The fraunhofer IMS has developed a new Post-CMOS process based on DRIE and ALD technique, which can be used for the production of 3D micro- and nanostructures. As an example of this technology multi-electrode arrays (...
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Power electronics is a rapidly developing application area for high temperature electronics. Wide bandgap semiconductors have intrinsic advantages for high temperature operation due to the large bandgap in comparison ...
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Power electronics is a rapidly developing application area for high temperature electronics. Wide bandgap semiconductors have intrinsic advantages for high temperature operation due to the large bandgap in comparison to silicon based semiconductors. Especially GaN is a promising material for power semiconductors due to the possibility to process GaN on silicon carrier wafers, which results in lower device costs in comparison to SiC. In addition GaN provides higher switching frequencies and lower on-resistances of power devices. In combination these advantages enable the design of high performing, small size power modules operating at elevated temperatures. However, in order to exploit all benefits from GaN technology, new approaches in driver design are necessary. In this work a GaN specific gate driver supporting increased switching frequency, low driver output resistance, and GaN specific control voltages is presented. The driver has been implemented in a 0.35 micron thin film SOI-CMOS technology allowing high temperature operation up to 250 °C. The driver output characteristic is digitally adjustable with configuration data stored in an on-chip non-volatile memory based on EEPROM.
This article presents reliability studies of single polysilicon electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM) cells at temperatures from 50°C to 450°C. The technically challenging measurements...
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There are several previously published approaches of measuring local pulse transit time (PTT). One of these approaches is to use two optical sensors based on photoplethysmography (PPG). However, little information abo...
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There are several previously published approaches of measuring local pulse transit time (PTT). One of these approaches is to use two optical sensors based on photoplethysmography (PPG). However, little information about reproducibility in PPG based PTT measurement is available. Therefore, we performed a small sample size study (n = 5) to investigate quantitative criteria for reproducible PTT measurement. The inflection point as a characteristic feature of the pulse wave showed the most stabile results under varying conditions. Furthermore, we found that correlation between related pulse waves could be used as a threshold for signal quality. We suggest to implement a real-time operator feedback based on the found criteria to ensure reproducible PTT measurements.
This paper presents the transfer of a real-time testbed communication system, where the wireless measured bit error rate (BER) matches the theoretical one, into a Matlab-Simulink and GNURadio model. With this model we...
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Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs) offer enticing possibilities to incorporate hardware-based security on semiconductor device level. In order to make efficient use of PUF functionality in lightweight cryptographi...
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Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs) offer enticing possibilities to incorporate hardware-based security on semiconductor device level. In order to make efficient use of PUF functionality in lightweight cryptographic applications, a low-overhead implementation in terms of chip area and power consumption is required. In this paper a fully differential readout circuit is proposed that allows the generation of multiple bits from selected pairs of PUF-elements. The IC-design and working principle are explained on basis of a critically-sized nMOS transistor array serving as a PUF-primitive. First results obtained from circuit simulations and wafer-level measurements of 30 PUF-instances fabricated in a 0.35 μm CMOS technology are presented. Evaluation of the intraand inter-Hamming distance with average values of 9.42% and 49.46%, respectively, shows that device identification based on the extracted keys is feasible. In order to increase the number of unique keys obtainable for each PUF-instance layout improvements in form of additional row select connections are proposed.
In post-CMOS processing a sufficient protection of the underlying CMOS structures, while applying sacrificial layer release technologies to realize free standing MEMS, is required. In this work, a low temperature Sili...
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In post-CMOS processing a sufficient protection of the underlying CMOS structures, while applying sacrificial layer release technologies to realize free standing MEMS, is required. In this work, a low temperature Silicon Carbide (SiC) process at 300 deg C by Inductively Coupled Plasma Chemical Vapour Deposition (ICPCVD) has been developed. It has been demonstrated, that SiC provides an excellent protection character in HF/H2O vapour mixtures. For proof of principle, perforated free-standing SiC-structures with a layer thickness of less than 200 nm and 80 mm in diameter have successfully been released in a vapour etch process.
In the field of signal processing, pattern recognition and also modeling and simulation, it is often necessary to use large data sets. These allow reliable, independent and test case spanning development of algorithms...
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In the field of signal processing, pattern recognition and also modeling and simulation, it is often necessary to use large data sets. These allow reliable, independent and test case spanning development of algorithms or even of complete systems. The data is usually taken from existing data sets such as TIMIT for speech recognition and processing or EPILEPSIAE to develop algorithms for epileptic seizure prediction, to give just two examples. Apart from the fact that some of these databases imply a considerable cost factor and thus are not accessible to all research groups, even greater problems arise if no data is available at all. In the field of speech recognition, this problem was solved more or less by creating databases. In the area of biosignal processing with a focus on the functionalization of furniture for care and clinical facilities, there is still a need for large data sets. This was also the case with biomechanical modeling of functionalized furniture, since up to now none or few data on the human movement sequences were available. In order to overcome this deficiency, the following paper presents a new database of motion patterns, which is intended to support the development of algorithms for motion detection as well as modeling biosignal processing. The database can be used and downloaded by any interested researcher for free.
The fraunhofer IMS has developed a new Post-CMOS process based on DRIE and ALD technique, which can be used for the production of 3D micro- and nanostructures. As an example of this technology multi-electrode arrays (...
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The fraunhofer IMS has developed a new Post-CMOS process based on DRIE and ALD technique, which can be used for the production of 3D micro- and nanostructures. As an example of this technology multi-electrode arrays (MEAs) with integrated ruthenium nano-lawn are presented for biomedical applications.
Porous alumina is a popular material with numerous application fields. A post-CMOS compatible process chain for the fabrication of nanoporous surface based on Al2O3 by atomic layer deposition (ALD) is presented. By al...
Porous alumina is a popular material with numerous application fields. A post-CMOS compatible process chain for the fabrication of nanoporous surface based on Al2O3 by atomic layer deposition (ALD) is presented. By alternately applying small numbers of ALD cycles for Al2O3 and ZnO, a homogenous composite was accomplished, for which the principle of island growth of ALD materials at few deposition cycle numbers was utilised. By selective texture-etching of ZnO content via hydrofluoric acid (HF) in vaporous phase at 40 °C and 10.67 mbar, a porous surface of the etch resistant Al2O3 could be achieved. TOF-SIMS investigations verified the composition of ALD composite, whereas AFM and high resolution SEM images characterised the topographies of pre- and post-etched samples. Pores with opening diameters of up to 15 nm could be detected on the surface after vaporous HF treatment for 2 minutes. The amount of pores increased after an etching time of 5 minutes.
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