Publications by Francesco Merli

The Microloop-Gap Resonator: A Novel Miniaturized Microwave Cavity for Double-Resonance Rubidium Atomic Clocks

Anja Skrivervik, Francesco Merli, Maddalena Violetti

Nowadays mobile and battery-powered applications push the need for radically miniaturized and low-power frequency standards that surpass the stability achievable with quartz oscillators. For the miniaturization of double-resonance rubidium (Rb-87) atomic c ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014

Compact High-Performance Continuous-Wave Double-Resonance Rubidium Standard With 1.4 x 10(-13) tau(-1/2) Stability

Anja Skrivervik, Francesco Merli, Camillo Stefanucci

We present our studies on a compact high-performance continuous wave (CW) double-resonance (DR) rubidium frequency standard in view of future portable applications. Our clock exhibits a short-term stability of 1.4 x 10(-13) tau(-1/2), consistent with the s ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014

Medium-to long-term frequency stability of high-performance CW double-resonance Rb standard

Anja Skrivervik, Francesco Merli, Camillo Stefanucci

We present the short-term noise budget and metro-logical studies on the medium-to long-term stability of our Rb standard. Our clock exhibits a short-term stability of ∼ 1.4×10-13 τ-1/2. The dependance of microwave power shift on light intensity, and the po ...

IEEE2013

RoSe: A sub-GHz wireless sensor platform with housing integrated overmolded antenna

Anja Skrivervik, Pierre-André Farine, Alexis Boegli, Jean-François Zürcher, Francesco Merli, Mitko Tanevski

A wireless sensor platform for use in ultralow-power wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is presented. The proposed round sensor (RoSe) node is physically robust, is resistant to humidity, and has a housing that can be in direct contact with food. These charac ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2012

Laser-pumped high-performance compact gas-cell Rb standard with 2x10-13 tau-1/2 stability

Anja Skrivervik, Francesco Merli, Camillo Stefanucci

2012

Miniaturized microwave cavity for Rubidium atomic frequency standards

Anja Skrivervik, Jean-François Zürcher, Francesco Merli, Maddalena Violetti

2012

Example of data telemetry for biomedical applications: an in vivo experiment

Juan Ramon Mosig, Anja Skrivervik, Yann Barrandon, Eric Meurville, Jean-François Zürcher, Francesco Merli, Léandre Bolomey, François Gorostidi, Benjamin Fuchs

This letter describes a data telemetry biomedical experiment. An implant, consisting of a biometric data sensor, electronics, an antenna, and a biocompatible capsule, is described. All the elements were co-designed in order to maximize the transmission dis ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2012

Double-resonance in alkali vapor cells for high performance and miniature atomic clocks

Anja Skrivervik, Jean-François Zürcher, Francesco Merli, Maddalena Violetti, Camillo Stefanucci

2012

New miniaturized microwave cavity for Rubidium atomic clocks

Anja Skrivervik, Jean-François Zürcher, Francesco Merli, Maddalena Violetti

Nowadays there is an increasing need for radically miniaturized and low-power atomic frequency standards, for use in mobile and battery-powered applications. For the miniaturization of double-resonance (DR) Rubidium (Rb-87) atomic clocks, the size reductio ...

Ieee2012

Telemetry system for sensing applications in lossy media

Anja Skrivervik, Eric Meurville, Francesco Merli, Léandre Bolomey

Wireless communications in lossy media encounter growing interest, with applications as telemedicine, ground sensing, remote pipeline sensing, and food quality testing among others. As an application, an autonomous implantable Body Sensor Node for monitori ...

2011