Optical and electrical characteristics of GaN vertical light emitting diode with current block layer

A GaN vertical light emitting diode(LED)with a current block layer(CBL)was investigated.Vertical LEDs without a CBL,with a non-ohmic contact CBL and with a silicon dioxide CBL were fabricated.Optical and electrical tests were carried out.The results show that the light output power of vertical LEDs with a non-ohmic contact CBL and with a silicon dioxide CBL are 40.6%and 60.7%higher than that of vertical LEDs without a CBL at 350 mA,respectively.The efficiencies of vertical LEDs without a CBL,with a non-ohmic contact CBL and with a silicon dioxide CBL drop to 72%,78%and 85.5%of their maximum efficiency at 350 mA,respectively. Moreover,vertical LEDs with a non-ohmic contact CBL have relatively superior anti-electrostatic ability.     

Thermal resistance analysis and validation of flip chip PBGA packages

This work proposes a finite element numerical methodology to predict the thermal resistance of both flip chip-plastic ball grid array (FC-PBGA) with a bare die and FC-PBGA with a metal cap. The 3D finite element model was initially constructed to simulate the thermal resistance of FC-PBGA. A thermal resistance experiment was performed to verify the FEM results, following the construction of specimens of FC-PBGA with a bare die and with an aluminum cap, using six-layered substrate. The verified finite element model was employed to determine the thermal resistance of FC-PBGA with a copper cap using four-layered and six-layered substrates. Experimental results demonstrated that FC-PBGA with a metal cap improves thermal performance by 35% over with a bare die. FC-PBGA with a copper cap slightly improves thermal performance from 2% to 2.8% over that of FC-PBGA with an aluminum cap. The thermal resistance of FC-PBGA with a four-layered substrate is reduced by 4.0% to 5.9% from that of FC-PBGA with a six-layered substrate, since the four-layered substrate contains less metal. The finite element numerical results negligibly differ from the experimental results by 6% to 8.1%. A finite element numerical methodology is here proposed to predict the thermal resistance of FC-PBGA. The methodology is effective in researching and developing new products or improving existing packages.     

Very-high-speed InP/InGaAs HBT ICs for optical transmission systems

High-speed ICs for 20-40-Gbit/s time-division multiplexing (TDM) optical transmission systems have been designed and fabricated by using InP/InGaAs heterojunction-bipolar-transistor (HBT) technology. This paper describes four analog ICs and four digital ICs: a five-section cascode distributed amplifier with a gain of 9.5 dB and a bandwidth of 50 GHz, a three-section single-end-to-differential converter with a bandwidth of 40 GHz, a cascode differential amplifier with a gain of 10.5 dB and a bandwidth of 64 GHz, a preamplifier with a gain of 41.9 dBΩ and a bandwidth of 39 GHz, a modulator driver with an output voltage swing of 3.2 V peak-to-peak and rise and fall times of 16 and 15 ps, a 40-Gbit/s selector, a 20-Gbit/s D-type flip-flop, and a static frequency divider with an operating range of 2.0-44.0 GHz. All the ICs were measured with on-wafer RF probes     

Broadband electronically tunable planar active radiating elementsand spatial power combiners using notch antennas

A Gunn device has been integrated with two types of active planar notch antennas. The first types uses a coplanar waveguide (CPW) resonator an a stepped-notched antenna with bias tuning to achieve a bandwidth of 275 MHz centered at 9.33 GHz with a power output of 14.2±1.5 dBm. The second type uses a CPW resonator with a varactor for frequency tuning to achieve a bandwidth of over 1.3 GHz centered at 9.6 GHz with a power output of 14.5±0.8 dBm. This is equivalent to over 14% electronic tuning bandwidth. Both configurations exhibit a very clean and stable output signal. A theoretical circuit model was developed to facilitate the design. The model agrees well with experimental results. Injection-locking experiments on the second configuration show a locking gain of 30 dB with a locking bandwidth of 30 MHz at 10.2 GHz. Power combining experiments of two-varactor-tuned CPW active notch antenna elements in a broadside configuration have achieved well over 70% combining efficiency throughout the wide tuning range. The circuits have advantages of small size, low cost, and excellent performance     

A 1-GHz active phase shifter with a ferroelectric varactor

An active phase shifter circuit implemented with discrete components is reported. The tuning element, a ferroelectric varactor, is a parallel plate capacitor with Ba/sub 0.5/Sr/sub 0.5/TiO/sub 3/ (BST) as the dielectric. The circuit consists of two bipolar junction transistors coupled with a feedback network, which contains the varactor and thus produces a transfer function that can be varied with a control voltage. The active nature of the circuit allows for signal gain, while the BST varactor provides a high-Q tuning element. This represents an improvement over strictly passive phase shifters with ferroelectric elements. Circuit simulation results are presented and compared with measured data from the implemented system. The network, even with markedly nonideal transistors, can provide a true all-pass response over the frequency band of interest (200-1100 MHz). The measurement results demonstrate an analog tunability of about 100/spl deg/ with a gain variation of about 0.6 dB at I GHz when using a BST capacitor with a tunability of 2.75:1.     

Power-Combining Transformer Techniques for Fully-Integrated CMOS Power Amplifiers

Fully integrated CMOS power amplifiers (PAs) with parallel power-combining transformer are presented. For the high power CMOS PA design, two types of transformers, series-combining and parallel-combining, are fully analyzed and compared in detail to show the parasitic resistance and the turn ratio as the limiting factor of power combining. Based on the analysis, two kinds of parallel-combining transformers, a two-primary with a 1:2 turn ratio and a three-primary with a 1:2 turn ratio, are incorporated into the design of fully-integrated CMOS PAs in a standard 0.18-mum CMOS process. The PA with a two-primary transformer delivers 31.2 dBm of output power with 41% of power-added efficiency (PAE), and the PA with a three-primary transformer achieves 32 dBm of output power with 30% of PAE at 1.8 GHz with a 3.3-V power supply.     

A Waveguide‐Like Effect Observed in Multiwalled Carbon Nanotube Bundles

The delay time of nanosecond electromagnetic pulses is measured in multiwalled carbon nanotube (MWCNT) bundles and copper wires, with a length of up to 3 cm, as compared with that in standard coaxial cables of the same lengths. Under certain configurations, when the Cu core of a coaxial cable is replaced with a MWCNT bundle of the same length, the measured delay time of a pulsed signal is shortened. The difference between the delay time measured for a device with a Cu core and that of a device with a MWCNT bundle of the same length increases with the length of the samples. The results imply that, compared with Cu wires, MWCNT bundles may be more efficient in guiding the transmission of high‐frequency signals along their longitudinal axis, showing a waveguide‐like effect.     

Test-decompression mechanism using a variable-length multiple-polynomial LFSR

A new test-decompression methodology using a variable-rank multiple-polynomial linear feedback shift register (MP-LFSR) is proposed. In the proposed reseeding scheme, a test cube with a large number of specified bits is encoded with a high-rank polynomial, while a test cube with a small number of specified bits is encoded with a low-rank polynomial. Therefore, according to the number of specified bits in each test cube, the size of the encoded data can be optimally reduced. A variable-rank MP-LFSR can be implemented with a slight modification of a conventional MP-LFSR. The experimental results on the largest ISCAS'89 benchmark circuits show that the proposed methodology can provide much better encoding efficiency than the previous methods with adequate hardware overhead.     

Tunable multiwavelength fiber ring lasers using a programmable high-birefringence fiber loop mirror

We demonstrate a comb filter with digitally tunable wavelength spacing using a programmable high-birefringence (HiBi) fiber loop mirror (FLM). We then use the HiBi-FLM to implement a tunable multiwavelength semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA)-based fiber ring laser and a tunable multiwavelength all-fiber Raman ring laser. Both lasers exhibit stable room-temperature operation and have a wavelength spacing that is digitally tunable between 1.6 and 3.2 nm. With the SOA-based configuration, we obtain six wavelengths with a spacing of 3.2 nm and 11 wavelengths with a spacing of 1.6 nm; with the all-fiber Raman-based configuration, we obtain four wavelengths with a spacing of 3.2 nm and five wavelengths with a spacing of 1.6 nm.     

An active clamp circuit for voltage regulation module (VRM)applications

This paper discusses the design, fabrication, and testing of a CMOS active clamp circuit, The active clamp is a linear voltage regulator, with a voltage deadband to allow for voltage ripple, that is designed to operate in parallel with a switchmode voltage regulator. Its specific function is to sink or source large transient currents to microprocessor loads, thus allowing operation with very small output capacitance. Laboratory tests on a prototype IC exhibit stable behavior with negligible overshoot with only 47 microfarads of output capacitance with loads of about nine amperes. Output impedances of 2-3 mΩ are achieved     

具有电流阻挡层的垂直结构氮化镓发光二级管的光电特性研究

本文对具有电流阻挡层（CBL）的氮化镓垂直结构发光二极管（LED）进行了研究。不带有CBL、带有非欧姆接触CBL和带有二氧化硅CBL的垂直LED芯片样品被制作出来,并对它们进行了光电性能的测试。结果表明这种带有非欧姆接触CBL和带有二氧化硅CBL的氮化镓垂直结构LED的光输出效率相比不带有CBL的分别高出40.6%和60.7%。不带有CBL的、带有非欧姆接触CBL和带有二氧化硅CBL的氮化镓垂直结构LED在350毫安下的效率分别下降到各自最高效率的72%、78%和85.5%。另外,带有非欧姆接触CBL的氮化镓垂直结构LED具有更优越的抗静电性能。     

多单元压电陶瓷类变形镜高压驱动电源

针对变形镜压电陶瓷类驱动器单元数多的特点,设计一种高带宽适合扩展成多通道输出的压电陶瓷驱动电源,它利用光耦分相隔离从源极驱动功率NMOS管,简化了电路结构并保证了功率带宽。该驱动电源驱动100 nF容性负载时,可实现单端到地-300~＋300 V双极性高压输出,电压增益35.5 dB,信号不失真情况下,小信号响应频率达10 kHz,大信号响应频率2 kHz,瞬时充放电电流可达400 mA。实验表明该驱动电源的性能能够满足变形镜驱动的要求且电路结构简单。     

Design of low-pass filter with 3-interations Koch fractal Pi-shaped DGS

A novel asymmetrical Pi-shaped defected ground structure (DGS) with 3-interations Koch fractal curves is proposed to design a microstrip low-pass filter (LPF) with ultra-wide stop-band (SB). The proposed LPFs with a single resonator and two cascaded resonators are both designed, simulated, manufactured and measured. Simulation and experiment results demonstrate that the designed LPF has a very sharp transition band (TB) and an ultra-wide SB performance compared with the existed similar symmetrical and asymmetrical DGS. The proposed LPF with two cascaded resonators is with a compact size of 36.8 mm×24.0 mm, a very low insertion loss of less than 0.7 dB under 1.9 GHz, and a wide SB from 2.2 GHz to 8 GHz with rejection of larger than 30 dB.     

High drive current NMOS with Si-SiGe heterostructure low electric field channel

A drive-current enhancement in NMOS with a compressively strained SiGe structure, which had been a difficult challenge for CMOS integration with strained SiGe high-hole-mobility PMOS, was successfully achieved using a Si-SiGe heterostructure low electric field channel of optimum thickness. A 4-nm-thick Si low-field-channel NMOS with a 4-nm-thick Si/sub 0.8/Ge/sub 0.2/ layer improved drive current by 10% with a 20% reduction in gate leakage current compared with Si-control, while suppressing threshold-voltage rolloff characteristic degradation, and demonstrated excellent I/sub on/--I/sub off/ characteristics of I/sub on/ = 1 mA//spl mu/m for I/sub off/ = 100 nA//spl mu/m. These results are the best in ever reported NMOS with a compressively strained SiGe structure and indicate that a Si-SiGe heterostructure low-field-channel NMOS integrated with a compressively strained SiGe channel PMOS is a promising candidate for high-speed CMOS in 65-nm node logic technology.     

Improvement of the design of 180° rat-race hybrid

An innovative and simple design for a 180° rat-race hybrid is proposed which has a substantially improved phase shift characteristic over a large bandwidth compared with that of a conventional rate-race hybrid. The proposed hybrid has been fabricated with a three-dimensional technology to benefit from a high level of integration. It exhibits a bandwidth of 31% from 28.8 to 39.4 GHz with -15 dB input and output matching, a coupling loss of 4.6 dB with a power dividing balance better than 1.1 dB, and a phase balance better than 2     

An Application of Conformal Mapping to the Determination of the Characteristic Impedance of a Class of Coaxial Systems (Letters)

Numerical results for the characteristic impedance of the coaxial system consisting of a regular polygon concentric with a circle are presented. In the case of a square concentric with a circle the results are in excellent agreement with those obtained by Riblet.     

High-gain array of semiconductor optical amplifier integrated withbent spot-size converter (BEND SS-SOA)

We propose a high-gain semiconductor optical amplifier with an integrated bent spot-size converter (BEND SS-SOA). A straight active waveguide enables us to use a pn-buried heterostructure (pn-BH) with a high current-blocking effect and uniform characteristics. We can optimize a bent spot-size converter waveguide to provide low optical feedback from the facets and high-coupling efficiency to a flat-end optical fiber with low radiation loss due to the bend. The devices we fabricated achieve a high fiber-to-fiber gain of 18 dB with a coupling efficiency of -3.5 dB, and we have demonstrated a four-channel array with uniform characteristics     

On the speedup required for a multicast parallel packet switch

A parallel packet switch (PPS) is a switch in which the memories run slower than the line rate. Arriving packets are load-balanced packet-by-packet over multiple lower speed center stage packet switches. It is known that, for unicast traffic, a PPS can precisely emulate a FCFS output-queued (OQ) switch with a speedup of two and an OQ switch with delay guarantees with a speedup of three. In this paper we ask: is it possible for a PPS to emulate the behavior of an OQ multicast switch? The main result is that for multicast traffic an N-port PPS can precisely emulate a FIFO OQ switch with a speedup of S>2√N+1, and a switch that provides delay guarantees with a speedup of S>2√(2N)+2     

Satellite-to-Satellite Range-Rate Measurement

The measurement of range rate between two low-orbiting spacecraft with a precision of better than 1 ?m/s provides a means for sensing global gravity variability. An analysis is given to show the conditions under which this precision can be realized, with emphasis on the requirements of NASA's Geopotential Research Mission. Experimental results obtained with a millimeter-wave demonstration system are presented along with a proposed design for a spaceborne instrument.