Publications related to Zenith Electronics

How to Make Elastomers Piezoelectric?

Piezoelectrics play a significant role in modern electronics and electric devices. Thermal or mechanical stress on such materials induces a change in polarization generating an electric response, which is the sole effect of why they are so interesting. How ...

Wiley2023

Modeling and analysis of miniaturized magnetorheological valve for fluidic actuation

Sofia Lydia Ntella

Fluidic actuation enables movement in a wide range of mechanical systems, from simple laboratory devices to more complex industrial machinery. Fluids are used to generate motion of mechanical pieces. The term "fluids" encompasses two types of technologies: ...

EPFL2023

Ultra-high voltage, low power and energy recovering electronics for dielectric elastomer actuators

Raphaël Johannes Charles Mottet

Heart failure is a cardiovascular disease affecting between 1 and 2% of the population of developed countries alone - more than 10 million people - with this number bound to increase due to the ageing of the population. This condition starts to develop its ...

EPFL2022

Development of a Data Concentrator ASIC for the High Luminosity upgrade of the CMS Outer Tracker detector with tracking trigger

Simone Scarfì

With the increasing capabilities of the microelectronics technology, future particle detectors in high energy physics will be able to yield high-level features that are not only simple geometrical positions or energy measurement in the silicon sensors used ...

EPFL2021

Cryogenic CMOS Integrated Circuits for Scalable Readout of Silicon Quantum Computers

Andrea Ruffino

Quantum computing promises to revolutionize our lives, achieving unprecedented computational powers and unlocking new possibilities in drug discovery, chemical simulations and cryptography. The fundamental unit of computation of a quantum computer is the q ...

EPFL2021

CMOS-Based Readout and Control Electronics for Microgrippers

Marco Mattavelli, Diego Ruben Barrettino

This paper presents the design of an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) with all the necessary electronic blocks to read out and control Conjugate Surfaces Flexure Hinge (CSFH) microgrippers. The ASIC was fabricated using a high-voltage 0.35 mu ...

IEEE2020

Designing a DDS-Based SoC for High-Fidelity Multi-Qubit Control

Edoardo Charbon, Fabio Sebastiano

The design of a large-scale quantum computer requires co-optimization of both the quantum bits (qubits) and their control electronics. This work presents the first systematic design of such a controller to simultaneously and accurately manipulate the state ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

An autonomous untethered fast soft robotic insect driven by low-voltage dielectric elastomer actuators

Yves Perriard, Herbert Shea, Yoan René Cyrille Civet, Matthias Imboden, Xinru Ji, Vito Cacucciolo, Xiaobin Ji, Xinchang Liu

Insects are a constant source of inspiration for roboticists. Their compliant bodies allow them to squeeze through small openings and be highly resilient to impacts. However, making subgram autonomous soft robots untethered and capable of responding intell ...

2019

Impact of Classical Control Electronics on Qubit Fidelity

Edoardo Charbon, Fabio Sebastiano

Quantum processors rely on classical electronic controllers to manipulate and read out the state of quantum bits (qubits). As the performance of the quantum processor improves, nonidealities in the classical controller can become the performance bottleneck ...

American Physical Society (APS)2019

SPINE (SPIN Emulator) - A Quantum-Electronics Interface Simulator

Edoardo Charbon, Fabio Sebastiano

A quantum computer comprises a quantum processor and the associated control electronics used to manipulate the qubits at the core of a quantum processor. CMOS circuits placed close to the quantum bits and operating at cryogenic temperatures offer the best ...

IEEE2019

HiBSO Hip Exoskeleton: Toward a Wearable and Autonomous Design

Hannes Bleuler, Mohamed Bouri, Amalric Louis Ortlieb, Jonathan Olivier, Romain Pierre François Baud

HiBSO is an active orthosis designed to assist the hip flexion-extension of the elderly. A fully autonomous system with untethered power electronics and energy supply is now available. Going beyond the restricted walking conditions of a treadmill unveils m ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2018

2D transition metal dichalcogenides

Andras Kis, Oleg Yazyev, Dmitry Ovchinnikov, Sajedeh Manzeli, Diego José Pasquier

Graphene is very popular because of its many fascinating properties, but its lack of an electronic bandgap has stimulated the search for 2D materials with semiconducting character. Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), which are semiconductors of the t ...

Nature Publishing Group2017

Development of scalable electronics for the TORCH time-of-flight detector

Christoph Frei

The TORCH detector is proposed for the low-momentum particle identification upgrade of the LHCb experiment. It combines Time-Of-Flight and Cherenkov techniques to achieve charged particle separation up to 10 GeV/c. This requires a time resolution of 70 ps ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2015

Development of precision Time-Of-Flight electronics for LHCb TORCH

Christoph Frei

The TORCH detector is proposed for the low-momentum particle identification upgrade of the LHCb experiment. It combines Time-Of-Flight and Cherenkov techniques to achieve positive pi/K/p separation up to 10 GeV/c. This requires a timing resolution of 70 ps ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2014

Analytical Compact Model in Verilog-A for Electrostatically Actuated Ohmic Switches

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Montserrat Fernandez-Bolanos Badia, Antonios Bazigos, Daniel Grogg, Yu Pu

Nowadays, electronics face a challenge regarding the power consumption of integrated circuits (ICs). There is a need for new devices that can provide improved switching capabilities. The downscaled electrostatically actuated ohmic switch, as a (re)emerging ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2014

High Bandwidth CMOS Magnetic Sensors Based on the Miniaturized Circular Vertical Hall Device

Mirjana Banjevic

Hall-effect devices make up by far the largest part of all magnetic sensors on the market today. The main reason is compatibility of Hall devices with modern semiconductor technology. In particular, integrated Hall sensor micro-systems fabricated in low-co ...

EPFL2011

Sensorless Position Control of Piezoelectric Ultrasonic Motors : a Mechatronic Design Approach

Markus Flückiger

This dissertation considers mechatronic systems driven by piezoelectric ultrasonic motors (PUM). The focus is set on optimal system design and sensorless position control. Mechatronic industry faces the challenge to deliver ever more efficient and reliable ...

EPFL2010

Analytical design and optimization of ultrasonic vibrational transducers for spinal surgery

John Murphy

Just about every other technical publication you pick up these days makes sweeping statements concerning the pressures on scientists, engineers, and industries as a whole to get to market in less time, with an improved, less expensive product. I am reminde ...

EPFL2007

True 2D CMOS integrated Hall sensor

Radivoje Popovic, Pavel Kejik

We have designed and realized a new integrated Hall structure that converts the magnetic field vector in the chip plane, into an ac signal, whose amplitude and phase correspond to the magnitude and direction of the field, respectively. It is the first Hall ...

2007