Publications related to Electronic switch

Active Voltage Balancing with Seamless Integration into Dual Gate Driver for Series Connection of SiC MOSFETs

The versatility of half-bridge configuration of silicon carbide (SiC) metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) power module contributes to its widespread adoption, highlighting the popularity and significance of its corresponding dual gat ...

2024

3D diffractive optics for linear interconnects and nonlinear processing

Niyazi Ulas Dinç

The optical domain presents potential avenues for enhancing both computing and communication due to its inherent properties of bandwidth, parallelism, and energy efficiency. This research focuses on harnessing 3-Dimensional (3D) diffractive optics for nove ...

EPFL2024

3D Printed Acoustically Programmable Soft Microactuators

Mahmut Selman Sakar, Murat Kaynak, Amit Yedidia Dolev

The concept of creating all-mechanical soft microrobotic systems has great potential to address outstanding challenges in biomedical applications, and introduce more sustainable and multifunctional products. To this end, magnetic fields and light have been ...

2023

High frequency IGCT operation for DC transformer

Gabriele Ulissi

In spite of the dominance of ac technology for the vast majority of power transmission and distribution since the late 19th century, the past decades have seen an increase in use of dc electrical power. In particular, this has been the case both in high vo ...

EPFL2022

High Tuning Range Spiking 1R-1T VO2 Voltage-Controlled Oscillator for Integrated RF and Optical Sensing

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Teodor Rosca, Fatemeh Qaderi Rahaqi

In this work we propose and experimentally validate a relaxation spiking oscillator architecture with ultra-high tuning range (higher than 400%, from 5KHz to more than 25kHz when the control voltage is varied from 2.5 to 5V) that exploits the reversible me ...

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

Prediction of optically-triggered amplification in phototransistor with SPICE circuit simulators

Jean-Michel Sallese, Chiara Rossi

Modeling of optoelectronic devices involves long and complex numerical simulations, usually performed with TCAD tools. Numerical simulations provide accurate results for a single device but are not feasible when dealing with a full circuit comprising sever ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2020

Excitonic channels from bio-inspired templated supramolecular assembly of J-aggregate nanowirest

Frank Nüesch, Jakob Heier, Surendra Babu Anantharaman

Supramolecular assemblies with controlled morphology are of paramount importance for energy transport in organic semiconductors. Despite considerable freedom in molecular design, the preparation of dyes that form one dimensional J-aggregates is challenging ...

2019

Control of Resistive Switching in Mott Memories Based on TiN/AM4Q8/TiN MIM Devices

Giovanni De Micheli, Davide Sacchetto, Jury Sandrini, Pierre-Emmanuel Julien Marc Gaillardon

The family of AM4Q8 chalcogenide Mott insulators gained attention in recent years for its application opportunities. Here, we explore and validate the resistive switching mechanism of thin-film of GaV4S8 sandwich ...

Electrochemical Society2017

Synthesis of Cyanine Polyelectrolytes and Anions for Organic Electronic Devices

Lei Wang

Many practical applications among organic electronic devices have been demonstrated over the last decades. They are considered as promising alternatives to inorganic semiconductor technologies due to the potential of cost-effective fabrication, excellent p ...

EPFL2017

Investigation of the metal-insulator transition in VO2 for Electronic Switches with Sub-1mV/Decade Steep Subthreshold Slope

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Andreas Schueler, Josef Andreas Schuler, Clara-Fausta Moldovan, Wolfgang Amadeus Vitale, Antonio Paone

We report a thorough investigation of the electrically-induced metal-insulator transition in vanadium dioxide (VO2) for abrupt switching in 2-terminal devices (0.24 mV/dec at 25 °C, 0.38 mV/dec at 50 °C). We exploit the electrothermal actuation model based ...

IEEE2016

Ultrasensitive 1D field-effect phototransistors: CH3NH3PbI3 nanowire sensitized individual carbon nanotubes

László Forró, Massimo Spina, Endre Horvath, Richard Gaal, Bálint Náfrádi, Eric Joseph Bonvin

Field-effect phototransistors were fabricated based on individual carbon nanotubes (CNTs) sensitized by CH3NH3PbI3 nanowires (MAPbI(3)NWs). These devices represent light responsivities of R = 7.7 x 10(5) A W-1 under low-lighting conditions in the nW mm(-2) ...

2016

Self-biased reconfigurable graphene stacks for terahertz plasmonics

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Julien Perruisseau-Carrier, Arnaud Magrez, Clara-Fausta Moldovan, Santiago Capdevila Cascante, Laurent Syavoch Bernard

The gate-controllable complex conductivity of graphene offers unprecedented opportunities for reconfigurable plasmonics at terahertz and mid-infrared frequencies. However, the requirement of a gating electrode close to graphene and the single 'control knob ...

Nature Publishing Group2015

A comparative experimental investigation on responsivity and response speed of photo-diode and photo-BJT structures integrated in a low-cost standard CMOS process

Alexandre Schmid, Yusuf Leblebici, Nikola Katic

A variety of smart imaging and neuromorphic applications perform time-domain image acquisition in order to imitate biological systems and reduce the growing transmission bandwidth of the modern imaging devices. Because they operate in time-domain, they req ...

Elsevier2015

Partially gated lateral tunnel field effect transistor for optical applications

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Nilay Dagtekin

Silicon-based partially gated tunnel FETs are characterized under optical and electrical excitation. Most significant outcomes of the experiments are (1) unique characteristics, namely, light induced negative transconductance and optically tunable output r ...

Amer Inst Physics2014

Molybdenum Based Electrocatalysts for Hydrogen Evolution in Water

Heron Vrubel

The limited fossil fuel resources and the increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are the driving forces in the research of alternative ways of energy production and storage. The use of solar energy is expected to grow as our society claims ...

EPFL2013

Fail-safe Modular Control Platform for Power Electronic Applications in R&D Environments

Alfred Rufer, Philippe Barrade, Nicolas Cherix, Simon Delalay

This paper presents a modular control platform which is tailored for teaching and research applications. It aims at being entirely “student-proof” and features software-independent safety mechanisms, extensive signal conditioning and easy-to-use interfaces ...

2013

Photoemission-induced gating of topological insulators

Helmuth Berger

The recently discovered topological insulators exhibit topologically protected metallic surface states which are interesting from the fundamental point of view and could be useful for various applications if an appropriate electronic gating can be realized ...

2011

Investigation of a contacting scheme for self-assembled cleaved edge overgrown InAs nanowires and quantum dot arrays

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Emanuele Uccelli

A contacting scheme to measure the transport properties into self-assembled InAs Quantum Wires (QWRs) or Quantum Dots (QDs) is presented. The nanostructures are formed on the (110) cleaved edge of a AlAs/AlGaAs heterostructure substrate by means of the Cle ...

Wiley2009

Nouveaux mécanismes de commutation pour des structures dédiées aux convertisseurs de puissance de haute efficacité et interrupteurs du futur

Daniel Siemaszko

Nowadays, the scarcity of cheap energy sources requires a particular effort in optimizing the performance of all conversions. The electric power vector is particulary expected to grow in importance, in conjunction with the development of renewable energy s ...

EPFL2009