Optimizing nonlinearity of piezoresistive pressure sensors by an asymmetric Wheatstone bridge

Microsystem Technologies - Since nonlinearity is critical to silicon piezoresistive pressure sensors, this paper combined theoretical analysis and simulation to study the effect of changing the...     

Formation mechanism of subtrenches on cone-shaped patterned sapphire substrate

In this paper, the cone-shaped patterned sapphire substrates (PSS) were etched by an inductively couple plasma with BCl 3 as the reacting gas. The influence of the operating pressure and the RF bias power on subtrenches of the cone-shaped PSS and the formation mechanism of subtrenches were investigated. The profiles of patterns were characterized by FESEM (field emission scanning electron microscope). It showed that the subtrench size varied with the operating pressure and the RF bias power. As the operatin...     

STBC-VBLAST的QRD-M检测

提出一种针对IEEE 802.11n中STBC-VBLAST结构的新型QRD-M检测算法,在存活路径拣选过程中,根据接收信号估计值确定备选节点的有限搜索范围,在16-QAM和64-QAM调制下,比常规算法分别减少约70%和90%的运算量,大大降低了VBLAST-STBC数据检测的复杂度,适合于VLSI硬件实现。仿真结果表明,该算法在性能上非常接近于传统QRD-M算法,能够在复杂度和检测性能之间实现折中。     

Relay selection with feedback beamforming information through designed sector sweep report frame for mmWave WPANs

This paper proposes a novel relay selection strategy based on the feedback beamforming （BF） information through designed sector sweep （SSW） report frame for millimeter-wave （mmWave） wireless personal networks （WPANs）. First, an SSW report frame compatible with IEEE 802.11ad standard is designed. Second, an approach collecting instantaneous channel state information （CSI） overheard during BF is devised. Third, with the aim of minimizing the outage probability and maximizing the overall network throughput capacity, the optimal relay selection issue for non-line-of-sight （NLoS） links is formulated as a bipartite graph, and Kuhn Munkres （KM） algorithm is provided to resolve it. Both theoretical analysis and simulation results show, with CSI considering NLoS conditions and selected relays according to the overall network throughput capacity maximization principle, the improvements achieved over opportunistic relay selection strategy in terms of overall network throughput capacity and outage probability with minimal modifications to IEEE 802.1lad.     

面向物联网应用的SoC安全检查架构设计

物联网（IoT）应用的快速发展和软硬件开源化趋势使得IoT设备所面临的硬件安全威胁日益严峻,尤其是利用运行时条件触发的系统级攻击,很难通过传统测试方法进行检测和防御,需要提供运行时安全检查机制。分析IoT系统芯片面临的安全威胁,结合数据加密传输路径中的攻击、任务流和检查内容,设计4条功能完整性安全检查策略,搭建SoC安全策略检查架构并植入运行时触发硬件木马。仿真结果显示,运行时策略检查状态机可以检查出加密核、内存和UART接口的功能完整性问题,并通过发送错误中断信号进行反馈,证明了所设计的系统级安全策略检查架构的正确性与有效性。     

Proton irradiation damage mechanism of the InAlAs／InGaAs／InAlAs quantum well

InP-based high electron mobility transistors (HEMT) have shown a great potential for national defense and satellite radar in space radiation environment applications. This paper studies the proton radiation damage mechanism of its critical structure InAlAs／InGaAs／InAlAs quantum well. The proton projection range and vacancy defect information are obtained at different incident proton energies of 50keV, 75keV and 200keV by SRIM software. With the increase of proton energy, the proton injection depth is increasing and eventually protons pass through the material layers. Besides, the proton radiation induced vacancy defects numbers around hetero-junction increase first and decrease subsequently, and As vacancies are the main proton radiation induced defects. In addition, non-ionizing energy loss (NIEL) of In_0.52Al_0.48As and In_0.53Ga_0.47As material is computed under different incident proton energies by the analytical model. The change trend of NIEL is identical to the induced vacancy numbers, namely, NIEL first increases and then decreases as the incident proton energy increases. Finally the degrading effect of the radiation-induced As defect is detected in the two-dimensional electron gas in the quantum well, which confirms that the major proton radiation damage mechanism of the quantum well is the induced vacancy defects by NIEL.     

Recover Fault Services via Complex Service-to-Node Mappings in Wireless Sensor Networks

With the motivation of seamlessly extending wireless sensor networks to the external environment, service-oriented architecture comes up as a promising solution. However, as sensor nodes are failure prone, this consequently renders the whole wireless sensor network to seriously faulty. When a particular node is faulty, the service on it should be migrated into those substitute sensor nodes that are in a normal status. Currently, two kinds of approaches exist to identify the substitute sensor nodes: the most common approach is to prepare redundancy nodes, though the involved tasks such as maintaining redundancy nodes, i.e., relocating the new node, lead to an extra burden on the wireless sensor networks. More recently, other approaches without using redundancy nodes are emerging, and they merely select the substitute nodes in a sensor node’s perspective i.e., migrating the service of faulty node to it’s nearest sensor node, though usually neglecting the requirements of the application level. Even a few work consider the need of the application level, they perform at packets granularity and don’t fit well at service granularity. In this paper, we aim to remove these limitations in the wireless sensor network with the service-oriented architecture. Instead of deploying redundancy nodes, the proposed mechanism replaces the faulty sensor node with consideration of the similarity on the application level, as well as on the sensor level. On the application level, we apply the Bloom Filter for its high efficiency and low space costs. While on the sensor level, we design an objective solution via the coefficient of a variation as an evaluation for choosing the substitute on the sensor level.     

激光退火硅晶圆温度场分布的数值模拟研究

目前,激光退火技术被广泛应用于半导体加工领域,但对如何选择激光条件进行相应的退火并没有系统清晰的准则可以参考,尤其是在硅的深注入杂质激活方面。本文通过对激光照射在硅晶圆上形成的温度场分布进行数值模拟研究,分析了激光波长和脉冲宽度对加热深度以及晶圆背面温度的影响。结果表明,延长激光波长或脉冲宽度,都有助于增加激光退火的加热深度。而对于特定的激活深度需求,存在着最优的激光波长和脉冲宽度组合,可以使退火所需要的激光脉冲能量最低,硅晶圆背面的温升最小。本文通过模拟仿真给出了激活深度在1～10μm范围内的最优波长和脉宽值,可为实现高效的深硅注入激光激活工艺提供重要的条件参考。     

W波段64通道相控阵微系统设计与实现

相控阵微系统的主要特征是电路与天线的高度融合集成,将三维微纳集成技术和微电子技术紧密地结合在一起,切合相控阵高频化、小型化和低成本的发展需求。本文设计了一款W波段的封装天线相控阵微系统,该相控阵采用硅基三维集成的方式将T/R多功能芯片、天线阵列集成在一个微系统模块中,并详细介绍了基于硅工艺的多功能收发芯片设计和相控阵封装天线设计。给出了相控阵微系统的测试结果。该微系统具有高集成度、高性能、低成本的特点,可以为高速无线通信、高精度探测和成像等应用提供一个较优的技术路径。