A layer radiowave absorber based on double-period lattices of resistive squares

A radiowave-absorbing composite material based on double-period lattices of resistive squares is considered. Methods of the electric circuit and long line theories are applied to obtain expressions for the estimate of the effective permittivity of such a composite. It is shown that the frequency dependence of the effective permittivity of the realized composite is close to the relaxation value. The reflection characteristics of a radiowave absorber based on a composite with double-period lattices of resistive squares are investigated. It is found that, for such a radiowave absorber, the ratio of the difference of the extreme wavelengths of its operating band (corresponding to the minus-10-dB reflection level) to the thickness of the radiowave absorber is within an interval of 4.2–4.5.     

Improving hydrogenation efficiency of polycrystalline silicon thin film transistors by a new approach

In this paper, a new hydrogenation process of poly-Si thin film for the fabrication of poly-Si thin film transistors (TFTs) is proposed. In the new approach, the hydrogenation of TFTs is performed before deposition of contact metal. N-channel and p-channel poly-Si TFTs with various channel lengths and widths were fabricated with the new and conventional processes for comparison. The results verified that the efficiency of hydrogenation has been improved remarkably by the new process. The field-effect mobility of carriers, the on state current, threshold voltage and the on/off states current ratio have been greatly improved, and the trap state density has been reduced significantly.     

Appropriate micro-lens to improve coupling between laser diodes and singlemode fibres

A new configuration of micro-lensed fibre that consists of a quarter pitch length of 125/125 /spl mu/m graded index section with a hyperbolic end shape is proposed. Low loss and long working distance for laser diode and singlemode fibre coupling have been verified.     

Continuous-time feedforward SD modulators with robust lowpass STF

Continuous-time sigma-delta modulators are often implemented using the feedforward structure. This type of architecture is prone to large out-of-band peaking and degraded anti-aliasing filtering owing to its sensitivity to process variation. Two alternative continuous-time delta- sigma modulators, which exhibit significantly lower signal transfer function (STF) sensitivity, are described.     

Visualization of Back Pain Data—A 3-D Solution

Traditional approaches to gathering and visualizing pain data rely on two-dimensional (2-D) human body models, where different types of sensation are recorded with various monochrome symbols. We propose an alternative that uses a three-dimensional (3-D) representation of the human body, which can be marked in color to visualize and record pain data.     

Fundamentals of Fast Simulation Algorithms for RF Circuits

Designers of RF circuits such as power amplifiers, mixers, and filters make extensive use of simulation tools which perform periodic steady-state analysis and its extensions, but until the mid 1990s, the computational costs of these simulation tools restricted designers from simulating the behavior of complete RF subsystems. The introduction of fast matrix-implicit iterative algorithms completely changed this situation, and extensions of these fast methods are providing tools which can perform periodic, quasi-periodic, and periodic noise analysis of circuits with thousands of devices. Even though there are a number of research groups continuing to develop extensions of matrix-implicit methods, there is still no compact characterization which introduces the novice researcher to the fundamental issues. In this paper, we examine the basic periodic steady-state problem and provide both examples and linear algebra abstractions to demonstrate connections between seemingly dissimilar methods and to try to provide a more general framework for fast methods than the standard time-versus-frequency domain characterization of finite-difference, basis-collocation, and shooting methods     

Piecewise-Linear Identification of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems in View of Their Circuit Implementations

We address here an aspect of the problem concerning circuit implementations of nonlinear dynamical systems that depend on control parameters. In particular, the problem of the identification of such systems is addressed in two steps. The first step uses the state-space reconstruction (through time delay reconstruction associated with principal component analysis) on the basis of scalar time series measured in the systems to be identified. The second step deals with the approximation of the flow in the reconstructed space (through a piecewise-linear approximation technique). The proposed method is first validated with two examples concerning known systems and then applied successfully to two realistic cases.     

Chiral Stereoisomer Engineering of Electron Transporting Materials for Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells

A series of chiral stereoisomers of electron transporting materials with two chiral substituents is rationally designed and synthesized, and the influence of stereoisomerism on their physical and electronic properties is investigated to demonstrate highly efficient and stable perovskite solar cells (PSCs). Compared to mesomeric naphthalene diimide (NDI) derivatives, which have heterochiral side groups with centrosymmetric molecular packing of symmetric‐shaped conformers in the crystalline state, enantiomeric NDI derivatives have homochiral side groups that exhibit non‐centrosymmetric molecular packing of asymmetric‐shaped conformers in the crystalline state and exhibit better solution processability based on one order of magnitude higher solubility. A similar trend is observed in different rylene diimide stereoisomers based on larger semiconducting core perylene diimide. The PSCs based on NDI enantiomers with good film‐forming ability and a very high lowest phase transition temperature (T_lowest) of 321 °C exhibit a high and uniform average power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 19.067 ± 0.654%. These PSCs also have a high temporal device stability, with less than 10% degradation of the PCE at 100 °C for 1000 h without encapsulation. Therefore, chiral stereoisomer engineering of charge transporting materials is a potential approach to achieve high solution processability, excellent performance, and significant temporal stability in organic electronic devices.     

Reliability Evaluation Method for DVB-T2 Systems on Typical Transmitter Stations

Journal of Communications Technology and Electronics - In this paper, we model the Digital Video Broadcasting-Terrestrial 2 (DVB-T2) system on a typical transmitter station in the content...     

Edge location in SAR images: performance of the likelihood ratiofilter and accuracy improvement with an active contour approach

The likelihood ratio edge detector is an efficient filter for the segmentation of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. We show that this filter provides biased location of the edge, when the window does not have the same orientation as the edge. A phenomenological model is proposed to characterize this bias. We then introduce an efficient technique to refine edge location: the statistical active contour. The combination of these two methods permits to achieve accurate and regularized edge location.