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Publications associées (29)

Performance Comparison of Cables With Partial Transposition

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Kamil Sedlák, Chiara Frittitta, Federica Demattè

The need of full transposition of the current carrying elements (strands) in large cables is frequently retained as top design criterion for conductors operating in pulsed mode. However, when the transposition error, i.e., the inductance difference among t ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2024

Modeling and optimization of PCB coils for inductive power transfer systems

Xiaotong Du

The auxiliary power supply for medium voltage converters requires high insulation capability between the source and the load. Inductive power transfer technology, with an air gap between the primary and secondary coil, offers such high insulation capabilit ...

EPFL2024

Modal engineering of electromagnetic circuits to achieve rapid settling times

Matthias Imboden

Inductive circuits and devices are ubiquitous and important design elements in many applications, such as magnetic drives, galvanometers, magnetic scanners, applying direct current (DC) magnetic fields to systems, radio frequency coils in nuclear magnetic ...

AIP Publishing2023

Modeling and Design Optimization of Loosely Coupled PCB Spiral Coils in Inductive Power Transfer Systems

Drazen Dujic, Xiaotong Du

There are various possibilities to realize coil winding designs for an inductive power transfer system. In order to achieve high power transfer efficiency and power density and explore trade-offs between the two, design optimization around the coil link is ...

2023

Anisotropic and nonlinear transport in microstructured 3D topological semimetals

Xiangwei Huang

Topological semimetals are frequently discussed as materials platforms for future electronics that exploit the remarkable properties of their quasiparticles. These ideas are mostly based on dispersion relations that mimic relativistic particles, such as We ...

EPFL2022

Measurements of AC Loss Evolution in ITER TF Conductors

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Kamil Sedlák

AC loss in the Nb3Sn cable-in-conduit conductors (CICC) usually decreases after the conductor undergoes electromagnetic cycling. This can be attributed to the increase of inter-strand resistance due to the detachment of the strand-bonding during cyclic loa ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2022

Networks of Coupled VO2 Oscillators for Neuromorphic Computing

Elisabetta Corti

Neuromorphic computing is a wide research field aimed to the realization of brain-inspired hardware, apt to tackle computation of unstructured data more efficiently than currently done with standard computational units. Oscillatory neural networks are know ...

EPFL2021

Sensorless Quasi-static Piezoelectric Actuator for Micro-Robotics

Louis Antoine Masson

Research interest into the miniaturisation of micro-robots has soared in recent years due to the availability of suitable integrated actuators. The reduction in size of these components is achieved through the implementation of Self-Sensing Actuation (SSA) ...

EPFL2020

Fully Fdm 3D Printed Flexible Capacitive And Resistive Transducers

Danick Briand, Ryan Mitchell van Dommelen

This work shows the feasibility of fully Fused-Deposition-Modeling (FDM) printed capacitive and resistive transducers, processed in a single tool. It enables their cost-effective processing and provides a simple approach for sensors manufacturing in 3D pri ...

IEEE2019

A Reconfigurable Inductor Based on Vanadium Dioxide Insulator-to-Metal Transition

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Montserrat Fernandez-Bolanos Badia, Emanuele Andrea Casu, Matteo Cavalieri, Andrei Müller, Alessandro Fumarola

This letter introduces a reconfigurable planar square-coil-shaped inductor exploiting as the tuning mechanism the insulator-to-metal transition (IMT) of a vanadium dioxide (VO2) switch placed in the interwinding space in an unprecedented manner. The VO2 th ...

2018

Battery Charger for Electric Vehicles based on a Wireless Power Transmission

Yves Perriard, Paolo Germano

In this paper, the case of a battery charger for electric vehicles based on a wireless power transmission is addressed. The specificity of every stage of the overall system is presented. Based on calculated and measured results, relevant capacitive compens ...

2017

Modeling Minority Carriers Related Capacitive Effects for Transient Substrate Currents in Smart Power ICs

Maher Kayal, Jean-Michel Sallese, Camillo Stefanucci, Pietro Buccella

This paper presents an extended model for transient and ac circuit-level simulation of minority carriers propagation through the substrate of smart power integrated circuits (ICs). A p-n junction and a diffusion resistor with capacitive components are prop ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2015

Analysis of resonant planar dissipative network antennas for rf inductively coupled plasma sources

Christoph Hollenstein, Alan Howling, Philippe Frédérique Bruno Guittienne

The analysis of a radio-frequency (RF) planar antenna is presented for applications in plasma processing. The antenna is a network of elementary meshes composed of inductive and capacitive elements which exhibits a set of resonant modes. The high currents ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2014

Multi-Band Outphasing Power Amplifier Design for Mobile and Base Stations

Omid Talebi Amiri

New generations of wireless communication systems require linear efficient RF power amplifiers (PAs) for higher transmission data rates and longer battery life. On the contrary, conventional PAs are normally designed for peak efficiency under maximum outpu ...

EPFL2014

Design of Large Size, Force Flow Superconductors for DEMO TF Coils

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Kamil Sedlák, Boris Stepanov

The DEMO plant will demonstrate by mid-century the feasibility of electric power generation by nuclear fusion. In the scope of design studies coordinated by the European Commission, CRPP and ENEA are developing two force flow conductor layouts as candidate ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014

Catenary Voltage Support: Adopting Modern Locomotives With Active Line-Side Converters

Alfred Rufer, Behrooz Bahrani

This paper proposes a voltage support scheme for traction networks, which compensates for the voltage drop along the catenary line to which locomotives are connected. The proposed method is based on the injection of capacitive reactive power through the cu ...

2013

Optimized magnetic design for inductive power transfer coils

Ivica Stevanovic

Inductive Power Transfer (IPT) is well-established for applications with biomedical implants and radio-frequency identification systems. Recently, also systems for the charging of the batteries of consumer electronic devices and of electric and hybrid elec ...

IEEE2013

Gold nanoparticles mediated label-free capacitance detection of cardiac troponin I

Sandro Carrara

It has been already proved that electrical capacitance increases at the electrode surface due to binding of highly charged antigens on the biointerface. In this paper, this capacitance change was used to demonstrate a novel detection for cardiac troponin I ...

2012

Plasma generation by inductive coupling with a planar resonant RF network antenna

Christoph Hollenstein, Alan Howling, Philippe Frédérique Bruno Guittienne, Sylvain Lecoultre

A planar antenna operating at 13.56MHz is presented for potential applications in plasma processing. It consists of interconnected elementary resonant meshes composed of inductive and capacitive elements. Due to its structure, the antenna exhibits a set of ...

2012

Resonant planar antenna as an inductive plasma source

Christoph Hollenstein, Alan Howling, Philippe Frédérique Bruno Guittienne, Sylvain Lecoultre

A resonant planar antenna as an inductive plasma source operating at 13.56 MHz inside a low pressure vacuum vessel is presented for potential plasma processing applications. Its principle consists in interconnecting elementary resonant meshes composed of i ...

2012