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MEMS-based Tunable Metasurface for Reflective Display Applications

In an era where portable electronic devices are indispensable for a wide range of activities, the need for displays that provide both long-lasting battery life and excellent visibility in different lighting conditions is increasingly important. Emissive di ...

EPFL2024

Method for operating a power converter and power converter

Drazen Dujic, Jakub Kucka

The present invention relates to a method for operating a resonant power converter (1) having a primary stage (2) and a secondary stage (3) at least one of which is actively operated and includes a half-bridge or full-bridge inverter (21) having a pull-up ...

2023

Confidence Matters: Applications to Semantic Segmentation

Prabhu Teja Sivaprasad

The successes of deep learning for semantic segmentation can in be, in part, attributed to its scale: a notion that encapsulates the largeness of these computational architectures and the labeled datasets they are trained on. These resource requirements hi ...

EPFL2023

Beyond 8 THz Displacement-field Nano-switches for 5G and 6G Communications

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Mohammad Samizadeh Nikooytabalvandani, Riyaz Mohammed Abdul Khadar, Pirouz Sohi

The rapid progress in high capacity communication systems is reaching extremely high data rates of 100 Gb s−1, which demands electronic switches with cut-off frequencies well above 1 THz. The excellent electron transport properties of III-V heterojunctions ...

IEEE2022

All-optical switching in epsilon-near-zero asymmetric directional coupler

Jiaye Wu, Qian Li

We propose an all-optical switch based on an asymmetric directional coupler structure with epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) layer. The nonlinear optical properties the of ENZ layer are analyzed by hot-electron dynamics process, and the all-optical operating perform ...

Nature Portfolio2022

How Robust Is the Reversible Steric Shielding Strategy for Photoswitchable Organocatalysts?

Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Simone Gallarati, Raimon Fabregat I De Aguilar-Amat, Veronika Juraskova, Théo Pierre Jaffrelot Inizan

A highly appealing strategy to modulate a catalyst's activity and/or selectivity in a dynamic and noninvasive way is to incorporate a photoresponsive unit into a catalytically competent molecule. However, the description of the photoinduced conformational ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Mutual information in changing environments: Nonlinear interactions, out-of-equilibrium systems, and continuously varying diffusivities

Daniel Maria Busiello, Giorgio Nicoletti

Biochemistry, ecology, and neuroscience are examples of prominent fields aiming at describing interacting systems that exhibit nontrivial couplings to complex, ever-changing environments. We have recently shown that linear interactions and a switching envi ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2022

Industry 4.0 Technologies and Customer-centricity for Digital Supply Chains

Rachel Agnès Laetitia Rosemonde Marie Lacroix

The last few years have experienced the emergence of Industry 4.0 (I4.0), ultra-customization, and the explosion of demand for ethical, fair trade, and sustainable consumption. Organizations have therefore started a digital transformation of their SCs and ...

EPFL2021

Rational Agreement in the Presence of Crash Faults

Vincent Gramoli, Alejandro Ranchal Pedrosa

Blockchain systems need to solve consensus despite the presence of rational users and failures. The notion of (k, t)-robustness is key to derive impossibility results with k rational players and t faulty players. However, these t faulty players are always ...

IEEE2021

Open loop control theory algorithms for high-speed 3D MEMS optical switches

Matthias Imboden

There is a world-wide push to create the next-generation all-optical transmission and switching technologies for exascale data centers. In this paper we focus on the switching fabrics. Many different types of 2D architectures are being explored including M ...

2020

Scalable Marine Bus-Tie Switch for Switchboard Interconnections

Drazen Dujic, Gabriele Ulissi

DC power distribution systems in marine applications are in the process of being established as the preferred solution for shipboard power distribution systems. This paper presents a bus-tie switch topology for the protection of such systems. The device is ...

2020

IGCT Based Solid State Resonant Conversion

Dragan Stamenkovic

Driven by the environmental changes, penetration of renewables and the need for more flexible power grid, DC is reemerging as a basis for future power networks. Already established in the area of HVDC for very long distance transmission, more and more atte ...

EPFL2020

High-Frequency GaN-on-Si power integrated circuits based on Tri-Anode SBDs

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Remco Franciscus Peter van Erp, Jun Ma, Halil Kerim Yildirim, Luca Nela, Georgios Kampitsis

In this work, we report on the switching performance of AlGaN/GaN lateral Tri-Anode SBDs. The Tri-Anode architecture leads to a more than 50% reduction in the device charge with respect to conventional planar structure, confirmed both by capacitive and rev ...

IEEE2020

ReRAM From Material Study to CMOS Co-integration

Elmira Shahrabi

The revolution of information-technology owes to silicon-based complementary-metal-oxide (CMOS) technology. However, CMOS technology approaches its physical limitation hardening the further progress of memory devices as well as computing paradigm requiring ...

EPFL2019

SemiHD: Semi-Supervised Learning Using Hyperdimensional Computing

Samuel Bosch, Mohsen Imani

In the Internet of Things (IoT), the large volume of data generated by sensors poses significant computational challenges in resource-constrained environments. Most existing machine learning algorithms are unable to train a proper model using a significant ...

IEEE2019

RAQ: Relationship-Aware Graph Querying in Large Networks

Akhil Arora, Arnab Bhattacharya

The phenomenal growth of graph data from a wide variety of real-world applications has rendered graph querying to be a problem of paramount importance. Traditional techniques use structural as well as node similarities to find matches of a given query grap ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2019

Tailored-Potential Semiconductor Quantum Nanostructures Grown in Inverted Pyramids

Mikhail Lazarev

We have focused on the ability to tune the aluminum (Al) content of the AlGaAs alloy along the growth direction in inverted pyramids (by MOVPE), thus tailoring the potential along a QWR nanostructure. Three parabolic-potential QDs (PQDs) of different poten ...

EPFL2019

The key impact of incorporated Al2O3 barrier layer on W-based ReRAM switching performance

Elmira Shahrabi, Yusuf Leblebici, Jury Sandrini, Cecilia Giovinazzo

In this article, we inspected the bipolar resistive switching behavior of W-based ReRAMs, using HfO2 as switching layer. We have shown that the switching properties can be significantly enhanced by incorporating an Al2O3 layer as a barrier layer. It stabil ...

IEEE2018

On the Delays in Time-Varying Networks: Does Larger Service-Rate Variance Imply Larger Delays?

Patrick Thiran, Sébastien Christophe Henri

In all networks, link or route capacities fluctuate for multiple reasons, e.g., fading and multi-path effects on wireless channels, interference and contending users on a shared medium, varying loads in WAN routers, impedance changes on power-line channels ...

2018

Vacuum circuit breaker modelling for the assessment of transient recovery voltages: Application to various network configurations

Mario Paolone, Carlo Alberto Nucci

Vacuum circuit breakers (VCBs) are widely used for medium voltage applications when low maintenance, long operating life, and large number of allowable switching cycles are required. The accurate estimation of the transient recovery voltages (TRVs) associa ...

Elsevier2018