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

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

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

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

Study of Thin Film LiNbO3 Laterally Excited Bulk Acoustic Resonators

Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Soumya Yandrapalli, Hüseyin Baris Atakan

This work presents an in-depth study of simulation and measurement results of laterally excited shear bulk acoustic resonators (XBAR) in Lithium Niobate, at 5 GHz with high electromechanical coupling factor (k(t)(2)) as high as 25%, and with impedances at ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2022

Development of Thin Film Lithium Niobate Shear Bulk Acoustic Wave Resonators

Soumya Yandrapalli

RF MEMS piezoelectric acoustic resonators are the essential building blocks for RF filters used in RF front-end modules for wireless mobile communication due to their compact size in the MHz-GHz frequency range, high Quality factors and large relative band ...

EPFL2022

Constraining quasar structure using high-frequency microlensing variations and continuum reverberation

Frédéric Courbin, Vivien François Bonvin, Martin Raoul Robert Millon, Hung-Hsu Chan, Georgios Vernardos, Eric Gérard Guy Paic

Gravitational microlensing is a powerful tool for probing the inner structure of strongly lensed quasars and for constraining parameters of the stellar mass function of lens galaxies. This is achieved by analysing microlensing light curves between the mult ...

EDP SCIENCES S A2022

X-point and divertor filament dynamics from gas puff imaging on TCV

Basil Duval, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Olivier Claude Martin Février, Davide Galassi, Curdin Tobias Wüthrich, Nicola Offeddu, Diego Sales de Oliveira

A new gas puff imaging diagnostic has been installed on the TCV tokamak, providing two-dimensional insights into scrape-off-layer (SOL) turbulence dynamics above, at and below the magnetic X-point. A detailed study in L-mode, attached, lower single-null di ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Strategies, Techniques and Systems for powering low-maintenance and battery-free devices through Energy Harvesting and Wireless Power Transfer

Roberto La Rosa

The purpose of this research has a background in the market for Internet of Things (IoT)devices and wireless sensor networks. The Market Forecast predicts the connection of a trillion"things" by 2025. The global smart sensor market size trend grows from US ...

EPFL2022

Photonic Processing of MAPbI(3) Films by Flash Annealing and Rapid Growth for High-Performance Perovskite Solar Cells

Sandy Sanchez Alonso

Defects in polycrystalline halide perovskite films can cause a decrease of the solar cell photoconversion efficiency and stability. The perovskite film enhanced during crystal growth by controlling the processing method can alleviate defects and the relate ...

2022

Plasma-based Electroacoustic Actuator for Broadband Sound Absorption

Stanislav Sergeev

Environmental noise, mostly related to human activities, has an immense impact on public health. The development of noise reduction technologies is paramount in addressing this problem. Because of practical and economic reasons, a compact, broadband, light ...

EPFL2022

State selective cooling of SU(N) Fermi gases

Frédéric Mila, Miklos Lajko

We investigate a species selective cooling process of a trapped SU(N) Fermi gas using entropy redistribution during adiabatic loading of an optical lattice. Using high-temperature expansion of the Hubbard model, we show that when a subset N-A < N of the si ...

2021

Filamentous and step-like behavior of gelling coarse fibrin networks revealed by high-frequency microrheology

László Forró, Sylvia Jeney

By a micro-experimental methodology, we study the ongoing molecular process inside coarse fibrin networks by means of microrheology. We made these networks gelate around a probe microbead, allowing us to observe a temporal evolution compatible with the wel ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2020

Antennas for CubeSat Communication

Miroslav Veljovic

CubeSats are a type of small satellites (< 500 kg) that weigh several kilograms and consist of multiple Units (U) measuring 100 × 100 × 113.5 mm3. CubeSats emerged as a low-cost alternative to conventional large satellites, and have since demonstrated capa ...

EPFL2020

Implementation of Passive Two-Phase Cooling to an Entire Server Rack

John Richard Thome, Filippo Cataldo

As data centers grow exponentially in size and number worldwide, it appears evident that more efficient and reliable cooling solutions are needed to reduce energy consumption and noise level significantly. Thermosyphon-based systems have been proven to res ...

IEEE2020

Stream temperature and discharge evolution in Switzerland over the last 50 years: annual and seasonal behaviour

Michael Lehning, Bettina Schaefli, Wolf Hendrik Huwald, Adrien Michel, Tristan Jonas Brauchli

Stream temperature and discharge are key hydro- logical variables for ecosystem and water resource management and are particularly sensitive to climate warming. Despite the wealth of meteorological and hydrological data, few studies have quantified observe ...

2020

Short-term energy use prediction of solar-assisted water heating system: Application case of combined attention-based LSTM and time-series decomposition

Dolaana Khovalyg, Amirreza Heidari

With improved insulation of building envelopes and the use of low-temperature space heating systems, the share of energy use for domestic hot water (DHW) production in buildings has increased significantly, and nearly become the most energy-expensive servi ...

2020

Distributed and dynamic strain sensing with high spatial resolution and large measurable strain range

Luc Thévenaz, Zhisheng Yang, Li Zhang, Malak Mohamed Hossameldeen Omar Mohamed Galal

A distributed and dynamic strain sensing system based on frequency-scanning phase-sensitive optical time domain reflectometry is proposed and demonstrated. By utilizing an RF pulse scheme with a fast arbitrary waveform generator, a train of optical pulses ...

2020

Reliability of daylight and energy demand evaluations for decision making at the conceptual design stage of neighborhood design

Marilyne Andersen, Luisa Pastore, Minu Agarwal

When conducting building performance simulation (BPS) at the early design stage, potential impact on design decisions is the greatest. However, the reliability of evaluations resulting from early design stage BPS models may suffer given that building attri ...

2019

Improved off‐resonance phase behavior using a phase‐inverted adiabatic half‐passage pulse for 13 C MRS in humans at 7 T

Rolf Gruetter, Lijing Xin, Daniel Gallichan, Eulalia Serés Roig

In vivo (13) C MRS at high field benefits from an improved SNR and spectral resolution especially when using surface coils in combination with adiabatic pulses, such as the adiabatic half-passage (AHP) pulse for (13) C excitation. However, the excitation p ...

2019

Microwave inductive proximity sensors with sub-pm/Hz1/2 resolution

Giovanni Boero, Nergiz Sahin Solmaz, Alessandro Valentino Matheoud

Inductive proximity sensors are low-cost and versatile detectors achieving resolutions in the nm and sub-nm range. Their typical working frequency ranges from tens of kHz to a few MHz. Operation at higher frequencies is considered as a possible route for t ...

2019