Publications related to Thyratron

Vacuum circuit breaker modelling for the assessment of transient recovery voltages: Application to various network configurations

Vacuum circuit breakers (VCBs) are widely used for medium voltage applications when low maintenance, long operating life, and large number of allowable switching cycles are required. The accurate estimation of the transient recovery voltages (TRVs) associa ...

Elsevier2018

Analysis of Dielectric Microbead Detection by Impedance Spectroscopy with Nanoribbons

Carlotta Guiducci, Enrico Accastelli, Paolo Scarbolo, Luca Selmi, Thomas Ernst

We present a quantitative numerical analysis of dielectric microbead detection experiments with nanoribbons operated in the AC small signal regime. To this purpose, a comprehensive model of nanoribbon operation in electrolyte environment and with DC/AC sig ...

Ieee2016

DC Breakdown in gases for complex geometries from high vacuum to atmospheric pressure

Ralph Schnyder

This thesis presents an experimental investigation and a numerical simulation of breakdown in a ring assembly. Previous works are mostly limited to breakdown in simple geometries such as parallel plates or pin-to-plate. Here we discuss the effect of more c ...

EPFL2013

Dynamics of photogenerated holes in surface modified alpha-Fe2O3 photoanodes for solar water splitting

Michael Graetzel, Kevin Sivula, Takashi Hisatomi

This paper addresses the origin of the decrease in the external electrical bias required for water photoelectrolysis with hematite photoanodes, observed following surface treatments of such electrodes. We consider two alternative surface modifications: a c ...

National Academy of Sciences2012

Retention in nonvolatile silicon transistors with an organic ferroelectric gate

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Nava Setter, Alexander Tagantsev, Igor Stolichnov, Didier Bouvet, Giovanni Antonio Salvatore, Roman Gysel, Sebastian Riester

A silicone-based one-transistor nonvolatile memory cell has been implemented by integration of a ferroelectric polymer gate on a standard n- type metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor. The polarization reversal in the gate results in a stable a ...

AIP American Institute of Physics2009

Analysis of plasma dynamic response to modulated electron cyclotron heating in TCV tokamak

Ilya Pavlov

The need of durable, economically acceptable and safe energy sources continues to stimulate studies in a field of thermonuclear fusion. The most successful solution for controlled magnetic fusion is the tokamak. The improvement of tokamak performance depen ...

EPFL2008

An 11-Mb/s 2.1-mW Synchronous Superregenerative Receiver at 2.4 GHz

Catherine Dehollain, Michel Declercq

This paper presents a low-voltage low-power high-speed superregenerative receiver operating in the 2.4-GHz industrial-scientific-medical band. The receiver uses an architecture in which, thanks to the presence of a phase-locked loop, the quench oscillator ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2007

Contribution to the active generator principle for high power electric supply : control of the commutations

Massimiliano Visintin

In recent years the use of solid state frequency converters is rapidly increasing in the industrial and power plants where electric machines are installed, since it allows variable speed operations for the electric system, thus becoming a key factor which ...

EPFL2006

Role of Adsorbates on Dynamics of Hot-Electron (type I and II) Thermalization within Gold Nanoparticles

Hubert Girault, Christophe Bauer, Jean-Pierre Abid

Early stages of hot-electron thermalization in small gold nanoparticles wrapped in an adsorbates shell have been investigated by femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy. Type-I hot electrons thermalize in 800 fs (to form type-II hot electron) either ...

Elsevier2006