Publications associées à Electromagnetic environment

Lightning interaction with the ionosphere

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Dongshuai Li

Lightning discharges, including cloud-to-ground (CG) and intracloud (IC) lightning, are known to emit electromagnetic pulses (EMPs) in a wide frequency band ranging from few Hz up to hundreds MHz [1]. During the breakdown and ionization processes (mostly f ...

IET2023

Computation of the attenuation function of the lightning return-stroke current from electromagnetic fields measured in a short-duration time-window, Part I: Theoretical investigation

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein

In a recent paper, a procedure to reconstruct the attenuation function of a return-stroke current from the simultaneous measurements of the channel-base current and the radiated electromagnetic fields was presented. One of the assumptions of the whole fram ...

Elsevier2023

Controlling Atom-Photon Bound States in an Array of Josephson-Junction Resonators

Pasquale Scarlino, Marco Scigliuzzo

Engineering the electromagnetic environment of a quantum emitter gives rise to a plethora of exotic light -matter interactions. In particular, photonic lattices can seed long-lived atom-photon bound states inside photonic band gaps. Here, we report on the ...

American Physical Society2022

On the Propagation of Lightning-Radiated Electromagnetic Fields Across a Mountain

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Mohammad Azadifar, Wenhao Hou, Qilin Zhang

In this article, the effect of a mountain located on the propagation path of lightning-radiated electromagnetic fields was systematically studied by using the two-dimensional finite-difference time-domain method (2-D FDTD), considering the influence of the ...

2020

On the Efficiency of OpenACC-aided GPU-Based FDTD Approach: Application to Lightning Electromagnetic Fields

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Mohammad Azadifar, Hamidreza Karami

An open accelerator (OpenACC)-aided graphics processing unit (GPU)-based finite difference time domain (FDTD) method is presented for the first time for the 3D evaluation of lightning radiated electromagnetic fields along a complex terrain with arbitrary t ...

MDPI2020

Contribution to the study of the vulnerability of critical systems to Intentional Electromagnetic Interference (IEMI)

Nicolas Mora Parra

The progress of high power electromagnetic (HPEM) sources during the late 1990s raised the concern in the electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) community that they could be deployed for criminal purposes to interfere with the operation of modern electronic s ...

EPFL2016

Analysis of lightning electromagnetic field propagation in mountainous terrain and its effects on ToA-based lightning location systems

Marcos Rubinstein, Mohammad Azadifar, Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Zhaoyang Wang, Keyhan Sheshyekani, Dongshuai Li, Qilin Zhang

In this paper, we analyze the propagation effects on lightning-radiated electromagnetic fields over mountainous terrain by using a three-dimensional (3-D) finite difference time domain (FDTD) method. We also discuss the time delay error in the time-of-arri ...

Amer Geophysical Union2016

Evaluation of the performance characteristics of the European Lightning Detection Network EUCLID in the Alps region for upward negative flashes using direct measurements at the instrumented Säntis Tower

Mario Paolone, Marcos Rubinstein, Mohammad Azadifar, Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Carlos Alberto Romero Romero, Wolfgang Schulz, Davide Pavanello

In this paper, we present a performance analysis of the European Cooperation for Lightning Detection (EUCLID) lightning detection network using data obtained on lightning currents measured at the Santis Tower (located in northeastern of Switzerland) from J ...

Amer Geophysical Union2016

Time-Domain Analysis of Building Shielding Against Lightning Electromagnetic Fields

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Akiyoshi Tatematsu

The shielding performance of different buildings in presence of indirect lightning return strokes are investigated directly in the time domain. To this end, a sensitivity analysis is conducted by varying the channel geometrical characteristics and consider ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2015

Analysis of Electromagnetic Fields Inside a Reinforced Concrete Building With Layered Reinforcing Bar due to Direct and Indirect Lightning Strikes Using the FDTD Method

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Akiyoshi Tatematsu

Lightning electromagnetic pulse (LEMP) is a severe threat to sensitive electronic devices installed in buildings. To protect these devices from LEMP effects, the evaluation of the electromagnetic fields inside of the building is required. Although numerous ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2015

Josephson Tunneling at the Atomic Scale : The Josephson Effect as a Local Probe

Berthold Jäck

The aim of this thesis is to characterize the properties of a Josephson junction in a Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) at millikelvin temperatures and to implement Josephson STM (JSTM) as a versatile probe at the atomic scale. To this end we investigate ...

EPFL2015

On the Electromagnetic Susceptibility of Hot Wire-Based Electroexplosive Devices to RF Sources

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Nicolas Mora Parra

We present an analysis of the thermal response of a hot-wire electroexplosive device (EED) excited with different transient signals. First-order and second-order analytical models to calculate the thermal response of an EED are assessed taking as reference ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2013

Evaluation of Lightning Electromagnetic Fields and Their Induced Voltages on Overhead Lines Considering the Frequency Dependence of Soil Electrical Parameters

Mario Paolone, Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Carlo Alberto Nucci, Keyhan Sheshyekani

This paper presents a comprehensive study on the effect of the frequency dependence of soil electrical parameters on the lightning radiated electromagnetic fields as well as their associated induced voltages on overhead lines. To this aim, a fullwave appro ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2013

Electromagnetic Environment in the Vicinity of a Tall Tower Struck by Lightning—A Review—

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri

In this paper, an overview of recent theoretical investigations and experimental characterization of the electromagnetic fields in the vicinity of a tower struck by lightning is presented. The presence of an elevated strike object has been included in two ...

2012

On the accuracy of approximate techniques for the evaluation of lightning electromagnetic fields along a mixed propagation path

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Abdolhamid Shoory, Abdenabi Mimouni

In this paper we review simplified analytical expressions derived by Wait using the concept of attenuation function for the analysis of the propagation of lightning-radiated electromagnetic fields over a mixed propagation path (vertically stratified ground ...

2011

Electromagnetic Environment Associated with Lightning Strikes to Tall Strike Objects

Seyed Abbas Mosaddeghi

The study of the lightning interaction with tall strike objects has attracted considerable attention of lightning researchers lately. Many lightning measurements including current and associated electromagnetic fields were recently made all over the globe ...

EPFL2011

Lightning electromagnetic radiation over a stratified conducting ground: Formulation and numerical evaluation of the electromagnetic fields

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Abdolhamid Shoory

The formulation describing the electromagnetic field radiated by a lightning return stroke over a two-layered conducting ground is presented in this paper. The derivation of the Green's functions required to solve the problem is first discussed in detail, ...

American Geophysical Union2011

Validity of Simplified Approaches for the Evaluation of Lightning Electromagnetic Fields above a Horizontally Stratified Ground

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Abdenabi Mimouni, Abdolhamid Shoory

We review in this paper simplified analytical expressions derived by Wait using the concept of attenuation function for the analysis of the propagation of lightning radiated electromagnetic fields over a horizontally stratified ground. Considerations regar ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2010

Successful performances of the EU-AltTF sample, a large size Nb3Sn cable-in-conduit conductor with rectangular geometry

Pierluigi Bruzzone

One of the design features which yet offers interesting margins for performance optimization of cable-in-conduit conductors (CICCs), is their geometry. For relatively small size Nb3Sn CICCs, operating at high electromagnetic pressure, such as those for the ...

2010

Ultra Low Power Communication Protocols for UWB Impulse Radio Wireless Sensor Networks

Jérôme Rousselot

This thesis evaluates the potential of Ultra Wideband Impulse Radio for wireless sensor network applications. Wireless sensor networks are collections of small electronic devices composed of one or more sensors to acquire information on their environment, ...

EPFL2010