SiC基的高性能紫外光电探测器

用宽禁带半导体n-4H-SiC和金属Au作肖特基接触,Ti,Ni,Ag合金作背底形成欧姆接触,研制出Au/n4H-SiC肖特基紫外探测器.测试分析了器件在高温高压下的光谱响应特性,响应范围在200～400nm之间,室温无偏压下,响应峰值在320nm,响应半宽为82nm.在高反压下(100V以上)探测器的光谱响应曲线出现了锐上升和锐截止,在260～380nm之间有非常平稳的光谱响应;在高温533K无偏压下,紫外响应特性仍然保持良好.     

Fabrication of 128×128 element optical switch array by micromachining technology

Polycrystalline VO₂ thin films were obtained on Si substrates by ion beam sputtering deposition and annealing in flowing Ar gas. SEM images indicate that VO₂ thin films were grown into compact surfaces. Four-probe measurements indicated that the VO₂ thin films own good electrical homogeneity. After the films' production, micromachining technology including lithography, reaction ion etching and metallization connection processes was used to produce the optical switch array. As a result, the 128×128 element optical switch array was achieved.     

Roughness of amorphous/crystalline interface in pre-amorphization implantation: Molecular dynamic simulation and modeling

Pre-amorphization implantation has been applied as a shallow junction technology. Roughness at amorphous/crystalline (a/c) interface should be controlled to improve junction characteristics. To understand and model a/c interface roughness, molecular dynamic method is applied in simulating pre-amorphization implantation. A method to reproduce roughness at a/c interface by molecular dynamic simulation is presented. A model of interface roughness is presented. Si and Ge implantation from 2-20 keV at a dose of 1 × 10¹⁵ cm⁻² is simulated. The depth of a/c interface is reproduced. Experimental results of a/c interface roughness are successfully simulated. The interface roughness is well reproduced and interpreted by the model presented.     

Bandwidth‐guaranteed QoS routing of multiple parallel paths in CDMA/TDMA ad hoc wireless networks

This paper investigates the issues of QoS routing in CDMA/TDMA ad hoc networks. Since the available bandwidth is very limited in ad hoc networks, a QoS request between two nodes will be blocked if there does not exist a path that can meet the QoS requirements, even though there is enough free bandwidth in the whole system. In this paper, we propose a new scheme of using multiple paths between two nodes as the route for a QoS call. The aggregate bandwidth of the multiple paths can meet the bandwidth requirement of the call and the delays of these paths are within the required bound of the call. We also propose three strategies by which to choose a set of paths as the route, namely, shortest path first (SPF), largest bandwidth first (LBF), and largest hop‐bandwidth first (LHBF). Extensive simulations have been conducted to evaluate the performance of the three strategies in comparison with a traditional single path routing algorithm. The simulation results show that the proposed multiple paths routing scheme significantly reduces the system blocking rates in various network environments, especially when the network load is heavy. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Monolithic SiGe Up‐/Down‐Conversion Mixers with Active Baluns

The purpose of this paper is to describe the implementation of monolithically matching circuits, interface circuits, and RF core circuits to the same substrate. We designed and fabricated on‐chip 1 to 6 GHz up‐conversion and 1 to 8 GHz down‐conversion mixers using a 0.8 µm SiGe hetero‐junction bipolar transistor (HBT) process technology. To fabricate a SiGe HBT, we used a reduced pressure chemical vapor deposition (RPCVD) system to grow a base epitaxial layer, and we adopted local oxidation of silicon (LOCOS) isolation to separate the device terminals. An up‐conversion mixer was implemented on‐chip using an intermediate frequency (IF) matching circuit, local oscillator (LO)/radio frequency (RF) wideband matching circuits, LO/IF input balun circuits, and an RF output balun circuit. The measured results of the fabricated up‐conversion mixer show a positive power conversion gain from 1 to 6 GHz and a bandwidth of about 4.5 GHz. Also, the down‐conversion mixer was implemented on‐chip using LO/RF wideband matching circuits, LO/RF input balun circuits, and an IF output balun circuit. The measured results of the fabricated down‐conversion mixer show a positive power conversion gain from 1 to 8 GHz and a bandwidth of about 4.5 GHz.     

Functional imaging in small animals using X-ray computed tomography--study of physiologic measurement reproducibility

X-ray computed tomography (CT) has been traditionally used for morphologic analysis and in the recent past has been used for physiology imaging. This paper seeks to demonstrate functional CT as an effective tool for monitoring changes in tissue physiology associated with disease processes and cellular and molecular level therapeutic processes. We investigated the effect of noise and sampling time on the uncertainty of tissue physiologic parameters. A whole body compartmental model of mouse was formulated to simulate tissue time density curves and study the deviation of tissue physiologic parameters from their true values. These results were then used to determine the appropriate scanning protocols for the experimental studies. Dynamic contrast enhanced CT (DCE-CT) was performed in mice following the injection of hydrophilic iodinated contrast agent (CA) at three different injection rates, namely 0.5 ml/min, 1 ml/min, and 2.0 ml/min. These experiments probed the Nyquist sampling limit for reproducibility of tissue physiologic parameters. Separate experiments were performed with three mice at four different X-ray tube currents corresponding to different image noise values. A two-compartment model (2CM) model was formulated to describe the contrast kinematics in the kidney cortex. Three different 2CMs were implemented namely the 4-parameter (4P), 5-parameter (5P), and the 6-parameter (6P) model. The tissue kinematics is fitted to the models by using the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm implemented in IDL (RSI Inc.) programming language to minimize the weighted sum of squares. The relevant tissue physiologic parameters extracted from the models are the renal blood flow (RBF), glomerular filtration rate (GFR), fractional plasma volume, fractional tubular volumes and urine formation rates. The experimental results indicate that the deviation of the tissue physiologic parameters is within the limits required for tracking disease physiology in vivo and thus small animal functional X-ray CT would be able to determine changes in tissue physiology in vivo.     

Design-based texture feature fusion using Gabor filters and co-occurrence probabilities.

A design-based method to fuse Gabor filter and grey level co-occurrence probability (GLCP) features for improved texture recognition is presented. The fused feature set utilizes both the Gabor filter's capability of accurately capturing lower and mid-frequency texture information and the GLCP's capability in texture information relevant to higher frequency components. Evaluation methods include comparing feature space separability and comparing image segmentation classification rates. The fused feature sets are demonstrated to produce higher feature space separations, as well as higher segmentation accuracies relative to the individual feature sets. Fused feature sets also outperform individual feature sets for noisy images, across different noise magnitudes. The curse of dimensionality is demonstrated not to affect segmentation using the proposed the 48-dimensional fused feature set. Gabor magnitude responses produce higher segmentation accuracies than linearly normalized Gabor magnitude responses. Feature reduction using principal component analysis is acceptable for maintaining the segmentation performance, but feature reduction using the feature contrast method dramatically reduced the segmentation accuracy. Overall, the designed fused feature set is advocated as a means for improving texture segmentation performance.     

Electrostatic linear actuator with a long stroke rolling spring guide

In contrast with diverse design concepts of actuators, we have developed an electrostatic linear actuator integrated with a long stroke rolling spring guide. The rolling spring guide realizes guiding function through rolling movements of two parallel preloaded belt-shaped springs. The electrostatic actuating force is generated by applying electrical fields to the structure of spring guide. Besides the driving voltage, the geometric size and the preloaded span of the spring guide are the main influential parameters of electrostatic actuating force and actuating displacement. With adequate adjustment of the preloaded span, this electrostatic actuator can generate not only a large actuating displacement in /spl mu/m range, but also a fine positioning displacement in /spl mu/m range. The finite element analysis (FEA) and the geometric analysis are applied to analyze spring stress and to derive the shape equation of the spring guide. Furthermore, a theoretical model for our electrostatic actuating principle is deduced on the basis of the shape equation. In addition to the theoretical analyses, the performance of the electrostatic actuator is experimentally tested and studied.     

变频器在暖通空调行业中的应用

本文提出中央空调系统的一种变频调速改造方案，介绍了该系统的结构组成及运行原理，对系统各部分的作用进行了讨论。