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Sub-2W tunable laser based on silicon photonics power amplifier

Joao Carlos Menezes Carreira, Michael Wolfgang Geiselmann

High-power tunable lasers are intensely pursued due to their vast application potential such as in telecom, ranging, and molecular sensing. Integrated photonics, however, is usually considered not suitable for high-power applications mainly due to its smal ...

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2025

Reversible solid oxide electrolyser for energy storage: levelized cost of storage estimation

Jingjing Liang, François Maréchal, Du Wen

Reversible Solid Oxide electrolyser (rSOE) is a promising solution for long-duration energy storage due to its exceptional features such as inherent reversibility, co-electrolysis capability in electrolysis mode, high efficiency, adaptability to multiple f ...

2025

Encapsulated Co–Ni alloy boosts high-temperature CO2 electroreduction

Jiaming Tian, Xile Hu, Jeremy Luterbacher, Wenhao Ren, Wenchao Ma, Seongmin Jin

Electrochemical CO 2 reduction into chemicals and fuels holds great promise for renewable energy storage and carbon recycling 1–3 . Although high-temperature CO 2 electroreduction in solid oxide electrolysis cells is industrially relevant, current catalyst ...

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2025

Radiation Efficiency and Gain Bounds for Microstrip Patch Antennas

Anja Skrivervik

This article presents bounds on radiation efficiency and gain for microstrip patch antennas, demonstrating close alignment with the performance of classic antenna designs. These bounds serve as effective benchmarks for assessing antenna performance and eva ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2025

Design Trade-offs of Second Harmonic Minimization in Solid-State Transformers

Amin Darvishzadeh, Drazen Dujic

In two-stage solid-state transformers (SSTs) equipped with LLC DC/DC converters for galvanic isolation, fixed-frequency open-loop operation of LLC stages has been a straightforward and prevailing design choice. Meanwhile, with a closed-loop-operated LLC co ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)2025

A Spatiotemporal analysis of photovoltaic electricity storage potential in electric vehicles

Christophe Ballif, Nicolas Würsch, Alejandro Pena Bello, Noémie Alice Yvonne Ségolène Jeannin, Jérémy Dumoulin

Decarbonizing mobility and integrating more renewable sources in electricity production are necessary levers to meet the climate targets. Coupling electric vehicle (EV) charging with photovoltaic (PV) electricity generation could help to provide clean elec ...

Aalborg University2025

Sub-mm3 dimensional scaling of fully-integrated additively-fabricated microsupercapacitors for embedded energy storage applications

Vivek Subramanian, Amin Hodaei

Microsupercapacitors (MSCs) are attractive energy devices for applications in IoT, wireless sensors, and other microelectronic systems due to their small footprints. In this work, the dimensional scaling of fully-integrated additively-fabricated MSCs is sy ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2024

Stored Energies and Q-Factor Expressed in Material Derivatives

Anja Skrivervik

Stored energies of radiating systems have generated research interest for several decades due to their relationship with Q-factor and fractional bandwidth. In this letter, material derivatives are used to provide a new interpretation of widely used stored ...

2024

Inversing the actuation cycle of dielectric elastomer actuators for a facial prosthesis

Yves Perriard, Yoan René Cyrille Civet, Paolo Germano, Thomas Guillaume Martinez, Stefania Maria Aliki Konstantinidi, Alexis Boegli, Quentin Philippe Mario De Menech

Dielectric Elastomer Actuators (DEAs) are a type of smart material described as compliant capacitors. They show impressive performances as soft actuators, such as a high strain and fast response. Nonetheless, replicating natural muscle function with DEAs h ...

Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)2024

Scaling of Planar Sodium-Nickel Chloride Battery Cells to 90 cm2 Active Area

Corsin Battaglia

High-temperature sodium-nickel chloride (Na-NiCl2) batteries offer a competitive solution for stationary energy storage due to their long-term stability, high energy efficiency, and sustainable raw materials. However, scaling up this technology faces chall ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2024

Positivity bounds on electromagnetic properties of media

Oliver Paul C. Janssen

We study the constraints imposed on the electromagnetic response of general media by microcausality (commutators of local fields vanish outside the light cone) and positivity of the imaginary parts (the medium can only absorb energy from the external field ...

Springer Nature2024

Elastomers Based on Polynorbornene with Polar Polysiloxane Brushes for Soft Transducer Applications

Frank Nüesch, Yeerlan Adeli

Elastomers based on cross-linked bottlebrush polymers combine an extreme softness at low strains with a strain-stiffening effect, which makes them attractive as active components in dielectric elastomer actuators (DEA). Their main disadvantage concerns the ...

Wiley-VHCA AG2024

Enablers for Overcurrent Capability of Silicon-Carbide-Based Power Converters: An Overview

Elison de Nazareth Matioli

With the increase in penetration of power electronic converters in the power systems, a demand for overcurrent/ overloading capability has risen for the fault clearance duration. This article gives an overview of the limiting factors and the recent technol ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2023

Toward Metantennas: Metamaterial-Based Antennas for Wireless Communications

Yuanyan Su

Antennas have historically been the most common electromagnetic (EM) technology for wireless communication systems. Antenna as hardware is entirely dependent on the EM properties of the materials used, mostly related to the permittivity and permeability. I ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2023

On-Demand Cross-Linkable Bottlebrush Polymers for Voltage- Driven Artificial Muscles

Frank Nüesch, Francis Owusu, Yeerlan Adeli

Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) generate motion resembling natural muscles in reliability, adaptability, elongation, and frequency of operation. They are highly attractive in implantable soft robots or artificial organs. However, many applications of ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Ion Selective and Water Resistant Cellulose Nanofiber/MXene Membrane Enabled Cycling Zn Anode at High Currents

Kangning Zhao

Aqueous rechargeable zinc ion batteries (ZIBs) are regarded as a promising candidates for next-generation energy storage devices but strongly hindered by the limited utilization of the zinc metal anode (below 5%) due to the active water/anion corrosion. He ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2023

Proton Storage in Metallic H1.75MoO3 Nanobelts through the Grotthuss Mechanism

Wenhao Ren

The proton, as the cationic form of the lightest element-H, is regarded as most ideal charge carrier in "rocking chair " batteries. However, current research on proton batteries is still at its infancy, and they usually deliver low capacity and suffer from ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Transient Elastomers with High Dielectric Permittivity for Actuators, Sensors, and Beyond

Holger Frauenrath, Yauhen Sheima

Dielectric elastomers (DEs) are key materials in actuators, sensors, energy harvesters, and stretchable electronics. These devices find applications in important emerging fields such as personalized medicine, renewable energy, and soft robotics. However, e ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Local Effects of Grid-Forming Converters Providing Frequency Regulation to Bulk Power Grids

Mario Paolone, Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Elena Vagnoni, Yihui Zuo, Francesco Gerini, Antonio Zecchino

The progressive displacing of conventional generation in favor of renewable energy sources requires restoring an adequate capacity of regulating power to ensure reliable operation of power systems. Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESSs) are considered to b ...

IEEE2022

Inflight Microwave Drying Process of Micro-droplets for High Resolution 3D printing

Kwanghoon Choi

A new Additive-Manufacturing (AM) or 3D printing concept is proposed to improve the printing resolution for metal additive manufacturing in the frame of the SFA-AM project, Powder Focusing for Beam-Induced Laser 3D Printing. The project aims to transport s ...

EPFL2022