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Frequency response of fiber reinforced DEAs

Yves Perriard, Yoan René Cyrille Civet, Thomas Guillaume Martinez, Stefania Maria Aliki Konstantinidi, Markus Koenigsdorff

Dielectric Elastomer Actuators (DEAs) have emerged as versatile and promising devices for a multitude of applications, including soft robotics, haptic interfaces, and artificial muscles. DEAs are an interesting soft actuator technology due to their high en ...

Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)2024

uKharon: A Membership Service for Microsecond Applications

Rachid Guerraoui, Javier Picorel Obando, Athanasios Xygkis, Antoine Murat

Modern data center fabrics open the possibility of microsecond distributed applications, such as data stores and message queues. A challenging aspect of their development is to ensure that, besides being fast in the common case, these applications react fa ...

USENIX Association2023

Stochastic-robust planning optimization method based on tracking-economy extreme scenario tradeoff for CCHP multi-energy system

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The load tracking performance of combined cooling, heating, and power multi-energy system (CCHP-MES) greatly depends on the equipment capacity configuration. And the frequent fluctuations in the source-load uncertainty puts higher demands on the load track ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2023

Humidity-insensitive optical fibers for distributed sensing applications

Luc Thévenaz, Tiago Filipe Pimentel Das Neves

Humidity is a critical environmental factor in various applications, and its temperature dependence must be considered when developing thermo-hygrometer fiber sensors. The optical fibers that constitute the sensor must have a temperature reference, which s ...

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Hardware and Software Support for RPC-Centric Server Architecture

Mark Johnathon Sutherland

Online services have become ubiquitous in technological society, the global demand for which has driven enterprises to construct gigantic datacenters that run their software. Such facilities have also recently become a substrate for third-party organizatio ...

EPFL2022

Single photon detection with amorphous silicon-based microchannel plates: A Monte Carlo model

Christophe Ballif, Nicolas Würsch, Jonathan Emanuel Thomet, Janina Christine Isabelle Löffler, Samira Alexandra Frey

Microchannel plates based on amorphous silicon have the inherent capability to overcome the existing spatial and temporal resolution limitations of single photon detectors. A Monte Carlo model-based study is presented here that serves to exploit their full ...

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Toward Mobile Distributed Ledgers

Boi Faltings, Sujit Prakash Gujar, Dimitrios Chatzopoulos, Anurag Jain

Advances in mobile computing have paved the way for new types of distributed applications that can be executed solely by mobile devices on Device-to-Device (D2D) ecosystems (e.g., crowdsensing). Sophisticated applications, like cryptocurrencies, need distr ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Systematic extraction of a control-oriented model from perturbative experiments and SOLPS-ITER for emission front control in TCV

Mirko Wensing, Olivier Claude Martin Février, Artur Perek

Systematic extraction of locally valid dynamic models from experiments is necessary for controller design and the validation of high fidelity models. This paper describes the extraction of a dynamic model in the form of a transfer function, giving the dyna ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

When to Hedge in Interactive Services

Aikaterini Argyraki, Edouard Bugnion, Mia Primorac

In online data-intensive (OLDI) services, each client request typically executes on multiple servers in parallel; as a result, “system hiccups”, although rare within a single server, can interfere with many client requests and cause violations of service-l ...

USENIX ASSOC2021

Hardware-Software Co-Design of an RPC Processor

Arash Pourhabibi Zarandi

The booming popularity of online services has led to a major evolution in the way these services are built and deployed. To cope with such online data-intensive services, service providers deploy several massive-scale datacenters, also referred to as wareh ...

EPFL2021

Understanding and Mitigating Latency Variability of Latency-Critical Applications

Mia Primorac

A major theme of IT in the past decade has been the shift from on-premise hardware to cloud computing. Running a service in the public cloud is practical, because a large number of resources can be bought on-demand, but this shift comes with its own set of ...

EPFL2020

Optimus Prime: Accelerating Data Transformation in Servers

Babak Falsafi, Christoph Koch, Hussein Kassir, Mario Paulo Drumond Lages De Oliveira, Arash Pourhabibi Zarandi, Mark Johnathon Sutherland, Zilu Tian, Siddharth Gupta

Modern online services are shifting away from monolithic applications to loosely-coupled microservices because of their improved scalability, reliability, programmability and development velocity. Microservices communicating over the datacenter network req ...

ACM2020

Hailstorm: Disaggregated Compute and Storage for Distributed LSM-based Databases

Willy Zwaenepoel, Laurent Bindschaedler, Ashvin Goel

Distributed LSM-based databases face throughput and latency issues due to load imbalance across instances and interference from background tasks such as flushing, compaction, and data migration. Hailstorm addresses these problems by deploying the database ...

ACM2020

Frequency fluctuations in nanomechanical silicon nitride string resonators

Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Alper Demir

High quality factor (Q) nanomechanical resonators have received a lot of attention for sensor applications with unprecedented sensitivity. Despite the large interest, few investigations into the frequency stability of high-Q resonators have been reported. ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2020

Efficient Protocols for Enforcing Causal Consistency in Geo-Replicated Key-Value Data Stores

Kristina Spirovska

Modern large-scale data platforms manage colossal amount of data, generated by the ever-increasing number of concurrent users. Geo-replicated and sharded key-value data stores play a central role when building such platforms. As the strongest consistency m ...

EPFL2020

Multimode Hydraulically Amplified Electrostatic Actuators for Wearable Haptics

Herbert Shea, Ronan Julien Hinchet, Edouard Franck Vincent Gustave Leroy

The sense of touch is underused in today’s virtual reality systems due to lack of wearable, soft, mm-scale transducers to generate dynamic mechanical stimulus on the skin. Extremely thin actuators combining both high force and large displacement are a long ...

Wiley2020

A Vibrational Technique for in vitro Intraoperative Prosthesis Fixation Monitoring

Kamiar Aminian, Hooman Dejnabadi, Seyed Abdolmajid Yousefsani

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2020

Spectrally Selective Mid-Wave Infrared Detection Using Fabry-Perot Cavity Enhanced Black Phosphorus 2D Photodiodes

Christophe Ballif, Quentin Thomas Jeangros, Wei Yan

Thin two-dimensional (2D) material absorbers have the potential to reduce volume-dependent thermal noise in infrared detectors. However, any reduction in noise must be balanced against lower absorption from the thin layer, which necessitates advanced optic ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

A system design for elastically scaling transaction processing engines in virtualized servers

Anastasia Ailamaki, Hillel Avni, Raja Appuswamy, Angelos Christos Anadiotis

Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) deployments are migrating from on-premise to cloud settings in order to exploit the elasticity of cloud infrastructure which allows them to adapt to workload variations. However, cloud adaptation comes at the cost of re ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2020

An Architecture for Load Balance in Computer Cluster Applications

Laurent Bindschaedler

Amid a data revolution that is transforming industries around the globe, computing systems have undergone a paradigm shift where many applications are scaled out to run on multiple computers in a computing cluster. As the storage and processing capabilitie ...

EPFL2020