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Light Emission and Conductance Fluctuations in Electrically Driven and Plasmonically Enhanced Molecular Junctions

Christophe Marcel Georges Galland, Wen Chen, Sakthi Priya Amirtharaj, Konstantin Malchow, Zhiyuan Xie

Electrically connected and plasmonically enhanced molecular junctions combine the optical functionalities of high field confinement and enhancement (cavity function), and of high radiative efficiency (antenna function) with the electrical functionalities o ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

Computational design and additive manufacturing of electromagnetic coils

Adrien Jean-Michel Thabuis

The modern world is heavily reliant on electromagnetic devices to convert mechanical energy into electrical energy and vice versa. These devices are fundamental to powering our society, and the growing need for automated production lines and electrified tr ...

EPFL2023

Synthesis of polysiloxane elastomers modified with sulfonyl side groups and their electromechanical response

Holger Frauenrath, Yauhen Sheima

Dielectric elastomer transducers are elastic capacitors that respond to mechanical or electrical stress. They can be used in applications such as millimeter-sized soft robots and harvesters of the energy contained in ocean waves. The dielectric component o ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2023

Catalytic layer - membrane electrode assembly methods for optimum formation of triple phase boundaries and fuel cell performances

Hubert Girault, Victor Costa Bassetto, Wanderson Oliveira Da Silva, Solène Cindy Gentil

Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell (PEMFC), designed mainly for mobility applications, converts chemical energy to electrical energy. The formation of electrodes for PEMFC is a delicate balancing of transport media. Conductivity of gas, electrons, and prot ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2021

Control Strategy for the Discharge Phase of an Ultra-High Voltage (>7kV) Bi-Directional Flyback Converter Driving Capacitive Actuators

Yves Perriard, Alexis Boegli, Raphaël Johannes Charles Mottet

Dielectric Elastomer Actuators (DEAs) require ultra high voltages in the order of several kilo volts to operate. To supply such voltages, a DC-DC flyback converter topology was selected. One of the main advantage of using such a structure is the possibilit ...

IEEE2020

Electrical energy generated by silicone elastomers filled with nanospring- carbon- nanotubes

Frank Nüesch

Dielectric elastomer generators (DEGs) are flexible capacitors that convert mechanical into electrical energy. They rely on an external voltage source to charge the capacitor during each operation cycle. An alternative to this is an autonomous DEG which op ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2019

High voltage switch for compact bidirectional dc-dc converter driving dielectric electroactive polymer actuators

Yves Perriard, Yoan René Cyrille Civet, Morgan Almanza, Raphaël Johannes Charles Mottet

Driving DEAs requires time-varying high voltage power supplies, up to 18kV for 200um polymer layers. HV amplifiers are commonly used but bulky and expensive. Designing embedded actuators requires compact and efficient powersupplies. Furthermore, only a lit ...

2019

Design of High Permittivity Polysiloxane Elastomers for Dielectric Elastomer Transducers

Philip Horst Caspari

Dielectric elastomer transducers consist of a dielectric elastomer between two compliant electrodes. When the elastic capacitor is electrically charged, the dielectric elastomer elongates until a balance of elastic and electrostatic force is reached. Elect ...

EPFL2019

Multi-level high-voltage power supply for dea application

Yves Perriard, Yoan René Cyrille Civet, Morgan Almanza

In order to reap the benefits of Dielectric Elastomer Actuator (DEA) high energy density, the electronics powering the actuator should be as small as possible. Knowing that only a small fraction of the energy delivered to DEAs is effectively converted into ...

2019

Efficiency improvement of an all-vanadium redox flow battery by harvesting low-grade heat

Hubert Girault, Alberto Battistel, Christopher Raymond Dennison, Danick Reynard

Redox flow batteries (RFBs) are rugged systems, which can withstand several thousand cycles and last many years. However, they suffer from low energy density, low power density, and low efficiency. Integrating a Thermally Regenerative Electrochemical Cycle ...

2018

Electroadhesive device, system and method for gripping

Dario Floreano, Herbert Shea, Samuel Rosset, Jun Shintake, Bryan Edward Schubert

A device for electroadhesion and conversion of electrical energy into mechanical energy, for example electrostatic actuation, is provided, including a soft polymeric dielectric support having at least two sets of overlapping electrodes patterned respective ...

2017

A new constituent of electrostatic energy in semiconductors

Jean-Michel Sallese

The concept of electric energy is revisited in detail for semiconductors. We come to the conclusion that the main relationship used to calculate the energy related to the penetration of the electric field in semiconductors is missing a fundamental term. Fo ...

EDP Sciences, Springer2016

Determining The Potential Of Salinity Gradient Energy Source Using An Exergy Analysis

Mixing of fresh (river) water and salty water (seawater or saline brine) in a control fashion would produces an electrical energy known as salinity gradient energy (SGE). Two main conversion technologies of SGE are membrane-based processes; pressure retard ...

Amer Soc Mechanical Engineers2016

Dielectric elastomer generators that stack up

Herbert Shea, Samuel Rosset

This paper reports the design, fabrication, and testing of a soft dielectric elastomer power generator with a volume of less than 1 cm3. The generator is well suited to harvest energy from ambient and from human body motion as it can harvest from low frequ ...

Institute of Physics2015

Synthesis and Functionalization of Silver Nanoparticles for the Preparation of High Permittivity Nanocomposites

Jose Enrico Quijano Quinsaat

Over the last decade, a growing interest in nanochemistry has emerged due to the interesting features of nanomaterials that vary with size, shape and surface structure. In particular, metal nanoparticles have received much attention due to their properties ...

EPFL2015

On The Optimization And Performances Of A Compact Piezoelectric Impact Mems Energy Harvester

Nico de Rooij, Danick Briand, Pattanaphong Janphuang, Robert Andrew Lockhart

This paper presents the development of a compact energy harvesting configuration to convert low frequency, mechanical oscillations into usable electrical energy using AFM-like MEMS piezoelectric cantilevers coupled to a rotating gear. In this approach, one ...

IEEE2014

On the experimental determination of the efficiency of piezoelectric impact-type energy harvesters using a rotational flywheel

Nico de Rooij, Danick Briand, Simon Nessim Henein, Pattanaphong Janphuang, Robert Andrew Lockhart

This paper demonstrates a novel methodology using a rotational flywheel to determine the energy conversion efficiency of the impact based piezoelectric energy harvesters. The influence of the impact speed and additional proof mass on the efficiency is pres ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2013

An electroactive polymer energy harvester for wireless sensor networks

Herbert Shea, Samuel Rosset

This paper reports the design, fabrication, and testing of a soft electroactive polymer power generator that has a volume of 1cm(3). The generator provides an opportunity to harvest energy from environmental sources to power wireless sensor networks becaus ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2013

Thermodynamics of continuous media with intrinsic rotation and magnetoelectric coupling

Jean-Philippe Ansermet, Sylvain Bréchet

The thermodynamics of an electrically charged, multicomponent continuous medium with intrinsic rotation is analysed in the presence of electromagnetic fields with a weak linear magnetoelectric coupling in the non-relativistic limit. Taking into account the ...

Springer Verlag2013

Thermodynamics of a continuous medium with electric and magnetic dipoles

Jean-Philippe Ansermet, Sylvain Bréchet

The thermodynamics of an electrically charged, multicomponent fluid with spontaneous electric and magnetic dipoles is analysed in the presence of electromagnetic fields. Taking into account the chemical composition of the current densities and stress tenso ...

EDP Sciences, Springer2013