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Learnable filter-banks for CNN-based audio applications

Benjamin Ricaud, Nicolas Aspert, Helena Peic Tukuljac

We investigate the design of a convolutional layer where kernels are parameterized functions. This layer aims at being the input layer of convolutional neural networks for audio applications or applications involving time-series. The kernels are defined as ...

2022

A 60 GHz QDCO with 11 GHz Seamless Tuning for Low-Power FMCW Radars in 22-nm FDSOI

Christian Enz, Francesco Chicco, Sammy Cerida Rengifo

This paper presents the design of a 60GHz Quadrature Digitally-Controlled Oscillator for a low-power Frequency-Modulated Continuous Wave radar System-on-Chip. The accurate detection of vital signs requires 1 and Q demodulation of the received signal. The q ...

IEEE2021

Versatile shaping of optical frequency combs and applications

Jianqi Hu

Optical frequency combs are a series of phase-locked and equidistant laser lines in the spectral domain. In the time domain, they correspond to periodic pulse trains by the Fourier relation. The ability to shape optical combs and pulse trains is pivotal to ...

EPFL2021

Emittance growth suppression with a multibunch feedback in high-energy hadron colliders: Numerical optimization of the gain and bandwidth

Xavier Buffat, Sondre Vik Furuseth

A transverse feedback system can effectively mitigate the emittance growth caused by injection oscillations and machine noise in hadron beams. However, as its action on the beam depends on beam position measurements of finite accuracy, it introduces additi ...

2021

Reconfigurable Radiofrequency Photonic Filters Based on Soliton Microcombs

Tobias Kippenberg, Camille Sophie Brès, Junqiu Liu, Jijun He, Arslan Sajid Raja, Jianqi Hu

We demonstrate soliton based radiofrequency filters using a 104 GHz Si3N4 microresonator. The filter passband frequencies are widely reconfigured via inherent soliton states of perfect soliton crystals and two-soliton microcombs, without any external pulse ...

IEEE2020

Reconfigurable radiofrequency filters based on versatile soliton microcombs

Tobias Kippenberg, Camille Sophie Brès, Junqiu Liu, Maxim Karpov, Jijun He, Arslan Sajid Raja, Jianqi Hu, Anton Lukashchuk

The rapidly maturing integrated Kerr microcombs show significant potential for microwave photonics. Yet, state-of-the-art microcomb-based radiofrequency filters have required programmable pulse shapers, which inevitably increase the system cost, footprint, ...

Nature Research2020

Free standing and solidly mounted Lamb wave resonators based on Al0.85Sc0.15N thin film

Paul Muralt, Vladimir Pashchenko, Fazel Parsapour

Lamb wave microresonators with wavelengths ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2019

5 GHz laterally-excited bulk-wave resonators (XBARs) based on thin platelets of lithium niobate

Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Soumya Yandrapalli

In a free-standing 400-nm-thick platelet of crystalline ZY-LiNbO3, narrow electrodes (500 nm) placed periodically with a pitch of a few microns can eXcite standing shear-wave bulk acoustic resonances (XBARs), by utilising lateral electric fields oriented p ...

2019

Growth, Integration, and Functional Characterization of AlScN Thin Films for RF MEMS Devices

Fazel Parsapour

Mobile communication has grown explosively in recent years, leading to a strong demand for cheap, but high-performing bandpass filters with low insertion loss and smaller size. Surface acoustic wave (SAW) and thin film bulk acoustic wave (BAW) resonators r ...

EPFL2019

Driven dual phase lock loop

Pierre-André Farine, Steve Tanner, Yazhou Zhao

The invention relates to a phase lock loop (100) comprising: - a loop filter (140), - a voltage controlled oscillator (150), - a frequency divider (160), - a frequency lock detector (113), able to emit a frequency lock indication signal (LOCK), - a digital ...

2016

Hybrid NRZ/Multi-Tone Signaling for High-Speed Low-Power Wireline Transceivers

Kiarash Gharibdoust

Over the past few decades, incessant growth of Internet networking traffic and High-Performance Computing (HPC) has led to a tremendous demand for data bandwidth. Digital communication technologies combined with advanced integrated circuit scaling trends h ...

EPFL2016

Fragmentation in Time-of-Flight Spectrometry-Based Calculations of Ionic Electrospray Thruster Performance

Herbert Shea, Daniel George Courtney

A method has been presented for accounting for ion fragmentation that occurs within the nonzero field of an ionic electrospray thruster. Given the complexities associated with direct thrust measurements, indirect means (and time-of-flight (TOF) in particul ...

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics2015

94-GHz Large-Signal Operation of AlInN/GaN High-Electron-Mobility Transistors on Silicon With Regrown Ohmic Contacts

Nicolas Grandjean, Jean-François Carlin, Marco Malinverni, Lorenzo Lugani

We report the first 94-GHz (W-band) large-signal performance of AlInN/GaN high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) grown on high-resistivity silicon (111) substrates. A maximum output power density of 1.35 W/mm and peak power-added-efficiency of 12% are ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2015

Fully Passivated AlInN/GaN HEMTs With f(T)/f(MAX) of 205/220 GHz

Nicolas Grandjean, Jean-François Carlin

We report the fabrication and characterization of 30-nm-gate fully passivated AlInN/GaN high-electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) with cutoff frequencies f(T) and f(MAX) simultaneously exceeding 200 GHz at a given bias point. The current gain cutoff frequ ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2011

Ultrahigh-Speed AlInN/GaN High Electron Mobility Transistors Grown on (111) High-Resistivity Silicon with F-T=143 GHz

Nicolas Grandjean, Jean-François Carlin, Eric Feltin

We report on ultrahigh-speed 80 nm AlInN/GaN high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) grown on (111) high-resistivity silicon substrates. The devices feature a peak measured transconductance g(M) = 415 mS/mm, a maximum current of 1.43 A/mm with a ratio I ...

2010

RF MEMS Switches for Wide-band (5 - 40 GHz), Tuneable Filters and DMTL Phase Shifters

Montserrat Fernandez-Bolanos Badia

In wireless communications, radio frequency micro-electro-mechanical systems (RF MEMS) technology is attracting tremendous interest across the world as the needs of frequencies gets higher, data bandwidth gets larger and multiple broadband signals have to ...

EPFL2010

Method And Device For Removing Echo In A Multi-Channel Audio Signal

Christof Faller

Acoustic echo control and noise suppression is an important part of any "handsfree" telecommunication system, such as telephony or audio or video conferencing systems. Bandwidth and computational complexity constraints have prevented that stereo or multi-c ...

2008

AntispamLab - A Tool for Realistic Evaluation of Email Spam Filters

Jean-Yves Le Boudec

The existing tools for testing spam filters evaluate a filter instance by simply feeding it with a stream of emails, possibly also providing a feedback to the filter about the correctness of the detection. In such a scenario the evaluated filter is disconn ...

2007

Stereo Acoustic Echo Control Using A Simplified Echo Path Model

Christof Faller

In handsfree tele- or video-communication, acoustic echoes arise due to the coupling between the loudspeakers and microphones. It is much more challenging to remove the undesired acoustic echoes for stereo or multi-channel tele-communication systems than f ...

2006

The influence of pool geometry and induced flow patterns in rock scour by high-velocity plunging jets

Pedro Filipe De Almeida Manso

The dissipation of energy of flood discharges from water releasing structures of dams is often done by plunging jets diffusing in water and impacting on the riverbed downstream. The construction of expensive concrete structures for energy dissipation can b ...

EPFL2006