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Accurate Measurement of Dynamic ON-Resistance in GaN Transistors at Steady-State

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Accurate characterization of the dynamic ON-resistance (RON) degradation is important to predict conduction losses for gallium nitride high-electron-mobility transistors (GaN HEMTs). However, even for the same device, many inconsistent results of dynamic R ...

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Setting priorities in CNF particle size measurement: What is needed vs. what is feasible

Tiffany Abitbol

Measuring the size of cellulose nanomaterials can be challenging, especially in the case of branched and entangled cellulose nanofibrils (CNFs). The International Organization for Standardization, Technical Committee 6, Task Group 1-Cellulosic Nanomaterial ...

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The Three-Phase Contact Potential Difference Modulates the Water Surface Charge

Aleksandra Radenovic, Andrei Kiselev, Vasily Artemov, Roman Doronin

The surface charge of an open water surface is crucialfor solvationphenomena and interfacial processes in aqueous systems. However, themagnitude of the charge is controversial, and the physical mechanismof charging remains incompletely understood. Here we ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Active load cell with positive, negative and zero stiffness operating modes for micronewton range contact force monitoring in electrical probing

Simon Nessim Henein, Charles Baur, Hubert Pierre-Marie Benoît Schneegans, Michal Stanislaw Smreczak

This article describes a novel method for applying a contact force in the range of 1 to 100 μN with pointed probe on a microscale sample in order to perform ohmic electrical measurements. The solution is based on the new TIVOT active load cell combining th ...

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MALTA3: Concepts for a new radiation tolerant sensor in the TowerJazz 180 nm technology

Francesco Piro

The upgrade of the MALTA DMAPS designed in Tower 180 nm CMOS Imaging process will implement the numerous modifications, as well as front-end changes in order to boost the charge collection efficiency after the targeted fluence of 1x10(15) 1 MeVn(eq)/cm(2). ...

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Fabrication, Characterization, and Simulation of Glass Devices with AlN Thin-Film Transducers for Excitation of Ultrasound Resonances

Paul Muralt, Ramin Matloub Aghdam

We present the fabrication of 570-mu m-thick millimeter-sized soda-lime-silicate float-glass blocks with a 1-mu m-thick AlN thin-film piezoelectric transducer sandwiched between thin metallic electrodes and deposited on the top surface. The electromechanic ...

American Physical Society (APS)2021

Distributed Cooperative Localization with Efficient Pairwise Range Measurements

Alcherio Martinoli, Anwar Ahmad Quraishi

We present a method based on covariance intersection for cooperative localization with pairwise range-only relative measurements. Our method was designed for underwater robots equipped with an acoustic communication and ranging system. Range measurements a ...

2021

Meteorology and snow transport at S17 near Syowa, Antarctica, in austral summer 2018/2019

Varun Sharma, Michael Lehning, Wolf Hendrik Huwald, Jérôme François Sylvain Dujardin, Daniela Brito Melo, Armin Sigmund, Francesco Comola

This dataset contains measurement and simulation data. The measurements characterize the standard meteorology, turbulence, and snow transport at the S17 site near Syowa Station in East Antarctica during an expedition in austral summer 2018/2019. Large-eddy ...

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Development and evaluation of galaxy shape measurement algorithms for radio interferometric data

Vasileios Angelopoulos

The purpose of this Thesis is to develop, test, and characterize different models attempting to tackle the problem of measurement of galaxy shapes applied in interferometric observations. Shape measurement is a tool for estimating the underlying shear due ...

EPFL2021

Lens aberration compensation in interference microscopy

Yves Bellouard, Jakub Drs

Emergence of products that feature functional surfaces with complex geometries, such as freeform optics in consumer electronics and augmented reality and virtual reality, requires high-accuracy non-contact surface measurement. However, large discrepancies ...

2020

Precise and accurate image-based measurements of optical material properties

Marjan Shahpaski

The appearance of objects is governed by how they reflect, transmit and absorb the light they receive. That, in turn, depends on the material's internal structure, surface structure, and viewing and illumination directions. Changes in those characteristics ...

EPFL2020

Shapes From Echoes: Uniqueness From Point-to-Plane Distance Matrices

Martin Vetterli, Ivan Dokmanic, Miranda Krekovic

We study the problem of localizing a configuration of points and planes from the collection of point-to-plane distances. This problem models simultaneous localization and mapping from acoustic echoes as well as the & x201C;structure from sound & x201D; app ...

2020

Precision measurement of the Xi(++)(cc) mass

Lesya Shchutska, Olivier Schneider, Aurelio Bay, Yiming Li, Guido Haefeli, Frédéric Blanc, Christoph Frei, Tatsuya Nakada, Michel De Cian, Luca Pescatore, Elena Graverini, Veronica Sølund Kirsebom, François Fleuret, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli, Minh Tâm Tran, Pietro Marino, Renato Quagliani, Federico Leo Redi, Federico Betti, Plamen Hristov Hopchev, Guido Andreassi, Aravindhan Venkateswaran, Violaine Bellée, Luis Miguel Garcia Martin, Maria Vieites Diaz, Vitalii Lisovskyi, Olivier Göran Girard, Preema Rennee Pais, Elisabeth Maria Niel, Pavol Stefko, Jian Wang, Tara Nanut, Mingkui Wang, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Zhirui Xu, Vladimir Macko, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Yi Zhang, Lei Zhang, Sebastian Schulte, Lino Ferreira Lopes, Ho Ling Li, Surapat Ek-In, Mark Tobin, Carina Trippl, Sara Celani, Niko Neufeld, Ana Bárbara Rodrigues Cavalcante, Matthew Needham, Marc-Olivier Bettler, Maurizio Martinelli, Vladislav Balagura, Donal Patrick Hill, Liang Sun, Mirco Dorigo, Xiaoxue Han, Liupan An, Thibaud Humair, Maxime Schubiger, Hang Yin, Yao Zhou, Tommaso Colombo, Albert Puig Navarro, Evgenii Shmanin, Simone Meloni, Xiaoqing Zhou, Dipanwita Dutta, Zheng Wang, Yi Wang, Hans Dijkstra, Gerhard Raven, Peter Clarke, Frédéric Teubert, Giovanni Carboni, Victor Coco, Adam Davis, Paolo Durante, Wenyu Zhang, Yu Zheng, Anton Petrov, Maxim Borisyak, Feng Jiang, Zhipeng Tang, Luis Alberto Granado Cardoso, Daniel Hugo Cámpora Pérez, Xuan Li, Alexey Boldyrev, Almagul Kondybayeva, Hossein Afsharnia

A measurement of the Xi cc++ candidates are reconstructed via the decay modes Xi cc++->?c+K-pi+pi+ and Xi cc++->Xi c+pi+. The result, 3621.55 +/- 0.23 (stat) +/- 0.30 (syst) MeV/c(2), is the most precise measurement of the Xi cc++ mass to date. ...

Springer Nature2020

Improving Inter-Laboratory Reproducibility in Measurement of Biochemical Methane Potential (BMP)

Christof Holliger

Biochemical methane potential (BMP) tests used to determine the ultimate methane yield of organic substrates are not sufficiently standardized to ensure reproducibility among laboratories. In this contribution, a standardized BMP protocol was tested in a l ...

2020

Massively parallel coherent laser ranging using a soliton microcomb

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Maxim Karpov, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Wenle Weng, Anton Lukashchuk

Coherent ranging, also known as frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) laser-based light detection and ranging (lidar)(1) is used for long-range three-dimensional distance and velocimetry in autonomous driving(2,3). FMCW lidar maps distance to frequenc ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2020

System, device and method for quantum correlation measurement with single photon avalanche diode arrays

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Ivan Michel Antolovic

A system for photon correlation of an illuminated object and/or a light source, including a light source for illuminating the object or to correlate, an optical system having an object-facing side configured to face the object or the light source and a pro ...

2020

Model-based image reconstruction method

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Dimitris Perdios, Adrien Georges Jean Besson, Marcel Arditi, Adrien Besson

The present invention concerns a pulse wave image reconstruction method to be used for example in ultrasound imaging. The proposed method is based on an image measurement model and its adjoint operator. The proposed method introduces matrix-free formulatio ...

2019

Correction of surface error occurring in microlenses characterization performed by optical profilers

Toralf Scharf, Wilfried Noell, Jeremy Béguelin

Characterizing the surface of microlenses by optical profilers has the important advantages of measurement speed, flexibility and automation. Nevertheless, the accuracy of such characterization is limited by error occurring in non-flat measurements. Here, ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2019

Comparative analysis of transmittance measurement geometries and apparatus

Sabine Süsstrunk, Marjan Shahpaski

The accurate measurement of reflectance and transmittance properties of materials is essential in the printing and display industries in order to ensure precise color reproduction. In comparison with reflectance measurement, where the impact of different g ...

2019