A numerical technique based on semiclassical transport theory is presented to describe highly non-equilibrium electron transport in submicron devices. Open boundary conditions, polar optical phonon scattering, and ful...
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A numerical technique based on semiclassical transport theory is presented to describe highly non-equilibrium electron transport in submicron devices. Open boundary conditions, polar optical phonon scattering, and full band structures are employed in our calculation. Special treatment of the abrupt junctions of potential profile is included in our model, so is the quantum reflection occurring around heterojunctions. The technique has been incorporated into an interactive program in which users may specify a region where the calculation is to be performed. Our results show that the polar optical phonon scattering has an important impact on the electron transport in hot electron transistors.
The authors have developed a new approach to imaging cardiac electrical activity by measuring and visualizing body surface distributions of the higher-order spatial derivative of the potential. Numerical algorithms ha...
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The authors have developed a new approach to imaging cardiac electrical activity by measuring and visualizing body surface distributions of the higher-order spatial derivative of the potential. Numerical algorithms have developed to construct body surface maps of the spatial derivative of the potential from potential data. computer simulation studies have been conducted to test the feasibility of this approach. Experimental exploration has also been made in healthy human subjects. The authors' experimental and theoretical studies indicate the superior performance of the body surface higher-order derivative electrocardiographic mapping for localizing and imaging spatially separated cardiac electrical sources.
A versatile signal processor has been designed that can perform multiple rotations, multiplications and additions within one clock cycle. The computational elements of this processor include four pipelined CORDIC rota...
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A versatile signal processor has been designed that can perform multiple rotations, multiplications and additions within one clock cycle. The computational elements of this processor include four pipelined CORDIC rotators, two pipelined fast multipliers and two adders. A combination of register files, SRAM, and ROM provides on chip storage for coefficients, running sums and programs. The chip architecture and its applicability to complex valued signal processing tasks are discussed.
Catheter based ablation of cardiac tissue has been shown to provide an immediate and long lasting cure for cardiac arrhythmia. However, the procedure does not always allow placing the catheter in close proximity to th...
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Catheter based ablation of cardiac tissue has been shown to provide an immediate and long lasting cure for cardiac arrhythmia. However, the procedure does not always allow placing the catheter in close proximity to the pathological tissues requiring ablation. Use of non-invasive focused ultrasound ablation in the moving heart is an attractive potential alternative to catheter based ablative therapy. In this paper, initial studies have been performed to explore the feasibility of using ultrasound phased array technology for this application. A 3-D treatment planning software package was developed to study the available acoustic windows allowing ultrasound to be focused on the myocardium. Numerical simulation studies of the feasibility of precise beam forming by propagating ultrasound around the ribs shows that the beam, even though formed by an irregularly shaped subset of phased array elements not blocked by ribs and air, was very sharply focused at the target. Using invasive phase aberration correction algorithms developed in the authors' lab, experiments with pork and human rib phantoms confirm the ability to precisely form beams with phased array through the available noncontiguous windows.
A unique and accurate approach for modeling semiconductor device characteristics and estimating IC parametric yield is described. Multilayer perceptron neural networks (MLPNN) are trained using error back propagation ...
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A unique and accurate approach for modeling semiconductor device characteristics and estimating IC parametric yield is described. Multilayer perceptron neural networks (MLPNN) are trained using error back propagation to model DC device characteristics measured at the final fabrication stage. Measurements of material and/or device characteristics taken at earlier fabrication stages are used to develop neural network models of the final DC parameters. A very good agreement has been found between the actual measurements and the MLPNN modeled parameters, and the resulting yield estimations are in excellent agreement with the actual yield.
Presents a new distorted Born iterative algorithm for diffraction tomography which introduces kernel distortions only at carefully selected pixel locations. This algorithm attains the performance levels achieved by ex...
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Presents a new distorted Born iterative algorithm for diffraction tomography which introduces kernel distortions only at carefully selected pixel locations. This algorithm attains the performance levels achieved by existing distorted Born iterative techniques, while maintaining the robustness of the Born iterative technique, especially in noisy situations. In addition, the algorithm has lower computational complexity and faster convergence rate when compared with existing distorted Born iterative algorithms. The authors present numerical simulations of the algorithm in noisy and noise-free environments. They also discuss an elementary experimental setup which is being used to validate their tomographic imaging algorithms.
The possibility of using phased array generated multiple-focus patterns to reduce the overall treatment time in ultrasound surgery while restraining prefocal heating was investigated by simulating the performance of d...
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The possibility of using phased array generated multiple-focus patterns to reduce the overall treatment time in ultrasound surgery while restraining prefocal heating was investigated by simulating the performance of different possible schemes, i.e., single-focus scans, multiple-focus scans, and simultaneous multiple focusing without scanning, when used to "ablate" a 10/spl times/10/spl times/10 mm/sup 3/ volume 100 mm deep. In all cases, forty-one foci were used to cover the treatment volume. Multiple-focus scans were arranged into nine groups which were scanned in a raster fashion, as with single-focus scans. Keeping the treatment time constant, the maximum intensities, maximum thermal doses, dose distributions and prefocal heating zones for the different schemes were compared. It was found that the non-scanned simultaneous multiple-focus case required the smallest maximum intensity and dose, and resulted in the most even dose distribution. Single-focus raster scanning of individual lesions, as currently used with fixed-focus transducer, gave the worst results. These results show that multiple-focus patterns help considerably in reducing the maximum intensity and dose, and in generating a more even dose distribution assuming the same treatment time and prefocal heating. Alternatively they can be used to significantly reduce treatment time while keeping the maximum intensity and prefocal heating below predetermined limits.
Ultrasound has proven to be an effective modality for inducing hyperthermia for cancer therapy because of the spatial control of the SAR that may be achieved. The use of phased-array ultrasound applicators provides ad...
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Ultrasound has proven to be an effective modality for inducing hyperthermia for cancer therapy because of the spatial control of the SAR that may be achieved. The use of phased-array ultrasound applicators provides additional benefits because the ultrasound field may be changed rapidly (at electronic speeds) and may be used to focus the field at several locations simultaneously. To obtain these qualities, large apertures with element counts exceeding several hundred are needed. However, with the increase in the number of elements, both the control and fabrication process involve greater complexity. Therefore the construction of phased array systems, especially those using geometric focusing to increase intensity gain, has proven technically difficult. In order to avoid complex machining and mounting procedures, a modular approach to array construction has been developed. To test this approach, phased arrays with 192 and 512 elements have been designed, fabricated and characterized in the authors' laboratory. These arrays are composed of flat panels arranged to approximate a spherically shaped aperture. Experimental acoustic measurements for both arrays are presented and compared with computer simulations, showing good agreement. In addition, experimental results using these arrays, in conjunction with a control algorithm developed in the authors' lab, to induce and maintain hyperthermia in in vivo canine thigh muscle are presented. These results demonstrate the flexibility of such applicators, and the control which they can achieve over the SAR field.
An explicit formula for the absolute value of the Witten invariants is derived. We discuss the relation between homotopy equivalence and the absolute value of Witten invariants for lens spaces. We also give examples o...
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An explicit formula for the absolute value of the Witten invariants is derived. We discuss the relation between homotopy equivalence and the absolute value of Witten invariants for lens spaces. We also give examples of arbitrarily finitely many lens spaces which have the same Witten invariants for any level r.
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