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Direct observations of X-rays produced by upward positive lightning

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Antonio Sunjerga, Thomas Chaumont

X-rays have been observed in natural downward cloud-to-ground lightning for over 20 years and in rocket-triggered lightning for slightly less. In both cases, this energetic radiation has been detected during the stepped and dart leader phases of downward n ...

Nature Publishing Group2024

Hydrogen-induced tunable remanent polarization in a perovskite nickelate

Michele Kotiuga

Materials with field-tunable polarization are of broad interest to condensed matter sciences and solid-state device technologies. Here, using hydrogen (H) donor doping, we modify the room temperature metallic phase of a perovskite nickelate NdNiO3 into an ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Characterization of Transverse Instabilities Driven by Electron Cloud

Sofia Carolina Johannesson

Electron cloud continues to be one of the main limiting factors of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the biggest accelerator at CERN. These clouds form in the beam chamber when positively charged particles are passing through and cause unwanted effects in b ...

EPFL2024

2D Nanosystems: Applications of 2D Semiconductors for In-Memory Computing

Guilherme Migliato Marega

Machine learning and data processing algorithms have been thriving in finding ways of processing and classifying information by exploiting the hidden trends of large datasets. Although these emerging computational methods have become successful in today's ...

EPFL2023

How to Achieve Large-Area Ultra-Fast Operation of MoS 2 Monolayer Flash Memories?

Andras Kis, Aleksandra Radenovic, Yanfei Zhao, Zhenyu Wang, Guilherme Migliato Marega, Mukesh Kumar Tripathi, Hyungoo Ji, Asmund Kjellegaard Ottesen

Memory devices have returned to the spotlight due to increasing interest in using in-memory computing architectures to make data-driven algorithms more energy-efficient. One of the main advantages of this architecture is the efficient performance of vector ...

2023

A review of the modeling approaches of the lightning M-component with special attention to their current and electric field characteristics

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Carlo Alberto Nucci, Mohammad Azadifar, Qi Li

In this paper, we present the characteristics of current, electric fields and modeling approaches of lightning M-component mode of charge transfer. We consider both the classical M-components (occurring after return strokes) and M-component-type ICC (Initi ...

Elsevier2023

Impact of Interface Traps in Floating-Gate Memory Based on Monolayer MoS2

Andras Kis, Guilherme Migliato Marega

Two-dimensional materials (2DMs) have found potential applications in many areas of electronics, such as sensing, memory systems, optoelectronics, and power. Despite an intense experimental work, the literature is lacking of accurate modeling of nonvolatil ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

The Geometry and Charge of the Streamer Bursts Generated by Lightning Rods under the Influence of High Electric Fields

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein

The streamer bursts generated during the initiation and propagation of leaders play an important role in the creation and maintenance of hot discharge channels in air. The most important parameters related to streamer bursts in this respect are the length ...

2022

A Self-Consistent Return Stroke Model That Includes the Effect of the Ground Conductivity at the Strike Point

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein

A current generation type return stroke model which can take into account the possible modifications of the return stroke properties by the soil conductivity at the strike point of the lightning flash is introduced. The model is also capable of incorporati ...

2022

Exploring ferroelectricity in HfO2-based thin films by tackling application-relevant challenges

Matteo Cavalieri

Ferroelectric materials offer a broad range of application-relevant properties, including spontaneous polarization switchable by electric field. Archetypical representatives of this class of materials are perovskites, currently used in applications ranging ...

EPFL2021

Ionization Waves Enhance the Production of X-rays during Streamer Collisions

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein

Experimental data show that in laboratory sparks, X-rays are produced in time synchronization with the meeting of streamers of opposite polarity just before the final breakdown of the discharge gap. It has been suggested that the electric field enhancement ...

2021

Miss-Optimized Memory Systems: Turning Thousands of Outstanding Misses into Reuse Opportunities

Mikhail Asiatici

Even if Dennard scaling came to an end fifteen years ago, Moore' s law kept fueling an exponential growth in compute performance through increased parallelization. However, the performance of memory and, in particular, Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), ...

EPFL2021

Associativity-agnostic in-cache computing memory architecture optimized for multiplication

David Atienza Alonso, Marina Zapater Sancho, Alexandre Sébastien Julien Levisse, Marco Antonio Rios

A random access memory array including a plurality of local memory group ways, each local memory group way including, a plurality of local memory groups, each local memory group including, a memory column including a plurality of memory cells, a pair of lo ...

2021

Intrinsic or nucleation-driven switching: An insight from nanoscopic analysis of negative capacitance Hf1-xZrxO2-based structures

Igor Stolichnov, Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Matteo Cavalieri, Carlotta Gastaldi

HfO2-based ferroelectrics have dramatically changed the application perspectives of polarization-switching materials for information processing and storage. Their CMOS compatibility and preservation of high reversible polarization down to a few nanometer t ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2020

LMA observations of upward lightning flashes at the Santis Tower initiated by nearby lightning activity

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Jacopo Grazioli, Mohammad Azadifar, Nikola Besic, Amirhossein Mostajabi, Antonio Sunjerga, Urs Martin Germann

We present in this paper lightning current measurements, LMA (Lightning Mapping Array) data and fast antenna electric fields associated with upward flashes observed at the Santis Tower during summer of 2017. The LMA network consists of six stations that we ...

Elsevier2020

Perovskite Flash Memory with a Single-Layer Nanofloating Gate

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Peng Gao, Tom Theodorus Antonius Lummen, Hobeom Kim

Here we use triple-cation metal-organic halide perovskite single crystals for the transistor channel of a flash memory device. Moreover, we design and demonstrate a 10 nm thick single-layer nanofloating gate. It consists of a ternary blend of two organic s ...

2020

Characteristics of different charge transfer modes in upward flashes inferred from simultaneously measured currents and fields

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Marcos Rubinstein, Davide Pavanello, Mohammad Azadifar, Lixia He, Qi Li

The authors present an analysis of different charge transfer modes during upward negative flashes. The analysis includes a total number of 94 pulses that occurred during two upward negative flashes recorded at the Säntis Tower. The pulses included 59 mixed ...

2020

Accurate Emulation of Memristive Crossbar Arrays for In-Memory Computing

Irem Boybat Kara, Evangelos Eleftheriou

In-memory computing is an emerging non-von Neumann computing paradigm where certain computational tasks are performed in memory by exploiting the physical attributes of the memory devices. Memristive devices such as phase-change memory (PCM), where informa ...

IEEE2020

Distributed Computing with Modern Shared Memory

Mihail Igor Zablotchi

In this thesis, we revisit classic problems in shared-memory distributed computing through the lenses of (1) emerging hardware technologies and (2) changing requirements. Our contributions consist, on the one hand, in providing a better understanding of th ...

EPFL2020

Enabling Optimal Power Generation of Flow Cell Arrays in 3D MPSoCs with On-Chip Switched Capacitor Converters

David Atienza Alonso, Halima Najibi, Marina Zapater Sancho, Alexandre Sébastien Julien Levisse

Flow cell arrays (FCAs) provide efficient on-chip liquid cooling and electrochemical power generation capabilities in three-dimensional multi-processor systems-on-chip (3DMPSoCs). When connected to power delivery networks (PDNs) of chips, the current flowi ...

IEEE2020