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Dielectric Elastomer Actuator-Based Valveless Impedance-Driven Pumping for Meso- and Macroscale Applications

Yves Perriard, Yoan René Cyrille Civet, Thomas Guillaume Martinez, Francesco Clavica, Armando Matthieu Walter, Amine Benouhiba, Silje Ekroll Jahren

Impedance pumps are simple designs that allow the generation or amplification of flow. They are fluid-filled systems based on flexible tubing connected to tubing with different impedances. A periodic off-center compression of the flexible tubing causes the ...

2023

Etching selectivity and passivity of Al2O3 layers

Anil Can Kahraman

The project focuses on etching properties of the atomic layer deposition (ALD) of Al2O3. For this purpose, etching processes such as plasma etch with sulfur hexafluoride (SF6), gas etch with xenon difluoride (XeF2), wet etch with MIF developer (726 MIF) as ...

2023

A Generalized Phase-Shift PWM Extension for Improved Natural and Active Balancing of Flying Capacitor Multilevel Inverters

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Georgios Kampitsis

The emergence of wide bandgap power devices has brought the attention back to the flying capacitor (FC) multilevel inverters with a large number of stages, in an effort to increase the power density by minimizing the passive components. The main challenge ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Conceptual study for velocity space resolved thermal ion loss detection in tokamaks

A new concept for velocity space thermal ion loss detection is presented. This diagnostic provides pitch angle resolved measurements that are unfeasible with current diagnostics. It uses the same detection principle as the Fast-Ion Loss Detector with a sci ...

2022

Microchannel-based Calorimeter for Rapid and Accurate Loss Measurements on High-efficiency Power Converters

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Remco Franciscus Peter van Erp, Palliyage Srilak Nirmana Perera

The difficulty in accurately measuring losses in high-frequency power converters hinders accurate breakdown of losses which is essential for device and circuit optimization. Electrical methods are often not adequate and calorimetric approaches found in the ...

IEEE2021

3D Smith chart constant quality factor semi-circles contours for positive and negative resistance circuits

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Andrei Müller

The article firstly proves that the constant quality factor (Q) contours for passive circuits, while represented on a 2D Smith chart, form circle arcs on a coaxal circle family. Furthermore, these circle arcs represent semi-circles families in the north he ...

2020

Loopy Levy flights enhance tracer diffusion in active suspensions

Tomohiko Sano, Andrea Cairoli

A theoretical framework describing the hydrodynamic interactions between a passive particle and an active medium in out-of-equilibrium systems predicts long-range Levy flights for the diffusing particle driven by the density of the active component. Browni ...

2020

Ultra High Voltage Switch for Bidirectional DC-DC Converter Driving Dielectric Elastomer Actuator

Yves Perriard, Yoan René Cyrille Civet, Morgan Almanza, Lucas Pniak

Specific applications, such as dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) or electroactive polymers, require to switch voltage levels exceeding the ratings of existing semiconductor devices. In low power application, reversible flyback are widely used to supply ...

2020

Characterization and Analysis of On-Chip Microwave Passive Components at Cryogenic Temperatures

Edoardo Charbon, Andrea Ruffino, Fabio Sebastiano

This paper presents the characterization and modeling of microwave passive components in TSMC 40-nm bulk CMOS, including metal-oxide-metal (MoM) capacitors, transformers, and resonators, at deep cryogenic temperatures (4.2 K). To extract the parameters of ...

2020

Small-Signal Approach for Precise Evaluation of Gate Losses in Soft-Switched Wide-Band-Gap Transistors

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Armin Jafari, Palliyage Srilak Nirmana Perera, Furkan Karakaya

High-frequency switching is favorable for fast transient response, small size of passive components and superior power density, especially in soft-switching topologies. At high frequencies, power dissipation due to consecutive charging/discharging of gate ...

IEEE2020

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