Classical Description of the Interaction of Light with Matter -- The Linear Dielectric Susceptibility General -- The Classical Treatment of Free and Bound Charge Carriers -- Derivations from the Oscillator Model -- The Kramers-Kronig Relations -- Interface Reflection and Interference Phenomena in Thin Film Systems -- Planar Interfaces -- Thick Slabs and Thin Films -- Extended Details: Gradient …
Historical Development -- Quantum Mechanical Aspects -- Nanodefects -- Nanolayers -- Nanoparticles -- Selected Solid States with Nanocrystalline Structures -- Nanostructuring -- Extension of Conventional Devices by Nanotechniques -- Innovative Electronic Devices Based on Nanostructures.This book provides a concise and didactically structured presentation of nanotechnology as matters stand. Both…
Design Flow Overview -- Simulation Tools in System Design -- System Level Modeling -- VHDL-AMS for Block Level Simulation -- to VHDL-AMS -- Selected RF Blocks in VHDL-AMS -- Macromodeling in VHDL-AMS -- Complex Example: WLAN Receiver -- Modeling of Analog Blocks in Verilog-A -- Characterization for Bottom-Up Verification -- Advanced Methods for Overall System Specification and Validation.Modern…
Review of Linear Time-Invariant (LTI) Multi-Port System Theory -- Analysis of Space-Time Signals -- Antennas and Radiation -- Signal Space Concepts and Algorithms -- MIMO Channel Problems and Solutions.This text evolved from notes used to teach two-semester courses on multi-port signals and systems theory and vector-valued signal transmission to third-year electrical and computer engineering st…
Testing Concepts -- Design Flow -- Design for Test -- Boundary Scan -- SOC Design for Testability -- System Modeling -- Test Conflicts -- Test Power Dissipation -- Test Access Mechanism -- Test Scheduling -- SOC Test Applications -- A Reconfigurable Power-Conscious Core Wrapper and its Application to System-on-Chip Test Scheduling -- An Integrated Framework for the Design and Optimization of SO…
Human-Centered Computing for Image and Video Retrieval -- Vector Color Image Indexing and Retrieval within A Small-World Framework -- A Perceptual Subjectivity Notion in Interactive Content-Based Image Retrieval Systems -- A Scalable Bootstrapping Framework for Auto-Annotation of Large Image Collections -- Moderate Vocabulary Visual Concept Detection for the TRECVID 2002 -- Automatic Visual Con…
and Theory -- Theory of Digital Simulation -- Automated Image Object Recognition -- Image Fusion -- Image Texture Processing -- Image Signatures -- Miscellaneous Applications -- Hardware Implementations.This is the first book to explain and demonstrate the tremendous ability of Pulse-Coupled Neural Networks (PCNNs) when applied to the field of image processing. PCNNs and their derivatives are b…
Classical Regime for SiO -- Brief Notes on the History of Gate Dielectrics in MOS Devices -- SiO2 Based MOSFETS: Film Growth and Si—SiO2 Interface Properties -- Oxide Reliability Issues -- The Economic Implications of Moore's Law -- Transition to Silicon Oxynitrides -- Gate Dielectric Scaling to 2.0—1.0 nm: SiO2 and Silicon Oxynitride -- Optimal Scaling Methodologies and Transistor Performa…
The Possibility of High Frequency Functional Ceramics Substrate -- Material technology -- Ceramic material -- Conducting material -- Resistor materials and high K dielectric materials -- Process technology -- Powder preparation and mixing -- Casting -- Printing and laminating -- Cofiring -- Reliability -- Future of LTCCs.In recent years, Low Temperature Cofired Ceramics (LTCC) have become an at…
Polarization-Graded Ferroelectrics: The Dielectric Analogues of Semiconductor Junction Devices -- Thermodynamic Theory of Polarization-Graded Ferroelectrics -- Graded Ferroelectric Devices (GFDs) -- Trans-capacitive Devices: Transpacitors -- Graded Ferroics and Transponents.Graded Ferroelectrics, Transpacitors and Transponents details the experimental and theoretical aspects of newly emerging f…