Publications related to Four-terminal sensing

Tunnel junction sensing of TATP explosive at the single-molecule level

Triacetone triperoxide (TATP) is a highly potent homemade explosive commonly used in terrorist attacks. Its detection poses a significant challenge due to its volatility, and the lack of portability of current sensing techniques. To address this issue, we ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2023

Preliminary Study of Pressure Self-Sensing Miniature Magnetorheological Valves

Yves Perriard, Yoan René Cyrille Civet, Christian Köchli, Sofia Lydia Ntella, Kenny Jeanmonod, Minh Trung Duöng

Magnetorheological (MR) valves have been included in many innovative engineering systems, such as dampers, clutches, or brakes, with different fields of application. Their role serves actuation purposes, while integrated displacement and velocity sensing i ...

IEEE2021

DEA Self-discharge Characterization for Low Duty Cycle Applications

Yves Perriard, Yoan René Cyrille Civet, Thomas Guillaume Martinez, Stefania Maria Aliki Konstantinidi, Raphaël Johannes Charles Mottet

This publication presents the characterization of self discharging Dielectric Elastomer Actuators (DEAs) in order to give place to low duty cycle applications, during which a DEA must remain actuated for long periods of time. DEAs typically present a low c ...

IEEE2021

Nanoplasma-enabled picosecond switches for ultrafast electronics

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Armin Jafari, Palliyage Srilak Nirmana Perera, Minghua Zhu, Giovanni Santoruvo, Mohammad Samizadeh Nikooytabalvandani

The broad applications of ultrawide-band signals and terahertz waves in quantum measurements, imaging and sensing techniques, advanced biological treatments, and very-high-data-rate communications have drawn extensive attention to ultrafast electronics. In ...

2020

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

Improving a fish intestinal barrier model by combining two rainbow trout cell lines: epithelial RTgutGC and fibroblastic RTgutF

Philippe Renaud, Kristin Schirmer, Carolin Drieschner, Hannah Inka Schug

An in vitro model of the fish intestine is of interest for research and application in diverse fields such as fish physiology, aquaculture and chemical risk assessment. The recently developed epithelial barrier model of the fish intestine relies on the RTg ...

Springer2019

Conformal Deposition of Conductive Single-Crystalline Cobalt Silicide Layer on Si Wafer via a Molecular Approach

Giovanni De Micheli, Olha Sereda, Pierre-Emmanuel Julien Marc Gaillardon, Tsung-Han Lin, David Baudouin

The realization of metal-semiconductor contacts plays a significant role in ultrascaled integrated circuits. Here, we establish a low-temperature molecular approach for the conformal deposition of a 20-nm Co-rich layer on Si (100) wafers by reaction in sol ...

2018

Effects of a neuromuscular controller on a powered ankle exoskeleton during human walking

Auke Ijspeert, Arash Arami, Florin Dzeladini, Etienne Burdet, Amy Roning Wu, Daniel Renjewski

Wearable devices to assist abnormal gaits require controllers that interact with the user in an intuitive and unobtrusive manner. To design such a controller, we investigated a bio-inspired walking controller for orthoses and prostheses. We present (i) a S ...

Ieee2016

Contact resistance effects in organic n-channel thin-film transistors

Reinhold Rödel

Organic thin-film transistors (TFTs) have undergone tremendous progress in the past few years. Their great potential in terms of mechanical flexibility, light weight, low-cost and large-area fabrication makes them promising candidates for novel electronic ...

EPFL2016

End-Point Impedance Measurements Across Dominant and Nondominant Hands and Robotic Assistance with Directional Damping

Aude Billard, Mustafa Suphi Erden

The goal of this paper is to perform end-point impedance measurements across dominant and nondominant hands while doing airbrush painting and to use the results for developing a robotic assistance scheme. We study airbrush painting because it resembles in ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2015

End-point Impedance Measurements at Human Hand during Interactive Manual Welding with Robot

Aude Billard, Mustafa Suphi Erden

This paper presents a study of end-point impedance measurement at human hand, with professional and novice manual welders when they are performing Tungsten Inert Gas (TIG) welding interactively with the KUKA Light Weight Robot Arm (LWR). The welding torch ...

2014

UV-cured Epoxy for Adhesion in Steel Reinforced Thermoplastic Composites

Basile Golaz

This work addresses the development of composite materials that contain metallic load-bearing cords with the aim of combining outstanding mechanical performance with added functionality, including electrical conductivity, data transmission, and temperature ...

EPFL2012

Integrated SMD pressure/flow/temperature multisensor for compressed air in LTCC technology: Thermal flow and temperature sensing

Peter Ryser, Thomas Maeder, Yannick Sébastien Fournier, Nicolas Craquelin, Jean-Bastien Coma

In this work, we present and analyse the flow-sensing part of a recently-developed multisensor in LTCC (low- temperature co-fired ceramic) technology; this device integrates flow / pressure / temperature sensing and is designed for diagnostics monitoring o ...

Elsevier2011

P-Doping Mechanisms in Catalyst-Free Gallium Arsenide Nanowires

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Emanuele Uccelli, Carlo Colombo, Bernt Ketterer, Tonko Garma, Marco Nicotra

Doped catalyst-free GaAs nanowires have been grown by molecular beam epitaxy with the gallium-assisted method. The spatial dependence of the dopant concentration and resistivity have been measured by Raman spectroscopy and four point electrical measurement ...

American Chemical Society2010

Preparation and Characterization of Silver Substrates Coated with Antimony-Doped SnO2 Thin Films for Surface Plasmon Resonance Studies

Rosendo Sanjines

This paper reports on the preparation of silver/antimony-doped tin oxide (Ag/SnO2:Sb) hybrid interfaces using magnetron sputtering and their characterization. The influence of the Sri target composition (doping with 2 or 5% Sb) on the electrochemical and e ...

2009

A Current Sensing Completion Detection Method for Asynchronous Pipelines Operating In the Sub-threshold Regime

Yusuf Leblebici, Omer Can Akgun

Digital circuits operating in the sub-threshold regime are able to perform minimum energy operation at a given delay. In the sub-threshold regime the circuit delay, and hence, the leakage energy consumption depend on the supply voltage exponentially. By re ...

2009

Sound pressure estimation at an electroacoustic transducer's voicing face by way of all-electrical sensing

Hervé Lissek, Florian Sandoz

When it comes to designing active control disposals, sound pressure sensing is usually required. In the framework of active control of acoustic impedance, this work aims at conceiving a digital estimator that processes voltage and current measurement to co ...

2008

Cell culture imaging using microimpedance tomography

Philippe Renaud, Olof Pontus Linderholm

We present a novel, inexpensive, and fast microimpedance tomography system for two-dimensional imaging of cell and tissue cultures. The system is based on four-electrode measurements using 16 planar microelectrodes (5 mum x 4 mm) integrated into a culture ...

2008

Semiconductor device for measuring ultra small electrical currents and small voltages

Radivoje Popovic, Marc Lany

A semiconductor device for measuring ultra low currents down to the level of single electrons or low voltages comprises a first and a second voltage supply terminal (1, 2), an input terminal (3) for receiving an electrical current or being supplied with a ...

2008

Capacitorless 1T DRAM sensing scheme with automatic reference generation

Maher Kayal, Michel Declercq, Marc Pastre, Serguei Okhonin, Louis Harik

To perform a current sensing in capacitorless 1-transistor (IT) DRAMs on SOI, we have developed a sensing scheme with automatic reference generation. The reference current is generated by an adjustable current source. The electrical calibration of the refe ...

2006