Publications associées à Récepteur électrique

Pyroresistive response of percolating conductive polymer composites

The pyroresistive response of conductive polymer composites (CPCs) has attracted much interest because of its potential applications in many electronic devices requiring a significant responsiveness to changes in external physical parameters such as temper ...

Amer Physical Soc2024

Light Emission and Conductance Fluctuations in Electrically Driven and Plasmonically Enhanced Molecular Junctions

Christophe Marcel Georges Galland, Konstantin Malchow, Wen Chen, Sakthi Priya Amirtharaj

Electrically connected and plasmonically enhanced molecular junctions combine the optical functionalities of high field confinement and enhancement (cavity function), and of high radiative efficiency (antenna function) with the electrical functionalities o ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

Power Aware Placement of On-Chip Voltage Regulators

Rassul Bairamkulov

In traditional power delivery networks, the on-chip supply voltage is provided by board-level converters. Due to the significant distance between the converter and the load, variations in the load current are not effectively managed, producing a significan ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

A 0.21-ps FOM Capacitor-Less Analog LDO with Dual-Range Load Current for Biomedical Applications

Mahsa Shoaran, Yasemin Engür

This paper presents an output capacitor-less low-dropout regulator (LDO) with a bias switching scheme for biomedical applications with dual-range load currents. Power optimization is crucial for systems with multiple activation modes such as neural interfa ...

ArXiv2023

Vacuum Circuit Breaker Closing Time Key Moments Detection via Vibration Monitoring: A Run-to-Failure Study

Olga Fink, Gaëtan Michel Frusque

Circuit breakers (CBs) play an important role in modern society because they make the power transmission and distribution systems reliable and resilient. Therefore, it is important to maintain their reliability and to monitor their operation. A key to ensu ...

2022

Schmitt trigger-based control strategy for the discharge phase of an ultra-high-voltage bidirectional flyback

Yves Perriard, Alexis Boegli, Raphaël Johannes Charles Mottet

The control strategy to discharge a capacitive load such as a dielectric elastomer actuator charged to several kilo-volts is critical to obtain a safe and reliable actuation. In the case of this publication, an ultra-high voltage bidirectional flyback conv ...

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

Minimal mass design of active tensegrity structures

Yafeng Wang

Tensegrity structures have been widely utilized as lightweight structures due to their high stiffness-to-mass and strength-to-mass ratios. Minimal mass design of tensegrity structures subject to external loads and specific constraints (e.g., member yieldin ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2021

Ultra-High-Voltage (7-kV) Bidirectional Flyback Converter Used to Drive Capacitive Actuators

Yves Perriard, Alexis Boegli, Morgan Almanza, Raphaël Johannes Charles Mottet, Lucas Pniak

Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) have extremely advantageous characteristics such as lightness, compactness, flexibility, and large displacements. However, in order to operate, they can require voltages in the order of several thousands of volts. Thus ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

Analytical Computation of Power Grids’ Sensitivity Coefficients with Voltage-Dependent Injections

Mario Paolone, Sherif Alaa Salaheldin Fahmy

With the increasing need of real-time regulation in power systems, grid-aware-control-frameworks are relying more often on sensitivity coefficients (SCs) to formulate and efficiently solve optimal control problems. As known, SCs are the derivatives of cont ...

IEEE2021

Hierarchical Control in Islanded DC Microgrids With Flexible Structures

Giancarlo Ferrari Trecate, Pulkit Nahata, Alessio La Bella

Hierarchical architectures stacking primary, secondary, and tertiary layers are widely employed for the operation and control of islanded dc microgrids (dcmGs) composed of distribution generation units (DGUs), loads, and power lines. However, a comprehensi ...

2020

Electric Field Analysis and Measurement for a Resistively Loaded Monocone

Tingyong Jiang

A novel resistively loaded monocone was proposed to extend the application for electric field calibration. Electric field analysis and measurement were carried out to verify the design of the proposed monocone. As revealed by the results, the S-11 of the m ...

IEEE2020

Enhanced-performance integrated Resonant Switched-Capacitor and Buck DC-DC converters for application in extreme radiation and magnetic field environments

Giacomo Ripamonti

DC-DC converters based on Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) have been developed in this doctoral work for the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) experiments at CERN. They step down the voltage from a 2.5 V line and supply a load ...

EPFL2020

Resistivity of REBCO tapes in overcritical current regime: impact on superconducting fault current limiter modeling

Francesco Grilli, Nicolo' Riva, Bertrand Dutoit, Frédéric Sirois, Bertrand Dutoit

A detailed knowledge of the resistivity of high-temperature superconductors in the overcritical current regime is important to achieve reliable numerical simulations of applications such as superconducting fault current limiters. We have previously shown t ...

2020

A Supervisory Control Structure for Voltage-Controlled Islanded DC Microgrids

Giancarlo Ferrari Trecate, Pulkit Nahata, Alessio La Bella

In this work, we propose a supervisory control structure in islanded DC microgrids such that a well scheduled and balanced utilization of various resources is achieved. Our supervisory control layer rests on top of a voltage-controlled primary layer and co ...

2019

Critical Parasitic Elements of Coupled Inductors for Ultra-High Voltage Flyback Converters Used to Drive Capacitive Actuators

Yves Perriard, Alexis Boegli, Morgan Almanza, Raphaël Johannes Charles Mottet

This paper presents the critical parasitic elements of coupled inductors and their influence when designing a low input (12V) and ultra-high output voltage (>4000V) DC-DC Flyback Converter. The aim is to design a compact converter capable to supply the ult ...

IEEE2019

A Generalized Index for Static Voltage Stability of Unbalanced Polyphase Power Systems including Thévenin Equivalents and Polynomial Models

Mario Paolone, Andreas Martin Kettner

This paper proposes a Voltage Stability Index (VSI) suitable for unbalanced polyphase power systems. To this end, the grid is represented by a polyphase multiport network model (i.e., hybrid parameters), and the aggregate behavior of the devices in each no ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2019

Cylindrical Dielectric Elastomer Actuator for Cardiac Assist Device

Jonathan André Jean-Marie Chavanne

This work has been triggered because of the need for a new way to relieve the heart. Current solutions are based on invasive systems. The main problem of such assistance is infectious risks. State of the art to define an alternative has allowed highlightin ...

EPFL2019

Quantifying and Modeling the Impact of Interconnection Failures on the Electrical Performance of Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Modules

Christophe Ballif, Antonin Faes, Jacques Levrat, Alessandro Francesco Aldo Virtuani, Matthieu Despeisse, Eleonora Annigoni

We present an electrical model developed with LT SPICE that simulates the performance of a string of cells with disconnections in the electrical circuit. In a previous contribution, we quantified experimentally how the module performance is affected when o ...

IEEE2018

A Reconfigurable Inductor Based on Vanadium Dioxide Insulator-to-Metal Transition

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Montserrat Fernandez-Bolanos Badia, Emanuele Andrea Casu, Matteo Cavalieri, Andrei Müller, Alessandro Fumarola

This letter introduces a reconfigurable planar square-coil-shaped inductor exploiting as the tuning mechanism the insulator-to-metal transition (IMT) of a vanadium dioxide (VO2) switch placed in the interwinding space in an unprecedented manner. The VO2 th ...

2018