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A modular multiple frequency inductive link to wirelessly power multiple miniaturized implants

Sandro Carrara, Diego Ghezzi, Gian Luca Barbruni

A modular multiple frequency coils inductive link system to wirelessly provide power for at least a medical implant at an output of a receiving coil, whereby the receiving coil is configured to be implanted in an organism. The modular multiple frequency co ...

2024

Single-shot Kramers-Kronig complex orbital angular momentum spectrum retrieval

Camille Sophie Brès, Jianqi Hu, Yujie Chen

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) spectrum diagnosis is a fundamental building block for diverse OAM-based systems. Among others, the simple on-axis interferometric measurement can retrieve the amplitude and phase information of complex OAM spectra in a few s ...

SPIE-SOC PHOTO-OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION ENGINEERS2023

Switching losses in power devices: From dynamic on resistance to output capacitance hysteresis

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Remco Franciscus Peter van Erp, Hongkeng Zhu, Armin Jafari, Palliyage Srilak Nirmana Perera

In this paper, we review some of the main methods to characterize on-state and off-state losses in wide-band-gap devices under switching conditions. In the off-state, we will discuss about losses related to charging and discharging the output capacitance i ...

IEEE2023

Cooperative Concurrency Control for Write-Intensive Key-Value Workloads

Babak Falsafi, Alexandros Daglis, Mark Johnathon Sutherland

Key-Value Stores (KVS) are foundational infrastructure components for online services. Due to their latency-critical nature, today’s best-performing KVS contain a plethora of full-stack optimizations commonly targeting read-mostly, popularity-skewed worklo ...

ACM2023

Inductive Power Transfer System for Auxiliary Power Supply in Medium Voltage Converters

Drazen Dujic, Chengmin Li, Xiaotong Du

Inductive power transfer technology is an attractive solution for medium voltage applications by eliminating the need for high voltage cables or wired connections in general. This paper introduces an inductive power transfer system which has multiple indep ...

2022

Wireless Powering Efficiency of Deep-Body Implantable Devices

Anja Skrivervik, Denys Nikolayev, Zvonimir Sipus, Mingxiang Gao, Erdem Cil

The wireless power transfer (WPT) efficiency to implanted bioelectronic devices is constrained by several frequency-dependent physical mechanisms. Recent works have developed several mathematical formulations to understand these mechanisms and predict the ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2022

Theoretical Efficiency and Dosimetry of Buffered On-body Transmitter Antennas for Wireless Powering of In-body Devices

Anja Skrivervik, Denys Nikolayev

The viable and safe application of wireless power transfer for powering bioelectronic implants requires understanding the wave propagation in heterogeneous and dispersive media, the electromagnetic exposure assessment, and the optimum design of the system ...

IEEE2022

Design and printing of a coplanar capacitive proximity sensor to detect the gap between dielectric foils edges

Danick Briand, Rubaiyet Iftekharul Haque, Martin Lubej

This paper presents the design and development of a coplanar capacitive proximity sensor for the detection of the gap between the edges of dielectric foils. The finite element analysis is applied to study the design of the sensor by investigating the effec ...

2022

An Optimized Low-Power Band-Tuning TX for Short-Range FMCW Radar in 22-nm FDSOI CMOS

Christian Enz, Francesco Chicco, Sammy Cerida Rengifo

The paper presents a low-power transmitter (TX) as a part of a fully integrated 57-66 GHz FMCW radar system. The TX path includes a BPSK modulator and it is optimized for short-range operation with 0 dBm output power. A band-tuning technique is used for co ...

IEEE2021

Energy-Efficient Design Techniques for High-Speed Wireline Serial Links

Firat Çelik

The exponential growth in computing power and multimedia services has caused a tremendous increase in data traffic in recent years. This increase in data traffic brings a strong demand for data bandwidth of electrical input/output (I/O) links and pushes th ...

EPFL2021

Crystal-Size-Induced Band Gap Tuning in Perovskite Films

Michael Graetzel, Wolfgang Richard Tress, Amita Ummadisingu, Simone Meloni

A comprehensive picture explaining the effect of the crystal size in metal halide perovskite films on their opto-electronic characteristics is currently lacking. We report that perovskite nanocrystallites exhibit a wider band gap due to concurrent quantum ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2021

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

Yusuf Leblebici, Firat Çelik, Ayça Akkaya

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

On the Complete Radiation Pattern of a Vertical Hertzian Dipole Above a Low-Loss Ground

Krzysztof Michalski, Juan Ramon Mosig

The complete radiation field pattern of a vertical Hertzian dipole antenna on or above a lossless or low-loss dielectric half-space is studied using a rigorous Sommerfeld formalism. The reflected fields in the air above the interface and the subsurface fie ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2021

Microwave or millimeter wave passive components or devices

Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Maliheh Khatibi Moghaddam

A passive device comprising a hollow waveguide including first and second wall structures extending in a guiding direction, an interconnecting base extending between the wall structures and an enclosure extending between the wall structures, the enclosure ...

2021

Mode interference and UV-induced mode conversion in few-mode fibers

Soham Basu

Resonant and non-resonant effects in few-mode fibers have found use in versatile devices. From sensing perspective, extensive research has been done on fringe sensitivity of nonresonant two-mode interference. Resonant mode converter gratings are promising ...

EPFL2020

Coss Loss Tangent of Field-Effect Transistors: Generalizing High-Frequency Soft-Switching Losses

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

The dissipated energy (Ediss) related to the resonant charging/discharging of a transistor output capacitance, becomes a dominant loss factor for power converters operating in the MHz range. A recent work has introduced a small-signal measurement method to ...

2020

Comparison of Wide-band-gap Technologies for Soft-Switching Losses at High Frequencies

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Halil Kerim Yildirim, Armin Jafari, Palliyage Srilak Nirmana Perera, Reza Soleiman Zadeh Ardebili, Mohammad Samizadeh Nikooytabalvandani, Furkan Karakaya

Soft-switching power converters based on wide-band-gap (WBG) transistors offer superior efficiency and power density advantages. However, at high frequencies, loss behavior varies significantly between different WBG technologies. This includes losses relat ...

2020

Classic Electrically Small Antennas Versus in/On-Body Antennas: Similarities and Differences

Anja Skrivervik

Electrically small antennas (ESAs) have been discussed since the early radio days, when all antennas were small compared to the wavelength. The boom of mobile phones triggered a second wave of intense research activity on these devices, which continues tod ...

The European Associationa onAntennas and Propagation (EurAAP)2019

Design and Implementation of a Neural Network Based Predistorter for Enhanced Mobile Broadband

Alexios Konstantinos Balatsoukas Stimming

Digital predistortion is the process of using digital signal processing to correct nonlinearities caused by the analog RF front-end of a wireless transmitter. These nonlinearities contribute to adjacent channel leakage, degrade the error vector magnitude o ...

IEEE2019

A von Hamos spectrometer for in situ sulfur speciation by non-resonant sulfur K alpha emission spectroscopy

Dominik Kinschel

A von Hamos geometry based wavelength dispersive spectrometer combined with an in situ reactor cell has been developed to measure non-resonant sulfur K alpha emission for the in situ speciation of low concentrations of sulfur. The spectrometer operates at ...

2019