Publications related to Computationally Efficient Synchrophasor Estimation: Delayed In-Quadrature Interpolated DFT

High speed, complex wavefront shaping using the digital micro-mirror device

Digital micro-mirror devices (DMDs) have been deployed in many optical applications. As compared to spatial light modulators (SLMs), they are characterized by their much faster refresh rates (full-frame refresh rates up to 32 kHz for binary patterns) compa ...

Nature Portfolio2021

A 32 Gb/s PAM-16 TX and ADC-Based RX AFE with 2-tap embedded analog FFE in 28 nm FDSOI

Yusuf Leblebici, Ayça Akkaya, Firat Çelik

This paper presents a 32 Gb/s 16-level pulse amplitude modulation (PAM-16) source-series-terminated transmitter (TX) and a receiver (RX) analog front-end (AFE) in 28 nm FDSOI. The 8-way time-interleaved successive-approximation register (SAR) analog-to-dig ...

2021

High-Speed ADC Design and Optimization for Wireline Links

Ayça Akkaya

The ever-growing global internet traffic has increased demand for higher speed data transmission. As the bandwidth requirements of wireline links increase, extensive digital equalization techniques are required to compensate for the high-frequency channel ...

EPFL2021

Effects of impurities and local behavior characterization using active thermography on solid oxide electrolysis cells

Guillaume Jeanmonod

Ambitious policies are needed from every country to drastically curtail the anthropogenic emission of greenhouse gases responsible for the on-going modification of the earth's climate. A quick transition towards a society fully based on renewable materials ...

EPFL2021

Demonstration of Tunable Optical Aggregation of QPSK to 16-QAM Over Optically Generated Nyquist Pulse Trains Using Nonlinear Wave Mixing and a Kerr Frequency Comb

Tobias Kippenberg, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Fatemeh Alishahi, Arne Kordts, Maxim Karpov, Ahmad Fallahpour, Cong Liu

A tunable and reconfigurable optical aggregation system is experimentally demonstrated. Optical Nyquist pulses are generated on multiple channels using a microresonator-based Kerr optical frequency comb and insertion of uniform lines by an intensity modula ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2020

Equal Loss Distribution in Duty-Cycle Controlled H-Bridge LLC Resonant Converters

Drazen Dujic, Jakub Kucka

The duty-cycle control is a popular option for current limiting in LLC resonant converters. Such current limiting is required to protect the converter either during the start-up or during an overload. Although this method proved to be effective, the switch ...

2021

97.4%-Efficient All-GaN Dual-Active-Bridge Converter with High Step-up High-Frequency Matrix Transformer

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Armin Jafari, Palliyage Srilak Nirmana Perera, Mohammad Samizadeh Nikooytabalvandani

In this work, we demonstrate a state-of-the-art high step-up/down dual-active-bridge (DAB) converter designed with GaN transistors, to achieve a high efficiency and large power-density. A quasi-planar matrix transformer with high step-up/down ratio is demo ...

2020

Beyond Phasors: Modeling of Power System Signals Using the Hilbert Transform

Mario Paolone, Asja Derviskadic, Guglielmo Frigo

Modern power systems are at risk of largely reducing the inertia of generation assets and prone to experience extreme dynamics. The consequence is that, during electromechanical transients triggered by large contingencies, transmission of electrical power ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2019

Spectral Purification of Microwave Signals with Disciplined Dissipative Kerr Solitons

Tobias Kippenberg, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Hairun Guo, Wenle Weng

Continuous-wave-driven Kerr nonlinear microresonators give rise to self-organization in terms of dissipative Kerr solitons, which constitute optical frequency combs that can be used to generate low-noise microwave signals. Here, by applying either amplitud ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2019

Enhanced DAB for Efficiency Preservation using Adjustable-Tap High-Frequency Transformer

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Armin Jafari, Mohammad Samizadeh Nikooytabalvandani, Furkan Karakaya

Efficient DC-DC power-conversion with wide-span voltage-regulation is crucial to a sustainable and robust power electronics system. Dual-active-bridge (DAB) offers straight-forward regulation and its transformer enables voltage step-up/down required for ma ...

2019

Improved off‐resonance phase behavior using a phase‐inverted adiabatic half‐passage pulse for 13 C MRS in humans at 7 T

Eulalia Serés Roig, Rolf Gruetter, Lijing Xin, Daniel Gallichan

In vivo (13) C MRS at high field benefits from an improved SNR and spectral resolution especially when using surface coils in combination with adiabatic pulses, such as the adiabatic half-passage (AHP) pulse for (13) C excitation. However, the excitation p ...

2019

Multi-Tone Signaling and ADC-Based Digital Receiver for High-Speed Wireline Serial Links

Gain Kim

The exponential growth of Internet traffic and related demands for higher communication speed pushes processor-to-processor and processor-to-memory interconnects to provide further higher data-rate. Often time, processor-to-memory interconnectsâ speed is ...

EPFL2018

Ultra Low Power FM-UWB Transceiver for High-Density Wireless Sensor Networks

Vladimir Kopta

The WiseSkin project aims to provide a non-invasive solution for restoration of a natural sense of touch to persons using prosthetic limbs. By embedding sensor nodes into the silicone coating of the prosthesis, which acts as a sensory skin, WiseSkin target ...

EPFL2018

Reduced Leakage Synchrophasor Estimation: Hilbert Transform Plus Interpolated DFT

Mario Paolone, Asja Derviskadic, Guglielmo Frigo

Synchrophasor estimation is typically performed by means of spectral analysis based on the discrete Fourier transform (DFT). Traditional DFT approaches, though, suffer from several uncertainty contributions due to the stationarity assumption, spectral leak ...

2018

Iterative-Interpolated DFT for Synchrophasor Estimation: A Single Algorithm for P- and M-Class Compliant PMUs

Mario Paolone, Paolo Romano, Asja Derviskadic

We present a single synchrophasor estimation (SE) algorithm that is simultaneously compliant with both P and M phasor measurement unit (PMU) performance classes. The method, called iterative-interpolated discrete Fourier transform (i-IpDFT), iteratively es ...

2018

Fano-resonance-assisted metasurface for color routing

Olivier Martin, Chen Yan, Kuang-Yu Yang

Controlling the phase of an electromagnetic field using plasmonic nanostructures provides a versatile way to manipulate light at the nanoscale. Broadband phase modulation has been demonstrated using inhomogeneous metasurfaces with different geometries; how ...

2017

A photonic circuit for complementary frequency shifting, in-phase quadrature/single sideband modulation and frequency multiplication: analysis and integration feasibility

Jianqi Hu

A novel photonic integrated circuit architecture for implementing orthogonal frequency division multiplexing by means of photonic generation of phase-correlated sub-carriers is proposed. The circuit can also be used for implementing complex modulation, fre ...

Taylor & Francis Ltd2017

Iterative-interpolated DFT for Synchrophasor Estimation in M-class Compliant PMUs

Mario Paolone, Paolo Romano, Asja Derviskadic

The Interpolated Discrete Fourier Transform (IpDFT) represents the current state-of-the-art about DFT-based synchrophasor estimation (SE) algorithms for P-class Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs). However, the IpDFT is not robust against the interference prod ...

IEEE2017

Spatial fringe analysis techniques for multiple phase and phase derivative estimation

Rishikesh Dilip Kulkarni

Analysis of fringe patterns for the accurate estimation of phase and phase derivatives is of crucial importance in optical interferometry as these quantities provide important information on the physical parameters under study. A wide range of applications ...

EPFL2016

Vertex-Frequency Analysis on Graphs

Pierre Vandergheynst, David Shuman, Benjamin Ricaud

One of the key challenges in the area of signal processing on graphs is to design dictionaries and transform methods to identify and exploit structure in signals on weighted graphs. To do so, we need to account for the intrinsic geometric structure of the ...

Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science2016