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Vacuum Circuit Breaker Closing Time Key Moments Detection via Vibration Monitoring: A Run-to-Failure Study

Circuit breakers (CBs) play an important role in modern society because they make the power transmission and distribution systems reliable and resilient. Therefore, it is important to maintain their reliability and to monitor their operation. A key to ensu ...

2022

A fibre optic and machine learning based health monitoring system for superconducting power applications in modern supergrids

Arooj Akbar

The concerns for climate change and the transition to renewables is increasing the relevance of superconducting applications: High Temperature Superconductor (HTS) cables for efficient power transmission, superconducting magnets for nuclear fusion, superco ...

EPFL2022

Degradation Mechanism and Stability Improvement of Dopant-Free ZnO/LiFx/Al Electron Nanocontacts in Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells

Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Wenjie Lin

Dopant-free passivating contacts for photovoltaics have the potential to be deposited at low costs, while providing excellent surface passivation and low contact resistance. However, one pressing issue of dopant-free carrier selective contacts is their low ...

2020

Energy Analysis of Lightweight AEAD Circuits

Subhadeep Banik, Muhammed Fatih Balli

The selection criteria for NIST's Lightweight Crypto Standardization (LWC) have been slowly shifting towards the lightweight efficiency of designs, given that a large number of candidates already establish their security claims on conservative, well-studie ...

2020

Dynamic Modeling of Magnetic Components for Circuit Simulation of Power Electronic Systems

Min Luo

Magnetic components play an important role in a power electronic converter system. They provide energy buffering, galvanic isolation and voltage ratio conversion and have significant impact on the overall performance of the system regarding power efficienc ...

EPFL2018

Hardware / Software Architectural and Technological Exploration for Energy-Efficient and Reliable Biomedical Devices

Loris Gérard Duch

Nowadays, the ubiquity of smart appliances in our everyday lives is increasingly strengthening the links between humans and machines. Beyond making our lives easier and more convenient, smart devices are now playing an important role in personalized health ...

EPFL2018

Identifying and suppressing interfacial recombination to achieve high open-circuit voltage in perovskite solar cells

Wolfgang Richard Tress, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Michael Saliba, Antonio Abate, Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena, Konrad Domanski, Silver Hamill Turren Cruz, Elham Halvani Anaraki

With close to 100% internal quantum efficiency over the absorption spectrum, photocurrents in perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are at their practical limits. It is therefore imperative to improve open-circuit voltages (VOC) in order to go beyond the current 1 ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2017

Designing Low Power and Durable Digital Blocks Using Shadow Nanoelectromechanical Relays

Paolo Ienne, Hossein Asadi, Sadegh Yazdanshenas

Nanoelectromechanical (NEM) relays are a promising emerging technology that has gained widespread research attention due to its zero leakage current, sharp ON-OFF transitions, and complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor compatibility. As a result, NEM rela ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016

Application of real-time simulation for hydropower plants monitoring

The global emission of CO2 has increased in the sector of power generation from countries outside the OECD, particularly in China which comprises two-third of the share. Meanwhile, OECD countries focus their effort in reducing their emission, where the ind ...

EPFL2015

Mixed-signal power system emulator extension to solve unbalanced fault transient stability analysis

Maher Kayal, Theodoros Kyriakidis, Guillaume Olivier Lanz

This paper presents the extension of a platform originally devoted to symmetrical transient stability analysis, into the domain of unbalanced faults. The aim of this solver is to increase the speed of dynamic stability assessment for power systems. It is b ...

IEEE2014

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