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Thermal and humidity monitoring in "Cold" silicon-based high energy physics detectors

Sandro Carrara, Andromachi Tsirou, Amar Kapic

As high readout channel density and compact design become the norm for HEP detectors so is the detector cooling at temperatures below the experimental site dewpoint. This increases the importance of humidity and temperature monitoring systems that are also ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

Cascaded all-optical quantization employing step-size MMI and shape-optimized power splitter

Jijun He, Xiaowei Zhang, Jian Wu, Ye Tian

As a key unit of future high-throughput communications, optical analog to digital converter (OADC) with all-optical quantizer element that simultaneously possesses high resolution, large bandwidth and compact size is highly promising. A pending issue of co ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2023

Dielectric Tetramer Nanoresonators Supporting Strong Superchiral Fields for Vibrational Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy

Hatice Altug, Felix Ulrich Richter, Yasaman Jahani, Rui Lu, Bang Hyun Lee, Ming-Lun Tseng, Longfang Ye

Chirality (C) is a fundamental property of objects, in terms of symmetry. It is extremely important to sense and distinguish chiral molecules in the fields of biochemistry, science, and medicine. Vibrational circular dichroism (VCD) spectroscopy, obtained ...

Amer Chemical Soc2023

Electronic readout of DNA amplification in nanoliter chambers. Strategies towards highly parallel semiconductor-based nucleic acid amplification testing

Saurabh Tomar

Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) has been the most significant driver in the field of nucleic acid testing (NAT) since its invention. Popularized as an abbreviation by the Covid-19 pandemic, PCR-based methods are the gold standard in the field of diagnostic ...

EPFL2023

Modelling and Sensors for Magnetically-Levitated Disc Drives

Juan Patricio Tomás Peralta Fierro

The development of new industrial applications has diverted the focus of research towards compacter and faster rotatory drives. These requirements push the classical ball-bearings of electric motors to the limits in terms of operational lifetime and fricti ...

EPFL2022

The high-power helicon program at DIII-D: gearing up for first experiments

Alessandro Marinoni

Helicon current drive (CD), also called fast wave CD in the lower hybrid range of frequencies, has long been regarded as a promising CD tool for reactor grade plasmas. A newly installed MW-level system at DIII-D will be the first test of this technology in ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2021

Chip-based soliton microcomb module using a hybrid semiconductor laser

Tobias Kippenberg, Rui Ning Wang, Nicolas Volet, Junqiu Liu, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Arslan Sajid Raja, Jijun He

Photonic chip-based soliton microcombs have shown rapid progress and have already been used in many system-level applications. There has been substantial progress in realizing soliton microcombs that rely on compact laser sources, culminating in devices th ...

2020

Assembling Ni-Fe Layered Double Hydroxide 2D Thin Films for Oxygen Evolution Electrodes

Hubert Girault, Andreas Stephan Lesch, Victor Costa Bassetto, Massimo Rosa

Continuous hydrothermal flow synthesis (CHFS) of Ni-Fe layered double hydroxide (LDH) leads to waterborne dispersions of 2D nanoplatelets in the range of 10-50 nm in lateral size. Conversion of the as-synthesized LDH nanoplatelet dispersion into inkjet pri ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Ring a ring o' pulses

Quantum cascade lasers are bright and compact semiconductor lasers that emit light in the mid- to far-infrared spectral region. The use of a closed ring cavity has now set them on the path towards ultrafast pulses. ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2020

Linear credit risk models

Damir Filipovic, Damien Edouard Ackerer

We introduce a novel class of credit risk models in which the drift of the survival process of a firm is a linear function of the factors. The prices of defaultable bonds and credit default swaps (CDS) are linear-rational in the factors. The price of a CDS ...

2020

Integration Methods of Cyclodextrins on Gold and Carbon Electrodes for Electrochemical Sensors

Sandro Carrara, Irene Taurino, Maria Antonietta Casulli

Cyclodextrins (CDs) are oligosaccharides composed of six (α), seven (β) or eight (γ) glucose units. Their inner hydrophobic cavity and hydrophilic external surface enable the formation of the “host-guest inclusion complex” with different organic or inorgan ...

2019

System Design and Advanced Circuit Techniques for Bi-Directional Brain-Machine Interfaces

Wen-Yang Hsu

Bi-directional brain-machine interfaces (BBMIs) that can capture electrophysiological signals and provide feedback through electrical stimulation are emerging tools with various applica-tions in fundamental neuroscience research as well as in clinical trea ...

EPFL2018

Compact Side and Multi Angle Illumination Lensless Imager and Method of Operating the Same

Christophe Moser, Manon Rostykus

A system for subpixel resolution imaging of an amplitude and quantitative phase image, the system including a waveguide having a top plane, a bottom plane, and two sides, an array of light sources emitting first befit beams from one side of the two sides o ...

2017

LinoSPAD: A Compact Linear SPAD Camera System with 64 FPGA-Based TDC Modules for Versatile 50 ps Resolution Time-Resolved Imaging

Edoardo Charbon, Samuel Burri, Claudio Bruschini

The LinoSPAD camera system is a modular, compact and versatile time-resolved camera system, combining a linear 256 high fill factor pixel CMOS SPAD (single-photon avalanche diode) sensor with an FPGA (field-programmable gate array) and USB 3.0 transceiver ...

2017

Ionic Liquid Control Crystal Growth to Enhance Planar Perovskite Solar Cells Efficiency

Michael Graetzel, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Kurt Schenk, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Michael Saliba, Jingshan Luo, Antonio Abate, Fabrizio Giordano, Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena, Konrad Domanski, Jiyoun Seo, Amita Ummadisingu, Taisuke Matsui, Mahboobeh Hadadian

Ionic liquids can retard the perovskite crystallization with the aim to form compact films with larger and more uniformly distributed grain size. The ionic liquid driven crystallization is exploited to prepared a record planar perovskite solar cell with st ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag Berlin2016

Disc colours in field and cluster spiral galaxies at 0.5 less than or similar to z less than or similar to 0.8

Frédéric Courbin, Pascale Jablonka, Georges Meylan, Nicolas Cantale

We present a detailed study of the colours of late-type galaxy discs for ten of the EDisCS galaxy clusters with 0.5 less than or similar to z less than or similar to 0.8. Our cluster sample contains 172 spiral galaxies, and our control sample is composed o ...

Edp Sciences S A2016

A Miniature Multimodal Actuator for Effective Tactile Feedback: Design and Characterization

Huaiqi Huang, Tao Li

We designed a miniature multimodal actuator by combining servomotors and vibrators. The actuator is mainly designed to non-invasively deliver tactile information to human skin by high-frequency vibration and low-frequency pressures simultaneously. By utili ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016

A Relative Imaging CMOS Image Sensor for High Dynamic Range and High Frame-Rate Machine Vision Imaging Applications

Alexandre Schmid, Yusuf Leblebici, Vladan Popovic, Nikola Katic, Radisav Cojbasic

This paper proposes an unconventional image acquisition scheme for machine vision applications, based on detecting ratios of illumination (pixel) intensities. Detecting relative ratios enables capturing the scene features and patterns almost independently ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2015

Compact Low-Power Cortical Recording Architecture for Compressive Multichannel Data Acquisition

Pierre Vandergheynst, Alexandre Schmid, Mahsa Shoaran, Mahdad Hosseini Kamal

This paper introduces an area- and power-efficient approach for compressive recording of cortical signals used in an implantable system prior to transmission. Recent research on compressive sensing has shown promising results for sub-Nyquist sampling of sp ...

2014

Accurate RF modeling of nanoscale MOSFET using BSIM6 including low levels of inversion

Christian Enz, Maria-Anna Chalkiadaki

Nanoscale CMOS devices display very high peak transit frequency Ft of several hundreds of GHz. This feature can be exploited for reducing power consumption by shifting the operating point towards moderate or eventually weak inversion where the Ft still rea ...

Elsevier2014