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Tri-Axial Magnetic Field Sensor up to VHF with Frequency Weighing

German Augusto Ramirez Arroyave

This contribution presents an isotropic magnetic field probe with shaped frequency response in the band 100 kHz - 400 MHz to ponder the aggregate response according to the ICNIRP 2020 guidelines. The basic sensor is a printed loop which is modelled as a Th ...

IEEE2023

Cellular Fronthauling for Data Capacity Increase in Underserved Spaces

Adrian Schumacher

The increase in wireless data traffic continues and is a product of several factors. First, new technologies and capabilities enable new use cases for which new products emerge. Then, with the growing user adoption over time, the data traffic is further in ...

EPFL2022

Enhanced radio-frequency performance of niobium films on copper substrates deposited by high power impulse magnetron sputtering

Fabio Avino

We present a study of radio frequency properties of niobium films deposited on copper by two different approaches based on High Power Impulse Magnetron Sputtering, namely with a DC voltage biased substrate and with bipolar target voltage. Such approaches e ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Multi-antenna 3D pattern design for millimeter-wave vehicular communications

German Augusto Ramirez Arroyave

The transformation of the automotive industry towards ubiquitous connection of vehicles with all kind of external agents (V2X) motivates the use of a wide range of frequencies for several applications. Millimeter-wave (mmWave) connectivity represents a par ...

2022

A Low-Jitter and Low-Spur Charge-Sampling PLL

Edoardo Charbon

This article presents a low-jitter and low-spur charge-sampling phase-locked loop (CSPLL). A charge-domain sub-sampling phase detector is introduced to achieve a high phase-detection gain and to reduce the PLL in-band phase noise. Even without employing an ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Automatic Call Sign Detection: Matching Air Surveillance Data with Air Traffic Spoken Communications

Petr Motlicek

Voice communication is the main channel to exchange information between pilots and Air-Traffic Controllers (ATCos). Recently, several projects have explored the employment of speech recognition technology to automatically extract spoken key information suc ...

MDPI2021

The high-power helicon program at DIII-D: gearing up for first experiments

Alessandro Marinoni

Helicon current drive (CD), also called fast wave CD in the lower hybrid range of frequencies, has long been regarded as a promising CD tool for reactor grade plasmas. A newly installed MW-level system at DIII-D will be the first test of this technology in ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2021

Detecting shocked intergalactic gas with X-ray and radio observations

Claudio Gheller

Detecting the thermal and non-thermal emission from the shocked cosmic gas surrounding large-scale structures represents a challenge for observations, as well as a unique window into the physics of the warm-hot intergalactic medium. In this work, we presen ...

EDP SCIENCES S A2019

Port: A Piezoelectric Optical Resonance Tuner

Tobias Kippenberg, Michail Zervas

This abstract presents an aluminum nitride (AlN) piezoelectric actuator for tuning optical resonance modes of silicon nitride photonic resonators. The AlN actuator is fabricated on top of a thick silicon dioxide cladding that encapsulates the nitride reson ...

IEEE2018

High Performance, Continuously Tunable Microwave Filters Using MEMS Devices With Very Large, Controlled, Out-of-Plane Actuation

Matthias Imboden

Software defined radios (SDR) in the microwave X- and K-bands offer the promise of low cost, programmable operation with real-time frequency agility. However, the real world in which such radios operate requires them to be able to detect nanowatt signals i ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2018

Novel Digital and Radio Frequency Electronic Functions Enabled by Steep-Slope Phase-Change Devices

Emanuele Andrea Casu

In the past half-century, the semiconductor industry has relied on the scaling of complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) transistor dimensions and on material and geometrical innovations to increase the computational density. Approaching the end of ...

EPFL2018

Polymer-Based Metal Coated Additive Manufactured V- and W-band Antenna Feed Chain Components

Juan Ramon Mosig, Emile Jacques de Rijk, Tomislav Debogovic, Santiago Capdevila Cascante, Esteban Menargues Gomez

In this paper an additive manufactured (AM) W-band monolithic feed chain is presented. The feed chain, which consists of a corrugated horn antenna and a turnstile orthomode transducer (OMT), operates over the entire W-band (75-110 GHz) and fulfills typical ...

IEEE2017

Ultra Low-Power Frequency Synthesizers for Duty Cycled IoT radios

Raghavasimhan Thirunarayanan

Internet of Things (IoT), which is one of the main talking points in the electronics industry today, consists of a number of highly miniaturized sensors and actuators which sense the physical environment around us and communicate that information to a cent ...

EPFL2016

Negative ion source development for a photoneutralization based neutral beam system for future fusion reactors

Basil Duval, Ivo Furno, Alan Howling, Philippe Frédérique Bruno Guittienne, Rémy Jacquier, Riccardo Agnello, Claudio Marini

In parallel to the developments dedicated to the ITER neutral beam (NB) system, CEA-IRFM with laboratories in France and Switzerland are studying the feasibility of a new generation of NB system able to provide heating and current drive for the future DEMO ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2016

184 mu W ultrasonic on-off keying/amplitude-shift keying demodulator for downlink communication in deep implanted medical devices

Catherine Dehollain, Francesco Mazzilli

An ultrasonic on-off keying/amplitude-shift keying demodulator using standard 0.18 mu m CMOS technology is proposed, intended for recovering the identification number of an implanted medical device transmitted from an external base station. The CMOS integr ...

Institution of Engineering and Technology2016

Method of real-time regulation compliance for wireless transmitters

Pierre-André Farine, Alexis Boegli, Mitko Tanevski

All wireless devices must comply with the local radio regulations which are set by international and national regulatory bodies such as the European Telecommunication Standardization Institute (ETSI) for Europe and the Federal Commission for Communication ...

2015

Lily: A Miniature Floating Robotic Platform for Programmable Stochastic Self-Assembly

Alcherio Martinoli, Bahar Haghighat, Emmanuel Droz

Fluid-mediated programmable stochastic self-assembly offers promising means to formation of target structures capable of a variety of functionalities. While miniaturized building blocks allow for finer resolutions in such structures, as well as access to u ...

2015

A Planar Feed for SOTM Ka-band Lens Antennas

Juan Ramon Mosig, Marc Esquius Morote, Maria Garcia Vigueras, Joana Rita Alves dos Santos Silva

Ka-band satellite technology has been drawing growing interest from public transportation industry to military applications, due to its advantages of higher speed links, smaller terminals and reduced costs. These well-recognized characteristics have also b ...

2015

An overview of W-BAN antennas designed at LEMA

Anja Skrivervik

W-BAN applications have been around since a long time, but have been experiencing a tremendous growth during the last decades. This results in the need of dedicated antennas, which are designed and optimized taking into account their lossy surroundings. De ...

2014

Performance of UHF W-BAN antennas in a real environment scenario

Anja Skrivervik, Jean-François Zürcher, Jovanche Trajkovikj

This work presents performance of robust wearable antennas intended to operate in Wireless Body Area Networks (W-BAN) in UHF, TETRAPOL communication band, 380-400 MHz. We propose a Planar Inverted F Antenna (PIFA) as reliable antenna type for UHF W-BAN app ...

2014