Publications associées à Charge-based modeling of ultra narrow junctionless cylindrical nanowire FETs

Tool Developments in the OpenMC Code: Correlated Sampling and Transient Fission Matrix Approach Coupled to OpenFOAM

Thomas Jean-François Ligonnet, Axel Guy Marie Laureau, Elsa Merle

This article outlines the advancements made in broadening the application scope of the OpenMC neutron transport code to include thermohydraulic coupling and nuclear data uncertainty propagation. These developments primarily involve the incorporation of the ...

Taylor & Francis Inc2024

A geometric optimal control approach for imitation and generalization of manipulation skills

Sylvain Calinon, Amirreza Razmjoo Fard, Jie Zhao

Daily manipulation tasks are characterized by regular features associated with the task structure, which can be described by multiple geometric primitives related to actions and object shapes. Only using Cartesian coordinate systems cannot fully represent ...

Elsevier2023

Learning Linearized Degradation of Health Indicators using Deep Koopman Operator Approach

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With the current trend of increasing complexity of industrial systems, the construction and monitoring of health indicators becomes even more challenging. Given that health indicators are commonly employed to predict the end of life, a crucial criterion fo ...

Research Publishing2023

Transcapacitances Modeling in ultra-thin gate-all-around junctionless nanowire FETs, including 2D quantum confinement

Farzan Jazaeri

In this work, we propose an analytical model for the intrinsic transcapacitances in ultra-thin gate-all-around junctionless nanowire field effect transistors in the presence of confined energy states of electrons. The validity of the developed model is con ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2023

Nonlocally-resonant metamaterials

Aleksi Antoine Bossart

In this thesis, we unveil a third design path to manipulate elastic waves within architected media, distinct from the traditional phononic crystal and locally-resonant metamaterial concepts. The core innovation lies in the concept of nonlocal resonances, d ...

EPFL2023

A synthetic phase-contrast imaging diagnostic with spatial filtering for gyrokinetic simulations

Stephan Brunner, Stefano Coda, Gabriele Merlo, Aylwin Iantchenko, Justin Richard Ball

A Phase-contrast imaging (PCI) diagnostic provides measurements of line-integrated electron density fluctuations. Localisation along the laser beam path can be achieved with a spatial filter that selects the wave-vector directions of the fluctuations contr ...

2023

New Technologies to Enhance the Figures-of-Merit of GaN Power Devices

Luca Nela

Gallium Nitride (GaN) has enabled groundbreaking developments in the field of optoelectronics and radio frequency communication. More recently, GaN devices for power conversion applications have demonstrated excellent potential. Thanks to Gallium Nitride w ...

EPFL2022

An a posteriori error estimator for isogeometric analysis on trimmed geometries

Ondine Gabrielle Chanon, Annalisa Buffa, Rafael Vazquez Hernandez

Trimming consists of cutting away parts of a geometric domain, without reconstructing a global parametrization (meshing). It is a widely used operation in computer-aided design, which generates meshes that are unfitted with the described physical object. T ...

2022

Cockroach: an open-source tool for point cloud processing in cad

Yves Weinand, Julien Gamerro, Andrea Settimi, Petras Vestartas

In the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) sector, the use of point cloud data is not a novelty. Usually employed to retrieve data for inspecting construction sites or retrofitting pre-existing buildings, sensors like LiDAR cameras have been k ...

Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA)2022

Compound Admittance Matrix Estimation of Three-phase Untransposed Power Distribution Grids using Synchrophasor Measurements

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Mario Paolone, Fabrizio Sossan, Rahul Kumar Gupta

The paper considers the problem of estimating the parameters of the compound admittance matrix of three-phase untransposed low-and medium-voltage electrical distribution networks using synchrophasor measurements from phasor measurement units (PMUs). The wo ...

2021

High-Performance Enhancement-Mode AlGaN/GaN Multi-Channel Power Transistors

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Jun Ma, Catherine Erine, Remco Franciscus Peter van Erp, Luca Nela, Halil Kerim Yildirim

AlGaN/GaN devices have shown outstanding potential for power conversion applications. However, despite the recent progress, their performance is still far from what the material can offer in terms of on-resistance and breakdown voltage. To address this cha ...

IEEE2021

Free Carrier Mobility, Series Resistance, and Threshold Voltage Extraction in Junction FETs

Matthias Bucher, Jean-Michel Sallese, Farzan Jazaeri

In this brief, extraction methods are proposed for determining the essential parameters of double gate junction field-effect transistors (FETs). First, a novel method for determining free carrier effective mobility, similar to a recently proposed method fo ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

Transcapacitances in EPFL HEMT Model

Jean-Michel Sallese, Farzan Jazaeri

In this article, we present a closed-form solution for transcapacitances in GaN HEMTs derived from a design-oriented charge-based model of the AlGaAs/GaAs- and AlGaN/GaN-based HEMTs that were recently proposed. The analytical expressions are based on the c ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

A Minimal Stabilization Procedure for Isogeometric Methods on Trimmed Geometries

Annalisa Buffa, Riccardo Puppi, Rafael Vazquez Hernandez

Trimming is a common operation in computer aided design and, in its simplest formulation, consists in removing superfluous parts from a geometric entity described via splines (a spline patch). After trimming, the geometric description of the patch remains ...

2020

A framework to automate the design of digitally-fabricated timber plate structures

Yves Weinand, Aryan Rezaei Rad, Henry V. Burton, Petras Vestartas, Nicolas Henry Pierre Louis Rogeau

The current study uses knowledge from digital architecture, computer science, engineering informatics, and structural engineering to formulate an algorithmic framework for integrated Computer-Aided Design (CAD) and Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) of Integ ...

2021

Mechanical Characterization of Integrally-Attached Timber Plate Structures: Experimental studies and macro modeling technique

Aryan Rezaei Rad

Spurred by the recent advancements in Computer-Aided Design (CAD), Integral Mechanical Attachment (IMA) technique has been resurrected. Using IMAs, connections between timber elements are established through their form, instead of using additional connecto ...

EPFL2020

Macroscopic Model for Spatial Timber Plate Structures with Integral Mechanical Attachments

Yves Weinand, Aryan Rezaei Rad, Henry V. Burton

The use of integral mechanical attachments (IMAs) in spatial free-form timber plate structures has been revitalized by the production of engineered boards and recent developments in digital fabrication and computer-aided design. Despite the widespread inte ...

2020

Propulsion module for generating wave-like motion

Auke Ijspeert, Peter Eckert

The present invention relates to a propulsion module (1) for generating wave-like motion in liquid. The propulsion module (1) comprises: a motor (7) for generating rotational motion; a set of conversion devices comprising a first conversion device (91) and ...

2020

Ultrathin Junctionless Nanowire FET Model, Including 2-D Quantum Confinements

Farzan Jazaeri

In this paper, we develop an explicit model to predict the dc electrical behavior in ultrathin surrounding gate junctionless (JL) nanowire field-effect transistors (FETs). The proposed model considers 2-D electrical and geometrical confinements of carrier ...

2019

Influence of Halo Implantations on the Total Ionizing Dose Response of 28-nm pMOSFETs Irradiated to Ultrahigh Doses

Christian Enz

In this paper, the total ionizing dose (TID) response of a commercial 28-nm high-k CMOS technology at ultrahigh doses is measured and discussed. The degradation of pMOSFETs depends not only on the channel width but also on the channel length. Short-channel ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2019