Kerr electro-optic field mapping measurements using the sensitive AC modulation method were made in liquid nitrogen. The steady-state electric fields between parallel stainless steel electrodes that had a gap of 7 mm ...
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Kerr electro-optic field mapping measurements using the sensitive AC modulation method were made in liquid nitrogen. The steady-state electric fields between parallel stainless steel electrodes that had a gap of 7 mm are shown to be essentially uniform for voltages up to 70 kV with no significant space charge distortion. The Kerr constant B of liquid nitrogen is constant over the AC modulation frequency range of 1-20 kHz, while increasing above 20 kHz. This change of B with the modulation frequency coincides with the frequency-amplitude gain characteristic of the lock-in amplifier used, so that B is independent of the AC modulation frequency within the range of this study. B monotonically decreases with increasing temperature, T, thus decreasing liquid nitrogen density, rho , so that B is related linearly to rho /T. The polarizability anisotropy of liquid nitrogen is evaluated to be 8.3*10/sup -41/ F-m/sup 2/ from the slope of the B-( rho /T) characteristic, obtained from a simple physical model.< >
A large signal analysis method for simulating HEMT oscillators has been developed and applied to the design of a monolithic W-band HEMT oscillator. The analysis method uses measured small-signal S-parameters and emplo...
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A large signal analysis method for simulating HEMT oscillators has been developed and applied to the design of a monolithic W-band HEMT oscillator. The analysis method uses measured small-signal S-parameters and employs a two-dimensional cubic spline interpolation routine and a harmonic balance technique to perform an accurate device modeling. The monolithic oscillators were fabricated using InAlAs/InGaAs heterostructures on InP substrate. A power level of 1.2 mW at 76.8 GHz was obtained using InAlAs/InGaAs heterostructures on InP substrate out of chips with 0.1 μm × 36 μm HEMT's. Comparisons between theoretical and experimental characteristics are also reported.
Transport equations for particle, momentum, and energy densities in two conduction bands are applied to a self-consistent numerical simulation of heterojunction bipolar transistors. Simple formulas for the relaxation ...
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Transport equations for particle, momentum, and energy densities in two conduction bands are applied to a self-consistent numerical simulation of heterojunction bipolar transistors. Simple formulas for the relaxation frequencies, by which the variation of the conduction band energy and doping concentration in a heterojunction device are easily taken into account, are proposed. The electron transport in the AlGaAs/GaAs heterojunction bipolar transistor with two different collector structures is analyzed and discussed.< >
Injection over and through heterojunction barriers is becoming increasingly more important in modern electronic devices. We consider the properties of graded AlxGa1?xAs heterojunction barriers using a self‐consistent...
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Injection over and through heterojunction barriers is becoming increasingly more important in modern electronic devices. We consider the properties of graded AlxGa1?xAs heterojunction barriers using a self‐consistent ensemble Monte Carlo method. In this paper, we consider barriers with two doping levels, 1×1015 cm?3 and 1×1017 cm?3, and two barrier heights, 100 and 265 meV. The 100‐meV barrier resulted in small rectification at room temperature whereas the higher barrier exhibited considerable rectification. In both cases the structure with the lower doped barrier has resulted in a smaller current in both forward and reverse regions due to space‐charge effects. The energy and momentum distribution functions deviate from a Maxwellian distribution inside the barrier region and in general show two peaks: one is comprised mainly of electrons near equilibrium and the second arises mainly from ballistic electrons. The higher doped structure resulted in a faster electron relaxation toward equilibrium as a function of position because the electric field decreases rapidly in the barrier region.
A new approach to modeling normal interface modulation doped field-effect transistors (MODFETs) is presented in which the 2-D electron gas density is integrated along the channel instead of the channel potential. With...
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A new approach to modeling normal interface modulation doped field-effect transistors (MODFETs) is presented in which the 2-D electron gas density is integrated along the channel instead of the channel potential. With this approach we are able to implement a highly accurate polynomial description of the Fermi potential in the channel as a function of free electron density for arbitrary acceptor densities in GaAs channel. A substantial increase in the near threshold device current results. A carrier density dependent low field mobility is also incorporated into the model. These modifications are expected to result in an improved ability to estimate device characteristics from extrinsic material and device parameters.
This article discusses an approach for hierarchical multilevel fault simulation for large systems described at the transistor, gate, and higher levels. The approach reduces the memory requirement of the simulation dra...
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The analysis of fault-tolerant multiprocessor systems that use concurrent error detection (CED) schemes is much more difficult than the analysis of conventional fault-tolerant architectures. Various analytical techniq...
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Cost-effective and accurate fault simulation of very large digital designs on engineering workstations is proposed. The hierarchical approach reduces memory requirements drastically by storing the structure of common ...
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Cost-effective and accurate fault simulation of very large digital designs on engineering workstations is proposed. The hierarchical approach reduces memory requirements drastically by storing the structure of common repeated subcircuits only once. The approach allows flexible multilevel simulation. The simulation algorithms are at the switch-level so that general MOS digital designs with bidirectional signal flow can be handled, and both stuck-at and transistor faults are treated accurately. The fault simulation algorithms have been implemented as a prototype that was used to determine the fault grade of a model of the Motorola 68000 microprocessor on SUN Microsystems workstations.< >
In switch-level simulation, nodes carry a charge on their parasitic capacitance from one evaluation to the next, which gives them a memory quality. A node is classified as temporary if its memory aspect is lost and ca...
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In switch-level simulation, nodes carry a charge on their parasitic capacitance from one evaluation to the next, which gives them a memory quality. A node is classified as temporary if its memory aspect is lost and cannot affect the circuit operation, whereas a node is classified as a memory node if the memory of the node is maintained and can affect the circuit operation. Accurate classification of nodes into temporary and memory nodes increases the performance of compiled simulators and high-level model generators. An approach for reliable automatic classification of nodes in a switch-level description is introduced. Both an exhaustive, exponential-time algorithm and a polynomial-time heuristic are presented. The heuristic was implemented and tested for several large circuits, including a commercial microprocessor. For this processor, the proposed heuristics identified an average of 92% of all nodes as temporary nodes. The heuristic was applied in a high-level model generator and significantly increased its performance.< >
Experimental results on InP based In0.53+xGa0.47-xAs/In0.52Al0.48As HEMT monolithic integrated amplifiers are reported demonstrating the feasibility of this technology. Strained heteroepitaxy (x≥0.0) proved to enhanc...
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Experimental results on InP based In0.53+xGa0.47-xAs/In0.52Al0.48As HEMT monolithic integrated amplifiers are reported demonstrating the feasibility of this technology. Strained heteroepitaxy (x≥0.0) proved to enhance the device performance and upper frequency limits and was used for the MMIC-realization. More than 15 dB of gain were obtained from 6 to 9.5 GHz. The maximum gain was 22 dB and the return loss better than - 10 dB. In spite of the strained heteroepitaxy which can raise material control questions for MMIC realizations the experimental results for the samples (x=0.07 and x=0.22) showed good agreement with design objectives.
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