Publications related to Ion transport through nanoslits investigated by impedance spectroscopy

Power Aware Placement of On-Chip Voltage Regulators

In traditional power delivery networks, the on-chip supply voltage is provided by board-level converters. Due to the significant distance between the converter and the load, variations in the load current are not effectively managed, producing a significan ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

A Front-End CMOS Interface Circuit With High Voltage Charge Pump and Oscillator for Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers

Sandro Carrara, Zhengwen Jiang, Gian Luca Barbruni, Yihe Zhao

Label-free biosensors, combined with miniaturized micro-electromechanical sensory platforms, offer an attractive solution for real-time and facile monitoring of biomolecules due to their high sensitivity and selectivity without the need for specifically la ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2023

On Energy Control of Modular Multilevel Converters

Milan Utvic

Owing to the advancements in the area of power electronics, efficient and flexible ac to dc conversion is made possible, bringing back into focus the idea of the dc power transmission at various voltage levels. Several technical and economical factors advo ...

EPFL2023

Voltage-driven Reactivity of Liquid Ga and CuGa Nanoparticles for Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction and Synthesis

Valery Okatenko

The rising atmospheric level of carbon dioxide, CO2, contributes to climate change and poses urgent need to find scalable solutions both to decrease its emissions and to be able to recycle it, if the goals of Paris Agreement to limit the temperature rise a ...

EPFL2023

All-inorganic halide perovskites for air-processed "n-i-p" monolithic perovskite/organic hybrid tandem solar cells exceeding 23% efficiency

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin

All-perovskite tandem solar cells recently surpassed 26% power conversion efficiency using a Sn(ii)-based halide perovskite rear subcell, which introduces several issues related to the chemical instability and the effectiveness of common, inexpensive inter ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2023

Potential-induced degradation in bifacial silicon heterojunction solar modules: Insights and mitigation strategies

Christophe Ballif, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Alessandro Francesco Aldo Virtuani, Luca Gnocchi, Olatz Arriaga Arruti

Potential-induced degradation (PID) may be a serious concern in photovoltaic (PV) modules and plants, particularly when approaching high system voltages (1500+ V). Here, we investigate PID occurring in bifacial rear-emitter silicon heterojunction (SHJ) sol ...

Wiley2023

On-Demand Cross-Linkable Bottlebrush Polymers for Voltage- Driven Artificial Muscles

Frank Nüesch, Francis Owusu, Yeerlan Adeli

Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) generate motion resembling natural muscles in reliability, adaptability, elongation, and frequency of operation. They are highly attractive in implantable soft robots or artificial organs. However, many applications of ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Urea Derivative-Promoted CsPbl(2)Br Perovskite Solar Cells with High Open-Circuit Voltage

Xin Guo, Bowen Yang, Yang Liu, Chen Li

Inorganic perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have witnessed extraordinary advances owing to their prominent stability against thermal aging. However, they suffer from a phase transition from black phase to yellow phase under ambient conditions and serious energ ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2022

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

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

Ultra-High-Voltage (7-kV) Bidirectional Flyback Converter Used to Drive Capacitive Actuators

Yves Perriard, Alexis Boegli, Raphaël Johannes Charles Mottet, Morgan Almanza, Lucas Pniak

Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) have extremely advantageous characteristics such as lightness, compactness, flexibility, and large displacements. However, in order to operate, they can require voltages in the order of several thousands of volts. Thus ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

Hard-Switching Losses in Power FETs: The Role of Output Capacitance

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Reza Soleiman Zadeh Ardebili, Armin Jafari, Palliyage Srilak Nirmana Perera

For certain field-effect transistors (FETs) in soft-switching operation, the large-signal behavior of their output capacitance ( Co ) has shown to deviate considerably from the datasheet values. This can have a significant effect on hard-switching losses i ...

2021

Schmitt trigger-based control strategy for the discharge phase of an ultra-high-voltage bidirectional flyback

Yves Perriard, Alexis Boegli, Raphaël Johannes Charles Mottet

The control strategy to discharge a capacitive load such as a dielectric elastomer actuator charged to several kilo-volts is critical to obtain a safe and reliable actuation. In the case of this publication, an ultra-high voltage bidirectional flyback conv ...

IEEE2021

Stretchable tubular device and use thereof as a counterpulsation device

Yves Perriard, Yoan René Cyrille Civet, Jonathan André Jean-Marie Chavanne, Thomas Guillaume Martinez, Morgan Almanza

The present invention is related to a stretchable tubular device (1) comprising at least one layer (Lx) of a stretchable polymer, a power supply (2) and a set of electrodes (3a, 3b) connected to said power supply (2). The power supply can supply at least a ...

2021

The Influence of O-2 on Positive Streamer Initiation in Supercritical CO2 With Field Ionization Using a 3-D Particle Model

Guang-Yu Sun

In this work, the influence of varying mixing ratios of O-2 on positive streamer initiation in supercritical (SC) CO2 at different applied voltages was investigated using a 3-D particle model. Zener's model was included in the 3-D particle model to calcula ...

2021

Parametric study of the TF coil design for the European DEMO

Rainer Wesche, Pierluigi Bruzzone, Kamil Sedlák, Roberto Guarino

In addition to a reduced number of feeders, which would simplify their integration in the cryostat of the tokamak, the present study considers the possibility to reduce the voltage during safety discharge of the toroidal field (TF) coils. A lowered dischar ...

2021

Bayesian Methods for the Identification of Distribution Networks

Jean-Sébastien Hubert Brouillon, Giancarlo Ferrari Trecate, Pulkit Nahata

The increasing integration of intermittent renewable generation, especially at the distribution level, necessitates advanced planning and optimisation methodologies contingent on the knowledge of the admittance matrix, capturing the topology and line param ...

IEEE2021

Adaptive Body Biasing in Strong Body Factor Technologies

Thomas Christoph Müller

With the advent of intelligent sensor nodes in everyday life, low power aspects of system design become more and more important. Adaptive body biasing is a promising methodology to achieve dynamic adaptation of the tradeoff between performance and energy b ...

EPFL2021

Pushing the Limits of Efficiency and Power Density in High-Frequency Power Conversion Based on Wide-Band-Gap Technologies

Armin Jafari

The emergence of wide-band-gap (WBG) power transistors with low conduction losses and high-speed switching speeds has paved the way for more-than-ever efficient power electronics systems and huge energy saving potentials. Likewise, power density- the ratio ...

EPFL2021

A novel approach for SPICE modeling of light and radiation effects in ICs

Chiara Rossi

Modeling the interaction of ionizing radiation, either light or ions, in integrated circuits is essential for the development and optimization of optoelectronic devices and of radiation-tolerant circuits. Whereas for optical sensors photogenerated carriers ...

EPFL2021