Publications related to Mobility analogy

Smart acoustic lining for UHBR technologies engine: from the design of an electroacoustic metasurface to experimental characterization under flow

The SALUTE project aims at evaluating performance of electroacoustic metasurface, employing a surface array of controlled electroacoustic actuators, for smart acoustic lining under grazing turbulent flow to be used in UHBR Technologies Engines. Theoretical ...

Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)2023

Information Theory in Transmembrane Transport

Solange Marie Flatt

The past decades have seen the advent of information theory in various fields, from quantum physics to cosmology. At an intermediary scale between atomic and cosmological scales are biological systems and in particular the cell, as a constitutive element o ...

EPFL2023

Robust tunable acoustic impedance control on electroacoustic resonators for aircraft noise reduction

Maxime Volery

Air traffic noise emissions are responsible for a significant part of the overall environmental noise, especially in the vicinity of airports. Exposure to environmental noise is known to negatively impact health and to be associated with cardiovascular dis ...

EPFL2023

Deep learning accelerated prediction of the permeability of fibrous microstructures

Véronique Michaud, Baris Çaglar, Guillaume Clément Broggi

Permeability of fibrous microstructures is a key material property for predicting the mold fill times and resin flow path during composite manufacturing. In this work, we report an efficient approach to predict the permeability of 3D microstructures from d ...

2022

Current Limiting in Overload Conditions of an LLC-Converter-Based DC Transformer

Drazen Dujic, Jakub Kucka

The dc transformers based on an LLC converter operated in open loop near resonant frequency have several crucial advantages compared to other topologies. These advantages are the stiff voltage ratio with a natural power flow, the dc grid isolation via medi ...

2021

Experimental assessment of an active (acoustic) liner prototype in an acoustic flow duct facility

Hervé Lissek, Maxime Volery, Gaël Matten

In this paper, experimental results of broadband noise reduction in an acoustic flow duct are presented. An active liner composed of an array of electroacoustic absorbers is used. The control law is based on the pressure-based, current driven digital archi ...

SPIE2021

Engineered acoustic mismatch for anchor loss control in contour mode resonators

Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Annalisa De Pastina, Andrea Lozzi

Improving the quality factor (Q) of electromechanical resonators is of paramount importance for different applications, ranging from RF filtering to sensing. In this paper, we present a modified fabrication process flow for contour mode resonators to simul ...

2019

Cylindrical Dielectric Elastomer Actuator for Cardiac Assist Device

Jonathan André Jean-Marie Chavanne

This work has been triggered because of the need for a new way to relieve the heart. Current solutions are based on invasive systems. The main problem of such assistance is infectious risks. State of the art to define an alternative has allowed highlightin ...

EPFL2019

Moving on: Is Existenzminimum Still Relevant?

Bruno Marchand

In the inter-war period, progressive architects confronted the building of mass housing with an analogy with rational and functional workplaces. At the 2nd CIAM (Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne), held in Frankfurt in 1929, this was tested aga ...

2019

Multi-degree-of-freedom low-frequency electroacoustic absorbers through coupled resonators

Hervé Lissek, Etienne Thierry Jean-Luc Rivet, Sami Driss Karkar

Electroacoustic absorbers represent an interesting solution for low-frequency sound absorption in rooms. These systems simply consist of closed-box electrodynamic loudspeakers, whose acoustic impedance at the diaphragm is judiciously adjusted by connecting ...

Elsevier2018

Self-Heating Aware Design of ICs in Deep Sub-Micron FDSOI and Bulk Technologies

Can Baltaci

Bulk CMOS technologies left the semiconductor market to the novel device geometries such as FDSOI and FinFET below 30 nm, mainly due to their insufficient electrical characteristics arising from different physical limitations. These innovative solutions en ...

EPFL2018

Micro-mechanics of 3D architectured metals synthesized by electrodeposition

Maxime Alain Baptiste Mieszala

Cellular metallic materials have emerged as a new promising class of materials due to their lightweight porous structures and advanced multi-functional properties. Originally limited to random metallic foams, modern lithography techniques have enabled the ...

EPFL2018

Broadband Low-Frequency Electroacoustic Absorbers Through Hybrid Sensor-/Shunt-Based Impedance Control

Hervé Lissek, Etienne Thierry Jean-Luc Rivet, Sami Driss Karkar

This paper proposes a hybrid impedance control architecture for an electroacoustic absorber, that combines an improved microphone-based feedforward control with a currentdriven electrodynamic loudspeaker system. Feedforward control architecture enables sta ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2017

Energy analysis of a DEAP based cylindrical actuator coupled with a radial negative stiffness spring

Yves Perriard, Yoan René Cyrille Civet, Jonathan André Jean-Marie Chavanne

The main problem to obtain considerable deformation with dielectric electro-active polymer based technology is the electrical breakdown. A simple solution consists in pre-stretching the elastomer before activating it which cancels the snap-through effect a ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2017

Design, modeling and experimental validation of a novel finned reciprocating compressor for Isothermal Compressed Air Energy Storage applications

Alfred Rufer, Mahbod Heidari

Considering the need for a reliable and environmentally friendly energy storage solution for addressing renewable energy intermittency issue and following the developments on Isothermal Compressed Air Energy Storage (I-CAES) systems, a new finned piston co ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2017

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

Effective SAW excitation on non-piezoelectric substrate using AlScN piezoelectric thin film BAW/SAW hybrid transducer

Paul Muralt, Mohammad Fazel Parsapour Kolour, Vladimir Pashchenko, Sylvain Ballandras

Acoustic delay lines based on Al0.85Sc0.15N thin film hybrid transducers were investigated by finite element modeling. It was found that an acoustic impedance matching between transducer and non-piezoelectric substrate material plays a crucial role to effi ...

Ieee2017

Inkjet 3D printing of UV and thermal cure silicone elastomers for dielectric elastomer actuators

Herbert Shea, Samuel Rosset, Samuel Schlatter, David James McCoul

Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) are an attractive form of electromechanical transducer, possessing high energy densities, an efficient design, mechanical compliance, high speed, and noiseless operation. They have been incorporated into a wide variety ...

Institute of Physics2017

Two-terminal transport measurements with cold atoms

Jean-Philippe Brantut

In recent years, the ability of cold atom experiments to explore condensed-matter-related questions has dramatically progressed. Transport experiments, in particular, have expanded to the point in which conductance and other transport coefficients can now ...

Institute of Physics2017

On the Optimisation of Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Acoustic Impedances of Low-Frequency Electroacoustic Absorbers for Room Modal Equalisation

Hervé Lissek, Etienne Thierry Jean-Luc Rivet, Sami Driss Karkar

Low-frequency electroacoustic absorbers have recently been developed as a solution for the modal equalisation. Firstly investigated in waveguides, the technique consists in matching the acoustic impedance at a closed-box loudspeaker diaphragm to the charac ...

2017