The Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) Mission for the NASA Earth Observing System (EOS) -- The SORCE Mission -- SORCE Contributions to New Understanding of Global Change and Solar Variability -- An Overview of the Disposition of Solar Radiation in the Lower Atmosphere: Connections to the SORCE Mission and Climate Change -- The SORCE Spacecraft and Operations -- The Total Irradiance…
Adaptive Optics Instrumentation, Data Acquisition and Reduction Strategies -- The Sun and (Exo-)Planets -- Star Formation and Brown Dwarfs -- Evolved Stars -- Galactic Center and AGN -- Galaxies and Cosmology.The field of Adaptive Optics (AO) for astronomy has matured in recent years, and diffraction-limited image resolution in the near-infrared is now routinely achieved by ground-based 8 to 10…
Near-Field Optical Fiber Probes and the Imaging Applications -- A Novel Method for Forming Uniform Surface-Adsorbed Metal Particles and Development of a Localized Surface-Plasmon Resonance Sensor -- Near-Field Optical-Head Technology for High-Density, Near-Field Optical Recording -- Nano-Optical Media for Ultrahigh-Density Storage -- A Phenomenological Description of Optical Near Fields and Opt…
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…
Device Modeling for Digital Circuits -- Current-Mode Digital Circuits -- Design Methodologies for Complex Current-Mode Logic Gates -- Modeling of Bipolar Current-Mode Gates -- Optimized Design of Bipolar Current-Mode Gates -- Modeling of MOS Current-Mode Gates -- Optimized Design of MOS Current-Mode Gates -- Applications and Remarks on Current-Mode Digital Circuits.Current-Mode digital circuits…
Microrheology -- Micron-Resolution Particle Image Velocimetry -- Electrokinetic Flow Diagnostics -- Micro- and Nano-Scale Diagnostic Techniques for Thermometry and Thermal Imaging of Microelectronic and Data Storage Devices -- Nanoscale Mechanical Characterization of Carbon Nanotubes -- Applications of the Piezoelectric Quartz Crystal Microbalance for Microdevice Development.Microscale Diagnost…
Recent Advances in Thin-film Deposition -- Molecular-beam Deposition of High-k Gate Dielectrics for Advanced CMOS -- LEPECVD — A Production Technique for SiGe MOSFETs and MODFETs -- Thin-film Engineering by Atomic-layer Deposition for Ultra-scaled and Novel Devices -- Atomic-layer Deposited Barrier and Seed Layers for Interconnects -- Copper CVD for Conformal Ultrathin-film Deposition -- Push…
Introduction: Matching analysis. Importance for circuit design. State of the art. Research objectives. Outline of this book -- Measurement and Modeling of Mismatch. Measurement setup. Experimental setup. Modeling of mismatch in the drain current. Width and length dependence. Example: Yield of a current-steering D/A converter. Conclusions -- Parameter Extraction. Extraction methods. Experimental…
Low-Noise Amplifiers in CMOS Wireless Receivers -- ESD Protection in CMOS -- Detailed Study of the Common-Source LNA with Inductive Degeneration -- RF-ESD Co-Design for CMOS LNA's -- Integrated CMOS Low-Noise Amplifiers -- Conclusions.LNA-ESD Co-Design for Fully Integrated CMOS Wireless Receivers fits in the quest for complete CMOS integration of wireless receiver front-ends. With a combined di…