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Modeling and optimization of PCB coils for inductive power transfer systems

The auxiliary power supply for medium voltage converters requires high insulation capability between the source and the load. Inductive power transfer technology, with an air gap between the primary and secondary coil, offers such high insulation capabilit ...

EPFL2024

Design and operational guidelines of solar-driven catalytic conversion of CO2 and H2 to fuels

Sophia Haussener, Sha Li

Sunlight-powered catalytic conversion of CO2 and (green) H2 into fuels and chemicals via Sabatier and reverse water gas shift (RWGS) processes offers a promising solution to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase renewable energy utilization. The suc ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2023

Bayesian Optimization for Chemical Reactions

Philippe Schwaller, Jeff Guo, Bojana Rankovic

Reaction optimization is challenging and traditionally delegated to domain experts who iteratively pro-pose increasingly optimal experiments. Problematically, the reaction landscape is complex and often requires hundreds of experiments to reach convergence ...

Swiss Chemical Soc2023

Analysis and Design for Medium Voltage Dual Active Bridge Converter Based on Series-Connected SiC MOSFETs

Chengmin Li, Rui Lu, Heng Fang

In this article, a series-connected SiC MOSFETs-based medium voltage (MV) dual active bridge (DAB) converter featuring a lowvoltage difference amongdevices and high efficiency is proposed. In the developed DAB converter, the zero voltage switching-on chara ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2023

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

Photonic nanostructures mimicking floral epidermis for perovskite solar cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Hobeom Kim

Here, we report photonic nanostructures replicated from the adaxial epidermis of flower petals onto light-polymerized coatings using low-cost nanoimprint lithography at ambient temperature. These multifunctional nanocoatings are applied to confer enhanced ...

ELSEVIER2022

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

Modulating the Electron Transporting Properties of Subphthalocyanines for Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Hiroyuki Kanda, Maria Cristina Momblona Rincón, Pavel Culik

The lack of organic non-fullerene ETMs with good electron transport and device stability is an important problem for the further development and commercialization of perovskite solar cells. Herein, the use of SubPcs as ETMs in PSCs is explored. To this end ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2022

Deep defect passivation and shallow vacancy repair via an ionic silicone polymer toward highly stable inverted perovskite solar cells

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Bowen Yang, Hui Chen, Jiabao Yang, Tong Wang

Additive engineering is an effective strategy for defect passivation and performance improvement of perovskite solar cells (PSCs). However, few additives have achieved outstanding stability with high efficiency by simultaneously passivating deep and shallo ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2022

Expanded Phase Distribution in Low Average Layer-Number 2D Perovskite Films: Toward Efficient Semitransparent Solar Cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Paul Joseph Dyson, Bin Ding, Yong Ding, Yen-Cheng Liu, Hiroyuki Kanda, Xuehui Liu, Cheng Liu, Hao Huang

The application of low average layer-number (< n & rang;

2021

Efficiency Optimisation of Slotless Magnetic Bearing Machines

Yves Perriard, Douglas Martins Araujo, Leopoldo Rossini, Guzmán Borque Gallego

Efficiency is one of the key performance indexes in the design of electric motors. When considering fully active magnetic bearing machines, this aspect gain further relevance due to the necessity of actively controlling all the remaining degrees of freedom ...

2021

Formation and Stabilization of Inorganic Halide Perovskites for Photovoltaics

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Zaiwei Wang, Jiahuan Zhang, Wanchun Xiang

In the last decade, halide perovskites have emerged as new semiconductors that revolutionize the photovoltaic field. Among this family of materials, all-inorganic halide perovskites are becoming a research paradigm because of their outstanding photophysica ...

ELSEVIER2021

Fluorene-based enamines as low-cost and dopant-free hole transporting materials for high performance and stable perovskite solar cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Kasparas Rakstys, Albertus Adrian Sutanto, Maria Cristina Momblona Rincón

The power conversion efficiency of perovskite solar cells is approaching the Shockley-Queisser limit, and therefore this technology is next to the commercialization stage. Inexpensive and stable hole transporting materials are highly desirable for the succ ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2021

Cation optimization for burn-in loss-free perovskite solar devices

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Sanghyun Paek, Tom Theodorus Antonius Lummen, Cristina Roldán Carmona, Marius Franckevicius, Olga Syzgantseva

Hybrid lead halide perovskites will potentially lead the future energy scenario if highly efficient cells have long-term stability. Here we combine state-of-the art mixed-cation formulations containing formamidinium (FA) and methylammonium (MA), with optim ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2021

Circularly Polarized Transmitarray Antenna for CubeSat Intersatellite Links in K-Band

Anja Skrivervik, Miroslav Veljovic

A circularly polarized transmitarray antenna based on aperture-coupled patches is presented for CubeSat intersatellite-link applications in K-band. The concept of aperture coupling simplifies the design of transmitarray elements, as it omits the need for m ...

2020

Experimental characterization of a solid oxide fuel cell coupled to a steam-driven micro anode off-gas recirculation fan

Jan Van Herle, Jürg Alexander Schiffmann, Stefan Diethelm, Zacharie Wuillemin, Patrick Hubert Wagner, David Constantin

While the global fuel utilization of solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) is limited by the stack aging rate, the fuel excess is typically used in a burner, and thus limiting the system electrical efficiency. Further, natural-gas-fueled SOFCs require treated wat ...

2020

Molecular materials as interfacial layers and additives in perovskite solar cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Tom Theodorus Antonius Lummen

Solar cells based on organo-metal halide perovskites have gained unprecedented research interest over the last few years due to their low-cost solution processability, high power conversion efficiency, which has recently reached a certified value of 25.2%, ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2020

Megawatt power generation of the dual-frequency gyrotron for TCV at 84 and 126 GHz, in long pulses

Timothy Goodman, Stefano Alberti, Minh Quang Tran, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Damien Fasel, Matthieu Toussaint, Ugo Siravo, Jérémy Genoud, Jérémie Dubray, Jonathan Sylvain Masur, Christian Moura, Blaise Marlétaz, Ioannis Pagonakis, Konstantinos Avramidis

In the frame of the TCV Tokamak upgrade, two 84/126 GHz/2 s dual frequency gyrotrons designed by SPC and KIT and manufactured by THALES will be added to the existing EC-System. The first unit has been delivered to EPFL-SPC and tested. In the commissioning ...

2020

Applications of Self-Assembled Monolayers for Perovskite Solar Cells Interface Engineering to Address Efficiency and Stability

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Tom Theodorus Antonius Lummen, Cristina Roldán Carmona, Muhammad Sohail

Due to a certified 25.2% high efficiency, low cost, and easy fabrication; perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are the focus of interest among the next-generation photovoltaic technologies. Long-term stability is one of the most challenging obstacles to bring tec ...

2020

A sequential condensation route as a versatile platform for low cost and efficient hole transport materials in perovskite solar cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin

In an effort to diminish the cost of perovskite solar cells (PSCs) with regard to hole transport materials (HTMs), we employed an easily attainable condensation route to synthesize a cheap and efficient HTM. Using a newly engineered small organic molecule, ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2019