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Semiconductor-based device architectures in multimaterial fibers

Semiconductor materials have given rise to today's digital technology and consumer electronics. Widespread adoption is closely linked to the ability to process and integrate them in devices at scale. Where flexibility and large surfaces are required, such ...

EPFL2023

Multi-scale experimental testing on variable stiffness and damping components for semi-active structural control

Gennaro Senatore

This paper presents experimental testing of a new semi-active vibration control device comprising a shape memory polymer (SMP) core that is reinforced by an SMP-aramid composite skin. This control device works as a load-transfer component that can be integ ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2022

Cyclic Behaviour of Unidirectional Hybrid Interlayer Glass/Carbon and Carbon/Carbon Composites

Anastasios Vassilopoulos, José Manuel de Sena Cruz

The lack of ductility is a major drawback of fibre reinforced polymer (FRP) materials. As it is known, these materials are stiff and strong, but brittle with little or no warning before final failure. In the last decades, some solutions have been proposed ...

SPRINGER-VERLAG SINGAPORE PTE LTD2022

A "combi-encapsulant" for enhanced performance of glass-free lightweight crystalline silicon solar PV modules

Christophe Ballif, Alessandro Francesco Aldo Virtuani, Fabiana Lisco

Lightweight crystalline silicon (c-Si) PV modules with a weight of 5kg/m(2), by substituting the typical front glass with a thin polymer sheet and the standard back sheet by a composite sandwich structure are presented here. With this work, we propose the ...

IEEE2021

A Vibrational Technique for in vitro Intraoperative Prosthesis Fixation Monitoring

Kamiar Aminian, Hooman Dejnabadi, Seyed Abdolmajid Yousefsani

Objective: In this paper, a new vibrational modal analysis technique was developed for intraoperative cementless prosthesis fixation evaluation upon hammering. Methods: An artificial bone (Sawbones)-prosthesis system was excited by sweeping of a sine signa ...

2020

Stress mitigation for adhesively bonded photovoltaics with fibre reinforced polymer composites in load carrying applications

Thomas Keller, Yu Bai

Structural loads, especially in-plane compression, may cause local buckling and debonding of the photovoltaic (PV) cells that are mechanically integrated with structural members and this may lead to degradation in their electrical performance. This paper p ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2019

Optimized Design of Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells for Field Operating Conditions

Christophe Ballif, Mathieu Gérard Boccard, Jan Haschke, Jean Cattin, Brahim Aissa, Olivier Denis Dupré

Solar modules are currently characterised at standard test conditions (STC), defined at 1000 W/m2 and 25 °C. However, solar modules in actual outdoor operating conditions typically operate at lower illumination and higher temperature than STC, which signif ...

2019

Tailoring Surface Properties of Fiber Materials

Dang Tùng Nguyen

Many surface properties of materials can be tailored by a proper physical patterning. Such patterned surfaces, commonly fabricated by wafer-based techniques, have been widely exploited for light trapping in advanced photovoltaic systems, for tailoring the ...

EPFL2017

Resonance in swirling wakes and sloshing waves

Francesco Viola

Similarly to mechanical structures, stable flows can exhibit resonance when perturbed by an impulsive or harmonic forcing. Swirling wakes and sloshing waves belong to this kind of flows and manifest large energy response when excited close to their natural ...

EPFL2016

THIN-FILM BARRIERS FOR DURABLE THIN-FILM PV MODULES

Gianluca Cattaneo, Fanny Sculati-Meillaud

This contribution describes thin-film barrier coatings to enhance the stability of silicon thin-film solar modules. Thin-film barriers are applied to protect the modules from degradation in humid environment. Demonstrator modules were exposed to indoor and ...

WIP Wirtschaft und Infrastruktur GmbH & Co Planungs KG2016

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