysis is applied to study the design of the sensor by investigating the effec ...

2022

Robotic Elytra: Insect-Inspired Protective Wings for Resilient and Multi-Modal Drones

Dario Floreano, Charalampos Vourtsis, William John Stewart

Winged drones that fly in close proximity to obstacles or that are capable of aerial and terrestrial locomotion can benefit from protective systems that prevent damage to delicate aerial structures. Existing protective solutions focus on multi-copter drone ...

2021

Monodisperse Selectively Permeable Hydrogel Capsules Made from Single Emulsion Drops

Esther Amstad, Alexandre Louis André Persat, Huachuan Du, Mathias Steinacher, Alice Cont

Capsules are often used to protect chemical and biological entities from the environment, to control the timing and location of their release, or to facilitate the collection of waste. Their performance depends on the thickness and composition of their she ...

2021

Microchannel-based Calorimeter for Rapid and Accurate Loss Measurements on High-efficiency Power Converters

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Remco Franciscus Peter van Erp, Palliyage Srilak Nirmana Perera

The difficulty in accurately measuring losses in high-frequency power converters hinders accurate breakdown of losses which is essential for device and circuit optimization. Electrical methods are often not adequate and calorimetric approaches found in the ...

IEEE2021

Analysing the effects of residential mobility behaviours on the composition of personal network in Switzerland

Vincent Kaufmann, Guillaume Simon Joseph Drevon, Gil Viry

Individual life courses are marked by residential mobility often associated with family and workplace changes and therefore likely to be related to the types of personal relationships people develop and maintain. Evidence about the relationship between res ...

2021

Catalyst Evolution Enhances Production of Xylitol from Acetal-Stabilized Xylose

Jeremy Luterbacher, Masoud Talebi Amiri, Ydna Marie Questell-Santiago, Benjamin Pierre Le Monnier, Jher Hau Yeap

We demonstrate a catalytic process for xylitol production based on the volatility and unique reactivity of diformylxylose (DFX), which can be produced at near theoretical yield from biomass and, contrary to xylose, can be easily purified by distillation. T ...

2020

Electron Spin Resonance detectors from 400 MHz to 360 GHz

Alessandro Valentino Matheoud

Methods based on the electron spin resonance (ESR) phenomenon are non-invasive tools adopted to investigate paramagnetic systems at temperatures ranging from above 1000 K to below 1 K. Since 2008, the group of Dr. Boero has been working on a detection tech ...

EPFL2019

Microwave inductive proximity sensors with sub-pm/Hz1/2 resolution

Giovanni Boero, Nergiz Sahin Solmaz, Alessandro Valentino Matheoud, Lénaïc Frehner

Inductive proximity sensors are low-cost and versatile detectors achieving resolutions in the nm and sub-nm range. Their typical working frequency ranges from tens of kHz to a few MHz. Operation at higher frequencies is considered as a possible route for t ...

2019

Nanoparticle on mirror plasmonic nanostructure for molecular cavity optomechanics

Christophe Marcel Georges Galland, Aqeel Ahmed, Nils Kipfer, Santiago Tarrago Velez, Tianqi Zhu

The plasmonic response of gold can be utilized to enhance the incident electromagnetic (EM) field by several orders of magnitude. When a gold nanoparticle is placed in close proximity to a gold film, the incident field can excite a deeply confined plasmon, ...

IEEE2018

Vision Based Navigation for Autonomous Cooperative Docking of CubeSats

Camille Sébastien Pirat, Volker Gass

A realistic rendezvous and docking navigation solution applicable to CubeSats is investigated. The scalability analysis of the ESA Autonomous Transfer Vehicle Guidance, Navigation & Control (GNC) performances and the Russian docking system, shows that the ...

2018

Optical proximity sensing system for atraumatic cochea implant surgery

Demetri Psaltis, Ye Pu, Christophe Moser, Ye Pu

The design of a proximity sensor to be integrated into cochlea implants is described. The sensor allows the anticipation of contact between the cochlear implant and intracochlear structures, including the cochlear canal wall and basilar membrane, providing ...

2017

Advanced Plasmonic Nanostructures for Engineering Fluorescence Applications

Xiaolong Wang

The appeal of plasmonics lies in the unique properties of coinage metal nanoparticles to strongly confine and enhance electromagnetic fields at the subwavelength. A simple 50 nm colloidal plasmonic particle can not only break the classical diffraction limi ...

EPFL2017

Limitations of Proximity Lithography Printing : Simulations, Experiments, and Applications

Krishnaparvathy Puthankovilakam

Photolithography is one of the earliest technologies used to transfer patterns to a substrate. It is also known as optical lithography since it uses light to transfer the pattern. The main exposure techniques exist in the industry are projection printing, ...

EPFL2017

An Insect Eye Inspired Miniaturized Multi-Camera System for Endoscopic Imaging

Yusuf Leblebici, Ömer Cogal

In thiswork,we present aminiaturized high definition vision system inspired by insect eyes, with a distributed illumination method, which can work in dark environments for proximity imaging applications such as endoscopy. Our approach is based on modeling ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2017

Reversion of P-gp-Mediated Drug Resistance in Ovarian Carcinoma Cells with PHPMA-Zosuquidar Conjugates

Harm-Anton Klok, Claudia Battistella

Inhibition of P-glycoprotein (P-gp) transporter is an attractive approach for the reversion of cancer-associated multidrug resistance (MDR). Poly(N-(2-hydroxypropyl) methacrylamide) (PHPMA)-based carriers that are able to release the anticancer drug doxoru ...

American Chemical Society2017