Golden Report Selections T-ED

Lists, in alphabetical order, those reviewers who contribute to the IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices.     

Launching the Transactions into the new millennium-a historical perspective

The author presents an historical review of the development of IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices from 1990 to 2000. The paper covers the tool building phase and the system execution phase of the development.     

Special Issue on Solid-State Image Sensors

This editorial summarizes the contents of this special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices on solid state image sensors. Several researches on CCD and CMOS image sensors are included in this issue.     

Photovoltaics literature survey (no. 6)

In order to help keep readers up‐to‐date in the field each issue of Progress in Photovoltaics will contain a list of recently published journal articles most relevant to its aims and scope. This list is drawn primarily from recent issues of IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, Journal of Applied Physics, Progress in Photovoltaics, Solar Energy and Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, with additional journals surveyed if space permits. To assist the reader, the list is separated into broad categories, but please note that these classifications are by no means strict. Also note that inclusion in the list is not an endorsement of a paper's quality. If you have any suggestions please email Mark Keevers at m.keevers@unsw.edu.au Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Photovoltaics literature survey (No. 3)

In order to help keep readers up‐to‐date in the field each issue of Progress in Photovoltaics will contain a list of recently published journal articles most relevant to its aim and scope. This list is drawn primarily from recent issues of IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, Journal of Applied Physics, Progress in Photovoltaics, Solar Energy and Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, with additional journals surveyed if space permits. To assist the reader, the list is separated into broad categories, but please note these classifications are by no means strict. If you have any suggestions please e‐mail Mark Keevers at m.keevers@unsw.edu.au Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Photovoltaics literature survey (no. 87)

In order to help keep readers up‐to‐date in the field each issue of Progress in Photovoltaics will contain a list of recently published journal articles most relevant to its aims and scope. This list is drawn from an extremely wide range of journals, including IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, Journal of Applied Physics, Applied Physics Letters, Progress in Photovoltaics and Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells. To assist the reader, the list is separated into broad categories, but please note that these classifications are by no means strict. Also note that inclusion in the list is not an endorsement of a paper's quality. If you have any suggestions please email Santosh at s.shrestha@unsw.edu.au     

Scaling Analysis of On-Chip Power Grid Voltage Variations in Nanometer Scale ULSI

This paper presents a detailed scaling analysis of the power supply distribution network voltage drop in DSM technologies. The effects of chip temperature, electromigration and interconnect technology scaling (including resistivity increase of Cu interconnects due to electron surface scattering and finite barrier thickness) are taken into consideration during this analysis. It is shown that the voltage drop effect in the power/ground (P/G) distribution network increases rapidly with technology scaling, and that using well-known countermeasures such as wire-sizing and/or decoupling capacitor insertion which are typically used in the present design methodologies may be insufficient to limit the voltage fluctuations over the power grid for future technologies. It is also shown that such voltage drops on power supply lines of switching devices in a clock distribution network can introduce significant amount of skew which in turn degrades the signal integrity.This work was done when the author was with the Dept. of EESystems, University of Southern California.Amir H. Ajami received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran in 1993. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, in 1999 and 2002, respectively.He is currently a member of consulting staff in research and development division at MagmaDesign Automation, Inc., Santa Clara, CA. He has previously held positions at Cadence Design Systems, Inc., andMagma Design Automations, Inc., in 1999 and 2000, respectively. His research interests are in the area of technology scaling issues in high-performance VLSI designs with emphasis on full-chip thermal analysis, thermalaware timing and power optimization methodologies, and signal integrity. He has coauthored several papers on the modeling and analysis of the effects of substrate thermal gradients on performance degradation and development of thermal-aware physical-synthesis optimization algorithms.Dr. Ajami is a member of Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) and IEEE. HE serves on the technical program committee of the 2005 IEEE International Symposium on Quality Electronics Design.Kaustav Banerjee received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and computer sciences from the University of California at Berkeley in 1999. He was with Stanford University, Stanford, CA, from 1999 to 2002 as a Research Associate at the Center for Integrated Systems. In July 2002, he joined the faculty of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, as an Assistant Professor. From February 2002 to August 2002 he was a Visiting Professor at the Circuit Research Labs of Intel in Hillsboro, Oregon. In the past, he has also held summer/visiting positions at Texas Instruments Inc., Dallas, Texas, Fujitsu Labs and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL). His present research interests focus on a wide variety of nanometer scale issues in high-performance VLSI and mixed-signal designs, as well as on circuits and systems issues in emerging nanoelectronics. He is also interested in some exploratory interconnect and circuit architectures including 3-D ICs. At UCSB, Dr. Banerjee mentors several doctoral and masters students. He also co-advises graduate students at Stanford University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and EPFL-Switzerland. He has co-directed two doctoral dissertations at Stanford University and the University of Southern California. Dr. Banerjee served as Technical Program Chair of the 2002 IEEE International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED 02), and is the General Chair of ISQED 05. He also serves or has served on the technical program committees of the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting, the IEEE International Reliability Physics Symposium, the EOS/ESD Symposium and the ACM International Symposium on Physical Design. His research has been chronicled in over 100 journals and refereed international conference papers and a book chapter. He has also co-edited a book titled Emerging Nanoelectronics: Life with and after CMOS by Kluwer in 2004. Dr. Banerjee has been recognized through the ACM SIGDA Outstanding New Faculty Award (2004) as well as a Best Paper Award at the Design Automation Conference (2001). He is listed in Whos Who in America and Whos Who in Science and Engineering.Massoud Pedram received a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1986 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley in 1989 and 1991, respectively. He then joined the department of Electrical Engineering, Systems at the University of Southern California where he is currently a professor. Dr. Pedram has served on the technical program committee of a number of conferences, including the Design automation Conference (DAC), Design and Test in Europe Conference (DATE), Asia-Pacific Design automation Conference (ASP-DAC), and International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD). He served as the Technical Co-chair and General Co-chair of the International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (SLPED) in 1996 and 1997, respectively. He was the Technical Program Chair and the General Chair of the 2002 and 2003 International Symposium on Physical Design. Dr. Pedram has published four books, 60 journal papers, and more than 150 conference papers. His research has received a number of awards including two ICCD Best Paper Awards, a Distinguished Citation from ICCAD, a DAC Best Paper Award, and an IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems Best Paper Award. He is a recipient of the NSFs Young Investigator Award (1994) and the Presidential Faculty Fellows Award (a.k.a. PECASE Award) (1996).Dr. Pedram is a Fellow of the IEEE, a member of the Board of Governors for the IEEE Circuits and systems Society, an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Computer Aided Design, the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, and the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Distinguished Lecturer Program Chair. He is also an Advisory Board Member of the ACM Interest Group on Design Automation, and an associate editor of the ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems. His current work focuses on developing computer aided design methodologies and techniques for low power design, synthesis, and physical design. For more information, please go to URL address: .     

Photovoltaics literature survey (No. 7)

In order to help keep readers up‐to‐date in the field, each issue of Progress in Photovoltaics will contain a list of recently published journal articles most relevant to its aims and scope. This list is drawn primarily from recent issues of IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, Journal of Applied Physics, Progress in Photovoltaics, Solar Energy and Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, with additional journals surveyed if space permits. To assist the reader, the list is separated into broad categories, but please note these classifications are by no means strict. Also note that inclusion in the list is not an endorsement of a paper's quality. If you have any suggestions please email Mark Keevers at m.keevers@unsw.edu.au. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Editor's Notice (June 1968)

With this issue the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits completes its second full year of publication. This Journal is sponsored by the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Council on behalf of the Groups on Circuit Theory, Electron Devices, Electronic Computers, Microwave Theory and Techniques, and Magnetics. Its paramount objective is to bring to the members of these groups a new and stronger level of reporting in a major technical area that previously had not been served by a single publication. The interests of the Journal in the technical area of solid-state circuits correspond well with the content of the annual International Solid-State Circuits Conference. As sponsor of the Journal and cosponsor of the ISSCC, the Solid-State Circuits Council has provided a salutory connection between these two complementary activities.     

Special Issue on Nanowire Transistors: Modeling, Device Design, and Technology

The 31 papers in this special issue focus on nanowire transistors and cover the modeling, device design and technology of these transistors. Other papers on the same topic are appearing in a special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology.     

Enhancement of the Publication Process for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

The success of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications has been incredible since its inception in 2001. The journal now receives 1600 plus submissions per year and has become one of the most downloaded journals within IEEE Xplore. However, we should not stop there, and our goal is to continuously enhance the journal and build on its current success.     

Adieu from the outgoing Editor-in-Chief

It has been a pleasure and an honor to serve for the last three years as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. This Transactions is clearly the leading journal in its field and continues to publish very high-quality, peer-reviewed original papers that advance the state of the art and applications in wireless communications.     

Message from the Editor

For the most part, authors of papers and correspondence items for the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques need little specific information before submitting a paper and can usually determine most of the information they need by examining several late issues.     

Transparent and quasi-transparent regional solutions tominority-carrier transport in arbitrarily doped semiconductors

The exact analytical regional solution to minority-carrier transport is derived in arbitrarily doped transparent semiconductor regions. By using this solution, new regional quasi-transparent solutions for emitter light-generated current density are derived in both the Cuevas and Balbuena approach (Cuevas and Balbuena, IEEE Trans. Electron Devices, vol. 36, pp. 553-560, 1989) and the Hamel approach (Hamel, IEEE Trans. Electron Devices, vol. 46, pp. 104-109, 1996) . Either of the new third-order quasi-transparent expressions is shown to be more accurate than both the local second-order quasi-transparent expression of Cuevas and Balbuena and the third-order regional expression of Bisschop et al (IEEE Trans. Electron Devices, vol. 37, pp. 358-364, 1990). In particular, while the new expression derived according to Hamel is more accurate at passivated surfaces, the new expression derived according to Cuevas and Balbuena is always more accurate, except for the case of a negligible surface recombination, where it is as accurate as the third-order regional expression of Bisschop et al     

On some recent modifications of Weibull distribution

Since the turn of the century, several papers have appeared in reliability journals (including the IEEE Transactions on Reliability) which claim to have proposed new modifications of the traditional Weibull distribution. It is pointed out here that the proposed distributions are either not new, or arise from a representation suggested by Gurvich et al. . A modification is suggested that contains all of the proposed distributions as particular cases.     

Guest Editorial Special Section Honoring the 50th Anniversary of the IEEE EMC Society

The six papers in this special section cover key technology areas that have received significant attention in the IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility. This special section honors the 50th anniversary of the Electromagnetic Compatibility Society.     

Performance of a burst-frame-based CSMA/CA protocol: Analysis and enhancement

In this paper, we develop an analytical model to evaluate the delay performance of the burst-frame-based CSMA/CA protocol under unsaturated conditions, which has not been fully addressed in the literature. Our delay analysis is unique in that we consider the end-to-end packet delay, which is the duration from the epoch that a packet enters the queue at the MAC layer of the transmitter side to the epoch that the packet is successfully received at the receiver side. The analytical results give excellent agreement with the simulation results, which represents the accuracy of our analytical model. The results also provide important guideline on how to set the parameters of the burst assembly policy. Based on these results, we further develop an efficient adaptive burst assembly policy so as to optimize the throughput and delay performance of the burst-frame-based CSMA/CA protocol. Kejie Lu received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in Telecommunications Engineering from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China, in 1994 and 1997, respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Dallas in 2003. In 2004 and 2005, he was a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida. Currently, he is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez. His research interests include architecture and protocols design for computer and communication networks, performance analysis, network security, and wireless communications. Jianfeng Wang received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in electrical engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, in 1999 and 2002, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from University of Florida in 2006. From January 2006 to July 2006, he was a research intern in wireless standards and technology group, Intel Corporation. In October 2006, he joined Philips Research North America as a senior member research staff in wireless communications and networking department. He is engaged in research and standardization on wireless networks with emphasis on medium access control (MAC). Dapeng Wu received B.E. in Electrical Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, in 1990, M.E. in Electrical Engineering from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China, in 1997, and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, in 2003. Since August 2003, he has been with Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, as an Assistant Professor. His research interests are in the areas of networking, communications, multimedia, signal processing, and information and network security. He received the IEEE Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (CSVT) Transactions Best Paper Award for Year 2001, and the Best Paper Award in International Conference on Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks (QShine) 2006. Currently, he serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Advances in Multimedia, and an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, and International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing. He is also a guest-editor for IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), Special Issue on Cross-layer Optimized Wireless Multimedia Communications. He served as Program Chair for IEEE/ACM First International Workshop on Broadband Wireless Services and Applications (BroadWISE 2004); and as a technical program committee member of over 30 conferences. He is Vice Chair of Mobile and wireless multimedia Interest Group (MobIG), Technical Committee on Multimedia Communications, IEEE Communications Society. He is a member of the Best Paper Award Committee, Technical Committee on Multimedia Communications, IEEE Communications Society. Yuguang Fang received a Ph.D. degree in Systems Engineering from Case Western Reserve University in January 1994 and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Boston University in May 1997. He was an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology from July 1998 to May 2000. He then joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Florida in May 2000 as an assistant professor and got an early promotion to an associate professor with tenure in August 2003 and to a full professor in August 2005. He has published over 200 papers in refereed professional journals and conferences. He received the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Award in 2001 and the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award in 2002. He has served on several editorial boards of technical journals including IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing and ACM Wireless Networks. He have also been actively participating in professional conference organizations such as serving as The Steering Committee Co-Chair for QShine, the Technical Program Vice-Chair for IEEE INFOCOM’2005, Technical Program Symposium Co-Chair for IEEE Globecom’2004, and a member of Technical Program Committee for IEEE INFOCOM (1998, 2000, 2003–2007). He is a senior member of the IEEE.     

On credibility of simulation studies of telecommunication networks

In telecommunication networks, as in many other areas of science and engineering, the proliferation of computers as research tools has resulted in the adoption of computer simulation as the most commonly used paradigm of scientific investigations. This, together with a plethora of existing simulation languages and packages, has created a popular opinion that simulation is mainly an exercise in computer programming. In new computing environments, programming can be minimized, or even fully replaced, by the manipulation of icons (representing prebuilt programming objects containing basic functional blocks of simulated systems) on a computer monitor. One can say that we have witnessed another success of modern science and technology: the emergence of wonderful and powerful tools for exploring and predicting the behavior of such complex stochastic dynamic systems as telecommunication networks. But this enthusiasm is not shared by all researchers in this area. An opinion is spreading that one cannot rely on the majority of the published results on performance evaluation studies of telecommunication networks based on stochastic simulation, since they lack credibility. Indeed, the spread of this phenomenon is so wide that one can speak about a deep crisis of credibility. In this article this claim is supported by the results of a survey of over 2200 publications on telecommunication networks in proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM and such journals as IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, and Performance Evaluation Journal. The discussion focuses on two important necessary conditions of a credible simulation study: use of appropriate pseudo-random generators of independent uniformly distributed numbers, and appropriate analysis of simulation output data. Having considered their perils and pitfalls, we formulate guidelines that, if observed, could help to ensure a basic level of credibility of simulation studies of telecommunication networks