Publications related to Capacitive coupling

Hydraulically Amplified Electrostatic Taxels (HAXELs) for Full Body Haptics

Herbert Shea, Edouard Franck Vincent Gustave Leroy

The ability to mechanically stimulate touch receptors over the entire body is a key feature for fully immersive and highly realistic virtual reality experience. Haptic stickers, flexible arrays of HAXELs (hydraulically amplified TAXels), that enable cutane ...

Wiley2023

A dc/dc converter and a method for operating a dc/dc converter

Drazen Dujic, Jakub Kucka

The present invention relates to a DC/DC converter (1) for transferring an active power between two DC subsystems (5, 6) comprising: - a first converter stage (3) and a second converter stage (4) both configured to be selectively operated as an active inve ...

2022

A Delta Sigma-Modulated Sample and Average Common-Mode Feedback Technique for Capacitively Coupled Amplifiers in a 192-nW Acoustic Analog Front-End

Kyojin Choo

This work presents an acoustic analog front-end based on a delta sigma-modulated sample and average common-mode feedback technique. The proposed feedback offers a process and temperature stable high pass (HP) frequency corner, unity dc feedback gain, and a ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Thermodynamics of organic electrochemical transistors

Matteo Cucchi, Hsin Tseng

Though models describing the operating mechanism of organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) have been developed, these models are unable to accurately reproduce OECT electrical characteristics. Here, the authors report a thermodynamic-based framework t ...

Nature Portfolio2022

Ultra-High-Voltage (7-kV) Bidirectional Flyback Converter Used to Drive Capacitive Actuators

Yves Perriard, Alexis Boegli, Morgan Almanza, Raphaël Johannes Charles Mottet, Lucas Pniak

Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) have extremely advantageous characteristics such as lightness, compactness, flexibility, and large displacements. However, in order to operate, they can require voltages in the order of several thousands of volts. Thus ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

Miniaturised Wireless Power Transfer Systems for Neurostimulation: A Review

Sandro Carrara, Diego Ghezzi, Gian Luca Barbruni, Danilo Demarchi

In neurostimulation, wireless power transfer is an efficient technology to overcome several limitations affecting medical devices currently used in clinical practice. Several methods were developed over the years for wireless power transfer. In this review ...

2020

Time-Delay Encoded Image Recognition in a Network of Resistively Coupled VO2 on Si Oscillators

Kirsten Emilie Moselund, Siegfried Karg

Oscillatory neural networks based on insulator to metal transition of VO2 switches are implemented for image recognition. The VO2 oscillators are fabricated on silicon in a CMOS compatible process.A fullyconnected network of coupled oscillators is investig ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2020

On the Stability of FDTD-Based Numerical Codes to Evaluate Lightning-Induced Overvoltages in Overhead Transmission Lines

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri

One of the main issues that has to be faced when evaluating lightning-induced overvoltages on a realistic network configuration is to implement the algorithm that solves the field-to-line coupling problem into an electromagnetic simulator that is able to r ...

2020

Sensing device for sensing minor charge variations

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Teodor Rosca, Cem Alper

A charge sensing device for sensing charge variations in a charge storage area includes: a TFET having at least one sense gate; and a capacitive coupling for coupling the charge storage area with the sense gate. ...

2019

Fully Fdm 3D Printed Flexible Capacitive And Resistive Transducers

Danick Briand, Ryan Mitchell van Dommelen, Xavier Aeby

This work shows the feasibility of fully Fused-Deposition-Modeling (FDM) printed capacitive and resistive transducers, processed in a single tool. It enables their cost-effective processing and provides a simple approach for sensors manufacturing in 3D pri ...

IEEE2019

Critical Parasitic Elements of Coupled Inductors for Ultra-High Voltage Flyback Converters Used to Drive Capacitive Actuators

Yves Perriard, Alexis Boegli, Morgan Almanza, Raphaël Johannes Charles Mottet

This paper presents the critical parasitic elements of coupled inductors and their influence when designing a low input (12V) and ultra-high output voltage (>4000V) DC-DC Flyback Converter. The aim is to design a compact converter capable to supply the ult ...

IEEE2019

Electromagnetic, complex image model of a large area RF resonant antenna as inductive plasma source

Ivo Furno, Alan Howling, Philippe Frédérique Bruno Guittienne, Rémy Jacquier

A large area antenna generates a plasma by both inductive and capacitive coupling; it is an electromagnetically coupled plasma source. In this work, experiments on a large area planar RF antenna source are interpreted in terms of a multi-conductor transmis ...

2017

Micromechanical resonators with sub-micron gaps filled with high-k dielectrics

Mariazel de la Candelas Maqueda López

Scaled microelectromechanical (MEMS) resonating devices have generated a great interest for their use in RF front-end architectures for wireless communication, channel-select filters, on-chip signal processing and timing and extreme mas sensing application ...

EPFL2017

On Wind Turbine Impedance Analysis via Different Approaches

Antonio Sunjerga, Farhad Rachidi-Haeri

Lightning is one of the main causes of damage to wind turbines. The continuous increase in the wind turbine heights makes these structures even more vulnerable against lightning. As a result, the design of proper lightning protection system is of high impo ...

Ieee2017

Diamond microelectrode arrays for in vitro neuronal recordings

Michele Giugliano

A novel microfabrication technique for microelectrode arrays (MEAs) with a full diamond-cell interface is demonstrated. Boron-doped nano-crystalline diamond (BNCD) is used as a conductive electrode material on metal tracks insulated by intrinsic NCD. MEAs ...

Cambridge Univ Press2017

Simulation, Analysis, and Verification of Substrate Currents for Layout Optimization of Smart Power ICs

Maher Kayal, Jean-Michel Sallese, Camillo Stefanucci, Pietro Buccella

Today circuit failures in Smart Power ICs due to substrate couplings are partially addressed during the circuit design phase. The state-of-the-art guidelines for the optimization of parasitic couplings provide mainly qualitative rules, which are difficult ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016

Experimental Characterization of the Response of an Electrical and Communication Raceway to IEMI

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Nicolas Mora Parra

This paper reports the results of two experimental campaigns aimed at studying the high-frequency response of a raceway containing low voltage power, telephone, and Ethernet cables, to external electromagnetic field illumination. The raceway was tested aga ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016

Substrate modeling of parasitic couplings in Smart Power ICs with generalized lumped devices

Camillo Stefanucci

Today automotive industry is demanding more and more compact solutions for embedded electronics to be interfaced with vehicles components such as motor drivers, igniters and car communication buses. That is why Smart Power Integrated Circuits (IC) have bee ...

EPFL2016

Modeling Minority Carriers Related Capacitive Effects for Transient Substrate Currents in Smart Power ICs

Maher Kayal, Jean-Michel Sallese, Camillo Stefanucci, Pietro Buccella

This paper presents an extended model for transient and ac circuit-level simulation of minority carriers propagation through the substrate of smart power integrated circuits (ICs). A p-n junction and a diffusion resistor with capacitive components are prop ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2015

A Rapid DC Component Elimination Strategy for Alternative Current in Frequency Converter

Alfred Rufer, Aziza Benaboud

The principle achievement of this contribution is to develop and to describe a rapid DC component elimination strategy for AC currents in the frequency converter, simply by selecting transient period. To avoid DC component on the line current, it’s known t ...

2015