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Permanently magnetized elastomer rotating actuator using traveling waves

We report a soft actuator that generates continuous rotation of an object placed on it by electromagnetically exciting circular travelling waves in a soft disk. The disk, that serves as the stator, is made of a stretchable composite consisting of segments ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2024

Modeling and analysis of miniaturized magnetorheological valve for fluidic actuation

Sofia Lydia Ntella

Fluidic actuation enables movement in a wide range of mechanical systems, from simple laboratory devices to more complex industrial machinery. Fluids are used to generate motion of mechanical pieces. The term "fluids" encompasses two types of technologies: ...

EPFL2023

Highly Efficient Miniaturized Magnetorheological Valves Using Electropermanent Magnets

Yves Perriard, Christian Köchli, Sofia Lydia Ntella, Adrien Jean-Michel Thabuis, Kenny Jeanmonod, Bhawnath Tiwari

Fluidic systems enable actuation in various applications, such as automotive, medical, and industrial robotics. Miniaturized valves constitute a fundamental controlling element of modern fluidic systems, intriguing the interest of many researchers. This le ...

2023

Linear and nonlinear magnetization dynamics in permalloy thin films grown on DNA origami and nanopatterned permalloy/YIG hybrid structures

Andrea Mucchietto

Spin waves (SWs) are collective excitations of the spin ensemble in systems with magnetic order. In quantum mechanics, a SW is known as a magnon, which is the quasiparticle describing the quantized nature of these wave-like excitations. Magnonics is the re ...

EPFL2023

Seeding and Emergence of Composite Skyrmions in a van der Waals Magnet

Klaus Kern, Marko Burghard, Lukas Powalla

Topological charge plays a significant role in a range of physical systems. In particular, observations of real-space topological objects in magnetic materials have been largely limited to skyrmions - states with a unitary topological charge. Recently, mor ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2023

Disorder-induced electronic, magnetic, and optoelectronic properties of two-dimensional materials

Cheol Yeon Cheon

Technological advancement has been in cadence with material development by improving the purity of single crystals and, at the same time, controlling their imperfections. These capabilities have been especially vital for developing new technolo-gies based ...

EPFL2022

Ultraflexible flow directed device and system

Mahmut Selman Sakar, Lucio Feo Pancaldi-Giubbini, Pietro Luciano Jakobus Dirix

A flow directed device adapted to be guided by a fuid, such as blood, flow within a tubular structure such as a blood vessel is disclosed, said device comprising a proximal end (100), a distal end (101) and an elongated body (102) in between defining a lon ...

2021

Magnons, worms and nanogratings in artificial magnetic quasicrystals

Sho Watanabe

Magnons (spin waves, SWs) are elementary spin excitations in magnetically ordered materials. They are the promising quanta for the transmission and processing of information. Magnons can be coupled to the electromagnetic waves utilized for the wireless com ...

EPFL2021

Challenges and Applications to Operando and In Situ TEM Imaging and Spectroscopic Capabilities in a Cryogenic Temperature Range

Vasiliki Tileli, Martial Duchamp, Reinis Ignatans

In this Account, we describe the challenges and promising applications of transmission electron microscopy (TEM) imaging and spectroscopy at cryogenic temperatures. Our work focuses on two areas of application: the delay of electron-beam-induced degradatio ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Assessing Cu2L2X4 dimeric moieties as ferromagnetic building blocks in double halide-bridged polymers (X = Cl-, Br- and L = benzamide). An experimental and computational study

Sergio Vela Llausi

Two isostructural double halide-bridged polymers, consisting of stacked Cu2L2X4 dimers, with L = benzamide (BA) and X = Cl- in CuClBA and X = Br- in CuBrBA, were synthesised. The experimental magnetic data of both compounds were recorded and it was found t ...

2020

Tuning ferromagnetism at room temperature by visible light

László Forró, Endre Horvath, Bálint Náfrádi, Andrea Pisoni, Massimo Spina, Péter Szirmai, Xavier François Mettan

Most digital information today is encoded in the magnetization of ferromagnetic domains. The demand for ever-increasing storage space fuels continuous research for energy-efficient manipulation of magnetism at smaller and smaller length scales. Writing a b ...

National Academy of Sciences2020

Design optimization of Miniature Magnetorheological Valves with Self-Sensing Capabilities Used for a Wearable Medical Application

Yves Perriard, Yoan René Cyrille Civet, Sofia Lydia Ntella, Minh Trung Duöng

Magnetorheological (MR) fluids are materials characterized as “intelligent” since their rheological properties may be controlled by the excitation of an external magnetic field. The application of the latter brings the fluid from a liquid to a semi-solid s ...

IEEE2020

Magnetic hyperthermia with epsilon-Fe(2)O(3)nanoparticles

Débora Bonvin

Biocompatibility restrictions have limited the use of magnetic nanoparticles for magnetic hyperthermia therapy to iron oxides, namely magnetite (Fe3O4) and maghemite (gamma-Fe2O3). However, there is yet another magnetic iron oxide phase that has not been c ...

2020

Dynamics and clogging of colloidal monolayers magnetically driven through a heterogeneous landscape

Ignacio Pagonabarraga Mora

We combine experiments and numerical simulations to investigate the emergence of clogging in a system of interacting paramagnetic colloidal particles driven against a disordered landscape of larger obstacles. We consider a single aperture in a landscape of ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2020

Supercritical water anomalies in the vicinity of the Widom line

Christian Ludwig

Supercritical water is used in a variety of chemical and industrial applications. As a consequence, a detailed knowledge of the structure-properties correlations is of uttermost importance. Although supercritical water was considered as a homogeneous fluid ...

Nature Research2019

Design, Modelling and Sensing Possibilities of Magneto-Rheological Based Devices

Daniel Grivon

This thesis has been put in place during the development of an innovative medical device which consists in an intelligent footwear for foot plantar pressure redistribution in diabetic patients. In fact, despite the several sophisticated techniques develope ...

EPFL2017

Tunable spin polarization and superconductivity in engineered oxide interfaces

Stefano Rusponi

Advances in growth technology of oxide materials allow single atomic layer control of heterostructures. In particular delta doping, a key materials' engineering tool in today's semiconductor technology, is now also available for oxides. Here we show that a ...

Nature Publishing Group2016

Detection of Pressure or Flow Rate Variations in MR Valves through Magnetic Flux Analysis

Yves Perriard, Yoan René Cyrille Civet, Daniel Grivon

Magneto-Rheological (MR) fluids consist in a suspension of ferromagnetic particles dispersed in a fluid carrier. If excited by a magnetic source, the nearby magnetic field induces the particles magnetization with the formation of chainlike structures align ...

2016

Magnetic remanence in single atoms

Harald Brune, François Patthey, Stefano Rusponi, Christian Wäckerlin, Jan Gui-Hyon Dreiser, Pietro Gambardella, Fabio Donati, Zeljko Sljivancanin, Aparajita Singha, Romana Baltic, Katharina Johanna Diller, Edgar Fernandes

A permanent magnet retains a substantial fraction of its saturation magnetization in the absence of an external magnetic field. Realizing magnetic remanence in a single atom allows for storing and processing information in the smallest unit of matter. We s ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2016

Stabilization of electrodynamic bearings with active magnetic dampers

Qingwen Cui

Electrodynamic Bearings (EDBs) are a kind of passive magnetic bearings that exploits the interaction between the induced eddy currents in a conductor and a magnetic field to provide re-storing forces. They have been regarded as an appealing alternative to ...

EPFL2016