Publications related to Synthesis of moving and beating moiré shapes

Succinct ordering and aggregation constraints in algebraic array theories

We discuss two extensions to a recently introduced theory of arrays, which are based on considerations coming from the model theory of power structures. First, we discuss how the ordering relation on the index set can be expressed succinctly by referring t ...

Elsevier Science Inc2024

Light-Driven Thermo-Optical Effects in Nanoresonator Arrays

Giulia Tagliabue, Alfredo Angelo Luigi Naef, Ershad Mohammadi, Theodoros Tsoulos

Thermonanophotonics, that is the study of photothermal effects in optical nanoantennas, has recently attracted growing interest. In particular, going beyond thermoplasmonic designs, thermo-optical modulation of dielectric nanoantennas opens new opportuniti ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2023

JET ILA full array and polychromatic operation

Paulo Giovane Paschoali Pereira Puglia

The JET ILA is an Ion Cyclotron Resonance Heating (ICRH) antenna composed of four resonant double loops (RDLs) arranged in a 2 toroidal by 2 poloidal compact array. It has been operated in a range of frequencies from 29 to 51 MHz, but mostly on half array. ...

2021

Design and Simulation of a Wide-Bandwidth CMUTs Array with Dual-Mixed radii and Multi Operating Modes

Yu Bai, Zhengwen Jiang, Jie Li, Yihe Zhao, Zichen Liu

A capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers (CMUTs) array with dual-mixed radii is designed to improve bandwidth and realize multi-modes operating for immersed ultrasonic applications. The two-size (TS) CMUT array is composed of two sub-arrays with d ...

IEEE2021

Inverse design of diffractive optical elements using step-transition perturbation approach

Toralf Scharf, Dong Cheon Kim

Diffractive optical elements are ultra-thin optical components required for a variety of applications because of their high design flexibility. We introduce a gradient-based optimization method based on a step-transition perturbation approach which is an e ...

WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH2021

Recent advances in superconducting nanowire single-photon detector technology for exoplanet transit spectroscopy in the mid-infrared

Simone Frasca

The Origins Space Telescope mission concept includes an exoplanet transit spectrometer that requires detector arrays with ultrahigh pixel-to-pixel stability. Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors, or SNSPDs, have the potential to meet these stri ...

SPIE-SOC PHOTO-OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION ENGINEERS2021

Multispectral image sensor and method for fabrication of an image sensor

Assim Boukhayma

The present invention relates to a multispectral image sensor having a pixel array for detecting images with light components in different wavelength ranges, comprising a plurality of imaging layers each embedded in a semiconductor substrate, wherein in ea ...

2020

Template-assisted electrodeposition of nickel and nickel copper 3D microcomponents

Patrik Schürch

New types of metamaterials and architectured material require metallic materials with precise structural design in the microscale. However, additivemanufacturing of metallic structures in themicroscale has proven difficult, as the demand for the material q ...

EPFL2020

Differential presentation of a single antimicrobial peptide is sufficient to identify LPS from distinct bacterial samples

Timothy Matthias Reichart

Rapid detection and identification of bacteria is important for human health, biodefense, and food safety. Small arrays of different antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) enable the identification of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) samples from a variety of bacterial spe ...

2019

The JET upgraded toroidal Alfven Eigenmode Diagnostic System

Patrick Blanchard, Ambrogio Fasoli, Duccio Testa

The Alfven Eigenmode Active Diagnostic system (AEAD) has undergone a major upgrade and redesign to provide a state-of-the-art excitation and real-time detection system for JET. The new system consists of individual 4 kW amplifiers allowing for increased cu ...

2019

Switching event detection and self-termination programming circuit for energy efficient ReRAM memory arrays

Etienne Nowak, Alexandre Sébastien Julien Levisse

Energy efficiency remains a challenge for the design of non-volatile resistive memories (ReRAMs) arrays. This memory technology suffers from intrinsic variability in switching speed, programming voltages and resistance levels. The programming conditions of ...

2019

Monolithic SPAD Arrays for High-Performance, Time-Resolved Single-Photon Imaging

Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, Samuel Burri, Scott Anthony Lindner, Ivan Michel Antolovic, Chunmin Zhang, Martin Wolf, Arin Can Ülkü

SPAD (single-photon avalanche diode) arrays are single-photon sensors, which enable photon counting and unparalleled time-resolved imaging. In this paper, we will detail the architecture and characteristics of three representative SPAD arrays, implemented ...

IEEE2018

Organoid arrays

Matthias Lütolf, Nathalie Brandenberg

The invention provides methods for producing arrays of organoids, the arrays thereof and uses of such arrays. ...

2018

Large Array of Shape Memory Polymer Actuators for Haptics and Microfluidics

Nadine Besse

My thesis advances the field of shape memory polymer (SMP) actuators by providing a versatile strategy to arbitrarily reconfigure large arrays of densely packed latching soft actuators. It exploits two key intrinsic characteristics of SMPs, which are their ...

EPFL2018

Broadband electronically tunable reflection-based phase shifter for active-steering microwave reflectarray systems in Ku-band

This document provides the design of an electronically reconfigurable microwave phase shifter for reflectarray systems. The phase shifter is based on a hybrid coupler with reflective circuits in three ports. Each reflective circuit introduces a phase varia ...

Taylor & Francis Ltd2016

System for optical detection and imaging of sub-diffraction-limited nano-objects

Martinus Gijs, Hui Yang, Matteo Cornaglia

Nano-objects (8) with feature size smaller than the classical Abbe's diffraction limit can be optically detected via a microlens (4) array configured in a miniaturized microfluidic device. A hydrophilic microwell (3) array in a hydrophobic layer (2) is fir ...

2016

Excitation of resonant plasmonic cavities by integrated waveguides for sensing applications

Gaël David Osowiecki

Optical sensors represent a large growing market which is nowadays focusing onto advancement in mobile technology. Innovations in the field of optical sensors are mostly driven by the technological advancements in the domain of micro & nanofabrication. One ...

EPFL2016

LinoSPAD: a time-resolved 256x1 CMOS SPAD line sensor system featuring 64 FPGA-based TDC channels running at up to 8.5 giga-events per second

Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, Samuel Burri, Harald Arjan Robert Homulle

LinoSPAD is a reconfigurable camera sensor with a 256x 1 CMOS SPAD (single-photon avalanche diode) pixel array connected to a low cost Xilinx Spartan 6 FPGA. The LinoSPAD sensor's line of pixels has a pitch of 24 pm and 40% fill factor. The FPGA implements ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2016

Room temperature concurrent formation of ultra-dense arrays of ferroelectric domain walls

Nava Setter, Alexander Tagantsev, Mahamudu Mtebwa, Petr Yudin, Ludwig Feigl, Konstantin Shapovalov

Properties of ferroelectric domain walls are attractive for future nano- and optoelectronics. An important element is the potential to electrically erase/rewrite domain walls inside working devices. Dense domain wall patterns, formed upon cooling through t ...

American Institute of Physics2015

Optical Design of Multisource High-Flux Solar Simulators

Sophia Haussener

We present a systematic approach to the design of a set of high-flux solar simulators (HFSSs) for solar thermal, thermochemical, and materials research. The generic simulator concept consists of an array of identical radiation modules arranged in concentri ...

American Society of Mechanical Engineers2015