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Showing 1 to 20 of 614 for “"Integrated circuits"”.
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Biosignal Recording with Integrated Circuits
This dissertation presents novel integrated circuits designed to improve signal recording and processing in biomedical applications. The primary focus is on improving low-noise, low-power amplifiers, where a comparison of existing topologies reveals the trade-offs between noise, power consumption …
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Power monitoring in integrated circuits
… and consumer electronics. Power monitoring of integrated circuits (ICs) is also essential, as today ICs exist in most electrical and electronic systems, in a vast range of applications. Many ICs, including power ICs, have functional blocks across the chip that are used for different purposes. …
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A flexible interconnection for integrated circuits
… and are not physically flexible. Flexibility of integrated circuits is very important in designing some devices such as small microprobes, sensors and disk drive flexible read/write assemblies. This thesis covers the study, analysis and fabrication of a flexible interconnection method for …
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Behavioural synthesis of analogue integrated circuits
Automatic synthesis of analogue circuits remains a very manually intensive task despite huge strides in the field of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) in recent decades. Genetic Algorithms (GAs) are biologically inspired search algorithms which have previously shown some promise in this field. …
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Volumetric thermo-optical photonic integrated circuits
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-05-01
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Opportunities in Advanced Wireless Integrated Circuits
… and challenges associated with GaN-based integrated circuits (ICs) in the context of advanced wireless systems by utilizing Dr. Eugene Fitzgerald’s innovation framework – Technology, Markets, and Implementation (TMI). A comparative analysis of monolithic vs. board-level GaN integration is …
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Improving mechanical reliability of integrated circuits
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, 1996.
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Extracting secret keys from integrated circuits
… delay variation of wires and transistors across integrated circuits (ICs) in the manufacturing processes to build a secret key unique to each IC. We fabricated Arbiter-based PUFs in custom silicon and investigated the identification based PUFs in custom silicon and investigated the identification …
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Design of fractional-order analog integrated circuits
… design of low-voltage analog fractional-order integrated circuits. Fractional-order systems are an emerging area of multidisciplinary research labeled even as the “21st century systems”. Electronic engineers are very interested in applying the concept of fractional calculus. It is motivated …
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Experimental Analysis on Aging of Integrated Circuits
… temporal degradation in performance of nanoscale integrated circuits. This research studies and analyzes the temporal delay degradation of logic circuits due to NBTI and HCI effects on a 90nm test chips. From the experiments conducted, frequency degradation due to NBTI is about 2.5% - 3% after the …
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On-chip spectrometers with photonic integrated circuits
… prisms or Michelson interferometers—on photonic integrated circuits. However, the physical constraints of on-chip space limit the achievable optical path differences in waveguide-based dispersive elements and interferometers, resulting in inherent performance ceilings. Reconstructive …
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Analysis and design of electrothermal integrated circuits.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering. Thesis. 1972. Sc.D.
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Photonic integrated circuits for optical logic applications
… (SOA) emitting at 1550 nm are vertically integrated with passive waveguides using the asymmetric twin waveguide technique and the SOAs are placed in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) configuration. By sending in high-intensity pulses, the gain characteristics, phase-shifting, and …
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Reliability of copper interconnects in integrated circuits
As dimensions shrink and current densities increase, the reliability of metal interconnects becomes a serious concern. In copper interconnects, the dominant diffusion path is along the interface between the copper and the top passivation layer (usually Si3N4). One of the predominant failure …
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Remote microscope for inspection of integrated circuits
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1995.
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SiGe BiCMOS integrated circuits for optical communication transmitters
… techniques in the electrical design of this integrated circuit (IC). First, the design of a 40-Gb/s driver compatible with a modulator with a custom impedance of 25 Ω is presented, which investigates a topology to overcome the additional power dissipation due to the lower load impedance. …
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Design, microfabrication and characterisation of Photonic Integrated Circuits
… characterization of state-of-the-art Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) for non-linear applications. Silicon PICs is a technology mainly used for application in telecommunications and quantum optics. The strong third order non-linearity of silicon makes it also attractive for non-linear PIC …
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