Browsing by Author "Chen, PY"

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A new CMOS readout circuit for uncooled bolometric infrared focal plane arrays
(2000)
Yu, TH
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Wu, CY
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Chin, YC
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Chen, PY
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Chi, FW
By incorporating the basic Constant Current (CC) configuration with the buffered direct injection (BDI) structure, a new readout circuit called the constant current buffered direct injection (CCBDI) is proposed for the uncooled bolometer detector FPAs. Due to the use of BDI structure, the offset is decreased and the linearity range is increase. Thus linearity, dynamic range, and uniformity are improved. An experimental chip of 64x64 CCBDI FPA readout circuit has be designed and fabricated by using 0.5 mu m double-poly double-metal n-well CMOS technology with the cell size of 50x50 mu m(2). The measured linearity is 94.36% whereas the measured uniformity is 81.3%. Both measurement and simulation results have verified the advantageous features of the proposed CCBDI readout circuit. It is believed that the new CCBDI structure has a great potential in the applications of large uncooled bolometer FPAs.
Development of a parallel Poisson's equation solver with adaptive mesh refinement and its application in field emission prediction
(2006-06-15)
Hsu, KH
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Chen, PY
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Hung, CT
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Chen, LH
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Wu, JS
A parallel electrostatic Poisson's equation solver coupled with parallel adaptive mesh refinement (PAMR) is developed in this paper. The three-dimensional Poisson's equation is discretized using the Galerkin finite element method using a tetrahedral mesh. The resulting matrix equation is then solved through the parallel conjugate gradient method using the non-overlapping subdomain-by-subdomain scheme. A PAMR module is coupled with this parallel Poisson's equation solver to adaptively refine the mesh where the variation of potentials is large. The parallel performance of the parallel Poisson's equation is studied by simulating the potential distribution of a CNT-based triode-type field emitter. Results with similar to 100 000 nodes show that a parallel efficiency of 84.2% is achieved in 32 processors of a PC-cluster system. The field emission properties of a single CNT triode- and tetrode-type field emitter in a periodic cell are computed to demonstrate their potential application in field emission prediction. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.