The recent advancement in high- performance semiconductor packages has been driven by the need for higher pin count and superior heat dissipation. A one-piece cavity lid flip chip ball grid array (BGA) package with high pin count and targeted reliability has emerged as a popular choice. The flip chip technology can accommodate an I/O count of more than five hundreds500, and the die junction temperature can be reduced to a minimum level by a metal heat spreader attachment. None the less, greater expectations on these high-performance packages arose such as better substrate real estate utilization for multiple chips, ease in handling for thinner core substrates, and improved board- level solder joint reliability. A new design of the flip chip BGA package has been looked into for meeting such requirements. By encapsulating the flip chip with molding compound leaving the die top exposed, a planar top surface can be formed. A, and a flat lid can then be mounted on the planar mold/die top surface. In this manner the direct interaction of the metal lid with the substrate can be removed. The new package is thus less rigid under thermal loading and solder joint reliability enhancement is expected. This paper discusses the process development of the new package and its advantages for improved solder joint fatigue life, and being a multichip package and thin core substrate options. Finite-element simulations have been employed for the study of its structural integrity, thermal, and electrical performances. Detailed package and board-level reliability test results will also be reported 相似文献
Foley catheters are inevitable in health care unit. Pathogens colonise and form biofilm on catheter causing catheter‐associated urinary tract infection. Therefore, the authors aimed to functionalise catheter to resist biofilm formation. The authors impregnated urinary catheters with a synergistic combination of antibiotics and silver nanoparticles (SNPs) to evaluate antibiofilm efficacy in vitro and in vivo. SNPs were synthesised using Spirulina platensis. Synergy between the SNPs and antibiotics was determined by the checker‐board method. In vivo efficacy of the functionalised catheters was assessed in mice. Liver and kidney function tests of mice were performed. The in vitro anti‐adherence activity of the functionalised catheters was evaluated after 2 years. Nanoparticle sizes were 42–75 nm. Synergistic activity was observed among SNPs (2 µg/ml), amikacin (6.25 µg/ml), and nitrofurantoin (31.25 µg/ml). In mice, catheters functionalised with combinations of antibiotics and SNPs exhibited no colonisation until Day 14. Blood, liver, and kidney tests were normal. After 2 years, catheters functionalised with antibiotics exhibited 25% inhibition of bacterial adhesion, and catheters functionalised with the nanoparticle‐antibiotic combination exhibited 90% inhibition. Impregnation of urinary catheters with a synergistic combination of antibiotics and SNPs is an efficient and promising method for preventing biofilm formation.Inspec keywords: catheters, drugs, silver, nanoparticles, nanomedicine, liver, kidney, blood, microorganisms, adhesion, biomechanics, cellular biophysicsOther keywords: Foley catheters, synergistic nanoparticle‐antibiotics combination, silver nanoparticles, biofilm formation resitance, health care unit, pathogens, urinary tract infection, SNP, Spirulina platensis, checker‐board method, liver function, kidney function, vitro antiadherence activity, amikacin, nitrofurantoin, blood, bacterial adhesion, size 42 nm to 75 nm, Ag相似文献
Single-crystalline CdTe(133) films have been grown by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition on Si(211) substrates. We studied
the effect of various growth parameters on the surface morphology and structural quality of CdTe films. Proper oxide removal
from the Si substrate is considered to be the principal factor that influences both the morphology and epitaxial quality of
the CdTe films. In order to obtain single-crystalline CdTe(133) films, a two-stage growth method was used, i.e., a low-temperature
buffer layer step and a high- temperature growth step. Even when the low-temperature buffer layer shows polycrystalline structure,
the overgrown layer shows single-crystalline structure. During the subsequent high-temperature growth, two-dimensional crystallites
grow faster than other, randomly distributed crystallites in the buffer layer. This is because the capturing of adatoms by
steps occurs more easily due to increased adatom mobility. From the viewpoint of crystallographic orientation, it is assumed
that the surface structure of Si(211) consists of (111) terrace and (100) step planes with an interplanar angle of 54.8°.
This surface structure may provide many preferable nucleation sites for adatoms compared with nominally flat Si(100) or (111)
surfaces. The surface morphology of the resulting films shows macroscopic rectangular-shaped terrace—step structures that
are considered to be a (111) terrace with two {112} step planes directed toward 〈110〉. 相似文献
The capability of growing state-of-the-art middle wavelength infrared (MWIR)-HgCdTe layers by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE)
on large area silicon substrates has been demonstrated. We have obtained excellent compositional uniformity with standard
deviation of 0.001 with mean composition of 0.321 across 1.5″ radii. R0A as high as 5 × 107 ω-cm2 with a mean value of 7 × 106 Θ-cm2 was measured for cut-off wavelength of 4.8 μm at 77K. Devices exhibit diffusion limited performance for temperatures above
95K. Quantum efficiencies up to 63% were observed (with no anti-reflection coating) for cut-off wavelength (4.8–5.4) μm @
77K. Excellent performance of the fabricated photodiodes on MBE HgCdTe/CdTe/Si reflects on the overall quality of the grown
material in the MWIR region. 相似文献
In this investigation, an attempt has been made to study by varying the charge temperature on the ethanol fueled Homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) combustion engine. Ethanol was injected into the intake manifold by using port fuel injection technique while the intake air was heated for achieving stable HCCI operation. The effect of intake air temperature on the combustion, performance, and emissions of the ethanol HCCI operation was compared with the standard diesel operation and presented. The results indicate that the intake air temperature has a significant impact on in-cylinder pressure, ringing intensity, combustion efficiency, thermal efficiency and emissions. At 170°C, the maximum value of combustion efficiency and brake thermal efficiency of ethanol are found to be 98.2% and 43%, respectively. The NO emission is found to be below 11 ppm while the smoke emission is negligible. However, the UHC and CO emissions are higher for the HCCI operation.
Energy efficiency is an important issue in mobile wireless networks since the battery life of mobile terminals is limited. Conservation of battery power has been addressed using many techniques such as variable speed CPUs, flash memory, disk spindowns, and so on. We believe that energy conservation should be an important factor in the design of networking protocols for mobile wireless networks. In particular, this paper addresses energy efficiency in medium access control (MAC) protocols for wireless networks. The paper develops a framework to study the energy consumption of a MAC protocol from the transceiver usage perspective. This framework is then applied to compare the performance of a set of protocols that includes IEEE 802.11, ECMAC, PRMA, MDRTDMA, and DQRUMA*. The performance metrics considered are transmitter and receiver usage times for packet transmission and reception. The time estimates are then combined with power ratings for a Proxim RangeLAN2 radio card to obtain an estimate of the energy consumed for MAC related activities. The analysis here shows that protocols that aim to reduce the number of contentions perform better from an energy consumption perspective. The receiver usage time, however, tends to be higher for protocols that require the mobile to sense the medium before attempting transmission. The paper also provides a set of principles that could be applied when designing access protocols for wireless networks.*ECMAC: energyconserving MAC. PRMA: packet reservation multiple access. MDRTDMA: multiservices dynamic reservation TDMA. DQRUMA: distributedqueuing request update multiple access. 相似文献
The p-type doping of Hg1−xCdxTe (MCT) has proven to be a significant challenge in present day MCT-based detector technology. One of the most promising
acceptor candidates, arsenic, behaves as an amphoteric dopant which can be activated as an acceptor during Hg-rich, low temperature
annealing of as-grown molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) samples. This study focuses on developing an understanding of the microscopic
behavior of arsenic incorporation during MBE growth. In particular, the question of whether arsenic incorporates as individual
As atoms, as As2 dimers, or as As4 tetramers is addressed for MBE growth with an As4 source. A quasithermodynamical model is employed to describe the MCT growth and As incorporation, with parameters fitted
to an extensive database of samples grown at the Microphysics Laboratory. The best fits for growth temperatures between 175
and 185°C are obtained for arsenic incorporation as As4 or possibly as As4 clusters, with lower probabilities for As2 and individual As atoms. Based on these results, we investigate the relaxed atomic configurations of As4 and As2 in bulk HgTe by ab initio total energy calculations. The calculations are performed in the pseudopotential density-functional framework within the
local density approximation, employing supercells with periodic boundary conditions. The lattice distortions due to As4 and As2 in bulk HgTe are predicted to be modest due to the small size of these arsenic clusters. 相似文献