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Dynamic control of high-voltage actuator arrays by light-pattern projection on photoconductive switches

Herbert Shea, Amir Firouzeh, Edouard Franck Vincent Gustave Leroy, Vesna Bacheva, Aiste Balciunaite

The ability to control high-voltage actuator arrays relies, to date, on expensive microelectronic processes or on individual wiring of each actuator to a single off-chip high-voltage switch. Here we present an alternative approach that uses on-chip photoco ...

SPRINGERNATURE2023

Gate unit for a gate-commutated thyristor and integrated gate-commutated thyristor

Drazen Dujic, Jakub Kucka

The invention relates to a gate unit (22) for controlling a gate commutated thyristor (21), comprising: - a voltage selector (26) for selectively applying a high supply potential (Vpos), a middle supply potential (Vmid), and a low supply potential (Vneg); ...

2023

Visualization, Interactive Handling and Simulation of Molecules in Commodity Augmented Reality in Web Browsers Using moleculARweb's Virtual Modeling Kits

Matteo Dal Peraro, Luciano Andres Abriata, Fabio Jose Cortes Rodriguez, Lucien Fabrice Krapp

moleculARweb (https://molecularweb.epfl.ch) began as a website for education and outreach in chemistry and structural biology through augmented reality (AR) content that runs in the web browsers of regular devices like smartphones, tablets, and computers. ...

SWISS CHEMICAL SOC2022

All-optical switching in epsilon-near-zero asymmetric directional coupler

Jiaye Wu, Qian Li

We propose an all-optical switch based on an asymmetric directional coupler structure with epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) layer. The nonlinear optical properties the of ENZ layer are analyzed by hot-electron dynamics process, and the all-optical operating perform ...

Nature Portfolio2022

High frequency IGCT operation for DC transformer

Gabriele Ulissi

In spite of the dominance of ac technology for the vast majority of power transmission and distribution since the late 19th century, the past decades have seen an increase in use of dc electrical power. In particular, this has been the case both in high vo ...

EPFL2022

Optically Triggered Neel Vector Manipulation of a Metallic Antiferromagnet Mn2Au under Strain

Alexey Sapozhnik

The absence of stray fields, their insensitivity to external magnetic fields, and ultrafast dynamics make antiferromagnets promising candidates for active elements in spintronic devices. Here, we demonstrate manipulation of the Neel vector in the metallic ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Open loop control theory algorithms for high-speed 3D MEMS optical switches

Matthias Imboden

There is a world-wide push to create the next-generation all-optical transmission and switching technologies for exascale data centers. In this paper we focus on the switching fabrics. Many different types of 2D architectures are being explored including M ...

2020

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

Discrete Time Analysis of Phase Detector Timing Nonidealities in Type-I Sub-Sampling PLL

Yusuf Leblebici, Duygu Kostak

The analysis of the effect of sub-sampling phase detector (SSPD) timing nonidealities on Type-I sub-sampling phase-locked loop (SSPLL) is presented. The nonidealities considered are the delay between the complementary sampling clocks and the propagation de ...

IEEE2020

A Multi-Step Reconfiguration Model for Active Distribution Network Restoration Integrating DG Start-Up Sequences

Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Hossein Sekhavatmanesh

The ever-increasing penetration of Distributed Generators (DGs) in distribution networks suggests to enable their potentials in better fulfilling the restoration objective. The objective of the restoration problem is to resupply the maximum energy of loads ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

IGCT Based Solid State Resonant Conversion

Dragan Stamenkovic

Driven by the environmental changes, penetration of renewables and the need for more flexible power grid, DC is reemerging as a basis for future power networks. Already established in the area of HVDC for very long distance transmission, more and more atte ...

EPFL2020

Incorporating Location Aspects in Process Integration Methodology

François Maréchal, Ivan Daniel Kantor, Hür Ebuzer Bütün

The large potential for waste resource and heat recovery in industry has been motivating research toward increasing efficiency. Process integration methods have proven to be effective tools in improving industrial sites while decreasing their resource and ...

2019

Stiffness variability in jamming of compliant granules and a case study application in climbing vertical shafts

Auke Ijspeert, Mehmet Hasan Mutlu, Simon Lukas Hauser, Frédéric Freundler

Jamming of granular media has been shown to possess the property of stiffness variation, transitioning from a soft to a quasi-solid state depending on the packing density of the granules. Recently, a gradual stiffness change for bending has been reported b ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2018

A Reliability and Efficiency Optimization System for Hard-Switching DC/DC Converters

Maher Kayal, Adil Koukab, Giacomo Ripamonti, Stefano Michelis, Federico Faccio

The Large Hadron Collider experiments at CERN will use power distribution schemes relying on integrated buck DC/DC converters. Due to the radiation-hardness requirements, the devices used for the development of such converters will have a voltage rating wh ...

IEEE2018

Novel Digital and Radio Frequency Electronic Functions Enabled by Steep-Slope Phase-Change Devices

Emanuele Andrea Casu

In the past half-century, the semiconductor industry has relied on the scaling of complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) transistor dimensions and on material and geometrical innovations to increase the computational density. Approaching the end of ...

EPFL2018

Investigation of the metal-insulator transition in VO2 for Electronic Switches with Sub-1mV/Decade Steep Subthreshold Slope

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Andreas Schueler, Josef Andreas Schuler, Clara-Fausta Moldovan, Wolfgang Amadeus Vitale, Antonio Paone

We report a thorough investigation of the electrically-induced metal-insulator transition in vanadium dioxide (VO2) for abrupt switching in 2-terminal devices (0.24 mV/dec at 25 °C, 0.38 mV/dec at 50 °C). We exploit the electrothermal actuation model based ...

IEEE2016

Chip-Level CMOS Co-Integration of ReRAM-Based Non-Volatile Memories

Elmira Shahrabi, Yusuf Leblebici, Jury Sandrini, Tugba Demirci, Mahmoud Hadad, Behnoush Attarimashalkoubeh

This work reports a technique to fabricate ReRAM crossbar arrays co-integrated with fully finished 180 nm CMOS technology chips. The proposed integration method enables low- cost ReRAM-CMOS integration and allows the rapid prototyping of complete memory sy ...

Ieee2016

A Study on Buffer Distribution for RRAM-based FPGA Routing Structures

Giovanni De Micheli, Xifan Tang, Pierre-Emmanuel Julien Marc Gaillardon, Somayyeh Rahimian Omam

Compared to Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs), Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) provide reconfigurablity at the cost of lower performance and higher power consumption. Exploiting a large number of programmable switche ...

IEEE2015

Fabrication process and characterization of suspended graphene membranes for RF NEMS capacitive switches

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Clara-Fausta Moldovan, Wolfgang Amadeus Vitale, Laurent Syavoch Bernard, Pankaj Sharma

The fabrication of a Nanoelectromechanical System (NEMS) capacitive switch consisting of a suspended multilayer graphene membrane, doubly clamped on a coplanar waveguide (CPW) is presented and its RF performance is evaluated. The scattering parameters are ...

Elsevier2015

A High-Performance Low-Power Near-Vt RRAM-based FPGA

Giovanni De Micheli, Xifan Tang, Pierre-Emmanuel Julien Marc Gaillardon

The routing architecture, heavily using programmable switches, dominates the area, delay and power of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). Resistive Random Access Memories (RRAMs) enable high-performance routing architectures through the r ...

2014