The automatic frequency calibration (AFC) technique is routinely used in the wideband frequency synthesizers which contain multiple voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) tuning curves. In this paper, a counter-based AFC...
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The automatic frequency calibration (AFC) technique is routinely used in the wideband frequency synthesizers which contain multiple voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) tuning curves. In this paper, a counter-based AFC design method is presented. The relationship between the AFC counting time and the VCO tuning curve characteristic is quantitatively analyzed. An AFC circuit which uses a time-to-digital converter (TDC) in the counting process is developed. Simulation results show that the proposed circuit significantly reduces the AFC calibration time while preserving the calibration accuracy. The simulated error-free AFC time of the proposed AFC is less than 3 μs.
We report on a 2D simulation study of a couple of mid-infrared quantum cascade lasers based on the integration of a number of optoelectronic models. Quantum mechanical computation was performed to find the quantizatio...
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We report on a 2D simulation study of a couple of mid-infrared quantum cascade lasers based on the integration of a number of optoelectronic models. Quantum mechanical computation was performed to find the quantization states and a rate equation approach was used to compute the optical gain. Temperature and field dependence effects are taken into account in optical gain model to make a realistic simulation of QCLs. The simulation study compared the integrated models with experimental data with different structures and at different temperatures. Reasonable agreements between experiment and simulation have been obtained.
The large coercive field of domain switching in poly(vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene)thin films is in much part due to the contribution of nonpolar impurity phases rather than the manifestation of an intrinsic d...
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The large coercive field of domain switching in poly(vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene)thin films is in much part due to the contribution of nonpolar impurity phases rather than the manifestation of an intrinsic domain switching mechanism of the ferroelectric *** coincidentally derive the equivalent electrical capacitance for the total non-ferroelectric capacitive layers from either domain switching current transient or voltage dependence of the switched ***,the non-ferroelectric capacitance reduces by more than 71%with the enhancement of domain switching speed spanning over 5 orders of magnitude in company with the continuous reduction of the remanent polarization,which suggests the thickening of the above capacitive layers with enhanced domain switching speed.
As a promising computing platform for stream processing, partially reconfigurable systems have shown their hardware efficiency and reconfiguration flexibility. This paper presents a partially reconfigurable architectu...
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As a promising computing platform for stream processing, partially reconfigurable systems have shown their hardware efficiency and reconfiguration flexibility. This paper presents a partially reconfigurable architecture supporting hardware threads. It gives a unified software/hardware thread interface and high throughput point-to-point streaming structure. Dynamic computing resource allocation and streaming-based multi-threaded management are also provided at operating system level. It is easy for programmers to exploit the inherent thread, data and pipeline parallelism in a unified view of threads, enhancing hardware efficiency while improving productivity. The experimental results on a cryptography application demonstrate the feasibility and superior performance. Moreover, the parallelized AES, DES and 3DES hardware threads on field-programmable gate arrays show 1.61-4.59 times higher power efficiency than their implementations on state-of-the-art graphics processing units.
High-frequency ultrasonic transducer arrays are essential for efficient imaging in clinical analysis and nondestructive evaluation (NDE). However, the fabrication of piezoelectric transducers is really a great challen...
High-frequency ultrasonic transducer arrays are essential for efficient imaging in clinical analysis and nondestructive evaluation (NDE). However, the fabrication of piezoelectric transducers is really a great challenge due to the small features in an array. A novel technique is presented to fabricate thick-film ZnO ultrasonic array transducers. Piezoelectric elements are formed by sputtering thick-film ZnO onto etched features of a silicon substrate so that the difficult etching process for ZnO films is avoided by etching silicon. This process is simple and efficient. A 13-μm-pitch ZnO sandwich array is achieved with a thickness of 8 μm for 300 MHz. Finite element method is employed to simulate the wave propagation in water based on this new transducer configuration. The acoustic field results indicate this configuration has an acceptable performance. A potential application is proposed based on integration with microfluidics.
In this paper, graphene oxide (GO) was modified in-situ on an electrochemical electrode array for attachment of protein. GO suspension made from natural graphite flakes was directly dip-coated onto the Au working elec...
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We report a simulation study of the characteristics of a new tunnel field effect transistor (TFET), i.e., vertical TFET (VTFET). The new VTFET has a different working principle compared with the traditional lateral TF...
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The characteristics of PNIN tunneling field effect transistor (TFET) with nanometer sizes are investigated using TCAD simulation. The results show that the performance and variations of the device strongly depends on ...
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An important trend of the modern mobile device is that a single user terminal that will be capable of receiving signals of multiple different transmission standards. Most of these transmission standards employ a forwa...
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In this paper, we systematically study the positive gate leakage current in AlGaN/GaN metal-oxide-semiconductor high electron-mobility transistors (MOS-HEMTs) with HfO 2 dielectric using atomic layer deposition (ALD)....
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In this paper, we systematically study the positive gate leakage current in AlGaN/GaN metal-oxide-semiconductor high electron-mobility transistors (MOS-HEMTs) with HfO 2 dielectric using atomic layer deposition (ALD). We observe that the incorporated nitrogen ions will improve the positive gate leakage current of devices obviously, but do not change the reverse gate leakage current. The passivation mechanism of nitrogen ions in oxygen vacancies in HfO 2 is studied by first-principles calculations. It is shown that the gap states of HfO 2 caused by oxygen vacancies increase the positive gate leakage current of MOS-HEMTs. Nitrogen ions passivate the gap states of HfO 2 and decrease the positive gate leakage current but do not effect the reverse gate leakage current.
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