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Cavity Design for a High-Power, Frequency-Agile 198 GHz Gyrotron

Gyrotrons are high-power microwave sources, readily applied in diverse fields ranging from fusion research and thermal treatment of materials to advanced spectroscopic techniques. Here, we provide the cavity design of a 198 GHz gyrotron to generate microwa ...

2025

Nanomechanical resonators with low dissipation for quantum optomechanics

Alberto Beccari

Fields of technology as diverse as microwave filter construction, characterization of material interfaces with atomic precision, and detection of gravitational waves from astronomical sources employ mechanical resonators at their core. The utility of mecha ...

EPFL2023

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

Rocker oscillator time bases

Simon Nessim Henein, Ilan Vardi

Since the invention of the pendulum clock by Christiaan Huygens in 1657, precision timekeepers have been regulated by oscillators. Although the pendulum is not an isochronous oscillator, its introduction as a time basis for clock regulation led to a signif ...

2021

Design and fabrication of an aerosol collector for infrared spectroscopy analysis

Nikunj Dudani

Particulate matter (PM) pollution causes adverse health effects and millions of deaths each year. PM or aerosol, is difficult to characterize because of its wide range of particle sizes, constituents (various organic and inorganic compounds), concentration ...

EPFL2021

Development of Lamb wave resonators in thin film X-cut lithium niobate

Muhammad Faizan

Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) is among the most revolutionary technologies of 21st century, with the applications ranging from industrial systems to consumer electronics. Using MEMS in battery-powered wireless devices has long been seen as the evol ...

EPFL2021

Low Noise Clock Generation: Modeling, Analysis and Implementation

Duygu Kostak

The aim of this thesis is to implement, analyze and improve the selected low noise clock generation and distribution techniques for ADC implementations. The thesis is divided into two parts. The first part focuses on the sampling phase generation and distr ...

EPFL2021

Tunneling processes through magnetic impurities on superconducting surfaces: Yu-Shiba-Rusinov states and the Josephson effect

Haonan Huang

Magnetic impurities generate a wealth of phenomena on surfaces. On metals, conducting electrons screen the magnetic moment giving rise to the Kondo effect. On superconductors, the Yu-Shiba-Rusinov (YSR) states emerge inside the superconducting gap due to t ...

EPFL2021

Shaking force balancing of a 2-DOF isotropic horological oscillator

Simon Nessim Henein, Etienne Frédéric Gabriel Thalmann, Hubert Pierre-Marie Benoît Schneegans

Despite centuries of research and significant advances, the escapement mechanism used to count and maintain oscillations of mechanical time bases remains a complex mechanism and a major source of energy losses. We showed in previous work that, instead of t ...

2021

Towards a N77 Electroacoustic Filter Using Thin Films of Crystalline Y-cut Lithium Niobate

Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Soumya Yandrapalli

This paper presents the use of a novel type of resonators made of a thin membrane of Y-cut Lithium Niobate that has an array of interdigitated electrodes on the top, and a floating metal on the bottom. Each electrode gives rise to a quasi-independent reson ...

IEEE2021

Optical measurement method for mechanical time base characterization

Simon Nessim Henein, Etienne Frédéric Gabriel Thalmann

The recent adoption of silicon components by the mechanical watch industry has triggered the search for new time bases to advantageously replace the traditional balance and hairspring oscillator. In particular, flexure-based oscillators manufactured in sil ...

euspen2021

Ultrafast Photoelectron and Optical Spectroscopies of Photoinduced Processes in Molecular Systems in Solution

Luca Longetti

Investigating molecular excitations with femtosecond time resolution is of pivotal importance to understand the out-of-equilibrium processes taking place in molecular systems upon light absorption. The photochemistry of solvated species is heavily determin ...

EPFL2020

Evidence of Smaller 1/F Noise in AlScN-Based Oscillators Compared to AlN-Based Oscillators

Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Andrea Lozzi, Marco Liffredo

In this paper we investigate the direct effect of resonator quality factor (Q) on the oscillator phase noise. We use 2-port contour mode resonators (CMRs), fabricated both with aluminum nitride (AlN) and aluminum scandium nitride (AlScN), as the frequency- ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2020

Photonic microwave generation in the X- and K-band using integrated soliton microcombs

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Maxim Karpov, Rui Ning Wang, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger, Hairun Guo, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Jijun He, Arslan Sajid Raja, Romain Dany Bruno Bouchand

Microwave photonic technologies, which upshift the carrier into the optical domain, have facilitated the generation and processing of ultra-wideband electronic signals at vastly reduced fractional bandwidths. For microwave photonic applications such as rad ...

Nature Publishing Group2020

AlN and AlScN contour mode resonators for MEMS-based RF front ends

Andrea Lozzi

Miniaturization is a simple yet very powerful concept. Applied to devices, it opens to plethora of new applications. Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) are the result of scaling down the dimensions of devices to the micron range or the nano range (NEMS) ...

EPFL2019

On Time Synchronization Issues in Time-Sensitive Networks with Regulators and Nonideal Clocks

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Ludovic Bernard Gérard Thomas

Flow reshaping is used in time-sensitive networks (as in the context of IEEE TSN and IETF Detnet) in order to reduce burstiness inside the network and to support the computation of guaranteed latency bounds. This is performed using per-flow regulators (suc ...

Association for Computing Machinery2020

Nonlinear piezoelectric vibration energy harvester with frequency-tuned impacting resonators for improving broadband performance at low frequencies

Nico de Rooij, Danick Briand, Andres Felipe Vasquez Quintero, Robert Andrew Lockhart

The paper reports on a nonlinear frequency up-converting vibration energy harvester with enhanced broadband performance below 50 Hz, which is attained by leveraging vibro-impact interaction between two high-frequency piezoelectric generators and two low-fr ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2019

Mechanical resonators with high dissipation dilution in precision and quantum measurements

Sergey Fedorov

Position measurements of mechanical oscillators underpin experiments spanning from applied nanoscale sensing to endeavors aiming to resolve open fundamental problems of modern physics. Sufficiently precise position measurements are also used for engineerin ...

EPFL2021

Feasibility of Time Synchronization Attacks against PMU-based State-Estimation

Mario Paolone, Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Sergio Barreto Andrade, Marguerite Marie Nathalie Delcourt

The emerging measurement technology of phasor measurement units (PMUs) makes it possible to estimate the state of electrical grids in real-time, thus opening the way to new protection and control applications. PMUs rely on precise time synchronization, the ...

2019

A Subwavelength Microwave Bandpass Filter Based on a Chiral Waveguide

Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Maliheh Khatibi Moghaddam

Wave manipulation at a subwavelength scale has recently attracted significant interest, especially for low-frequency wave propagation, from acoustic to microwave devices. Recently, a few methods achieving subwavelength routing using locally resonant metama ...

IEEE Xplore2020