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High energy-density electrostatic actuators for soft robotics

This thesis reports high energy-density electrostatic actuators for use in soft robotics. This thesis has two main parts: a) a detailed study of electro-adhesion using microfabricated electrodes, and b) a flexi-ble fiber-shaped linear motor. Electro-adhesi ...

EPFL2024

Integrated Electronics for Deep Implants to Remotely Monitor Hemodynamics

Mustafa Besirli

The integration of technology in the medical field has greatly improved accuracy in diagnoses, thus leading to more effective treatments. Wearable and implantable medical devices offer great potential for remote patient monitoring, particularly for heart f ...

EPFL2023

Kilowatt-range Picosecond Switching Based on Microplasma Devices

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Remco Franciscus Peter van Erp, Armin Jafari, Mohammad Samizadeh Nikooytabalvandani

Plasma formation in micro- and nano-scales enables an ultrahigh-dv/dt picosecond switching in an integrated circuit form factor. Such on-chip plasma devices could provide a transformative approach to achieving high-power levels at very high frequencies, fa ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2021

Development of Lamb wave resonators in thin film X-cut lithium niobate

Muhammad Faizan

Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) is among the most revolutionary technologies of 21st century, with the applications ranging from industrial systems to consumer electronics. Using MEMS in battery-powered wireless devices has long been seen as the evol ...

EPFL2021

Soliton states of micro-resonator for reconfigurable microwave photonic filters

Camille Sophie Brès

We propose radiofrequency filters using solitons generated from Si3N4 microresonators. By leveraging inherent diverse solitons states, we show filter tunability achieved without the need for external pulse shaping, establishing an essential step towards re ...

IEEE2020

Bootstrapping massive quantum field theories

Denis Karateev, João Miguel Augusto Penedones Fernandes

We propose a new non-perturbative method for studying UV complete unitary quantum field theories (QFTs) with a mass gap in general number of spacetime dimensions. The method relies on unitarity formulated as positive semi-definiteness of the matrix of inne ...

Springer Nature2020

Annealing and Replica-Symmetry in Deep Boltzmann Machines

Emanuele Mingione, Diego Alberici

In this paper we study the properties of the quenched pressure of a multi-layer spin-glass model (a deep Boltzmann Machine in artificial intelligence jargon) whose pairwise interactions are allowed between spins lying in adjacent layers and not inside the ...

SPRINGER2020

A scattering amplitude in Conformal Field Theory

João Miguel Augusto Penedones Fernandes, Marco Meineri, Marc Gillioz

We define form factors and scattering amplitudes in Conformal Field Theory as the coefficient of the singularity of the Fourier transform of time-ordered correlation functions, as p(2) -> 0. In particular, we study a form factor F(s, t, u) obtained from a ...

Springer Nature2020

Measurement of the CKM matrix element vertical bar V-cb vertical bar from B-0 -> D*(-)l(+)nu(l) at Belle

Olivier Schneider, Yiming Li, Mingkui Wang, Chao Wang, Tagir Aushev, Sun Hee Kim, Donghyun Kim, Lei Li

We present a new measurement of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix element vertical bar V-cb vertical bar from B-0 -> D*(-)l(+)nu(l) decays, reconstructed with the full Belle data set of 711 fb(-1) integrated luminosity. Two form factor parametrizations, ...

American Physical Society2019

Toward ultra-low power design methodology for frequency generation in the IoT design space

Mathieu Yves Hervé Coustans

Today, the semiconductor industry is feeding our digital world with more and more data coming from compact embedded electronics that are monitoring our environment and feeding analytics for action. Interaction with our digital world is mostly achieved thro ...

EPFL2019

TacTiles: Dual-Mode Low-Power Electromagnetic Actuators for Rendering Continuous Contact and Spatial Haptic Patterns in VR

Herbert Shea, Juan José Zarate, Ronan Julien Hinchet

We introduce TacTiles, light (1.8g), low-power (130 mV), and small form -factor (1cm(3)) electromagnetic actuators that can form a flexible haptic array to provide localized tactile feedback. Our novel hardware design uses a custom 8 -layer PCB, dampening ...

IEEE2019

AlN and AlScN contour mode resonators for MEMS-based RF front ends

Andrea Lozzi

Miniaturization is a simple yet very powerful concept. Applied to devices, it opens to plethora of new applications. Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) are the result of scaling down the dimensions of devices to the micron range or the nano range (NEMS) ...

EPFL2019

An Energy Efficient Power Converter for Zero Power Wearable Devices

Milad Ataei Ashtiani

Early diagnosis of Alzheimer's and epilepsy requires monitoring a subject's development of symptoms through electroencephalography (EEG) signals over long periods. Wearable devices enable convenient monitoring of biosignals, unlike complex and costly hospi ...

EPFL2018

Nano-Engineered Architectures for Ultra-Low Power Wireless Body Sensor Nodes

David Atienza Alonso, Giovanni Ansaloni, Ruben Braojos Lopez, Mohamed Mostafa Sabry Aly, Subhasish Mitra

Wireless body sensor nodes (WBSNs) are miniaturized devices that are able to acquire, process and transmit bio-signals (such as electrocardiograms, respiration or human-body kinetics). WBSNs face major design challenges due to extremely limited power budge ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2016

Resonance between heat-carrying electrons and Langmuir waves in inertial confinement fusion plasmas

Stephan Brunner

In ignition scale hot plasmas, temperature gradients and thermal transport modify electron distributions in a velocity range resonant with Langmuir waves typical of those produced by stimulated Raman scattering. We examine the resultant changes to the Land ...

Amer Inst Physics2016

Measurement of the form factors of the decay B0 -> D*- l+ nu and determination of the CKM matrix element |Vcb|

Olivier Schneider, Remi Léandre Albert Louvot, Chao Wang, Tagir Aushev, Vladislav Balagura, Ji Hyun Kim, Jing Li

This article describes a determination of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix element vertical bar V-cb vertical bar from the decay B-0 -> D*(-) l(+) v(l) using 711 fb(-1) of Belle data collected near the Y(4S) resonance. We simultaneously measure the pro ...

American Physical Society2010

Measurements of branching fractions and q2 distributions for B → π ℓ ν and B → ρ ℓ ν decays with B → D(*) ℓ ν decay tagging

Olivier Schneider, Aurelio Bay, Stewart Cole, Mingkui Wang, Chao Wang, Tagir Aushev, Lei Zhang, Vladislav Balagura, Jing Li

We report measurements of the charmless semileptonic decays B0 → π- / ρ- ℓ+ ν and B+ → π0 / ρ0 ℓ+ ν, based on a sample of 2.75 × 108B over(B, ̄) events collected at the Υ{hooked} (4 S) resonance with the Belle detector at the KEKB e+ e- asymmetric collider ...

2007

A Virtual Keyboard Based on True-3D Optical Ranging

Edoardo Charbon, Huan Du, Félix Lustenberger

In this paper, a complete system is presented which mimics a QWERTY keyboard on an arbitrary surface. The system consists of a pattern projector and a true-3D range camera for detecting the typing events. We exploit depth information acquired with the 3D r ...

2005