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High-Permittivity Polysiloxanes for Bright, Stretchable Electroluminescent Devices

Stretchable alternating current electroluminescent (ACEL) devices have a bright future in wearable electronics and soft robotics. Still, their market application is hindered by high operating voltages. The voltage can be reduced by increasing the relative ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2024

Language Learning using Caption Generation within Reciprocal Multi-Party Child-Tutor-Tutee Interaction

Barbara Bruno

Reciprocal Peer Tutoring (RPT) is a learning paradigm characteristic of collaborative interaction between learners with alternating tutortutee roles. In recent years, robot-assisted language learning (RALL) has gained traction by its wide application for l ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2023

Piezoelectric suspended microchannel resonators

Damien Maillard

The objective of this PhD thesis is the development of a microfluidic platform for the real-time measurements of the mechanical properties of biological analytes at the single entity level. The systems developed for these purposes consist of piezoelectrica ...

EPFL2022

Are Functional Measures Sufficient to Capture Acceptance? A Qualitative Study on Lower Limb Exoskeleton Use for Older People

Mohamed Bouri

Lower limb exoskeletons (LLE) are robotic devices developed to assist walk. In the field of healthcare, this technology has been available for almost a decade, yet it still faces important acceptance issues. While LLE were first developed for patients with ...

SPRINGER2022

Optimization of Edge Profile for Improved Anti-Resonance Quality Factor in Lithium Niobate SH0 Resonators

Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Silvan Stettler

Thin-film lithium niobate (LNO) has been identified as a promising material platform for enabling high electromechanical coupling and low-loss piezoelectric resonators for filtering applications. In this work, the design and fabrication of fundamental shea ...

IEEE2022

High-Performance CMOS SPAD-Based Sensors for Time-of-Flight PET Applications

Francesco Gramuglia

Detecting light, photon by photon, has been possible since the 1930s, with the invention of the photomultiplier tube (PMT). However, it is only since the 1970s, that solid-state single-photon detectors have emerged and only since 2003 that a new technology ...

EPFL2022

Wafer-scale MoS2 with water-vapor assisted showerhead MOCVD

Aleksandra Radenovic, Andras Kis, Michal Daniel Macha, Yanfei Zhao, Mukesh Kumar Tripathi, Mukeshchand Thakur, Jing Zhang, Hyungoo Ji

Among numerous thin film synthesis methods, metalorganic chemical vapor deposition performed in a showerhead reactor is the most promising one for broad use in scalable and commercially adaptable two-dimensional material synthesis processes. Adapting the m ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2022

A new versatile hybrid MEMS technology for high sensitivity, fluid proof sensing applications

Matthias Neuenschwander

The field of micro electromechanical systems (MEMS) evolved from the microelectronic industry and the technologies developed to fabricate integrated circuits. As a result, MEMS are commonly fabricated on silicon wafers. The development of MEMS has been dri ...

EPFL2022

Smart Slit Assembly Employing Continuously Tunable MEMS Shutter

Niels Quack, Hamed Sattari, Gergely Huszka, Anton Lagosh

We present the concept and detailed design of a Smart Slit Assembly for next generation spectrometers, and we experimentally demonstrate operation of an individual 221 mu m x 111 mu m smart slit channel employing a MEMS actuated shutter to continuously mod ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2021

Integration of MEMS in Silicon Photonics

Alain Yuji Takabayashi

Like integrated electronics, integrated photonics such as Silicon Photonics benefit from increased device-density on a single chip. Silicon is an excellent material for integrated photonics because its high refractive index allows devices to be made small, ...

EPFL2021

A Muscle-Reflex Model of Forelimb and Hindlimb of Felidae Family of Animal with Dynamic Pattern Formation Stimuli

Auke Ijspeert

Human and animal locomotion are controlled by complex neural circuits, which can also serve as inspiration for designing locomotion controllers for dynamic locomotion in legged robots. We develop a locomotion controller model including a central pattern ge ...

IEEE2020

Fabrication of clamped-clamped beam resonators with embedded fluidic nanochannel

Davide Scaiola, Philippe Renaud, Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Annalisa De Pastina, Damien Maillard, Stefano Silvio Giovanni Varricchio

Suspended nanochannel resonators (SNRs) are promising devices able to characterize mass down to the attogram scale, thus being able to detect nanoparticles or biomolecules. In this paper, we present a flexible fabrication process for SNRs based on a sacrif ...

ELSEVIER2020

Antiferromagnetic resonance in TmFeO3 at high temperatures

Jean-Philippe Ansermet, Arnaud Magrez, Haiming Yu, Marcin Bialek

Temperature dependence of the antiferromagnetic resonance spectrum in a thulium orthoferrite (TmFeO3) poly-crystalline sample was studied by transmission spectroscopy in the frequency range of 0.1–0.75 THz and temperature range of 300–670 K, up to its Néel ...

2020

Transient Electronics for Smart Biodegradable Medical Implants

Matthieu Jean Michel Rüegg

Bioresorbable implantable medical devices show great potential for applications requiring medical care over well-defined periods of time. Such implants naturally degrade and resorb in the body, which eliminates adverse long-term effects or the need for a s ...

EPFL2020

Silicon Nitride Integrated Nonlinear Photonics

Junqiu Liu

Recently, microresonator-based dissipative Kerr soliton frequency combs ( "soliton microcomb " ) have emerged as miniaturized optical frequency combs. So far, soliton microcombs have been realized in many CMOS-compatible material platforms including silico ...

EPFL2020

Temperature dependence of reconfigurable bandstop filters using vanadium dioxide switches

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Matteo Cavalieri, Andrei Müller

In this Letter, we report and investigate the temperature dependency of various radio frequency (RF) parameters for a fabricated reconfigurable bandstop filter with vanadium dioxide (VO2) switches measured up to 55 GHz. Here, the insulator-to-metal (ITM) a ...

AIP American Institute of Physics2020

Spin-dependent charge transfer at chiral electrodes probed by magnetic resonance

Jean-Philippe Ansermet, Christophe Roussel, Mika Antero Tamski, Felix Blumenschein

Chirality-induced spin selectivity is evidenced by exciting the spin resonance of radicals in an electrochemical cell where the working electrode is covered with a chiral self-assembled monolayer. Because the electron transfer to and from the paramagnetic ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2020

Determination of elastic and piezoelectric properties of Al0.84Sc0.16N thin films

Paul Muralt, Vladimir Pashchenko, Fazel Parsapour

In this work, bar- and disk-shaped resonators were fabricated using Al(0.8)4Sc(0.16)N thin film Sensitivity analysis of the resonators' resonance frequencies with respect to the piezoelectric material parameters revealed that resonance analysis can be used ...

IEEE2018

First Near-Ultraviolet- and Blue-Enhanced Backside-Illuminated Single-Photon Avalanche Diode Based on Standard SOI CMOS Technology

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Myung Jae Lee

We present the world's first backside-illuminated (BSI) single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) based on standard silicon-on-insulator (SOI) complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology. This SPAD achieves a good dark count rate (DCR) after backs ...

2019

Dynamic pressure probe response tests for robust measurements in periodic flows close to probe resonating frequency

Jürg Alexander Schiffmann

A single-hole probe was designed to measure steady and periodic flows with high fluctuation amplitudes and with minimal flow intrusion. Because of its high aspect ratio, estimations showed that the probe resonates at a frequency two orders of magnitude low ...

IOP Publishing2018