Written at an intermediate level in a way that is easy to understand, Fundamentals and Applications of Ultrasonic Waves, Second Edition provides an up-to-date exposition of ultrasonics and some of its main applications. Designed specifically for newcomers to the field, this fully updated second edition emphasizes underlying physical concepts over mathematics. The first half covers the fundamentals of ultrasonic waves for isotropic media. Starting with bulk liquid and solid media, discussion ext...
Electronic Properties of Conjugated Polymers III (Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences, #91)
by Hans Kuzmany, Michael Mehring, and Siegmar Roth
This book deals with electrical, electrochemical, structural, magnetic, optical and lattice dynamical properties of conjugated polymers such as polyaniline, polyacetylene, polydiacetylene, polypyrrole, polyparaphenylene and polythiophene. Several new conjugated systems and model polyenes are also considered. Since the previous winter school on this topic held in 1985, the focus of interest in the field has broadened and now covers not only conductivity and relaxation phenomena of polyacetylene b...
As technological advancements widen the scope of applications for biomicroelectromechanical systems (BioMEMS or biomicrosystems), the field continues to have an impact on many aspects of life science operations and functionalities. Because BioMEMS research and development require the input of experts who use different technical languages and come from varying disciplines and backgrounds, scientists and students can avoid potential difficulties in communication and understanding only if they poss...
Database Machines (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, #368)
This volume contains 24 papers presented at the Sixth International Workshop on Database Machines. The papers cover a wide spectrum of topics including: system architectures, storage structures, associative memory architectures, memory resident systems, deduction and retrospectives on maturing projects. The nature of the papers is highly technical and presumes knowledge of database management systems and familiarity with database machines. The book is representative of the dual trend in the fiel...
This volume contains the proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL '94), held in Prague, Czech Republic in September 1994. The growing importance of field-programmable devices is substantiated by the remarkably high number of 116 submissions for FPL '94; from them, the revised versions of 40 full papers and 24 high-quality poster presentations were accepted for inclusion in this volume. Among the topics treated are: testing, layout, synthesis...
Design of System on a Chip is the first of two volumes addressing the design challenges associated with new generations of the semiconductor technology. The various chapters are the compilations of tutorials presented at workshops in Brazil in the recent years by prominent authors from all over the world. In particular the first book deals with components and circuits. Device models have to satisfy the conditions to be computationally economical in addition to be accurate and to scale over vario...
Semiconducting Chalcogenide Glass (Semiconductors and Semimetals)
by Robert Fairman and Boris Ushkov
Chalcogenide glass is made up of many elements from the Chalcogenide group. The glass is transparent to infrared light and is useful as a semiconductor in many electronic devices. For example, chalcogenide glass fibers are a component of devices used to perform laser surgery. The properties of chalcogenide glass result not only from their chemical composition and atomic structure, but also from the impact of numerous external factors. A comprehensive survey is presented of the properties of ch...
Advanced Analog-to-digital and Digital-to-analog Convertors
This advanced reference book provides a compilation of innovative data conversion techniques from a research group that has been critically shaping the evolution of analog-to-digital converter design for two decades. It presents a wealth of creative approaches across a number of different technologies, including CMOS, BiCMOS, CCD/CMOS, and Josephson technologies. The topics cover most popular architectures including the pipeline, delta-sigma, successive-approximation, flash and algorithmic conve...
"Analysis and Design of Pipeline Analog-to-Digital Converters" is intended to present a comprehensive treatment on the subject of pipeline analog-to-digital converter (ADC). Emphasis will be placed on implementation techniques using CMOS switched-capacitor circuits. The core materials of the tutorial will include architecture, circuit building blocks, practical limitations, precision considerations and calibration techniques. The book will make use of examples the author designed before to prese...
Einfuhrung in Die Halbleiter-Schaltungstechnik (Springer-Lehrbuch)
by Holger Gvbel, Holger Gc6bel, Holger Gbel, Holger Gabel, and Holger Gobel
Dieses Lehrbuch fA1/4hrt den Leser in die Grundlagen der Halbleiterschaltungstechnik ein. Nach einer sehr verstAndlichen EinfA1/4hrung in die Halbleiterphysik erklArt der Autor die Funktionsweise der wichtigsten elektronischen Bauelemente. Darauf aufbauend werden moderne analoge und digitale Schaltungstechniken dargestellt. Eine EinfA1/4hrung in die Technologie hochintegrierter Schaltungen rundet das Buch ab. Das Buch wird ergAnzt durch ein interaktives Lernprogramm. Dadurch kann sich der Leser...
MicroMechatronics (Materials Engineering)
This reference reveals the most significant technologies, procedures, and trends in the design and application of actuator devices for micromechatronic systems. It addresses critical design and manufacturing concepts, as well as challenges in the modeling and regulation of electromechanical losses and heat generation in actuator devices. Accompanied by a CD-ROM demonstrating examples of finite-element modeling and previously developed and commercially available actuators, Micromechatronics prov...
Event-Triggered Transmission Protocol in Robust Control Systems
by Niladri Sekhar Tripathy, Indra Narayan Kar, and Kolin Paul
Controlling uncertain networked control system (NCS) with limited communication among subcomponents is a challenging task and event-based sampling helps resolve the issue. This book considers event-triggered scheme as a transmission protocol to negotiate information exchange in resilient control for NCS via a robust control algorithm to regulate the closed loop behavior of NCS in the presence of mismatched uncertainty with limited feedback information. It includes robust control algorithm for li...
"The Internet of Things" is the new buzzphrase, but what is it? A toaster that texts? The fitness band on your wrist? The camera in an infant's room? Sure, it's all of those things. But it's also your phone: an ultra-sophisticated sensor and communications system in your pocket or purse--capable of tracking your steps, capturing an image, or calling an Uber. And it is actually not hard or expensive to make a sensing, communicating object yourself. Doing so can be rewarding, fun, and even useful....
Introduction to Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (Wiley Survival Guides in Engineering and Science)
by C Binns
Advanced Indium Arsenide-Based HEMT Architectures for Terahertz Applications
High electron mobility transistor (HEMT) has better performance potential than the conventional MOSFETs. Further, InAs is a perfect candidate for the HEMT device architecture owing to its peak electron mobility. Advanced Indium Arsenide-based HEMT Architectures for Terahertz Applications characterizes the HEMT based on InAs III-V material to achieve outstanding current and frequency performance. This book explains different types of device architectures available to enhance performance including...
Lead-Free Piezoelectrics
Ecological restrictions in many parts of the world are demanding the elimination of Pb from all consumer items. At this moment in the piezoelectric ceramics industry, there is no issue of more importance than the transition to lead-free materials. The goal of Lead-Free Piezoelectrics is to provide a comprehensive overview of the fundamentals and developments in the field of lead-free materials and products to leading researchers in the world. The text presents chapters on demonstrated applicatio...
Elektronik Fur Ingenieure (3. Aufl.) (Springer-Lehrbuch)
by Ekbert Hering, Klaus Bressler, and J Rgen Gutekunst
Closing the Power Gap Between ASIC & Custom
by David Chinnery and Kurt Keutzer
Explains how to use low power design in an automated design flow, and examine the design time and performance trade-offs Includes the latest tools and techniques for low power design applied in an ASIC design flow Focuses on low power in an automated design methodology, a much neglected area
Hydrogen in Semiconductors (Semiconductors and Semimetals)
Hydrogen plays an important role in silicon technology, having a profound effect on a wide range of properties. Thus, the study of hydrogen in semiconductors has received much attention from an interdisciplinary assortment of researchers. This 16 chapter volume provides a comprehensive review of the field, including a discussion of hydrogenation methods, the use of hydrogen to neutralize deep levels, shallow acceptors and shallow donors in silicon, vibrational spectroscopy, and hydrogen-induced...