Data-efficient blind OFDM channel estimation using receiver diversity

We investigate non data-aided channel estimation for cyclically prefixed orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems. By exploiting channel diversity using only two receive antennas, a blind deterministic algorithm is proposed. Identifiability conditions are derived that guarantee the perfect channel retrieval in the absence of noise. In the presence of noise, the proposed method has the desired property of being data efficient-only a single OFDM block is needed to achieve good estimation performance for a wide range of SNR values. The algorithm is also robust to input symbols as it does not have any restriction on the input symbols with regard to their constellation or their statistical properties. In addition, this diversity-based algorithm is computationally efficient, and its performance compares favorably to most existing blind algorithms.     

不同表面预处理对有机电致发光显示器性能的影响

从生产角度研究了基板表面的预处理工艺对OLED性能的影响,分别用UVOzone、氧Plasma以及两者相结合的方式对基板进行表面处理,并按照生产工艺制作器件,从接触角、方阻以及光电特性等测试结果对各种表面处理的样品进行比较。结果表明以上处理都改善了器件性能,不同程度提高了器件的清洁度、亮度和发光效率,其中UVOzone和氧Plasma结合的方式处理效果最为显著,器件在10V时亮度达到79920cd/m2,比其他两种处理方式亮度提高约25%。     

电沉积纳米ZnO薄膜

在硝酸锌溶液中电沉积ZnO，通过正交试验方法研究槽液浓度、pH值以及电流密度对纳米ZnO薄膜电沉积的作用。用XRD分析了纳米ZnO的组织、结构与成分，SEM获得了纳米ZnO的表面形貌。     

SrTiO3基压敏电阻的研究及其在武器系统中的应用

电子设备的广泛使用带来的设备干扰及浪涌冲击等问题使人们开始关注SrTiO3基压敏电阻器件材料的开发.本文介绍了SrTiO3基压敏电阻的一般制造配方和工艺流程.和ZnO基压敏电阻相比,此材料在低压领域具有更优良的电气性能,如较大的电容量(C=10～150nF);在高于电压临界值又具有较低压敏电压;非线性系数在5～43之间可调;耐浪涌能量大;并且具有自复位特性.这些特性使得它具有高频噪声吸收、前沿快速上升型脉冲噪声吸收和浪涌吸收等功能.针对武器系统的高性能要求,本文提出了SrTiO3基压敏电阻在直流电机消噪、电源输入端、吸收电感性负载开关浪涌、旁路电容器、通信线路防护、防止电涌冲击等方面的应用.     

电荷耦合器件积分时间对微型成像系统成像质量的影响

在光圈固定的情况下，确定合适的积分时间对于提高微型电荷耦合器件(CCD)成像系统的成像质量，增强微型飞行器的侦察能力具有十分重要的意义。本文讨论了决定CCD积分时间的各种因素，重点研究了适用于微型飞行器的CCD成像系统的积分时间与像移的关系，并进一步推导了计算像移量的相关数学模型。利用该模型对不同积分时间内采集的运动图像进行了像质评价，结果表明，在保证曝光量的前提下，当像移量被限制在1个像素内时，可以获得相对理想的运动图像像质。     

Enhanced thermal stability of a sputtered titanium-nitride film as a diffusion barrier for capacitor-bottom electrodes

The effect of a thin RuO_x layer formed on the Ru/TiN/doped poly-Si/Si stack structure was compared with that on the RuO_x/TiN/doped poly-Si/Si stack structure over the post-deposition annealing temperature ranges of 450–600°C. The Ru/TiN/poly-Si/Si contact system exhibited linear behavior at forward bias with a small increase in the total resistance up to 600°C. The RuO_x/TiN/poly-Si/Si contact system exhibited nonlinear characteristics under forward bias at 450°C, which is attributed to no formation of a thin RuO_x layer at the RuO_x surface and porous-amorphous microstructure. In the former case, the addition of oxygen at the surface layer of the Ru film by pre-annealing leads to the formation of a thin RuO_x layer and chemically strong Ru-O bonds. This results from the retardation of oxygen diffusion caused by the discontinuity of diffusion paths. In particular, the RuO_x layer in a nonstoichiometric state is changed to the RuO₂-crystalline phase in a stoichiometric state after post-deposition annealing; this phase can act as an oxygen-capture layer. Therefore, it appears that the electrical properties of the Ru/TiN/poly-Si/Si contact system are better than those of the RuO_x/TiN/poly-Si/Si contact system.     

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.     

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.     

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.