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Design of a low-loss hybrid silicon-organic terahertz field detector

Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus, Alessandro Tomasino, Francesco Bertot

We propose an innovative design for an integrated, low-loss on-chip terahertz (THz) field detector based on hybrid silicon-organic slot waveguides and THz antennas. We perform a numerical study of the dependency of electro-optic interaction on geometrical ...

IEEE2022

Facilitators First: Building a Tool With Facilitators to Foster a More Collaborative Makerspace Community Through Movement Traces

Bertrand Roland Schneider

Research indicates that makerspaces equip students with the practical skills needed to build their own projects and thrive in the twenty-first-century workforce. While the appeal of makerspaces lies in their spirit of tinkering and community-driven ethos, ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2021

Surface Oxygenate Species on TiC Reinforce Cobalt-Catalyzed Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis

Andreas Züttel, Wen Luo

Carbide-supported metal catalysts attract extensive research interests owing to the special properties of metal carbide and the interactions between metals and the carbide supports. While surface oxide species are inevitable in carbide materials, their rol ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Antenna design for a cranial implant

Anja Skrivervik, Miroslav Veljovic, Ismael Vico Triviño

This contributions presents the design process for an antenna designated for the telemetry in a cranial implant. Issues like physical limitation, simulation problems and design strategies will he addressed and final design presented. ...

IEEE2020

Design and control of a prototype structure that adapts to loading through large shape changes

Ian Smith, Gennaro Senatore, Arka Prabhata Reksowardojo

This paper reports on experimental testing that was carried out on a prototype adaptive structure designed to counteract the effect of loading through controlled large shape changes. The prototype is 6.6 m truss equipped with 12 linear actuators which has ...

ELSEVIER2020

Antenna for a Cranial Implant: Simulation Issues and Design Strategies

Anja Skrivervik, Miroslav Veljovic, Ismael Vico Triviño

The design of a specific antenna for a cranial implant is used to illustrate design and simulation issues linked to implantable antennas. After a brief introduction, we will review the requirements for the antenna, and go through the design process, discus ...

IEEE2020

FuZZan: Efficient Sanitizer Metadata Design for Fuzzing

Mathias Josef Payer

Fuzzing is one of the most popular and effective techniques for finding software bugs. To detect triggered bugs, fuzzers leverage a variety of sanitizers in practice. Unfortunately, sanitizers target long running experiments-e.g., developer test suites-not ...

USENIX ASSOC2020

CEA Broad Studies on EU DEMO CS and PF Magnet Systems

Kamil Sedlák

In the framework of EU design activities for dimensioning the future fusion DEMOnstration reactor (DEMO), extensive analyses were conducted in EUROfusion context, aiming at ultimately defining the design of the DEMO magnet system. In this objective CEA pro ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2020

Data-driven method for low-carbon building design at early stages

Thomas Bernard Paul Jusselme

The Paris agreement on climate change called for carbon neutrality as of 2050. The built environment is one of the major contributors to the greenhouse effect, representing 39% of global emissions. As a result, this sector is targeted by green standards an ...

EPFL2020

Food Talks: visual and interaction principles for representing environmental and nutritional food information in augmented reality

Nicolas Henchoz, Delphine Ribes Lemay, Andreas Sonderegger, Emily Clare Groves

This user-centered design research project aimed to investigate visual and interaction principles for augmented reality (AR) in the context of environmental and nutritional food labelling. Nutritional information on existing food labels is often misunderst ...

2019

Design guidance from a Data-Driven LCA-Based Design method and tool prototype

Marilyne Andersen, Emmanuel Rey, Thomas Bernard Paul Jusselme

As of 2020, every new building in the European Union will have to reach the nearly Zero Energy Building (nZEB) performance. However, building nZEB will not be sufficient to reach carbon neutrality in 2050 as required by the last IPCC report: indeed, even n ...

INT BUILDING PERFORMANCE SIMULATION ASSOC-IBPSA2019

Experimental Testing of a Small-Scale Truss Beam That Adapts to Loads Through Large Shape Changes

Ian Smith, Gennaro Senatore, Arka Prabhata Reksowardojo

Adaptive structures have the ability to modify their shape and internal forces through sensing and actuation in order to maintain optimal performance under changing actions. Previous studies have shown that substantial whole-life energy savings with respec ...

2019

X-Shells: A new class of deployable beam structures

Mark Pauly, Florin Isvoranu, Francis Julian Panetta, Mina Konakovic Lukovic

We present X-shells, a new class of deployable structures formed by an ensemble of elastically deforming beams coupled through rotational joints. An X-shell can be assembled conveniently in a flat configuration from standard elastic beam elements and then ...

2019

Trust, integrated information technology and new product success

Christopher Tucci

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to investigate the combined roles via trust relationships of the two technology cores of the firm: information technology (IT) and R& D and their impact on new product success. Design/methodology/approach - A model wa ...

Emerald2017

Beam Dynamics Studies in Recirculating Machines

Dario Pellegrini

The LHeC and the CLIC Drive Beam share not only the high-current beams that make them prone to show instabilities, but also unconventional lattice topologies and operational schemes in which the time sequence of the bunches varies along the machine. In ord ...

EPFL2016

Efficiency of a highway use reservation system for morning commute

Wei Liu

This paper examines the design and efficiency of a highway use reservation system where commuters need reservations to access a highway facility at specific times. We show that, by accommodating reservation requests to the level that the highway capacity a ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2015

Three-dimensional polymeric microtiles for optically-tracked fluidic self-assembly

Jürgen Brugger, Alcherio Martinoli, Massimo Mastrangeli

Self-assembly (SA) is a bio-inspired key coordination mechanism for swarms of intelligent agents as well as a pervasive bottom-up methodology for the fabrication of heterogeneous micro- and nanosystems. Analytical studies of SA at small scales are therefor ...

2014

From Business Services to IT Services by Capturing Design Decisions

Alain Wegmann, Claude Petitpierre, Biljana Bajic-Bizumic

The main goals of any service-oriented design include flexible support and adaptability of business services and improved business-IT alignment. The existing approaches, however, have failed to fully meet these goals. One of the major reasons for this defi ...

2012

Digital model-making and the encoding of design intent : notes on the computational synthesis of form

Nathaniel Zuelzke

Across many generations, including the digitally naïve and savvy, digital technologies introduce something other to the design process. This other quality ranges from inaccessibility to facile but opaque production of complexity, yet in all cases has obscu ...

EPFL2012

Parametric Materiality

Russell Alexander Loveridge

Sustainability issues are increasingly taking more prominent positions in the hierarchy of design decisions. The combination of linked digital analysis and parametric design has emerged as an integrated method of assimilating performative characteristics i ...

Computer Aided Architectural Design Research In Asia2011