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The information revolution of the twentieth century was brought about by microelectronics based on a simple and common material, silicon. Although silicon will continue to be of central importance in the next century, carbon, silicon's upstairs neighbor in the periodic table, will also be of great impor tance in future technology. Carbon has more flexible bonding and hence has various unique physical, chemical and biological properties. It has two types of bonding, sp3 and sp2, in diamond and g...

Inkjet-based Micromanufacturing Inkjet technology goes way beyond putting ink on paper: it enables simpler, faster and more reliable manufacturing processes in the fields of micro- and nanotechnology. Modern inkjet heads are per se precision instruments that deposit droplets of fluids on a variety of surfaces in programmable, repeating patterns, allowing, after suitable modifications and adaptations, the manufacturing of devices such as thin-film transistors, polymer-based displays and photovolt...

• A Microchip insider tells all on the newest, most powerful PICs ever! • FREE CD-ROM includes source code in C, the Microchip C30 compiler, and MPLAB SIM software• Includes handy checklists to help readers perform the most common programming and debugging tasksThe new 16-bit PIC24 chip provides embedded programmers with more speed, more memory, and more peripherals than ever before, creating the potential for more powerful cutting-edge PIC designs. This book teaches readers everything they need...

This text covers single-chip microprocessors, 16-bit microprocessors, mass storage devices, operating systems, and provides an overview of the microprocessor-based product design process. Wherever possible, theoretical concepts are supported by real-life examples using the 8- and 16-bit microprocessors introduced in the text, along with their peripheral devices. The examples are illustrated with simplified schematic diagrams and short programming examples. Performance objectives and critical que...

Surface contamination is of cardinal importance in a host of technologies and industries, ranging from microelectronics to optics to automotive to biomedical. Thus, the need to understand the causes of surface contamination and their removal is very patent. Generally speaking, there are two broad categories of surface contaminants: film-type and particulates. In the world of shrinking dimensions, such as the ever-decreasing size of microelectronic devices, there is an intensified need to underst...

Defects in Nanocrystals: Structural and Physico-Chemical Aspects discusses the nature of semiconductor systems and the effect of the size and shape on their thermodynamic and optoelectronic properties at the mesoscopic and nanoscopic levels. The nanostructures considered in this book are individual nanometric crystallites, nanocrystalline films, and nanowires of which the thermodynamic, structural, and optical properties are discussed in detail. The work: Outlines the influence of growth proces...

As many circuits and applications now enter the Gigahertz frequency range, accurate digital timing measurements have become crucial in the design, verification, characterization, and application of electronic circuits. To be successful in this field an engineer needs to understand instrumentation, measurement techniques, signal integrity, jitter and timing concepts, and statistics. This book gives a compact, practice-oriented overview on all these subjects with emphasis on useable concepts and r...

The approach adopted in Digital Synthesizers and Transmitters for Software Radio will provide an understanding of key areas in the field of digital synthesizers and transmitters. It is easy to include different digital techniques in the digital synthesizers and transmitters by using digital signal processing methods, because the signal is in digital form. By programming the digital synthesizers and transmitters, adaptive channel bandwidths, modulation formats, frequency hopping and data rates ar...

This report describes the partially completed correctness proof of the Viper 'block model'. Viper [7,8,9,11,23] is a microprocessor designed by W. J. Cullyer, C. Pygott and J. Kershaw at the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment in Malvern, England, (henceforth 'RSRE') for use in safety-critical applications such as civil aviation and nuclear power plant control. It is currently finding uses in areas such as the de- ployment of weapons from tactical aircraft. To support safety-critical applicati...

Discover a unique resource on the "what," "why," and "how" of mutual aid in group settings! While an impressive body of professional literature attests to the central role of mutual aid in social work practice with groups, what has been lacking is a single source that links the description of mutual aid (what it is, exactly) with practice prescriptions (how to help it come about and flourish in various settings). This book does just that. This updated edition of the pathbreaking original c...

Band 1 "Grundlagen der digitalen Elektronik" fuhrt in die fur die Elektronik wichtigen Gesetze der Physik und Elektrotechnik ein. Sodann werden Halbleiterbauelemente und, darauf aufbauend, digitale Schaltungen behandelt. Durch den grossen Erfolg des Buches war eine Neuauflage mog- lich, dadurch konnten ASICS in den Text aufgenommen werden. Das abschliessende Kapitel uber einfache Schaltwerke wurde im Hinblick auf einen glatteren Ubergang zum Band 2 "Grundlagen der Computertechnik" erweitert.

This textbook provides practicing scientists and engineers a primer on the Atmel AVR microcontroller. Our approach is to provide the fundamental skills to quickly get up and operating with this internationally popular microcontroller. The Atmel ATmega16 is used as a representative sample of the AVR line. The knowledge you gain on the ATmega16 can be easily translated to every other microcontroller in the AVR line. We cover the main subsystems aboard the ATmega16, providing a short theory section...

The 802.11n wireless standard uses 64-state quadrature amplitude modulation (64-QAM) to achieve higher spectral efficiency. Consequently, the transmitter and receiver require a higher signal to noise ratio with the same level of error rate performance. This book offers a fully-analog compensation technique without baseband circuitry to control the calibration process. Using an 802.11g transceiver design as an example, it describes in detail an auto-calibration mechanism for I/Q gains and phases...

This reference text presents statistical information, causes and impacts of coronavirus on populations, economics, and environment. The text includes machine learning and deep learning techniques to understand exponential behavior as well as predicting the future reachability of the COVID-19 outbreak. It discusses important concepts including smart sensors for early stage diagnosis, diagnosis of COVID-19 using low power IoT-enabled systems, biomedical imaging and sensor fusion, and electronic s...

Distilling complex theoretical physical concepts into an understandable technical framework, Next-Generation Batteries and Fuel Cells for Commercial, Military, and Space Applications describes primary and secondary (rechargeable) batteries for various commercial, military, spacecraft, and satellite applications for covert communications, surveillan

Fuzzy Logic - das bedeutet mehr Flexibilität in der Automatisierungstechnik, Regelungstechnik, Logistik und Elektrotechnik. Die Grundlagen der vielversprechenden Technologie werden in diesem einführenden Lehrbuch aufgezeigt. Für Leser, die nicht nur die Potentiale erkennen wollen, sondern sich für die praktische Umsetzung interessieren. Die zweite Auflage wurde um einen Aufgabenteil erweitert.

Satellitenkommunikation im Aufbruch: Fernsehverteilung, multimediale Geschäftskommunikation, Kommunikation per Handy. Der umfassende Einblick in alle relevanten Aspekte: ausführliche Grundlagen, die Bedeutung unterschiedlicher Satellitenbahnen, Koordinierung von Frequenzen. Die Autoren rechnen eine Streckenbilanz durch, stellen die relevanten Verfahren der Codier-, Chiffrier- und Modulationsverfahren dar und behandeln Vielfachzugriffsprotokolle.

Das Buch behandelt den Entwurf von Semicustom-ICs, einer Untergruppe der anwendungsspezifischen Schaltungen (ASICs), zu denen programmierbare Logikbausteine, Gate Arrays und Standardzellen-ICs gehoren. Nach einer kurzen Einfuhrung in die technischen und wirtschaftlichen Aspekte wird auf die fur ASIC-Anwender wesentlichen Eigenschaften der verwendeten Technologien eingegangen. Hieran schliesst sich eine ausfuhrliche Darstellung des Aufbaus sowie der typischen Eigenschaften von Semicustom-ICs an....

This volume presents techniques for enhancing the performance of microelectronic devices and circuits that are used in radiation environments. Topics include: semiconductor processing technology; and techniques for producing radiation-tolerant devices and integrated circuits.