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Semester Project on the balancing of coupled NEMS resonators by the application of voltage on a piezoelectric layer

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Balanceable Coupled Piezoelectric NEMS Resonators

This project aims at designing, fabricating and characterising balanceable coupled NEMS resonators, in order to verify a theoretical model. In the field of sensing, coupled NEMS resonators benefit from an immensely increased sensitivity towards changes in ...

2022

Cartesian robot gripper

The purpose of this semester project is to move in 3D space the gripper to grab an object, move it and release it. To do so a cartesian 3D printer will be used to move the gripper. Some modifications needs to be done in order to install the gripper at the ...

2022

Data integration for the numerical simulation of cardiac electrophysiology

Alfio Quarteroni, Andrea Manzoni, Luca Dede', Stefano Pagani

The increasing availability of extensive and accurate clinical data is rapidly shaping cardiovascular care by improving the understanding of physiological and pathological mechanisms of the cardiovascular system and opening new frontiers in designing thera ...

WILEY2021

Design and Simulation of a Wide-Bandwidth CMUTs Array with Dual-Mixed radii and Multi Operating Modes

Yu Bai, Zhengwen Jiang, Yihe Zhao, Jie Li, Zichen Liu

A capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers (CMUTs) array with dual-mixed radii is designed to improve bandwidth and realize multi-modes operating for immersed ultrasonic applications. The two-size (TS) CMUT array is composed of two sub-arrays with d ...

IEEE2021

Thin Film Devices For 5G Communications

Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Damien Maillard, Seniz Esra Küçük, Marco Liffredo, Soumya Yandrapalli, Muhammad Faizan

Piezoelectric-based resonators are some of the most used devices in the world. Invisible to most people, they constitute key elements for your mobile phone communications. With the advent of 50, the current technologies for piezoelectric resonators need to ...

IEEE2021

Optimization of Electrode Dimensions in a Piezoelectrically Actuated Trampoline

Cyril Adrien Saudan

This report discusses the use of COMSOL Multiphysics to simulate the behaviour of piezoelectrically actuated MEMS resonators called trampolines. After building the proper geometry and optimising the mesh, a series of simulations will be done to study the m ...

2020

Time-resolved open-circuit conductive atomic force microscopy for direct electromechanical characterisation

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Wonjong Kim, Jelena Vukajlovic Plestina

Studying nanomaterial piezoelectricity and triboelectricity is attractive for energy and sensing applications. However, quantitative characterisation of electromechanical effects in nanomaterials is challenging due to practical limitations and possible com ...

2020

Transcutaneous Wireless Power & Data Transfer for Medical Applications

The Center for Artificial Muscle (CAM) is in the process of designing a new type of Vascular Assist Device (VAD) that uses the mechanical and electrical properties of Dielectric Elastomer Actuators (DEAs). The main challenges with these actuators are that ...

2019

Soft haptic device to render the sensation of flying like a drone

Dario Floreano, Carine Rognon

Haptic feedback located on the torso is proposed to enhance the state awareness of a user in virtual reality or during teleoperation while leaving the hands free for manipulation and communication. We provide haptic feedback on the torso by compressing a s ...

2019

Experimental Details of a Steep-Slope Ferroelectric InGaAs Tunnel-FET With High-Quality PZT and Modeling Insights in the Transient Polarization

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Igor Stolichnov, Ali Saeidi, Hiroshi Iwai

The steep-slope ferroelectric tunnel-FET (SS-FeTFET), consisting of an InGaAs TFET with a sub-60 mV/dec subthreshold swing (SS) at room temperature and an externally connected high-quality single-crystalline PZT capacitor, displays improved SS compared to ...

2019

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