Improved Thermoelectric Performance of Eco‐Friendly β‐FeSi2–SiGe Nanocomposite via Synergistic Hierarchical Structuring,Phase Percolation,and Selective Doping

A β‐FeSi₂–SiGe nanocomposite is synthesized via a react/transform spark plasma sintering technique, in which eutectoid phase transformation, Ge alloying, selective doping, and sintering are completed in a single process, resulting in a greatly reduced process time and thermal budget. Hierarchical structuring of the SiGe secondary phase to achieve coexistence of a percolated network with isolated nanoscale inclusions effectively decouples the thermal and electrical transport. Combined with selective doping that reduces conduction band offsets, the percolation strategy produces overall electron mobilities 30 times higher than those of similar materials produced using typical powder‐processing routes. As a result, a maximum thermoelectric figure of merit ZT of ≈0.7 at 700 °C is achieved in the β‐FeSi₂–SiGe nanocomposite.     

光谱选择性激光隐身材料研究现状

综述了稀土上转换、光子晶体和有机体系光谱选择性激光隐身材料的光谱选择吸收机理,稀土上转换材料通过上转换原理、光子晶体材料通过膜系材料结构设计、有机体系材料通过特定官能团振动均可实现特定波段光谱能量的选择性吸收。分析了三种光谱选择吸收材料应用于激光隐身的可行性和激光隐身的实现方式,综述了材料的研究现状。指出,光谱选择性激...     

An efficient reliable broadcasting protocol for wireless mobile ad hoc networks

The mobile ad hoc network (MANET) has recently been recognized as an attractive network architecture for wireless communication. Reliable broadcast is an important operation in MANET (e.g., giving orders, searching routes, and notifying important signals). However, using a naive flooding to achieve reliable broadcasting may be very costly, causing a lot of contention, collision, and congestion, to which we refer as the broadcast storm problem. This paper proposes an efficient reliable broadcasting protocol by taking care of the potential broadcast storm problem that could occur in the medium-access level. Existing protocols are either unreliable, or reliable but based on a too costly approach. Our protocol differs from existing protocols by adopting a low-cost broadcast, which does not guarantee reliability, as a basic operation. The reliability is ensured by additional acknowledgement and handshaking. Simulation results do justify the efficiency of the proposed protocol.     

频选MIMO信道下低复杂度PDA SIC算法

为了同时消除频率选择性MIMO系统中的天线间干扰（MAD和码间干扰（ISI），本文将基于信道矩阵QR分解的串行干扰消除（SIC）算法和概率数据辅助（PDA）均衡算法相结合，提出了一种低复杂度的软判决迭代均衡算法。该算法一方面很好地消除了MAI，另一方面将传统PDA算法中大量的矩阵运算简化为数值计算，降低了系统的计算复杂度，并获得了良好的性能。     

The theoretical BER performance analysis of a cooperative diversity scheme in frequency selective fading channel

A novel cooperative diversity scheme based on Distributed Space-Time Block Coding and Multi-Carrier Code Division Multiple Access (DSTBC-MC-CDMA) is proposed which works well in frequency selective fading channels with multiple single-antenna users. And an analytical error model is established to describe the symbol decoding errors between interusers, based on which a close form expression for theoretical Bit Error Rate (BER) performance of the scheme is derived to analyze the influence of the interuser decoding errors on the BER performance of the scheme. Then simulation is complimented to verify the analytic result above, which also shows that the BER performance of DSTBC-MC-CDMA outgoes that of non-cooperative MC-CDMA with considerable gains. Further- more, the simulations coincide with the theoretical results well.     

基于Fabry-Perot结构的可调波长选择光开关

本文提出波长选择光开关的概念,首次研制出一个基于Fabry-Perot结构的可调波长选择光开关,该开关为2×2光纤端口,每个端口携带N个波长,工作时可以选1个或多个波长,插入损耗小于3dB,波长调谐范围10nm,调谐机构为一对多层三明治结构的压电陶瓷,具有驱动电压低,小于5V的驱动电压可以达到3.3nm的调谐,最大开关时间为1毫秒,开关比优于30dB.最后还分析了其基本透射与反射光谱性能,并讨论其对光通信、光交换网络产生的重要应用价值.     

Energy-Efficient Routing for Frequency-Hop Wireless Networks

The use of adaptive-transmission protocols in wireless, store-and-forward, packet communication networks may result in large differences in the energy requirements of the alternative paths that are available to the routing protocol. Routing metrics can provide quantitative measures of the quality and energy efficiency of the paths from the source to the destination. Such measures are required if the routing protocol is to take advantage of the potential energy savings that are made possible by an adaptive-transmission protocol. An energy-efficient protocol suite for routing and adaptive transmission in frequency-hop wireless networks is described and evaluated, several routing metrics are compared, and tradeoffs among energy efficiency, delay, and packet success probability are investigated.     

A routing framework for providing robustness to node failures in mobile ad hoc networks

Nodes in a mobile ad hoc network are often vulnerable to failures. The failures could be either due to fading effects, battery drainage, or as a result of compromised nodes that do not participate in network operations. Intermittent node failures can disrupt routing functionalities. As such, it is important to provide redundancy in terms of providing multiple node-disjoint paths from a source to a destination. In line with this objective, we first propose a modified version of the widely studied ad hoc on-demand distance vector routing protocol to facilitate the discovery of multiple node-disjoint paths from a source to a destination. We find that very few of such paths can be found. Furthermore, as distances between sources and destinations increase, bottlenecks inevitably occur and thus, the possibility of finding multiple paths is considerably reduced. We conclude that it is necessary to place what we call reliable nodes (in terms of both being robust to failure and being secure) in the network to support efficient routing operations. We propose a deployment strategy that determines the positions and the trajectories of these reliable nodes such that we can achieve a framework for reliably routing information. We define a notion of a reliable path which is made up of multiple segments, each of which either entirely consists of reliable nodes, or contains a preset number of multiple paths between the end points of the segment. We show that the probability of establishing a reliable path between a random source and destination pair increases tremendously even with a small number of reliable nodes when we use our algorithm to appropriately position these reliable nodes.     

A 15 nm Ultra‐thin Body SOI CMOS Device' with Double Raised Source/Drain for 90 nm Analog Applications

Fully‐depleted silicon‐on‐insulator (FD‐SOI) devices with a 15 nm SOI layer thickness and 60 nm gate lengths for analog applications have been investigated. The Si selective epitaxial growth (SEG) process was well optimized. Both the singleraised (SR) and double‐raised (DR) source/drain (S/D) processes have been studied to reduce parasitic series resistance and improve device performance. For the DR S/D process, the saturation currents of both NMOS and PMOS are improved by 8 and 18%, respectively, compared with the SR S/D process. The self‐heating effect is evaluated for both body contact and body floating SOI devices. The body contact transistor shows a reduced self‐heating ratio, compared with the body floating transistor. The static noise margin of an SOI device with a 1.1 µm² 6T‐SRAM cell is 190 mV, and the ring oscillator speed is improved by 25 % compared with bulk devices. The DR S/D process shows a higher open loop voltage gain than the SR S/D process. A 15 nm ultra‐thin body (UTB) SOI device with a DR S/D process shows the same level of noise characteristics at both the body contact and body floating transistors. Also, we observed that noise characteristics of a 15 nm UTB SOI device are comparable to those of bulk Si devices.     

一种新的基于多包接收的ad hoc网络媒体接入算法

多包接收技术在无线网络中的应用为提高网络吞吐量提供了一种新思路。本文在结合多包接收技术的基础上提出了一种应用于ad hoc网络的新的媒体接入控制算法，并对其吞吐量作了分析，与IEEE802．11MAC接入方式进行了性能比较。仿真结果表明，在业务量大于某一特定值时，新算法可以显著的提高ad hoc网络的吞吐量。