The AlGaN/GaN heterostructure is important for both electronic and optoelectronic devices. In addition to having a large band gap, the heterostructure has a strong piezoelectric effect and a large spontaneous polariza...
The AlGaN/GaN heterostructure is important for both electronic and optoelectronic devices. In addition to having a large band gap, the heterostructure has a strong piezoelectric effect and a large spontaneous polarization. This allows one to incorporate a large electric field (>106 V/cm) and high sheet charge (>1013 cm−2) without doping. Theoretical studies are done to examine how polarization effects controls the sheet charge density. The studies also focus on how interface roughness, aluminum mole fraction in the barrier, impurity scattering, sheet charge density, and phonon scattering influence mobility. Results are compared with experimental studies on samples grown by both molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) and metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD). We find that interface roughness is a dominant source of scattering in the samples reported. Due to the variation in growth techniques we find that the MBE samples have a smoother interface quality compared to the MOCVD samples. By carefully fitting the experimental data we present results on interface roughness parameters for MBE and MOCVD samples.
Summary form only given. We report the room temperature operation of a novel unipolar self-organized quantum dot FIR laser (13.3 /spl mu/m) based on transitions between discrete bound electron states in self-organized...
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Summary form only given. We report the room temperature operation of a novel unipolar self-organized quantum dot FIR laser (13.3 /spl mu/m) based on transitions between discrete bound electron states in self-organized dots. A typical photoluminescence spectrum of InGaAs-GaAs self-organized quantum dots is shown.
Photoconductance spectroscopy was used to probe the effects of quantum confinement in nanocrystalline (nc)-Si/amorphous (a)-SiO2 superlattices (SLs). A Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (MOS)-like structure with the nc-Si SL ...
Photoconductance spectroscopy was used to probe the effects of quantum confinement in nanocrystalline (nc)-Si/amorphous (a)-SiO2 superlattices (SLs). A Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (MOS)-like structure with the nc-Si SL incorporated in the oxide was fabricated to study charging/discharging processes in Si nanocrystals. The fine structure observed in photoconductance spectra at low temperatures was interpreted in terms of singularities in the carrier density of states, possibly due to energy quantization. In addition, a low-resistance sample exhibited photocurrent oscillations with a frequency of several kHz, which could be a manifestation of sequential resonant carrier tunneling in the nc-Si/a-SiO2 SL.
This paper introduces reconfigurable computing and MorphoSys, which is a reconfigurable system. It also explains the architecture of its reconfigurable hardware part. Then, it presents two spreadsheet models for the o...
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This paper introduces reconfigurable computing and MorphoSys, which is a reconfigurable system. It also explains the architecture of its reconfigurable hardware part. Then, it presents two spreadsheet models for the operation of this reconfigurable device. The first spreadsheet performs the modelling through formulas, while the second does it numerically. These spreadsheet models serve as design and debugging tools.
Presents a neural-based approach to classifying and estimating the statistical parameters of speckle noise found in biomedical ultrasound images. Speckle noise, a very complex phenomenon, has been modeled in a variety...
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Presents a neural-based approach to classifying and estimating the statistical parameters of speckle noise found in biomedical ultrasound images. Speckle noise, a very complex phenomenon, has been modeled in a variety of different ways: and there is currently no clear consensus as to its precise statistical characteristics. In this study, different neural network architectures are used to classify ultrasound images contaminated with three types of noise, based upon three one-parameter statistical distributions. At the same time: the parameter is estimated. It is expected that accurate characterization of ultrasound speckle noise will benefit existing post-processing methods, and may lead to new refinements in these techniques.
In a psychophysical experiment, a wideband, 4-ms noise is compared with spectrally smoothed versions of the noise. To isolate on the magnitude spectrum, the phase spectrum is controlled by assigning the same random ph...
Grasslands are the largest of the Earth's four major vegetation types and are among the most agriculturally productive lands. Grassland management practices alter biophysical factors, such as plant species composi...
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An extension of the kernel-based pattern recognition method using a genetic algorithm is proposed. The method is suited to evolvable pattern recognition hardware using FPGAs. In the conventional method one common kern...
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An extension of the kernel-based pattern recognition method using a genetic algorithm is proposed. The method is suited to evolvable pattern recognition hardware using FPGAs. In the conventional method one common kernel function is used in the superposition to make discrimination functions. In the extended method each region of the kernel function is optimized individually. For the kernel-region optimization we use a genetic algorithm to solve a large combinatorial problem almost impossible to solve using any brute-force search. A chromosome represents the kernel region in an n-dimensional pattern space, and each locus corresponds to one of the candidates (genes) for an edge length of the kernel region. We have applied the extended method to a sonar spectrum recognition problem and obtained a recognition accuracy of 83.9%, which is much higher than the 62.0% obtained using the conventional kernel-based method and is also better than 82.7% obtained using the nearest neighbor method and the 83.0% obtained using a neural network (backpropagation algorithm). We have analyzed the individually optimized kernel regions and shown that the GA process automatically extracts features in the patterns and embeds the features in the kernel regions.
We have fabricated erbium-doped porous silicon (PSi) devices and demonstrated stable room-temperature electroluminescence (EL) at 1.54 μm under both forward and reverse bias conditions. Erbium was infiltrated into th...
We have fabricated erbium-doped porous silicon (PSi) devices and demonstrated stable room-temperature electroluminescence (EL) at 1.54 μm under both forward and reverse bias conditions. Erbium was infiltrated into the nanostructured matrix of PSi (≤ 10 19 cm —3 ) by cathodic electrochemical migration of the ions followed by high temperature annealing (950–1100 °C). The devices exhibit an exponential EL dependence in both bias conditions as a function of driving current and voltage. External quantum efficiencies of 0.01% have been obtained. The EL intensity in reverse bias and the transport properties of the devices show large temperature dependences. From the differences in temperature, electrical, and EL characteristics in forward and reverse biases, we believe that different excitation mechanisms are responsible for the EL.
In this study we present the fabrication, the optical characterization and the electrical operation of a high quality, nanometer-sized, silicon-based light modulator made of nematic liquid crystals (LC) encapsulated i...
In this study we present the fabrication, the optical characterization and the electrical operation of a high quality, nanometer-sized, silicon-based light modulator made of nematic liquid crystals (LC) encapsulated into porous silicon (PSi) multilayer matrix. We first demonstrate the infiltration procedure and characterize the cell's reflectance and photoluminescence (PL) before and after infiltration. Then we examine the LC molecular alignment, and show that their long axis is positioned along the pore walls. Therefore, the electrical control of an interference filter is achieved by applying a field horizontal to the pore's directionality. We also demonstrate that by applying up to 10 V the molecules reorient, the effective refractive index is modulated by as much as Δ n = 0.15, and the reflectance spectra is red shifted.
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