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Electroreception and electrogenesis

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Breakdown development in a nanosecond pulsed dielectric barrier discharge in humid air in plane-to-plane geometry

Ivo Furno, Xin Yang, Lorenzo Ibba

We used the ns electric field induced second harmonic (EFISH) generation diagnostic to measure the electric field evolution in a 200 ns pulse, dielectric barrier, plane-to-plane discharge in humid air, on the time scale shorter than the laser pulse duratio ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2023

A formula for the admittance of laterally excited bulk wave resonators (XBARs)

Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Soumya Yandrapalli

The recently invented laterally excited bulk wave resonators (XBARs) demonstrate outstanding parameters suitable for the design of low loss filters for the fifth generation of mobile phones. The operation of XBARs can be interpreted as an excitation of ant ...

WILEY2021

Apparatus and method for locating cells generating an electrical anomaly in a subject's body part

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri

The present invention concerns a data processing apparatus for locating source cells (25) responsible for an electrical anomaly in a subject's body part (8). The apparatus comprises means for: obtaining one or more electrical signals (19) resulting from el ...

2021

Importance of Taking Into Account the Soil Stratification in Reproducing the Late-Time Features of Distant Fields Radiated by Lightning

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Antonio Sunjerga

In this paper, we present an analysis of the propagation effect along a lossy ground on the characteristics of lightning-generated electric fields, using simultaneous observations of lightning currents and radiated fields measured at nine different distanc ...

2019

Two Possible Scenarios for the Formation of Category 1 Bipolar Lightning Flashes

Marcos Rubinstein, Davide Pavanello, Mohammad Azadifar, Quanxin Li

We present and discuss the current and electric field waveforms associated with two upward bipolar lightning flashes that occurred at the Säntis Tower. According to the traditional classification of bipolar flashes, both observed flashes could be classifie ...

2019

Multiple-Station Measurements of a Return-Stroke Electric Field From Rocket-Triggered Lightning at Distances of 68-126 km

Antonio Sunjerga, Quanxin Li

Far-field measurements of lightning-produced electromagnetic fields are of high importance for lightning location systems. Data from recorded lightning strokes can be, for example, used to assess the risk of lightning-induced damage in some geographical ar ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2019

Kinetic approach to the Schwinger effect during inflation

Oleksandr Sobol

Using the kinetic approach, we study the impact of the charged particle dynamics due to the Schwinger effect on the electric field evolution during inflation. As a simple model of the electric field generation, we consider the kinetic coupling of the elect ...

American Physical Society2019

Soft Biomimetic Fish Robot Made of Dielectric Elastomer Actuators

Dario Floreano, Herbert Shea, Jun Shintake, Vito Cacucciolo

This article presents the design, fabrication, and characterization of a soft biomimetic robotic fish based on dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) that swims by body and/or caudal fin (BCF) propulsion. BCF is a promising locomotion mechanism that potenti ...

2018

Charge generation by ultra-stretchable elastomeric electrets

Frank Nüesch, Yee Song Ko

Novel piezoelectric elastomers are synthesized and their long term stability and piezoelectric properties are investigated. They are thin film composites of specially designed polymer nanoparticles with high glass transition temperatures (T-g) and side gro ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2017

Locating transient disturbance sources and modelling their interaction with transmission lines : use of electromagnetic time reversal and asymptotic theory

Gaspard Lugrin

This thesis deals with the application of electromagnetic time reversal to locating transient disturbance sources and the use of the asymptotic theory for the modelling of their interaction with transmission lines. We demonstrate that the time-of-arrival, ...

EPFL2016

Estimation of Relative Position and Coordination of Mobile Underwater Robotic Platforms through Electric Sensing

Auke Ijspeert, Yannick Morel

In the context of underwater robotics, positioning and coordination of mobile agents can prove a challenging problem. To address this issue, we propose the use of electric sensing, with a technique inspired by weakly electric fishes. In particular, the app ...

Ieee2012

Application of the time reversal of electromagnetic fields to locate lightning discharges

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Nicolas Mora Parra

In this paper, we propose a new method for locating lightning discharges. The proposed method is based on the time reversal technique introduced for acoustics in the early 1990s. By analogy to the derivations in acoustics, equations for the focusing of ele ...

Elsevier2012

Strong electric field and nonuniformity effects in GaN/AlN quantum dots revealed by high pressure studies

Nicolas Grandjean

The photoluminescence (PL) from GaN quantum dots (QDs) embedded in AlN has been investigated under hydrostatic pressure. The measured pressure coefficient of emitted light energy [dE(E)/dP] shows a negative value, in contrast with the positive pressure coe ...

2006