Publications associées à Ultra-Low Power Ion-Sensing Smart Platform for Noninvasive Healthcare Applications

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In a context of escalating public health challenges, including the rise of chronic diseases, the impact of climate change, and the COVID-19 pandemic, certain populations bear a disproportionate burden. As a result, there is an urgent need to develop public ...

EPFL2024

Different health systems-Different mortality outcomes? Regional disparities in avoidable mortality across German-speaking Europe, 1992-2019

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Background: Evaluating the impact of health systems on premature mortality across different countries is a very challenging task, as it is hardly possible to disentangle it from the influence of contextual factors such as cultural differences. In this resp ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2023

Soft Multimaterial Magnetic Fibers and Textiles

Fabien Sorin, Stella Andréa Françoise Laperrousaz, Chaoqun Dong, Andreas Leber, Hritwick Banerjee, Rémi Andréa La Polla

Magnetically responsive soft materials are promising building blocks for the next generation of soft robotics, prosthesis, surgical tools, and smart textiles. To date, however, the fabrication of highly integrated magnetic fibers with extreme aspect ratios ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2023

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Self-tracking technologies open new doors to previously unimaginable scenarios. The diagnosis of diseases years in advance, or supporting the health of astronauts on missions to Mars are just some of many example applications. During the COVID-19 pandemic, ...

2023

Integrated silicon photonic MEMS

Niels Quack, Hamed Sattari, Alain Yuji Takabayashi

Silicon photonics has emerged as a mature technology that is expected to play a key role in critical emerging applications, including very high data rate optical communications, distance sensing for autonomous vehicles, photonic-accelerated computing, and ...

SPRINGERNATURE2023

Real-time Personalized Monitoring of Neurological Disorders on Wearable Systems

Renato Zanetti

The terminology of neurological disorders encompasses a range of serious illnesses (e.g., epilepsy, Alzheimer's disease) leading to morbidity, disability, and stigma. Epilepsy alone affects over 50 million people worldwide, and these figures are rising as ...

EPFL2023

Front-End Circuits for Radiation-Hard Monolithic CMOS Sensors targeting High-Energy Physics Applications

Francesco Piro

Monolithic pixel sensors integrate the sensor matrix and readout in the same silicon die, and therefore present several advantages over the more largely used hybrid detectors in high-energy physics. They offer an easier detector assembly, lower cost, lower ...

EPFL2023

Spatial analysis of the Healthy Built Environment: an application on Cardiovascular Risk Factors in the canton of Geneva

Andrea Salmi

Most of the world population lives in urban areas, the share of the urban population is estimated to increase in the future decades. The complexity of different land uses and services in urban areas, which composes the built environment, influences human h ...

EPFL2022

Estimating Auxiliary Power Supply Consumption of the Modular Multilevel Converter Submodule for the Condition Health Monitoring

Drazen Dujic, Ignacio Alejandro Polanco Lobos

Condition health monitoring strategies applied to different power electronics applications are gaining popularity as early component degradation detection can trigger preventive maintenance actions before a significant fault occurs. In highly modular conve ...

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A new versatile hybrid MEMS technology for high sensitivity, fluid proof sensing applications

Matthias Neuenschwander

The field of micro electromechanical systems (MEMS) evolved from the microelectronic industry and the technologies developed to fabricate integrated circuits. As a result, MEMS are commonly fabricated on silicon wafers. The development of MEMS has been dri ...

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Contactless Sleep Monitoring for Early Detection of Health Deteriorations in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Exploratory Study

Philipp Buluschek, Daniel Gatica-Perez

Background: Population aging is posing multiple social and economic challenges to society. One such challenge is the social and economic burden related to increased health care expenditure caused by early institutionalizations. The use of modern pervasive ...

JMIR PUBLICATIONS, INC2021

Body Dust: Well Beyond Wearable and Implantable Sensors

Sandro Carrara

Over the last 20 years, the field of Smart Dust has been proposed and demonstrated. Almost in the same period, implantable and wearable sensors for human monitoring have been actually successfully introduced in the market. The present research about Smart ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

Wafer-Level Vacuum Sealing for Packaging of Silicon Photonic MEMS

Niels Quack, Hamed Sattari, Alain Yuji Takabayashi

Silicon (Si) photonic micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), with its low-power phase shifters and tunable couplers, is emerging as a promising technology for large-scale reconfigurable photonics with potential applications for example in photonic accele ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2021

Inflection Phenomenon in Cryogenic MOSFET Behavior

Christian Enz, Farzan Jazaeri, Arnout Lodewijk M Beckers

This brief reports the analytical modeling and measurements of the inflection in the MOSFET transfer characteristics at cryogenic temperatures. Inflection is the inward bending of the drain current versus gate voltage, which reduces the current in weak and ...

2020

Wafer-scale fabrication of ultralow-loss silicon nitride nonlinear photonic circuits

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Maxim Karpov, Junqiu Liu, Miles Henry Anderson, Arslan Sajid Raja, Nils Johan Engelsen, Wenle Weng, Anton Lukashchuk, Guanhao Huang, Jijun He, Mikhail Churaev, Anat Siddharth, Alexey Tikan

Recent advances in silicon nitride integrated photonics have achieved ultralow optical losses. Transferring this technology to standard commercial foundries, and merging it with silicon photonics via heterogeneous integration, will seed novel laser and qua ...

IEEE2020

Low Power Sensing and Processing in Wearable Biomedical Devices for Personalized Health Monitoring

Grégoire Casimir Joseph Surrel

Whether it is for personal use or for medical application, wearable sensors are becoming more and more widespread. This is the industry answer to two parallel trends. First, the public show a wish to collect data about their own lifestyle. This rather new ...

EPFL2019

Overlapping spatial clusters of sugar-sweetened beverage intake and body mass index in Geneva state, Switzerland

Stéphane Joost, David Nicolas De Ridder, Idris Guessous

Background: Obesity and obesity-related diseases represent a major public health concern. Recently, studies have substantiated the role of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) consumption in the development of these diseases.The fine identification of populati ...

Springer2019

5 GHz Band n79 wideband microacoustic filter using thin lithium niobate membrane

Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Soumya Yandrapalli

Microacoustic resonators made on suspended continuous membranes of LiNbO3 were recently shown to have very strong coupling and low losses at >= 5 GHz, suitable for high-performance filter design. Employing these simple resonator structures, the authors hav ...

2019

Three-Dimensional Integrated Ultra-Low-Volume Passive Microfluidics with Ion-Sensitive Field-Effect Transistors for Multiparameter Wearable Sweat Analyzers

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Fabien Patrick Wildhaber, Johan Frédéric Longo, Hoël Maxime Guérin, Erick Antonio Garcia Cordero, Junrui Zhang, Francesco Bellando

Wearable systems could offer noninvasive and real-time solutions for monitoring of biomarkers in human sweat as an alternative to blood testing. Recent studies have demonstrated that the concentration of certain biomarkers in sweat can be directly correlat ...

2018

Full-Area Passivating Contacts with High and Low Thermal Budgets: Solutions for High Efficiency c-Si Solar Cells

Gizem Nogay

Today more than 90% of the global PV market is covered by c-Si solar cells which are limited by recombination losses at the metal-semiconductor interface. This recombination path can be avoided by separating the metal from the c-Si wafer by introducing a b ...

EPFL2018