The use of tungsten halogen lamps and the deuterium lamp as the source of thermal and optical energies has been exploited to deposit thin films of Ta2O5 on Si and conducting substrates, The leakage current densities a...
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The use of tungsten halogen lamps and the deuterium lamp as the source of thermal and optical energies has been exploited to deposit thin films of Ta2O5 on Si and conducting substrates, The leakage current densities are as low as 10(-10) A/cm(2) for gate voltage under 5V. Photons in visible, ultraviolet, and vacuum ultraviolet (lambda < 800 nm) regions provide higher bulk and surface diffusion coefficients as well as reduced activation energy for the chemical process involved in the chemical vapor deposition process. The low thermal mass of the substrate provides limited reaction processing capability. The photochemical and photophysical processes allow the participating atoms and molecules to adjust their bond geometries and occupy sites which result in overall reduction of stress and strain energy and provide materials with overall low microscopic defects at low processing temperature and with high throughput. New experimental results of Al-Ta2O5-Si3N4-poly Si-Al structure are presented. The leakage current-voltage characteristics are better than those reported by other researchers.
Thin films of Al-1.27 wt %Y were deposited by dc magnetron sputtering. Adding yttrium to the aluminum drastically reduced the metal’s grain size and also improve the uniformity of grain size distribution. Upon anneal...
Thin films of Al-1.27 wt %Y were deposited by dc magnetron sputtering. Adding yttrium to the aluminum drastically reduced the metal’s grain size and also improve the uniformity of grain size distribution. Upon annealing at a temperature of 450 °C for 30 min, grain growth was insignificant, while the electrical resistance dropped from 6.05 to 2.95 μΩ cm. The as deposited films consisted of Al4Y and α-Al supersaturated with yttrium. After annealing, β-Al3Y precipitated instead of α-Al3Y. The Al–Y films had much higher resistance to hillock formation than did Al-1 wt %Si films.
A high-resolution time-frequency distribution is applied to the study of violin vibrato. Our analysis indicates that the frequency modulation induced by the motion of the stopped finger on the string is accompanied by...
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The development of materials with dielectric constant (K) less than SiO2 (K=3.9) is essential to meet the stringent speed, power dissipation and crosstalk requirements that are driving the low power integrated circuit...
The development of materials with dielectric constant (K) less than SiO2 (K=3.9) is essential to meet the stringent speed, power dissipation and crosstalk requirements that are driving the low power integrated circuit (IC) paradigm. Both the low K dielectric and the processing methodology used for it should satisfy several important criteria before the technique can be accepted in future mainstream low power IC manufacturing. We had reported earlier a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) technique for the deposition of DuPont's Teflon amorphous fluoropolymer 1600 (bulk K=1.93) using the principle of direct liquid injection. The processing was carried out with and without an ultra violet (UV) light source in a computerized rapid isothermal processing (RIP) system. Recently, we have extensively characterized the films and examined the suitability of our technique in light of some of the requirements of the future IC industry. Our results indicate that the processed films exceed several of the established dielectric performance standards outlined in recent roadmaps for sub 0.25 μm ICs. The film properties were improved when the UV source was used during processing. CVD processed films in general demonstrated significant improvements in terms of manufacturability, throughput, cost, and dielectric properties over the same films processed by alternate techniques.
Recent advances in technology make it possible to integrate multiple processors into a single chip to build high performance parallel programmable digital signal processors (PPDSPs). These processors are expected to r...
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Recent advances in technology make it possible to integrate multiple processors into a single chip to build high performance parallel programmable digital signal processors (PPDSPs). These processors are expected to replace many dedicated digital signal processors to implement important image/signal processing algorithms such as discrete cosine transform (DCT). The paper addresses the issue of how to compare fast 2D-DCT algorithms when they are implemented on a PPDSP. Previously, the efficiency of these algorithms is compared based on the number of operations. This comparison is reasonable when these algorithms are implemented on a dedicated DSP. However, this comparison may not be suitable for general-purpose PPDSPs. The paper proposes to use three parameters, the number of data accesses, the number of communications, and the distance of communications, as new criterion for performance comparison of DCT algorithms. An algorithm-level technique is developed to estimate these parameters for DCT algorithms. The comparison results based on the parameters show that the algorithm proposed by Cho and Lee (1991) might be the best choice for a PPDSP unless it requires large overhead for communication between remote processors. In this case, the conventional row-column method with a fast 1D-DCT algorithm might be the most efficient.
A jamming game is considered. A transmitter encodes the data, in a product code (PC), and transmits it in a slow frequency-hopped spread-spectrum (FHSS) system. A hostile jammer attempts to block correct packet recept...
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A jamming game is considered. A transmitter encodes the data, in a product code (PC), and transmits it in a slow frequency-hopped spread-spectrum (FHSS) system. A hostile jammer attempts to block correct packet reception by adjusting the fraction of the total band in which it distributes the jam power, /spl rho/. Two cases are considered. In the first case, the transmitter declares his strategy and the jammer uses this information to select his best jamming fraction. In the second case, the jammer declares his strategy first and the transmitter uses this information to select his best rates. Results are obtained using asymptotic analysis of a product code using singly extended Reed-Solomon (RS) row and column codes whose size grows large. This asymptotic analysis leads to good choices of the row and column rates for the PC in both cases.
In this paper we propose a technique to incorporate contextual information into object classification. In the real world there are cases where the identity of an object is ambiguous due to the noise in the measurement...
In this paper we propose a technique to incorporate contextual information into object classification. In the real world there are cases where the identity of an object is ambiguous due to the noise in the measurements based on which the classification should be made. It is helpful to reduce the ambiguity by utilizing extra information referred to as context, which in our case is the identities of the accompanying objects. This technique is applied to white blood cell classification. Comparisons are made against "no context" approach, which demonstrates the superior classification performance achieved by using context. In our particular application, it significantly reduces false alarm rate and thus greatly reduces the cost due to expensive clinical tests.
We review our recent research in the field of photochromic polymeric structures for optical data storage and nonlinear optics. We unify some of the sub -Themes of azopolymer structures in the light of photo -induced m...
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A parallel method developed for reconstructing images from holograms obtained with optical scanning holography is presented. A standard portable message-passing library, MPI or message-passing interface, is used to pr...
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A parallel method developed for reconstructing images from holograms obtained with optical scanning holography is presented. A standard portable message-passing library, MPI or message-passing interface, is used to provide the environment of parallel programming. The parallel method is implemented using a network of workstations. The process of reconstructing images with twin-image removal from holograms is performed in parallel with respect to different reconstruction planes of interest. This process contributes to possible faster three-dimensional object identification to be investigated in future research.
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