Analog Circuits and Signal Processing
Volume 0 / 2010 to Volume 131 / 2016
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Low-dimensional materials exhibit unique quantum confinement effects and morphologies as a result of their nanoscale size in one or more dimensions, making them exhibit distinctive physical properties compared...
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We demonstrated an efficient MoS2-based eye-safe passively Q-switched Nd:GGG laser under 880 nm LD pum**. The maximum average output power was about 1.05 W with a slope efficiency of about 7.0%. The maximum pul...
Book Series
Volume 0 / 2010 to Volume 131 / 2016
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Almost every electronic system demands a clock signal with high spectral purity. Wireless or wireline systems typically rely on two approaches to enhance the data rate: (1) employing a denser modulation scheme...
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Exploiting renewable energy sources is essential to ensure perpetual system operation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices. With the ever growing demands for higher level of integration and functionality, highl...
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In order to develop multiband cellular radios at low cost, the rekindled on-chip N-path switched-capacitor filter is a promising replacement of the off-chip SAW (surface acoustic wave) filters, due to its prop...
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Clock references are indispensable circuit modules. The Internet of Things (IoT) devices, in particular, usually require a reference with high spectral purity for the phase-locked loop to generate the carrier ...
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Analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) bridge the analog and digital worlds, which often confines the system’s performance. In portable or Internet of Things devices, the power budget is extremely tight, calling ...
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Fine-grained supply voltage management is highly favorable for high system power efficiency of a system-on-a-chip (SoC) or multicore microprocessors. Fully integrated low-dropout regulators (LDOs) can provide ...
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Modern wireless communications dictate wideband high-resolution ADCs (analog-to-digital converters) with excellent power efficiency. In such context, delta-sigma modulators achieve the goal by utilizing the ov...
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Since both switches and capacitors shrink with advanced integrated circuit processes, fully integrated switched-capacitor (SC) power converters become a popular solution for on-chip point-of-load power deliver...
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We have provided two compact designs of on-chip silicon photonic crystal (PhC) AND and XOR logic devices, which can provide multiple logic functions through different input frequencies within one structure. Co...
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We have demonstrated the design of two types of on-chip optical logic gates in 2D silicon PC slab, which can support AND and XOR logic gate functions at different input frequencies. Different shapes of the cen...
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In this study, we analyze how a backlight’s peak wavelength, full-width at half-maximum (FWHM), and color filters affect the color gamut of a liquid crystal display (LCD) device and establish a theoretical lim...
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We propose a grating semi-feedback external cavity (GSFEC) scheme for high-power broad-area laser diodes for improving the spectrum characteristics of high-power semiconductor lasers. We design this scheme as ...
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We report a narrow pulse width optical parametric oscillator based on periodically poled MgO:LiNbO3 (PPMgLN) with a high repetition rate under quasi-phase matched conditions. When the maximum pum** power of the...
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Technology downscaling has stressed the use of sub-1V V DD to maintain device reliability. In this book, high-/mixed-voltage RF and analog CMOS circuits have been presented as the technology comes o...
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The convergence of wireless and semiconductor industries will turn into reality the vision of fully autonomous and seamless wireless connectivity in the near future, via combining advanced nanoscale CMOS techn...