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Modeling and optimization of PCB coils for inductive power transfer systems

Xiaotong Du

The auxiliary power supply for medium voltage converters requires high insulation capability between the source and the load. Inductive power transfer technology, with an air gap between the primary and secondary coil, offers such high insulation capabilit ...

EPFL2024

ICRH assisted breakdown study on JET

Benoît Labit, Haomin Sun, Thomas Binderup Jensen

Ion cyclotron (IC) wave assisted breakdown has the potential to increase the robustness of plasma initiation during the ITER pre-fusion operation phase. Studies were performed at JET at ITER relevant loop electric field, E-loop ? 0.33 Vm(-1), and a range o ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

On the Use of Benford’s Law to Assess the Quality of the Data Provided by Lightning Locating Systems

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Amirhossein Mostajabi, Seyed Mohammad Ehsan Mansouri Tehrani

Lightning causes significant damage and casualties globally by directly striking humans and livestock, by igniting forest fires, and by inducing electrical surges in electronic infrastructure, airplanes, rockets, etc. Monitoring the evolution of thundersto ...

2022

Ionization Waves Enhance the Production of X-rays during Streamer Collisions

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein

Experimental data show that in laboratory sparks, X-rays are produced in time synchronization with the meeting of streamers of opposite polarity just before the final breakdown of the discharge gap. It has been suggested that the electric field enhancement ...

2021

EM Fields Generated by a Scale Model Helical Antenna and Its Use in Validating a Code for Lightning-Induced Voltage Calculation

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri

This paper aims at validating a code for the evaluation of lightning-induced overvoltages developed in the PSCADEMTDC environment using experimental results obtained on an experimental facility deployed at the University of S˜ao Paulo, Brazil that emulates ...

2019

Memristive Biosensors based on Full-size Antibodies and Antibody Fragments

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Ioulia Tzouvadaki

For the first time memristive biosensors developed by the incorporation of scAbs (single-chain antibody fragments) enabling label-free detection of free Prostate Specific Antigen (fPSA) for early-stage detection of prostate cancer (PC) are reported. In add ...

Elsevier2019

On the representation of thin wires inside lossy dielectric materials for FDTD‐based LEMP simulations

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Akiyoshi Tatematsu

The finite-difference time-domain method is one of the most widely used numerical electromagnetic computation techniques, and it has become an effective tool for analyzing electromagnetic transient phenomena in three-dimensional structures and grounding sy ...

2019

Instability of p-i-n perovskite solar cells under reverse bias

Christophe Ballif, Sylvain Nicolay, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Laura Ding, Florent Sahli, Chien-Jen Yang, Fan Fu, Arnaud Walter, Peter Joseph Fiala, Daniel Anthony Jacobs, Marion Solange Madeleine Dussouillez

Partial shading can trigger permanent damage in photovoltaic modules because the illuminated solar cells drive the shaded cells into reverse bias. Under reverse bias conditions, perovskite solar cells have been shown to degrade quickly due to processes tha ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2020

Locating lightning strikes and flashovers along overhead power transmission lines using electromagnetic time reversal

Mario Paolone, Gianluca Antonini, Reza Razzaghi, Keyhan Sheshyekani

The paper presents a method to identify the location of direct lightning strikes to overhead transmission lines and potential subsequent flashover(s). The method is based on the electromagnetic time reversal theory and relies on the use of a single measure ...

Elsevier2018

Gas Sensor with Reduced Humidity Response, Based on Metal Oxide Nanoparticles Synthesized by Spark Discharge

Thomas Maeder

The most part of gas sensors based on tin dioxide semiconductor sensing material are fabricated by using sol-gel synthesis of SnO2. This process leads to the formation of highly sensitive sensing material; however, it forms hydroxyl groups on the surface o ...

ORIENTAL SCIENTIFIC PUBL CO2018

Reducing Humidity Response of Gas Sensors for Medical Applications: Use of Spark Discharge Synthesis of Metal Oxide Nanoparticles

Thomas Maeder

The application of gas sensors in breath analysis is an important trend in the early diagnostics of different diseases including lung cancer, ulcers, and enteric infection. However, traditional methods of synthesis of metal oxide gas-sensing materials for ...

MDPI2018

The effect of “objecthood” in the Ebbinghaus illusion

Michael Herzog, Aline Françoise Cretenoud, Einat Rashal

In the Ebbinghaus illusion, observers overestimate the size of a target when it is surrounded by large flakers and compared with a control target surrounded by small flankers. We examined whether “objecthood” – the degree to which an object is a cohesive e ...

2017

A Switched Oscillator Geometry Inspired by a Curvilinear Space-Part II: Electrodynamic Considerations

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri

This is the second part of a two-part paper in which we present a new technique for the design of coaxial switched oscillators (SWOs). In this part, we present a model for the analysis of the signal radiated by the SWO, in both frequency and time domains. ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016

Surface trap mediated electronic transport in biofunctionalized silicon nanowires

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Francesca Puppo

Silicon nanowires (SiNWs), fabricated via a top-down approach and then functionalized with biological probes, are used for electrically-based sensing of breast tumor markers. The SiNWs, featuring memristive-like behavior in bare conditions, show, in the pr ...

2016

Influence of ground wire on the initiation of upward leader from 110 to 1000kV AC phase line

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Xi Wang

The problem of upward leader inception from transmission lines has not been thoroughly discussed, largely because of the difficulty to obtain experimental data under natural circumstances. Previous studies have primarily examined reduced-scale experiments ...

Elsevier2016

Development of a system for part quality prediction and process parameters adjustment in wire electrical discharge machining

Olcay Akten

In the past decades, wire electric discharge machining (W-EDM) has undergone a number of techno-logical developments aimed at improving its process performance. Still the current practice of W-EDM is not defect-free and results in a number of surface relat ...

EPFL2015

Memristor-Based Devices for Sensing

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Francesca Puppo

In this paper we propose CMOS-compatible Memristive-Biosensors as label-free, highly sensitive sensors for in-air detection of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) molecules. The memristive behavior of the fabricated devices is strongly affec ...

2014

Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of Flex-PCB Air-Gap Windings in Slotless BLDC Machines

Yves Perriard, Miroslav Markovic

Slotless brushless dc motors find more and more applications due to their high performance and their low production cost. This paper focuses on the windings inserted in the air gap of these motors and, in particular, to an original production technique tha ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014

A 6.7 MHz Nanoelectromechanical Ring Oscillator Using Curved Cantilever Switches Coated with Amorphous Carbon

Montserrat Fernandez-Bolanos Badia, Antonios Bazigos

Nanoelectromechanical (NEM) switches have the potential to complement or replace traditional CMOS transistors in the area of ultra-low power digital electronics. This paper reports the demonstration of the first ring oscillator built using cell-level digit ...

IEEE2014

Nanoelectromechanical digital logic circuits using curved cantilever switches with amorphous-carbon-coated contacts

Montserrat Fernandez-Bolanos Badia, Antonios Bazigos

Nanoelectromechanical (NEM) switches have the potential to complement or replace traditional CMOS transistors in the area of ultra-low-power digital electronics. This paper reports the demonstration of prototype circuits including the first 3-stage ring os ...

2014