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Deexcitation Characterization for Power Supply Protection in DC Shipboard Power Systems

The deexcitation of a synchronous machine has been used for the protection of the power supply based on a diode rectifier in marine dc power distribution networks. The fault current from the generator can be eliminated with the protection method utilizing ...

IEEE2020

Protection Coordination in Marine DC Power Distribution Networks

Seongil Kim

The increasing penetration of renewable energy sources, energy storage systems (ESSs), and DC loads has opened the door to DC technology to pave its way into future grids. The shift has been more obvious in the marine domain supported by track records of i ...

EPFL2020

AlGaN/GaN Nanowires: from Electron Transport to RF Applications

Giovanni Santoruvo

Gallium Nitride (GaN) and all III-Nitride compounds have revolutionized the world with the development of the blue light emitting diode (LED). In addition, GaN-based epi-structures, such as AlGaN/GaN, enable the fabrication of high electron mobility transi ...

EPFL2020

Wireless Power Transfer and Data Communication for Implantable Autonomous Monitoring and Detection of Epilepsy In Vivo

Kerim Türe

The impact of technological advancement became significant and still has an essential role to play in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases. Nowadays, personalized medicine and therapy are on the rise as a consequence of the developed and cheaper medical ...

EPFL2019

Broadband Zero-Bias RF Field-Effect Rectifiers Based on AlGaN/GaN Nanowires

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Mohammad Samizadeh Nikooytabalvandani, Giovanni Santoruvo

Microwave zero-bias rectifiers are fast devices capable of rectifying RF signals without applied bias, which have applications ranging from RF power detection to THz imaging systems. Here we present gated nanowire field-effect rectifiers (NW-FERs) fabricat ...

2019

MVDC Supply Technologies for Marine Electrical Distribution Systems

Drazen Dujic, Francisco Daniel Freijedo Fernández, Uzair Javaid

The increase in the popularity of the medium voltage dc (MVDC) electrical distribution, as a possible evolution of the medium voltage ac (MVAC) electrical distribution for the ship on-board power systems, arises a need for a comparative evaluation and demo ...

2018

Gas Turbine: Optimization of Energy Production and High Efficiency by Using Power Electronics

Alfred Rufer, Aziza Benaboud

The use of gas turbines in the power generation industry has been increasing. Their demand represents more than 50% of the world market of thermal power plants. Electric power generators using gas turbines as power sources are connected to the turbines thr ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016

Dynamic Analysis and State Feedback Voltage Control of Single-Phase Active Rectifiers with DC-Link Resonant Filters

Alfred Rufer, Michail Vasiladiotis

Single-phase active rectifiers exhibit an inherent strong second-order current harmonic on their DC-link. The latter is often undesirable from a load point of view and is therefore chosen to be eliminated. A common method is the use of a resonant passive L ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2014

Equation of state of liquid mercury to 520 K and 7 GPa from acoustic velocity measurements

Livia Eleonora Bove Kado

Ultrafast acoustics measurements on liquid mercury have been performed at high pressure and temperature in a diamond anvil cell using picosecond acoustic interferometry. We extract the density of mercury from adiabatic sound velocities using a numerical it ...

American Institute of Physics2014

Wireless Power Transfer and Data Communication for Intracranial Neural Implants Case Study : Epilepsy Monitoring

Gürkan Yilmaz

Recording neural activities plays an important role in numerous applications ranging from brain mapping to implementation of brain-machine interfaces (BMI) to recover lost functions or to understand the mechanisms behind the neurological disorders such as ...

EPFL2014

Remotely-Powered Batteryless Implantable Local Temperature Monitoring System for Freely Moving Mice

Mehrdad Azizighannad

Brown adipose fat tissue of a mouse dissipates the animal’s energy in the form of heat. Chronically recording the temperature of this tissue helps biologists to study the metabolism of the animal and gain new insights about the obesity in humans. Such temp ...

EPFL2014

Coloring Intersection Graphs of Arc-Connected Sets in the Plane

Bartosz Maria Walczak, Michal Lason

A family of sets in the plane is simple if the intersection of any subfamily is arc-connected, and it is pierced by a line L if the intersection of any member with L is a nonempty segment. It is proved that the intersection graphs of simple families of com ...

Springer2014

Electronic Implants: Power Delivery and Management

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Jacopo Olivo, Seyedeh Sara Ghoreishizadeh

A power delivery system for implantable biosensors is presented. The system, embedded into a skin patch and located directly over the implantation area, is able to transfer up to 15 mW wirelessly through the body tissues by means of an inductive link. The ...

2013

Remote Powering Link for a Passive UHF RFID Tag for Capacitive Sensor Applications

Catherine Dehollain, Kerem Kapucu

This work discusses the remote powering link of a passive UHF RFID tag for sensor applications. The design, implementation, and measurements of the base-station antenna, tag antenna, and the rectifier are presented. The base-station antenna is a 50 Ω recta ...

IEEE2013

Remote Powering and Communication of Implantable Biosensors Through Inductive Link

Jacopo Olivo

Nowadays there is an increasing interest in the field of implantable biosensors. The possibility of real-time monitoring of the human body from inside paves the way to a large number of applications and offers wide opportunities for the future. Within this ...

EPFL2013

Two-phase flow operational maps for multi-microchannel evaporators

John Richard Thome, Navid Borhani, Sylwia Szczukiewicz

The current paper presents new operational maps for several different multi-microchannel evaporators, with and without any inlet restrictions (micro-orifices), for the two-phase flow of refrigerants R245fa, R236fa, and R1234ze(E). The test fluids flowed in ...

Elsevier2013

Wireless Data and Power Transmission Aiming Intracranial Epilepsy Monitoring

Catherine Dehollain, Gürkan Yilmaz, Oguz Atasoy

This study presents a wireless power and data transmission system to overcome the problems in intracranial epilepsy monitoring associated with transcutaneous wires. Firstly, a wireless power transfer link based on inductive coupling is implemented and a po ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2013

Remote Powering Realization for Smart Orthopedic Implants

Catherine Dehollain, Oguz Atasoy

This paper presents a remote powering realization for smart orthopedic implants with a full-wave rectifier and a voltage doubler. The measured power efficiency of the rectifier at 13.56 MHz is 80% for an output power of 20 mW with 2.2 V output. The rectifi ...

Ieee2012

Inductive Power Link for a Wireless Cortical Implant With Two-Body Packaging

Catherine Dehollain, Michel Declercq, Kanber Mithat Silay

This paper presents an inductive power link for remote powering of a wireless cortical implant. The link includes a Class-E power amplifier, a gate driver, an inductive link, and an integrated rectifier. The coils of the inductive link are designed and opt ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2011

Design, characterisation and modelling of a high current DC arc plasma source for silicon and silicon carbide processing at low pressure

Lukas Derendinger

In the frame of this thesis, two similar high current DC arc (HCDCA) plasma sources were investigated in a low gas pressure regime (10-3-10-2 mbar). One of them was initially designed for the epitaxial growth of silicon and silicon germanium (LEP), the oth ...

EPFL2008