Publications related to Current clamp

New Developments in Amorphous Silicon Based Microchannel Plates

Christophe Ballif, Nicolas Würsch, Luca Massimiliano Antognini, Samira Alexandra Frey, Mohammad Beygi

Microchannel plates fabricated from hydrogenated amorphous silicon (AMCPs) are a promising alternative to conventional glass microchannel plates. Their main advantages lie in their flexible fabrication processes, allowing for adaptable channel shapes and t ...

2023

Amorphous Silicon Based Microchannel Plates for Time-of-Flight Positron Emission Tomography

Samira Alexandra Frey

Microchannel plates fabricated from hydrogenated amorphous silicon (AMCPs) are a promising alternative to conventional lead glass microchannel plates. Their main advantages lie in their cheaper and more flexible fabrication processes, allowing for adaptabl ...

EPFL2023

Estimation of Charge Transfer During Long Continuing Currents in Natural Downward Flashes Using Single‐Station E‐Field Measurements

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Wolfgang Schulz, Hannes Kohlmann

The amount of charge transferred to ground during long continuing currents in natural downward flashes can be obtained either through direct current measurements or using remote electromagnetic fields, if direct measurements are not feasible. In this study ...

2022

Säntis lightning research facility: a summary of the first ten years and future outlook

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein

The Säntis Tower was instrumented in May 2010 to measure currents of lightning discharges striking the structure. Since then, the system has been recurrently updated and expanded. Presently, data associated with lightning striking the tower are collected a ...

Springer2022

Hierarchical tensile structures with ultralow mechanical dissipation

Tobias Kippenberg, Sergey Fedorov, Alberto Beccari, Amirali Arabmoheghi, Nils Johan Engelsen

Structural hierarchy is found in myriad biological systems and has improved man-made structures ranging from the Eiffel tower to optical cavities. In mechanical resonators whose rigidity is provided by static tension, structural hierarchy can reduce the di ...

Nature Portfolio2022

ANTIGONE: A Programmable Energy-Efficient Current Digitizer for an ISFET Wearable Sweat Sensing System

Maher Kayal, Evgenia Voulgari, François Krummenacher

This article describes the design and the characterization of the ANTIGONE (ANalog To dIGital cONvErter) ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) built in AMS 0.35 m technology for low dc-current sensing. This energy-efficient ASIC was specifically d ...

2021

Modeling the electrical characteristics of InGaN/GaN LED structures based on experimentally-measured defect characteristics

Nicolas Grandjean, Jean-François Carlin, Camille Haller

Defects can significantly modify the electro-optical characteristics of InGaN light-emitting diodes (LEDs); however, modeling the impact of defects on the electrical characteristics of LEDs is not straightforward. In this paper, we present an extensive inv ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2021

Laser photo-detachment combined with Langmuir probe in magnetized electronegative plasma: how the probe size affects the plasma dynamic?

Ivo Furno, Riccardo Agnello

Laser photo-detachment combined with a Langmuir probe (LP) is used to diagnose negative ion properties in electronegative plasmas. The technique relies on the combined use of a laser pulse and an LP. The laser pulse converts negative ions into electron-ato ...

2021

Inflection Phenomenon in Cryogenic MOSFET Behavior

Christian Enz, Farzan Jazaeri, Arnout Lodewijk M Beckers

This brief reports the analytical modeling and measurements of the inflection in the MOSFET transfer characteristics at cryogenic temperatures. Inflection is the inward bending of the drain current versus gate voltage, which reduces the current in weak and ...

2020

IGCT Based Solid State Resonant Conversion

Dragan Stamenkovic

Driven by the environmental changes, penetration of renewables and the need for more flexible power grid, DC is reemerging as a basis for future power networks. Already established in the area of HVDC for very long distance transmission, more and more atte ...

EPFL2020

Smooth Power Direction Transition of a Bidirectional LLC Resonant Converter for DC Transformer Applications

Drazen Dujic, Jakub Kucka

The bidirectional LLC resonant converter operated at fixed switching frequency is a preferable candidate for a true dc transformer that does not actively control the power flow. This is due to its naturally stiff voltage ratio regardless of the imposed loa ...

2020

A programmable low-power ADC interface for an ISFET sweat sensor used in a wearable multi-sensing system

Maher Kayal, Evgenia Voulgari, François Krummenacher

An application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) named ANTIGONE (ANalog To dIGital cONvErter) was designed in AMS 0.35 mu m technology to interface with four Ion-sensitive field-effect transistor (ISFET) sensors and perform real-time monitoring of some bi ...

IEEE2019

Tower and Path-Dependent Voltage Effects on the Measurement of Grounding Impedance for Lightning Studies

Marcos Rubinstein, Antonio Sunjerga, Hamidreza Karami, Keyhan Sheshyekani

We present an analysis aimed at evaluating the effect of the presence of the tower on the measurement of the grounding impedance. The Numerical Electromagnetics Code NEC-4 is used for the full-wave modeling of the structure including the tower and its foot ...

2019

On-Chip High-Voltage Sensors Based on Trap-Assisted 2DEG Channel Control

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Armin Jafari

In this work, we present a new device concept for compact high-voltage sensing with high-impedance input port, consisting of an AlGaN/GaN high-electron-mobility channel controlled by trapped carriers generated by a metallic electrode. The high-voltage appl ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2019

Transient Electronics: Biodegradable Frequency‐Selective Magnesium Radio‐Frequency Microresonators for Transient Biomedical Implants (Adv. Funct. Mater. 39/2019)

Jürgen Brugger, Giovanni Boero, Matthieu Jean Michel Rüegg, Remo Blum

In article number 1903051, Matthieu Rüegg, Juergen Brugger, and co-workers design, fabricate, and characterize biodegradable magnesium microresonators using an innovative microfabrication process based on ion beam etching. Under a radio-frequency magnetic ...

2019

Active Near-Infrared Imaging for Spatio-Temporal Monitoring of a Solid Oxide Cell in Operation

Jan Van Herle, Stefan Diethelm, Guillaume Jeanmonod

The characterization of solid oxide cells (SOCs) relies mainly on direct-current (DC) and alternating-current (AC) methods that provide only average surface electro-chemical responses. As such, the spatial distribution is not well captured and the complexi ...

2019

A design methodology for charge-balanced stimulators based on anodic current variation monitoring

Alexandre Schmid, Reza Ranjandish

Charge balancing is a major safety concern in neural and functional electrical stimulation. This paper presents a novel and safe active charge balancing design methodology in which, after each cathodic and anodic stimulation pulse, the value of the remaini ...

2019

Characterization of a 9-Decade Femtoampere ASIC Front-End for Radiation Monitoring

Maher Kayal, Evgenia Voulgari, François Krummenacher, Daniel Perrin

An ultra-low current sensing digitizer circuit was designed for radiation monitoring for personnel and environmental safety at CERN. The Ultralow Picoammeter 2 (Utopia 2) ASIC includes some key functionalities like on-chip active leakage current compensati ...

2018

Investigation of RF Nb-Ti PF 1&6 Coils Conductor Performances in the SULTAN Test Facility

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Boris Stepanov

This paper summarizes the work on the manufacturing and testing of conductor samples for ITER poloidal field 1&6 coils. The work was carried out by the IO and multiple institutions in the EU, Switzerland and Russia. Five samples were manufactured and teste ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2017

Charge Neutralization and Direct Thrust Measurements from Bipolar Pairs of Ionic- Electrospray Thrusters

Herbert Shea, Daniel George Courtney

lectrospray (ES) thrusters are unique in their ability to emit both positive and negative beams, each contributing similarly to thrust. Spacecraft charging could be prevented without a dedicated neutralizer if currents of simultaneously emitted opposing po ...

2017