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Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Georg Fantner, Damien Maillard, Nahid Hosseini, Mustafa Kangül, Matthias Neuenschwander

Microcantilevers are popular transducers thanks to their simple design and a high sensitivity. In many applications, the cantilevers need to be actuated, either to induce a controlled deflection or to excite the resonance. This can be achieved with integra ...

2025

Spherical Human Phantoms for Characterization of Implanted Antennas

Anja Skrivervik, Mingxiang Gao

Implantable antennas cannot be characterized by methods suitable for standard antennas because they are embedded in lossy human tissue, which affects the antenna parameters. In this paper, we consider a canonical spherical human phantom which allows us to ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2024

Plasma sputtering of biased electrodes in an oblique magnetic field

Stefano Alberti, Ivo Furno, Alessandro Geraldini

The surface erosion of biased electrodes immersed in a radio frequency (RF) plasma was investigated in oblique magnetic fields ranging from 0.1 T to 3.5 T. The plasma potential and density in the vicinity of the biased electrode have been measured using an ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

Microstrip patch antennas with broad beamwidth

Ismael Vico Triviño

Microstrip antennas offer a broad set of advantages such as low profile, light weight, easy fabrication and low cost. As these are desirable or even critical for a broad range of applications, there has been a large interest for these antennas in the anten ...

EPFL2023

Strategies, Techniques and Systems for powering low-maintenance and battery-free devices through Energy Harvesting and Wireless Power Transfer

Roberto La Rosa

The purpose of this research has a background in the market for Internet of Things (IoT)devices and wireless sensor networks. The Market Forecast predicts the connection of a trillion"things" by 2025. The global smart sensor market size trend grows from US ...

EPFL2022

Physical Bounds on Implant Powering Efficiency Using Body-Conformal WPT Systems

Anja Skrivervik, Mingxiang Gao, Denys Nikolayev

The efficiency of an on-body wireless power transfer system for implant powering is defined by how the electromagnetic energy interacts with the lossy, heterogeneous, and dispersive body tissues. The objective of this study is to discuss the methodology an ...

IEEE2021

Antennas for CubeSat Communication

Miroslav Veljovic

CubeSats are a type of small satellites (< 500 kg) that weigh several kilograms and consist of multiple Units (U) measuring 100 × 100 × 113.5 mm3. CubeSats emerged as a low-cost alternative to conventional large satellites, and have since demonstrated capa ...

EPFL2020

The JET upgraded toroidal Alfven Eigenmode Diagnostic System

Ambrogio Fasoli, Duccio Testa, Patrick Blanchard

The Alfven Eigenmode Active Diagnostic system (AEAD) has undergone a major upgrade and redesign to provide a state-of-the-art excitation and real-time detection system for JET. The new system consists of individual 4 kW amplifiers allowing for increased cu ...

2019

Design and Measurement of a Differential Printed Antenna for a Wireless Sensor Network Node

Anja Skrivervik, Nuno Miguel Faria Pires

This letter presents the design and measurement of an antenna integrated into an agricultural sensor network node operating on the 2.4-GHz ISM band using the ZigBee protocol stack. The novel structure, coined bowtie-shaped folded dipole (BSFD), has a diffe ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2017

Hearing assistance system

Hervé Lissek, Patrick Marmaroli, Gilles André Courtois

There is provided a hearing assistance system, comprising a transmission unit (10) comprising a microphone arrangement (17) for capturing audio signals from a voice of a speaker ( 11 ) using the transmission unit and being adapted to transmit the audio sig ...

2016

Reconfigurable electronics based on metal-insulator transition : steep-slope switches and high frequency functions enabled by Vanadium Dioxide

Wolfgang Amadeus Vitale

The vast majority of disruptive innovations in science and technology has been originated from the discovery of a new material or the way its properties have been exploited to create novel devices and systems. New advanced nanomaterials will have a lasting ...

EPFL2016

The Sommerfeld Halfspace Problem Redux: Alternative Field Representations, Role of Zenneck and Surface Plasmon Waves

Juan Ramon Mosig, Krzysztof Michalski

The problem of a vertical Hertzian dipole radiating in the presence of a lossy conducting halfspace, first formally solved by Sommerfeld in 1909, is revisited. Using rigorous operator theory concepts and the characteristic Green function procedure, alterna ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2015

Terahertz passive components for Dynamic Nuclear Polarization Nuclear Magnetic Resonance applications

Emile Jacques de Rijk

Terahertz radiation, THz = 1012 Hz, refers to electromagnetic signals with frequencies in the range of 0.3 to 3 THz, and wavelengths between 1 and 0.1 mm. This part of the electromagnetic spectrum is located in between millimeter waves at lower frequencies ...

EPFL2013