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A review of sustainable energy access and technologies for healthcare facilities in the Global South

Silvia Hostettler, Andrea Franco, Marjan Shaker, Dikolela Kalubi

Access to reliable, affordable and sustainable energy is essential for improving living standards, development and economic growth. From a healthcare perspective, energy is a critical parameter for delivering and improving healthcare services and life-savi ...

Elsevier Science Bv2017

Monolithic Particle Detectors based on Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon

Andrea Franco

EPFL2014

Fabrication and characterization of monolithically integrated microchannel plates based on amorphous silicon

Christophe Ballif, Jonas Geissbühler, Nicolas Würsch, Andrea Franco

Microchannel plates are vacuum-based electron multipliers for particle—in particular, photon— detection, with applications ranging from image intensifiers to single-photon detectors. Their key strengths are large signal amplification, large active area, mi ...

Nature Publishing Group2014

Amorphous silicon based betavoltaic devices

Christophe Ballif, Sylvain Dunand, Yannick Samuel Riesen, Andrea Franco

Hydrogenated amorphous silicon betavoltaic devices are studied both by simulation and experimentally. Devices exhibiting a power density of 0.1 μW/cm2 upon Tritium exposure were fabricated. However, a significant degradation of the performance is taking pl ...

2013

An integrated system to remote monitor and control anaerobic wastewater treatment plants through the internet

Benoît Chachuat, Olivier Bernard, Andrea Franco, Pierre Lemaire, Gabriel Ruiz

The TELEMAC project brings new methodologies from the Information and Science Technologies field to the world of water treatment. TELEMAC offers an advanced remote management system which adapts to most of the anaerobic wastewater treatment plants that do ...

2005