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Nanomechanical resonators with low dissipation for quantum optomechanics

Fields of technology as diverse as microwave filter construction, characterization of material interfaces with atomic precision, and detection of gravitational waves from astronomical sources employ mechanical resonators at their core. The utility of mecha ...

EPFL2023

Perimeter Modes of Nanomechanical Resonators Exhibit Quality Factors Exceeding 10(9) at Room Temperature

Tobias Kippenberg, Sergey Fedorov, Nils Johan Engelsen, Alberto Beccari, Amirali Arabmoheghi, Guanhao Huang

Systems with low mechanical dissipation are extensively used in precision measurements such as gravitational wave detection, atomic force microscopy, and quantum control of mechanical oscillators via optomechanics and electromechanics. The mechanical quali ...

American Physical Society2022

Coating Porous MXene Films with Tunable Porosity for High-Performance Solid-State Supercapacitors

Jakob Heier, Sina Abdolhosseinzadeh

Two-dimensional MXenes with their outstanding physical and chemical properties have been extensively used in numerous fields such as electrochemical energy storage, catalysis, and sensing. In these applications, high active surface area and facilitated dif ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2021

Low-Power and Wide-Tuning Range Frequency Generation for FMCW Radars in Advanced CMOS Technologies

Francesco Chicco

Nowadays, the internet of things (IoT) nodes have started to spread in various domains of our society, from the industrial to the domestic environment. The remote sensing is one among their fundamental functions. The implementation of a radio detection and ...

EPFL2021

A Low Power 35 GHz HEMT Oscillator for Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy

Giovanni Boero, Alessandro Valentino Matheoud, Nergiz Sahin Solmaz

This paper presents a low power microwave oscillator designed as sensor for electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopy. Low power consumption is necessary for low temperature operation. Additionally, lower power consumption allows for a lower microwave mag ...

IEEE2021

Networks of Coupled VO2 Oscillators for Neuromorphic Computing

Elisabetta Corti

Neuromorphic computing is a wide research field aimed to the realization of brain-inspired hardware, apt to tackle computation of unstructured data more efficiently than currently done with standard computational units. Oscillatory neural networks are know ...

EPFL2021

Development of Lamb wave resonators in thin film X-cut lithium niobate

Muhammad Faizan

Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) is among the most revolutionary technologies of 21st century, with the applications ranging from industrial systems to consumer electronics. Using MEMS in battery-powered wireless devices has long been seen as the evol ...

EPFL2021

Mechanical oscillator with tunable isochronism defect

Simon Nessim Henein, Mohammad Hussein Kahrobaiyan, Mohamed Gamal Abdelrahman Ahmed Zanaty

Mechanical oscillator (1) for a timepiece comprising an inertial mass (3) arranged to oscillate about a neutral position under the effect of a restoring force provided by at least one elastic element (5),characterised in that said mechanical oscillator (1) ...

2020

Time-Delay Encoded Image Recognition in a Network of Resistively Coupled VO2 on Si Oscillators

Kirsten Emilie Moselund, Siegfried Karg

Oscillatory neural networks based on insulator to metal transition of VO2 switches are implemented for image recognition. The VO2 oscillators are fabricated on silicon in a CMOS compatible process.A fullyconnected network of coupled oscillators is investig ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2020

Towards Deeply Scaled 3D MPSoCs with Integrated Flow Cell Array Technology

David Atienza Alonso, Mohamed Mostafa Sabry Aly, Halima Najibi, Marina Zapater Sancho, Alexandre Sébastien Julien Levisse

Deeply-scaled three-dimensional (3D) Multi-Processor Systems-on-Chip (MPSoCs) enable high performance and massive communication bandwidth for next-generation computing. However, as process nodes shrink, temperature-dependent leakage dramatically increases, ...

2020

Multi-Objective Management of Multiprocessor Systems: From Heuristics to Reinforcement Learning

Arman Iranfar

In my thesis, I reveal several already-existing and emerging challenges in multi-objective management of multiprocessor systems, and address them through novel solutions, from heuristics to RL, depending on the complexity of the problem. Conventional multi ...

EPFL2020

Electron Spin Resonance detectors from 400 MHz to 360 GHz

Alessandro Valentino Matheoud

Methods based on the electron spin resonance (ESR) phenomenon are non-invasive tools adopted to investigate paramagnetic systems at temperatures ranging from above 1000 K to below 1 K. Since 2008, the group of Dr. Boero has been working on a detection tech ...

EPFL2019

Preparation and Decay of a Single Quantum of Vibration at Ambient Conditions

Christophe Marcel Georges Galland, Vivishek Sudhir, Kilian Robert Seibold, Nils Kipfer, Mitchell David Anderson, Santiago Tarrago Velez

A single quantum of excitation of a mechanical oscillator is a textbook example of the principles of quantum physics. But mechanical oscillators, despite their pervasive presence in nature and modem technology, do not genetically exist in an excited Fock s ...

American Physical Society2019

Activity induced synchronization: Mutual flocking and chiral self-sorting

Ignacio Pagonabarraga Mora

Synchronization, the temporal coordination of coupled oscillators, allows fireflies to flash in unison, neurons to fire collectively, and human crowds to fall in step on the London millenium bridge. Here, we interpret active (or self-propelled) chiral micr ...

2019

Design techniques for a stable operation of cryogenic field-programmable gate arrays

Edoardo Charbon, Harald Arjan Robert Homulle

In this paper, we show how a deep-submicron field-programmable gate array (FPGA) can be operated more stably at extremely low temperatures through special firmware design techniques. Stability at low temperatures is limited through long power supply wires ...

2018

Ultra-coherent nano-mechanical resonators for quantum optomechanics at room temperature

Amir Hossein Ghadimi

Mechanical oscillators are among the most important scientific tools in the modern physics. From the pioneering experiments in 18th by founding fathers of modern physics such as Newton, Hooke and Cavendish to the ground braking experiments in the 21th cent ...

EPFL2018

Adaptive Receiver Design for High Speed Optical Communication

Ilter Ozkaya

Conventional input/output (IO) links consume power, independent of changes in the bandwidth demand by the system they are deployed in. As the system is designed to satisfy the peak bandwidth demand, most of the time the IO links are idle but still consumin ...

EPFL2018

Remotely-Powered Front-End at 2.45 GHz for Real-Time Continuous Temperature Sensing

Catherine Dehollain, Onur Kazanç, Franco Maloberti

Remote powering and power management of a passive sensor system employing antenna-rectifier co-design is presented. The operating frequency of the system is chosen at 2.45 GHz in order to reduce the antenna size. A co-design approach enables the coupling o ...

IEEE2018

A nA Crystal - Less Oscillator for Internet of Things

Maher Kayal, François Krummenacher, Mathieu Yves Hervé Coustans

This work presents an ultra-low power oscillator designed to target different contexts, such as crystal-assisted time keeping, reference oscillator to optimize the always on domain of a microcontroller or wake-up timer. This oscillator enables ultra-low po ...

Ieee2016

A 400 fJ Per-Cycle Frequency Reference for Internet of Things

Maher Kayal, François Krummenacher, Mathieu Yves Hervé Coustans

This work presents an ultra-low power oscillator designed to target different contexts, such as crystal-assisted time keeping, reference oscillator to optimize the always on domain of a microcontroller or wake-up timer. This oscillator enables ultra-low po ...

2016