GaN and AlGaN high-voltage rectifiers grown by metal-organic chemical-vapor deposition

In this paper, we report the study of the electrical characteristics of GaN and AlGaN vertical p-i-n junctions and Schottky rectifiers grown on both sapphire and SiC substrates by metal-organic chemical-vapor deposition. For GaN p-i-n rectifiers grown on SiC with a relatively thin “i” region of 2 μm, a breakdown voltage over 400 V, and forward voltage as low as 4.5 V at 100 A/cm² are exhibited for a 60-μm-diameter device. A GaN Schottky diode with a 2-μm-thick undoped layer exhibits a blocking voltage in excess of ∼230 V at a reverse-leakage current density below 1 mA/cm², and a forward-voltage drop of 3.5 V at a current density of 100 A/cm². It has been found that with the same device structure and process approach, the leakage current of a device grown on a SiC substrate is much lower than a device grown on a sapphire substrate. The use of Mg ion implantation for p-guard rings as planar-edge terminations in mesageometry GaN Schottky rectifiers has also been studied.     

A Neural Network Approach for Signal Detection in Digital Communications

In this paper, we propose a new approach for signal detection in wireless digital communications based on the neural network with transient chaos and time-varying gain (NNTCTG), and give a concrete model of the signal detector after appropriate transformations and mappings. It is well known that the problem of the maximum likelihood signal detection can be described as a complex optimization problem that has so many local optima that conventional Hopfield-type neural networks fail to solve. By refraining from the serious local optima problem of Hopfield-type neural networks, the NNTCTG makes use of the time-varying parameters of the recurrent neural network to control the evolving behavior of the network so that the network undergoes the transition from chaotic behavior to gradient convergence. It has richer and more flexible dynamics rather than conventional neural networks only with point attractors, so that it can be expected to have much ability to search for globally optimal or near-optimal solutions. After going through a transiently inverse-bifurcation process, the NNTCTG can approach the global optimum or the neighborhood of global optimum of our problem. Simulation experiments have been performed to show the effectiveness and validation of the proposed neural network based method for the signal detection in digital communications.     

Evaluating the impact of CASE: an empirical comparison of retrospective and cross-sectional survey approaches

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate two methods of assessing the productivity and quality impact of Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) and Fourth Generation Language (4GL) technologies: (1) by the retrospective method; and (2) the cross-sectional method. Both methods involve the use of questionnaire surveys. Developers' perceptions depend on the context in which they are expressed and this includes expectations about the effectiveness of a given software product. Consequently, it is generally not reliable to base inferences about the relative merits of CASE and 4GLs on a cross-sectional comparison of two separate samples of users. The retrospective method that requires each respondent to directly compare different products is shown to be more reliable. However, there may be scope to employ cross-sectional comparisons of the findings from different samples where both sets of respondents use the same reference point for their judgements, and where numerical rather than verbal rating scales are used to measure perceptions.     

任丘油田雾迷山油藏抽油机井系统效率初步探讨

总公司1996年对任丘雾迷山油藏抽油机井进行测试,系统效率高达51%~68%,其结果出乎意料。从影响抽油机系统效率的几大因素入手,分析出任丘雾迷山油藏抽油机井系统效率高的主要原因。任丘雾迷山油藏属裂缝性破酸盐岩油藏(即灰岩油战),由于其裂缝发育、渗透性好、油层厚度大、地层温度高、油气比小、饱和压力低等,使得抽油机井生产呈现如下特点:()大泵径,长冲程,低冲次大排量采油;(2)中浅京挂,小沉没度;(3)抽汲流体为液体单相,泵充满程度高;(4)部分井为连抽"带喷"状态,抽油系活塞底部受力大;(5)井液粘度低,油井不结蜡,摩阻损失小。由于这些特点以及近年来使用的新型节能抽油机,使得抽油机井系统效率大大高于其它油田抽油机井系统效率。     

Presupposition failure — A comedy of errors

Presuppositions of utterances are the pieces of information you convey with an utterance no matter whether your utterance is true or not. We first study presupposition in a very simple framework of updating propositional information, with examples of how presuppositions of complex propositional updates can be calculated. Next we move on to presuppositions and quantification, in the context of a dynamic version of predicate logic, suitably modified to allow for presupposition failure. In both the propositional and the quantificational case, presupposition failure can be viewed as error abortion of procedures. Thus, a dynamic assertion logic which describes the preconditions for error abortion is the suitable tool for analysing presupposition.     

利用地理信息系统ARC/INFO计算地物面积的方法

详细介绍利用地理信息系统工具ARC/lNFO来计算地物分布专题图中各种不同地物面积的方法，并给出海南省大边河库区地物面积的计算实例。     

基于工作站和EUCLID－IS的计算机组装结构CAD系统研究

随着集成电路技术的发展及计算机性能的不断提高，计算机组装结构设计在计算机，总体设计中的地位越来越重要，它直接影响到计算机性能的提高。本文针对一个基于工作站和ＥＵＣＬＩＤ－ＩＳ软件的电子计算机组结构ＣＡＤ系统，从软、硬件平台，系统功能及实现等方面进行了讨论，旨在为电子计算机组装结构设计提供一种强有力的、方便的设计工具，有利于增强国产计算机的市场竞争能力。     

VME总线评述

ＶＭＥ总线是应用最广泛的国际总线标准之一。本文介绍了ＶＭＥ总线的结构特别，包括信号名的定义及功能等，特别阐明了ＶＭＥ总线的并行性、实时性和高可靠性，突出了ＶＭＥ总线的发展前景。