Publications associées à Relais électromécanique

Tailoring Organic/Inorganic Interface Trap States of Metal Oxide/Polyimide toward Improved Vacuum Surface Insulation

High-voltage and high-power devices are indispensablein spacecraftfor outer space explorations, whose operations require aerospace materialswith adequate vacuum surface insulation performance. Despite persistentattempts to fabricate such materials, current ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Enablers for Overcurrent Capability of Silicon-Carbide-Based Power Converters: An Overview

Elison de Nazareth Matioli

With the increase in penetration of power electronic converters in the power systems, a demand for overcurrent/ overloading capability has risen for the fault clearance duration. This article gives an overview of the limiting factors and the recent technol ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2023

Design and Manufacturing of an Electrostatic MEMS Relay for High Power Applications

Yves Perriard, Yoan René Cyrille Civet, Christian Köchli, Florian Louis Copt

This paper addresses the design and manufacturing of a crab-leg based MEMS relay for a high power application. Thanks to a contact resistance lower than 100 mΩ, the relay can hold a current in the order of magnitude of an Ampere without further thermal lim ...

2021

Fully Soft-Switched High Step-Up Nonisolated Three-Port DC-DC Converter Using GaN HEMTs

Marco Mattavelli, Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Georgios Kampitsis, Rasoul Faraji

In this article, a soft-switched nonisolated high step-up multi-input dc-dc converter is proposed. The proposed converter has overcome the hard switching problem of the conventional boost three port converter (boost-TPC) by providing zero-voltage-switching ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

Nanoplasma-enabled picosecond switches for ultrafast electronics

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Armin Jafari, Palliyage Srilak Nirmana Perera, Minghua Zhu, Giovanni Santoruvo, Mohammad Samizadeh Nikooytabalvandani

The broad applications of ultrawide-band signals and terahertz waves in quantum measurements, imaging and sensing techniques, advanced biological treatments, and very-high-data-rate communications have drawn extensive attention to ultrafast electronics. In ...

2020

An electromagnetic actuator

Herbert Shea, Juan José Zarate

The present invention concerns an electromagnetic actuator (2) for a haptic display (1). The actuator (2) comprises: a) a first, movable permanent magnetic element (5), the first magnetic element (5) comprising a first latching layer facing side, a second ...

2018

A Modified Formula for Distance Relaying of Tapped Transmission Lines with Grounded Neutrals

Mario Paolone, Sadegh Azizi

Protection of tapped transmission lines with grounded neutrals has been always a challenging problem, usually resulting in compromise solutions. This type of lines may be protected by pilot relaying requiring dedicated and reliable telecommunication links. ...

2018

Physical Layer Cooperation : Theory and Practice

Ayan Sengupta

Information theory has long pointed to the promise of physical layer cooperation in boosting the spectral efficiency of wireless networks. Yet, the optimum relaying strategy to achieve the network capacity has till date remained elusive. Recently however, ...

EPFL2015

NEM Relay Design with Biconditional Binary Decision Diagrams

Giovanni De Micheli, Pierre-Emmanuel Julien Marc Gaillardon, Luca Gaetano Amarù, Winston Jason Haaswijk

In this paper, we present an improved design flow for nanoelectromechanical (NEM) relay-based combinational logic circuits. Six-terminal NEM relays can be programmed to act as 2-to-1 multiplexers. We can therefore use NEM relays to implement arbitrary comb ...

IEEE2015

Low Complexity Scheduling and Coding for Wireless Networks

Siddhartha Brahma

The advent of wireless communication technologies has created a paradigm shift in the accessibility of communication. With it has come an increased demand for throughput, a trend that is likely to increase further in the future. A key aspect of these chall ...

EPFL2015

Bringing physical layer cooperation closer to practical wireless systems

Emre Atsan

Nowadays the demand for communication over the wireless medium is significantly increasing, while the available wireless spectrum is already limited. In this thesis, we introduce new practical physical layer designs that employ node cooperation for more ef ...

EPFL2015

Cooperative Relaying at Finite SNR-Role of Quantize-Map-and-Forward

Christina Fragouli, Ayan Sengupta, I-Hsiang Wang

This paper contributes to the design and analysis of Quantize-Map-and-Forward (QMF) relaying by optimizing its performance for small relay networks. QMF was proved to achieve the capacity of arbitrary networks within a bounded gap, as well as the optimal d ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2014

Energy and Latency Optimization in NEM Relay-Based Digital Circuits

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Antonios Bazigos, Daniel Grogg

Digital circuits based on nanoelectromechanical (NEM) relays hold out the potential of providing an energy efficiency unachievable by conventional CMOS technology. This paper presents a detailed analysis of the operating characteristics of fabricated curve ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2014

Wireless Network Simplification: The Gaussian N-Relay Diamond Network

Christina Fragouli

We consider the Gaussian N-relay diamond network, where a source wants to communicate to destination node through a layer of N-relay nodes. We investigate the following question: what fraction of the capacity can we maintain using only k out of the N avail ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014

On Relay Placement for Deterministic Line Networks

Christina Fragouli, Emre Atsan

We consider a unicast communication problem where, a source transmits information to a destination through a wireless network with the help of k relays positioned on a line. We adopt the linear deterministic model to capture the wireless signal interaction ...

2010

Substrate current modeling for high-voltage smart power BCD technology

Maher Kayal, François Krummenacher, Marc Pastre, Fabrizio Lo Conte

This paper presents a compact- and a macro-model for estimating and simulating the perturbations induced in the substrate by high-voltage transistors switching inductive loads. On one hand, it allows the designer to predict the amount of switching noise ge ...

2008

Balanced relay allocation on heterogeneous unstructured overlays

Patrick Thiran, Matthias Grossglauser, Xuan Hung Nguyen

Due to the increased usage of NAT boxes and firewalls, it has become harder for applications to establish direct connections seamlessly among two end-hosts. A recently, adopted proposal to mitigate this problem is to use relay nodes, end-hosts that act as ...

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