Gallium nitride (GaN) high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) are a critical technology for radio frequency (RF) power amplifier and low noise amplifier integrated circuits. An important aspect of GaN device engine...
Gallium nitride (GaN) high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) are a critical technology for radio frequency (RF) power amplifier and low noise amplifier integrated circuits. An important aspect of GaN device engineering is accurate physics-based simulations of the transistors. Technology computer aided design (TCAD) simulations are a staple of device engineering. However, wide bandgap semiconductors like GaN pose considerable challenges for accurate TCAD simulations. This presentation will provide a detailed overview of the Air Force Research laboratory's custom TCAD solver called Fermi kinetics transport (FKT) and its application to accurate simulations of GaN HEMTs.
Fluid antenna system (FAS), a novel advancement in reconfigurable antenna technologies, offers unprecedented shape and position flexibility. This innovative approach is emerging as an exciting and potentially transfor...
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Metasurface has provided unprecedented freedoms in manipulating electromagnetic(EM) waves, exhibiting fascinating functions. Conventionally, these functions are implemented right on metasurfaces, where spatial modulat...
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Metasurface has provided unprecedented freedoms in manipulating electromagnetic(EM) waves, exhibiting fascinating functions. Conventionally, these functions are implemented right on metasurfaces, where spatial modulations on EM wave amplitudes or phases are achieved by meta-atoms. This study proposes the concept of virtual metasurface(VM), which is formed by arrays of foci away from the entity metasurface. Unlike conventional metasurfaces, spatial modulations on the amplitudes or phases of EM waves occur in the air, with a focal length distance from the entity metasurface. As a proof of concept, we demonstrated a transmissive VM. The entity metasurface consists of transmissive focusing metasurface tiles(TFMTs) with the same focal length. Two TFMTs were designed with phase difference π to enable the most typical checkerboard configuration. The TFMTs were assembled to form the entity metasurface, whereas their foci formed the VM. Due to the π phase difference among adjacent foci, EM propagation along the normal direction was cancelled, leading to four tilted far-field beams. The concept of VM can be readily extended to higher frequencies from terahertz to optical regimes and may find wide applications in communication, camouflage, and other fields.
While optimal input design for linear systems has been well-established, no systematic approach exists for nonlinear systems, where robustness to extrapolation/interpolation errors is prioritized over minimizing estim...
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The demand for high-precision and high-throughput motion control systems has increased significantly in recent years. The use of moving-magnet planar actuators (MMPAs) is gaining popularity due to their advantageous c...
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In this tutorial paper, we look into the evolution and prospect of network architecture and propose a novel conceptual architecture for the 6th generation (6G) networks. The proposed architecture has two key elements,...
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This paper focuses on the challenge of jointly optimizing location and path loss exponent (PLE) in distance-dependent noise. Departing from the conventional independent noise model used in localization and path loss e...
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Epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) materials have attracted significant attention in the far- and near fields of thermal radiation in recent years because of their unique optical characteristics. However, it is not considered an...
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Epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) materials have attracted significant attention in the far- and near fields of thermal radiation in recent years because of their unique optical characteristics. However, it is not considered an optimal carrier for near-field radiative heat transfer (NFRHT) due to the excessively low frustrated mode. In this paper, we address this drawback with a metamaterial composed of artificial hypothetical nonpolar ENZ dielectric-filled Si gratings. The behavior of NFRHT with ENZ has been investigated based on fluctuational electrodynamic and rigorous coupled-wave analysis. An artificial mode named Meta-NP ENZ mode is presented to reveal the significant enhancement of NFRHT, which can be demonstrated by the electric field intensity enhancement. Furthermore, we find that the increasing imaginary part may lead to an anomalous amplification of heat flux despite causing a recession in the Meta-NP ENZ mode, and this mode remains robust with respect to the plasma frequency shift of grating material. Our findings demonstrate that the ENZ dielectric exhibits outstanding performances similar to those observed in far-field radiation, surpassing the limitations of both Si gratings and nonpolar ENZ dielectric in NFRHT.
The principal objective of this study is to develop machine learning (ML) models, in particular a random forest (RF) classifier and an artificial neural network (ANN) regression model, for estimating surface rain rate...
The principal objective of this study is to develop machine learning (ML) models, in particular a random forest (RF) classifier and an artificial neural network (ANN) regression model, for estimating surface rain rates on a global basis using brightness temperature (TB) observations from the Temporal Experiment for Storms and Tropical Systems Demonstration (TEMPEST-D) CubeSat. The accuracy of the models is assessed by comparing the estimated rain rates with the Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for GPM (IMERG) final run rain rate product, which also serves as the ground truth for ML model development. The ML models are developed using a dataset consisting of TEMPEST-D observations of 12 tropical cyclones (TC) and the corresponding IMERG products from various locations around the globe, including the Atlantic, eastern/western Pacific and Indian Oceans. To evaluate the performance of the ML models, independent validation is conducted using Hurricane Isaac and Typhoon Hagibis. The structural similarity index measure (SSIM) is used to assess the similarity between the ML estimated rain rates and the IMERG products. For Hurricane Isaac, an SSIM score of 0.8 is achieved, indicating a strong resemblance to the IMERG product. Similarly, for Typhoon Hagibis, the SSIM score is 0.73, indicating quite good agreement with the IMERG rain rate.
Growing demands in today’s industry results in increasingly stringent performance and throughput specifications. For accurate positioning of high-precision motion systems, feedforward control plays a crucial role. No...
Growing demands in today’s industry results in increasingly stringent performance and throughput specifications. For accurate positioning of high-precision motion systems, feedforward control plays a crucial role. Nonetheless, conventional model-based feedforward approaches are no longer sufficient to satisfy the challenging performance requirements. An attractive method for systems with repetitive motion tasks is iterative learning control (ILC) due to its superior performance. However, for systems with non-repetitive motion tasks, ILC is generally not applicable, despite of some recent promising advances. In this paper, we aim to explore the use of deep learning to address the task flexibility constraint of ILC. For this purpose, a novel Task Analogy based Imitation Learning (TAIL)-ILC approach is developed. To benchmark the performance of the proposed approach, a simulation study is presented which compares the TAIL-ILC to classical model-based feedforward strategies and existing learning-based approaches, such as neural network based feedforward learning.
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