Highly Crystalline Soluble Acene Crystal Arrays for Organic Transistors: Mechanism of Crystal Growth During Dip‐Coating

The preparation of uniform large‐area highly crystalline organic semiconductor thin films that show outstanding carrier mobilities remains a challenge in the field of organic electronics, including organic field‐effect transistors. Quantitative control over the drying speed during dip‐coating permits optimization of the organic semiconductor film formation, although the kinetics of crystallization at the air–solution–substrate contact line are still not well understood. Here, we report the facile one‐step growth of self‐aligning, highly crystalline soluble acene crystal arrays that exhibit excellent field‐effect mobilities (up to 1.5 cm V^?1 s^?1) via an optimized dip‐coating process. We discover that optimized acene crystals grew at a particular substrate lifting‐rate in the presence of low boiling point solvents, such as dichloromethane (b.p. of 40.0 °C) or chloroform (b.p. of 60.4 °C). Variable‐temperature dip‐coating experiments using various solvents and lift rates are performed to elucidate the crystallization behavior. This bottom‐up study of soluble acene crystal growth during dip‐coating provides conditions under which one may obtain uniform organic semiconductor crystal arrays with high crystallinity and mobilities over large substrate areas, regardless of the substrate geometry (wafer substrates or cylinder‐shaped substrates).     

Novel ESD strategy for high voltage non-volatile programming pin application

This paper presents a novel ESD strategy for non-volatile memory (NVM) programming pin in a 0.13um/30V technology. Suggested scheme can provide not only a major current discharge path to protect the internal circuit from ESD damage but also a voltage clamping function to prevent the soft error of programmed data during the ESD event. It has been validated by TLP experiments and TCAD simulation.     

Dependence of electrical properties on the crystallographic orientation of CBr4-doped GaAs epilayers grown on GaAs substrates by atmospheric pressure metalorganic chemical vapor deposition

Carbon incorporation into GaAs epilayers has been performed by atmospheric pressure metalorganic chemical vapor deposition using CBr4. The electrical properties of CBr₄-doped GaAs epilayers grown on the GaAs substrates with various surface crystallographic orientations between (100) and (111)A were investigated. The electrical properties of the epilayers showed a strong crystallographic orientation dependence. On increasing the surface offset angle, the hole concentration of CBr4-doped GaAs epilayers rapidly decreased with a hump at (311)A. The lower hole concentration at the high offset angle can be explained by its higher desorption rate than that of the (100) surface. This hole concentration dependence on the offset angle was not changed in spite of the growth temperature and the V/III ratio variation given in this work. The above behaviors indicate that the surface kinetics plays an important role in the C incorporation into the non-planar GaAs epilayers.     

Symmetric Orthogonal Complex-Valued Filter Bank Design by Semidefinite Programming

A new design method for complex-valued two-channel finite impulse response (FIR) filter banks with both orthogonality and symmetry properties is developed. Based on a novel linear matrix inequality (LMI) characterization of trigonometric curves, the optimal design of perfect-reconstruction filter banks is cast into a semidefinite programming (SDP) problem. The dimension of the resulting SDP problem is further reduced by exploiting convex duality. Consequently, the globally optimal solution can be found for any practical filter length and desired regularity order.     

Three-dimensional imaging methods based on multiview images

Three-dimensional imaging methods, based on parallaxes as their depth cues, can be classified into the stereoscopic providing binocular parallax only, and multiview providing both binocular and motion parallaxes. In these methods, the parallaxes are provided by creating a viewing zone with use of either a special optical eyeglasses or a special optical plate as their viewing zone-forming optics. For the stereoscopic image generations, either the eyeglasses or the optical plate can be employed, but for the multiview the optical plate or the eyeglasses with a tracking device. The stereoscopic image pair and the multiview images are presented either simultaneously or as a time sequence with use of projectors or display panels. For the case of multiview images, they can also be presented as two images at a time according to the viewer's movements. The presence of the viewing zone-forming optics often causes undesirable problems, such as appearance of moire/spl acute/ fringes, image quality deterioration, depth reversion, limiting viewing regions, low image brightness, image blurring, and inconveniences of wearing.     

Linear Size Optimal $q$-ary Constant-Weight Codes and Constant-Composition Codes

An optimal constant-composition or constant-weight code of weight w has linear size if and only if its distance d is at least 2w-1. When d ? 2w, the determination of the exact size of such a constant-composition or constant-weight code is trivial, but the case of d=2w-1 has been solved previously only for binary and ternary constant-composition and constant-weight codes, and for some sporadic instances. This paper provides a construction for quasicyclic optimal constant-composition and constant-weight codes of weight w and distance 2w-1 based on a new generalization of difference triangle sets. As a result, the sizes of optimal constant-composition codes and optimal constant-weight codes of weight w and distance 2w-1 are determined for all such codes of sufficiently large lengths. This solves an open problem of Etzion. The sizes of optimal constant-composition codes of weight w and distance 2w-1 are also determined for all w ? 6, except in two cases.     

Reverse Authentication in Financial Transactions and Identity Management

New families of protocol, based on communication over human-based side channels, permit secure pairing or group formation in ways such that no party has to prove its name. Rather, individuals are able to hook up devices in their possession to others that they can identify by context. We examine a model in which, to prove his or her identity to a party, the user first uses one of these “human-interactive security protocols” or HISPs to connect to it. Thus, when authenticating A to B, A first authenticates a channel she has to B: the reverse direction. This can be characterised as bootstrapping a secure connection using human trust. This provides new challenges to the formal modelling of trust and authentication.     

A cross-layer analysis of TCP/link adaptation technologies over free-space optical links with Markov error model

This paper presents a comprehensive cross-layer framework on the performance of transmission control protocol (TCP) over a free-space optical (FSO) link, which employs automatic repeat request (ARQ) and adaptive modulation and coding (AMC) schemes. Not similar to conventional works in the literature of FSO, we conduct a Markov error model to accurately capture effects of burst errors caused by atmospheric turbulence on cross-layer operations. From the framework, we quantify the impacts of different parameters/settings of ARQ, AMC, and the FSO link on TCP throughput performance. We also discuss several optimization aspects for TCP performance.