Publications related to Network synthesis

Solid-phase peptide synthesis in 384-well plates

Christian Heinis, Anne Sofie Luise Zarda, Alexander Lund Nielsen, Sevan Mleh Habeshian, Gontran Sangouard, Mischa Schüttel, Edward Jeffrey Will

Newer solid-phase peptide synthesis and release strategies enable the production of short peptides with high purity, allowing direct screening for desired bioactivity without prior chromatographic purification. However, the maximum number of peptides that ...

2024

Achieving Optimal Performance With Data-Driven Frequency-Based Control Synthesis Methods

Alireza Karimi, Philippe Louis Schuchert

Frequency Response Function (FRF)-based control synthesis methods for Linear Time-Invariant (LTI) systems have been widely used in control theory and industry. Recently, there has been renewed interest in these methods, employing numerical optimization too ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2023

Logic Synthesis From Incomplete Specifications Using Disjoint Support Decomposition

Giovanni De Micheli, Andrea Costamagna

Approximate logic synthesis is an emerging field that tolerates errors in the synthesized logic circuits for better optimization quality. Indeed, in many computing problems, the requirement of preserving the exact functionality either results in unnecessar ...

IEEE2022

Medium Voltage Impedance and Admittance Measurement and System Identification Techniques

Marko Petkovic

The recent trend of an increasing share of renewable energy sources in modern power systems, as well as the integration of power electronics equipment, is shaping the requirements for stable grid infrastructure. These requirements mainly come from the stab ...

EPFL2021

Accelerated Discovery of Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) For Energy Related Applications

Arunraj Chidambaram

Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) are an emerging class of materials that consist of metal ions which are linked with organic ligands via coordination bonds to form extended networks. MOF structures consists predominantly of open voids which makes them among ...

EPFL2020

Fully Soft-Switched High Step-Up Nonisolated Three-Port DC-DC Converter Using GaN HEMTs

Marco Mattavelli, Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Georgios Kampitsis, Rasoul Faraji

In this article, a soft-switched nonisolated high step-up multi-input dc-dc converter is proposed. The proposed converter has overcome the hard switching problem of the conventional boost three port converter (boost-TPC) by providing zero-voltage-switching ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

Approximate Kron Reduction Methods for Electrical Networks With Applications to Plug-and-Play Control of AC Islanded Microgrids

Giancarlo Ferrari Trecate, Michele Tucci, Alessandro Floriduz

Kron reduction (KR) is a methodology for analyzing an electrical network by replacing it with a simpler circuit having less nodes but the same terminal behavior of voltages and currents at target vertices. Existing approaches to instantaneous KR, however, ...

2019

General Sensorless Method with Parameter Identification and Double Kalman Filter Applied to a Bistable Fast Linear Switched Reluctance Actuator for Textile Machine

Yves Perriard, Douglas Martins Araujo, Faguy Tamwo Simo

This paper provides a general sensorless method to control the position of a linear actuator. After a review of the solutions used so far, this new method is applied to identify keys passing through a linear actuator used in an industrial textile machine. ...

INST ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS JAPAN2019

SAT Based Exact Synthesis using DAG Topology Families

Giovanni De Micheli, Mathias Soeken, Winston Jason Haaswijk

SAT based exact synthesis is a powerful technique, with applications in logic optimization, technology mapping, and synthesis for emerging technologies. However, its runtime behavior can be unpredictable and slow. In this paper, we propose to add a new typ ...

IEEE2018

Interfacing Qubits via Cryo-CMOS Front Ends

Edoardo Charbon, Andrea Ruffino, Yatao Peng

This work describes a basic interface between solid-state quantum bits (qubits) and classical environments. We describe a multiplexer, a circulator, and a low noise amplifier, designed for cryogenic temperature operation in a 40 nm CMOS technology node. Th ...

IEEE2018

Electronics Emulation for Real-Time Fault Location in Power Systems

François Pierre Gaugaz

This research presents a high-speed hardware platform dedicated to emulate electrical power networks for the fault location. The solution implements an algorithm based on the Electromagnetic Time-Reversal (EMTR) principle, which allows locating faults in v ...

EPFL2017

Iron oxide nanoparticles for diagnosis and therapy of lymph node metastases

Débora Bonvin

This thesis presents the synthesis, coating and characterization of iron oxide nanoparticles (IONPs) with properties especially designed for the ultimate simultaneous MRI detection and hyperthermia treatment of lymph node metastases, a combination called t ...

EPFL2017

A Fast Symbolic Transformation Based Algorithm for Reversible Logic Synthesis

Mathias Soeken

We present a more concise formulation of the transformation based synthesis approach for reversible logic synthesis, which is one of the most prominent explicit ancilla-free synthesis approaches. Based on this formulation we devise a symbolic variant of th ...

Springer Int Publishing Ag2016

Approximation-aware Rewriting of AIGs for Error Tolerant Applications

Mathias Soeken, Arun Chandrasekharan

Approximation circuits offer superior performance (speed and area) compared to traditional circuits at the cost of computational accuracy. The accuracy of the results in approximation circuits is evaluated based on several error metrics such as worst-case ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2016

A rational synthesis of hierarchically porous, N-doped carbon from Mg-based MOFs: understanding the link between nitrogen content and oxygen reduction electrocatalysis

Pierre Mettraux, Ning Yan

Controlled mixtures of novel Mg-based metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) were prepared, with H+ or K+ as counterions. A linear relation was found between synthesis pH and K/H ratio in the resultant mixture, establishing the tunability of the synthesis. Upon p ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2016

Microfabricated planar coils with high turns density: design and manufacturing

Yves Perriard, Yoan René Cyrille Civet, Jasha Poliakine

This work addresses the design and the fabrication of small scale square planar coils with high density of turns and self inductances up to 170 µH. First, the modified Wheelers formula is used to determine the optimal number of turns in order to achieve th ...

2016

Complex image method for RF antenna-plasma inductive coupling calculation in planar geometry. Part II: measurements on a resonant network

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

Measurements and analysis of a radio-frequency planar antenna are presented for applications in inductively-coupled plasma processing. The network of inductive and capacitive elements exhibits high currents under resonance which are efficient for plasma ge ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2015

A Method for the Assessment of the Optimal Parameter of Discrete-Time Switch Model

Mario Paolone, Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Reza Razzaghi, Chrysanthi Foti

This paper proposes a novel method for the optimal parameter selection of the discrete-time switch model used in circuit solvers that adopt the fixed admittance matrix nodal method (FAMNM) approach. As known, FAMNM-based circuit solvers allow to reach effi ...

Elsevier2014

Capacity Design of Coupled RC Walls

Katrin Beyer

Capacity design is an important tool that enables controlled ductile response of structures when subjected to earthquakes. The need for specific capacity design requirements for walls coupled by deep coupling beams, however, is often overlooked and it is a ...

2014

Graphene-Based Plasmonic Tunable Low-Pass Filters in the Terahertz Band

Julien Perruisseau-Carrier, Juan Sebastian Gomez Diaz

We propose the concept, synthesis, analysis, and design of graphene-based plasmonic tunable low-pass filters operating in the terahertz band. The proposed structure is composed of a graphene strip transferred onto a dielectric and a set of polysilicon dc g ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2014