Publications by Andres Felipe Vasquez Quintero

Nonlinear piezoelectric vibration energy harvester with frequency-tuned impacting resonators for improving broadband performance at low frequencies

Nico de Rooij, Robert Andrew Lockhart, Danick Briand, Andres Felipe Vasquez Quintero

The paper reports on a nonlinear frequency up-converting vibration energy harvester with enhanced broadband performance below 50 Hz, which is attained by leveraging vibro-impact interaction between two high-frequency piezoelectric generators and two low-fr ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2019

Smart RFID Label with a Printed Multisensor Platform for Environmental Monitoring

Nico de Rooij, Francisco Molina Lopez, Danick Briand, Andres Felipe Vasquez Quintero

2016

Low temperature integration methods using conductive adhesives and dry film photoresist for flexible electronics

Andres Felipe Vasquez Quintero

This thesis provides reliable methods and building blocks in order to realize smart SiF by combining Si- with foil-based components on flexible substrates. Building blocks such as 2-D and 3-D electrical interconnections, hybrid integration techniques and e ...

EPFL2015

Development of a New Generation of Ammonia Sensors on Printed Polymeric Hotplates

Nico de Rooij, Francisco Molina Lopez, Danick Briand, Andres Felipe Vasquez Quintero, El Hadji Malick Camara

Conducting polyaniline-based chemiresistors on printed polymeric micro-hotplates were developed, showing sensitive and selective detection of ammonia vapor in air. The devices consist of a fully inkjet-printed silver heater and interdigitated electrodes on ...

American Chemical Society2014

Printing And Encapsulation Of Electrical Conductors On Polylactic Acid (Pla) For Sensing Applications

Nico de Rooij, Danick Briand, Andres Felipe Vasquez Quintero, Giorgio Mattana, Alexis Pierre Henri Marette, Nathalie Frolet

This paper presents the printing of resistive and interdigitated (IDE) capacitive devices for temperature and humidity sensing applications, respectively, on biodegradable polylactic acid (PLA) substrates. Inkjet and gravure printing were evaluated to tran ...

IEEE2014

A robust platform for textile integrated gas sensors

Nico de Rooij, Jérôme Courbat, Francisco Molina Lopez, Danick Briand, Caglar Ataman, Andres Felipe Vasquez Quintero, Giorgio Mattana

Fabrication, textile integration and post-weaving characterization of a robust platform for monolithically integrated, low-power gas and temperature sensing are presented. The platform, consisting of an interdigitated planar capacitor for gas sensing and a ...

Elsevier2013

Flexible and Robust Multilayer Micro-Vibrational Harvesters for High Acceleration Environments

Nico de Rooij, Robert Andrew Lockhart, Danick Briand, Pattanaphong Janphuang, Andres Felipe Vasquez Quintero

This paper presents the fabrication and characterization of multilayer PVDF resonant micro-vibrational energy harvesters designed to withstand environments in which high levels of acceleration are present. The multilayer cantilevers are fabricated by combi ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2013

Multiphysics finite element model of a frequency-amplifying piezoelectric energy harvester with impact coupling for low-frequency vibrations

Nico de Rooij, Robert Andrew Lockhart, Danick Briand, Pattanaphong Janphuang, Andres Felipe Vasquez Quintero

This paper presents experimentally-verified multiphysics finite element model of a wideband vibration energy harvester with impact coupling, which operates on the principle of frequency up-conversion: under low-frequency harmonic base excitation a cantilev ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2013

Printed sensors on smart RFID labels for logistics

Nico de Rooij, Francisco Molina Lopez, Danick Briand, Andres Felipe Vasquez Quintero, Giorgio Mattana

This communication presents an overview on our activities on the development of printed sensors on flexible polymeric foil for RFID. We are envisioning the direct printing of sensors on different types of products such as smart labels and RFID tags. This t ...

Ieee2012