Publications related to Intermodulation

Fast online diagnosis for solid oxide fuel cells: Optimisation of total harmonic distortion tool for real-system application and reactants starvation identification

Jan Van Herle, Hamza Moussaoui, Gerald Hammerschmid

This study investigates the potential application of total harmonic distortion (THD), as a fast online monitoring tool, to identify the early signs of failure modes in solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC). Indeed, the timely detection and identification of faults ...

ELSEVIER2023

Adapting Virtual Embodiment through Reinforcement Learning

Olaf Blanke, Ronan Boulic, Bruno Herbelin, Thibault Serge Mario Porssut, Yawen Hou

In Virtual Reality, having a virtual body opens a wide range of possibilities as the participant's avatar can appear to be quite different from oneself for the sake of the targeted application (e.g. for perspective-taking). In addition, the system can part ...

2021

Energy-Efficient Design Techniques for High-Speed Wireline Serial Links

Firat Çelik

The exponential growth in computing power and multimedia services has caused a tremendous increase in data traffic in recent years. This increase in data traffic brings a strong demand for data bandwidth of electrical input/output (I/O) links and pushes th ...

EPFL2021

Monolithic piezoelectric control of soliton microcombs

Tobias Kippenberg, Rui Ning Wang, Junqiu Liu, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Wenle Weng, Arslan Sajid Raja, Jijun He, Miles Henry Anderson, Tianyi Liu

High-speed actuation of laser frequency(1)is critical in applications using lasers and frequency combs(2,3), and is a prerequisite for phase locking, frequency stabilization and stability transfer among optical carriers. For example, high-bandwidth feedbac ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2020

Three-dimensional tomography of red blood cells using deep learning

Demetri Psaltis, Joowon Lim, Ahmed Ayoub

We accurately reconstruct three-dimensional (3-D) refractive index (RI) distributions from highly ill-posed two-dimensional (2-D) measurements using a deep neural network (DNN). Strong distortions are introduced on reconstructions obtained by the Wolf tran ...

2020

Optimized Quantization in Distributed Graph Signal Filtering

Pascal Frossard, Isabela Cunha Maia Nobre

Distributed graph signal processing algorithms require the network nodes to communicate by exchanging messages in order to achieve a common objective. These messages have a finite precision in realistic networks, which may necessitate to implement message ...

2019

TIA Linearity Analysis for Current Mode Receivers

Catherine Dehollain

Current-mode signal processing offers superior linearity and flexibility in front-end implementation. The linearity of a low-input-impedance Trans-Impedance Amplifier (TIA), which is used as a buffer stage that follows a passive mixer, is important in dete ...

IEEE2018

Dynamic pressure probe response tests for robust measurements in periodic flows close to probe resonating frequency

Jürg Alexander Schiffmann, Fatma Ceyhun Sahin

A single-hole probe was designed to measure steady and periodic flows with high fluctuation amplitudes and with minimal flow intrusion. Because of its high aspect ratio, estimations showed that the probe resonates at a frequency two orders of magnitude low ...

Institute of Physics2018

A Row-Column Accessed Dynamic Element Matching DAC Architecture for SAR ADCs

Mustafa Kilic, Selman Ergünay, Yusuf Leblebici

Capacitor mismatch in high resolution Successive Approximation Register (SAR) Analog to Digital Converters (ADCs) causes non-linearity effects that reduce the Spurious-Free Dynamic Range (SFDR). This paper presents a novel dynamic element matching (DEM) te ...

IEEE2018

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

Modelling Hysteresis of Soft Core Materials using Permeance-Capacitance Analogy for Transient Circuit Simulations

Drazen Dujic, Min Luo, Jost Allmeling

Magnetic components using soft core materials are widely used in power electronic converters. The hysteresis effect of the material leads to power loss and harmonic distortion. If this effect can be modelled in system-level time-domain simulation, the perf ...

Ieee2017

Enhanced Compressed Look-up-Table Based Real-Time Rectification Hardware

Alexandre Schmid, Yusuf Leblebici, Abdulkadir Akin, Halima Najibi, Luis Manuel Gaemperle

Real-time disparity estimation requires real-time rectification which involves solving the models of lens distortions, image translations and rotations. Low complexity look-up-table based rectification algorithms usually require an external memory to store ...

Springer-Verlag Berlin2015

CPT Cesium-Cell Atomic Clock Operation With a 12-mW Frequency Synthesizer ASIC

Pierre-André Farine, Steve Tanner, Yazhou Zhao

In this paper, we present the design, fabrication, and electrical characterization of a low-power microwave source for interrogation of cesium atomic hyperfine transition frequency using the coherent population trapping (CPT) technique. The 4.6-GHz frequen ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2015

Fractionally Spaced Complex Sub-Nyquist Sampling for Multi-Gigabit 60 GHz Wireless Communication

Andreas Peter Burg, Nicholas Alexander Preyss

A novel analog front-end architecture based on complex sub-Nyquist sampling for the intermediate frequency (IF) stage of a mmWave receiver is proposed. With this front-end, the use of a wideband hybrid coupler and two half-rate analog-to-digital converters ...

IEEE2015

Optical process and optical device, allowing to avoid unwanted nonlinear effects in an optical fiber

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez

The invention concerns a process comprising the following steps: injecting, in an optical fiber, N time limited replica optical signals at distinct frequencies, each replica signal being temporally shifted relative to the other replica signals; then propag ...

2015

Successive Refinement of Gaussian Projections

Michael Christoph Gastpar, Guillaume Jean Op 't Veld

Successive refinement is a technique to encode a source iteratively, improving the distortion at each step. If the code rates of all steps combined can be as efficient as coding only for the final distortion in one go, then the source is said to be success ...

2014

Rotation Invariant Subcarrier Mapping over DVB-T2 Reserved Tones

Stefano Rosati

This paper presents a new approach, named Rotation Invariant Subcarrier Mapping (RISM), to Peak-to-Average-Power-Ratio (PAPR) reduction in OFDM systems. This technique enables data transmission over those subcarrier which are dedicated to the PAPR reductio ...

Ieee2013

Sparse Reverberant Audio Source Separation via Reweighted Analysis

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Pierre Vandergheynst, Yves Wiaux, Rafael Eduardo Carrillo Rangel

We propose a novel algorithm for source signals estimation from an underdetermined convolutive mixture assuming known mixing filters. Most of the state-of-the-art methods are dealing with anechoic or short reverberant mixture, assuming a synthesis sparse p ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2013

On-Chip Digital Background Calibration of Pipelined Analog-to-Digital Converters using Digital Assistance to support Nonlinear Residue Amplification

Thomas Liechti

This thesis describes a novel digital background calibration scheme for pipelined ADCs with nonlinear interstage gain. Errors caused by the nonlinear gains are corrected in real-time by adaptively post-processing the digital stage outputs. The goal of this ...

EPFL2012

Coded SC-FDMA for broadband satellite return links

Stefano Rosati

In this paper we deal with Single Carrier Frequency Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA) as uplink air interface of broadband satellite networks. Interestingly, SC-FDMA enables a significant increase of the spectral efficiency with respect to the state-of-th ...

Ieee Computer Soc2012