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Gate Driver Power Supply With Low-Capacitance-Coupling and Constant Output Voltage for Medium-Voltage SiC MOSFETs

With the development of wide band-gap devices, Silicon Carbide (SiC) semiconductor devices in 10 kV–15 kV voltage class offer potentials in medium-voltage (MV) systems. To ensure reliable operation of these MV SiC devices, gate driver power supplies must m ...

2025

Direct laser writing of electronically conductive microstructures within soft hydrogel substrates

Veronica Navello, Stéphanie Lacour, Esther Amstad, Outman Akouissi, Lorenzo Lucherini

Hydrogels have emerged as promising materials for bioelectronic interfaces due to their tissue-like properties and high-water content. However, conventional hydrogels often suffer from poor electrical conductivity and mechanical stability, limiting their p ...

2025

Fabrication of fluid-compatible trilayer cantilevers with integrated piezoelectric actuators

Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Georg Fantner, Damien Maillard, Nahid Hosseini, Mustafa Kangül, Matthias Neuenschwander

Microcantilevers are popular transducers thanks to their simple design and a high sensitivity. In many applications, the cantilevers need to be actuated, either to induce a controlled deflection or to excite the resonance. This can be achieved with integra ...

2025

ECOSURF SA-9: A Biodegradable Alternative to Triton X-100 for Tissue Phantoms

Anja Skrivervik, Sujith Raman, Adrián Fernández Carnicero

Tissue phantoms are materials designed to mimic the dielectric properties of biological tissues. This work proposes eco-friendly tissue phantoms of cartilage, cerebrospinal fluid and stomach in the frequency range between 0.4 and 6 GHz. For reaching this p ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2025

Towards microwave-to-optical quantum transduction with barium titanate/strontium titanate integrated photonics

Annina Irina Riedhauser

The faithful bidirectional quantum coherent conversion of microwave (5 GHz) and optical (193.5 THz) quantum states will become essential for future quantum networks. Due to their low transition frequency, qubit states are quickly destroyed at room temperat ...

EPFL2025

Reliability of High-Frequency Earth Meters in Measuring Tower-Footing Resistance: Simulations and Experimental Validation

Rafael Silva Alipio

This paper presents a comprehensive assessment of the accuracy of high-frequency (HF) earth meters in measuring the tower-footing ground resistance of transmission line structures, combining simulation and experimental results. The findings demonstrate tha ...

MDPI AG2025

Compact Superconducting Vacuum-gap Capacitors with Low Microwave Loss and High Mechanical Coherence for Scalable Quantum Circuits

Tobias Kippenberg, Marco Scigliuzzo, Amir Youssefi, Mahdi Chegnizadeh

Vacuum-gap capacitors have recently attracted significant interest in superconducting circuit platforms due to their compact design and exceptionally low dielectric losses in the microwave regime. Their intrinsic ability to support mechanical vibrational m ...

American Physical Society (APS)2025

Plasma-irradiated hafnia ferroelectrics for high-performance flexible thin film transistors

Arindam Bala

Integrating unconventional HfO2-based ferroelectrics in thin film transistors (TFTs) has proven effective in enhancing performance by stabilizing negative capacitance (NC). This is achieved by incorporating the ferroelectric in series with a high-permittiv ...

2025

Closed-Form Approximations for RF Radiation from Implantable Medical Devices

Anja Skrivervik, Mingxiang Gao

The radio frequency (RF) performance of implantable antennas is significantly affected by the lossy biological tissues surrounding the implant. This paper introduces an an-alytical method for assessing the gain and radiation patterns of implantable antenna ...

IEEE2025

Novel 2-D Beamsteerable Rectenna with Improved Power Receptivity for mm-Wave RF-WPT Applications

Anja Skrivervik, Denys Nikolayev, German Augusto Ramirez Arroyave, Amir Mohsen Ahmadi Najafabadi

This paper introduces a novel 2-D beam-steerable rectenna designed for mm-wave RF wireless power transfer (RF-WPT) applications. The 2-D beamsteering capability of the proposed rectenna is achieved by integrating an on-chip 4 × 4 Butler matrix, which is co ...

2025

Biomarkers in Interstitial Fluid: From Screening to Sensor Development

Yann Christophe Sprunger

EPFL2025

Lithium tantalate photonic integrated circuits for volume manufacturing

Tobias Kippenberg, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger, Mikhail Churaev, Xinru Ji, Zihan Li, Terence Albert Emile Blésin, Chengli Wang, Junyin Zhang, Xi Wang, Chen Yang, Wil Kao, Alisa Davydova

Electro-optical photonic integrated circuits (PICs) based on lithium niobate (LiNbO3) have demonstrated the vast capabilities of materials with a high Pockels coefficient1,2. They enable linear and high-speed modulators operating at complementary metal–oxi ...

2024

Measuring electrical properties in semiconductor devices by pixelated STEM and off-axis electron holography (or convergent beams vs. plane waves)

Victor Carle Adrien Boureau

We demonstrate the use of both pixelated differential phase contrast (DPC) scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) and off-axis electron holography (EH) for the measurement of electric fields and assess the advantages and limitations of each techn ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2024

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

3D Printing of Customizable Transient Bioelectronics and Sensors

Danick Briand, Nicolas Francis Fumeaux

Transient electronics have emerged as a new category of devices that can degrade after their functional lifetime, offering tremendous potential as disposable sensors, actuators, wearables, and implants. Additive manufacturing methods represent a promising ...

2024

Towards Scalable Electronics: Synthetic 2D Materials for Large-Area 2D Circuit Integration

Zhenyu Wang

In the past decades, a significant increase of the transistor density on a chip has led to exponential growth in computational power driven by Moore's law. To overcome the bottleneck of traditional von-Neumann architecture in computational efficiency, effo ...

EPFL2024

Decomposition method to evaluate district heating/cooling network potential at urban scale

Ana Catarina Gouveia Braz, François Maréchal, Luc Girardin, Bingqian Liu

In this work, a tool to design district heating networks (DHN) is presented and applied to the city of Lausanne as a case study. The evaluation of the buildings’ heat/cooling demand is performed using a Geographic Information System (GIS) database, built f ...

Associazione Italiana Di Ingegneria Chimica2024

Active Voltage Balancing with Seamless Integration into Dual Gate Driver for Series Connection of SiC MOSFETs

Drazen Dujic, Rui Wang

The versatility of half-bridge configuration of silicon carbide (SiC) metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) power module contributes to its widespread adoption, highlighting the popularity and significance of its corresponding dual gat ...

2024

Doping Engineering for PDP Optimization in SPADs Implemented in 55-nm BCD Process

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Myung Jae Lee, Wenfeng Liu

We introduce a new family of single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) with enhanced depletion regions in a 55-nm Bipolar-CMOS-DMOS (BCD) technology. We demonstrate how to systematically engineer doping profiles in the main junction and in deep p-well layers ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

Pyroresistive response of percolating conductive polymer composites

Claudio Grimaldi

The pyroresistive response of conductive polymer composites (CPCs) has attracted much interest because of its potential applications in many electronic devices requiring a significant responsiveness to changes in external physical parameters such as temper ...

Amer Physical Soc2024