Browsing by Issue Date, starting with "2006-11-01"

Now showing 1 - 20 of 62554

The parametric study of carbon nanotips grown by MWPECVD with controllable sharpness using various metallic catalysts
(2006-11-01)
Chen, Chien-Chung
;
Chen, Yi-Hui
;
Chen, Chia-Fu
;
材料科學與工程學系
;
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
A parametric study for growing vertically aligned carbon nanotips utilizing microwave plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition was presented. The effects of process parameters including process time, microwave power and applying bias were discussed. The height of nanotips was affected by the microwave power and process time. The growth of rod-shape or tip-shape structure depends on the microwave power. The high microwave power is favorable for growing rod-shape structure which results from the faster diffusion of carbon atoms in the metallic catalysts under high temperature. The sharpness of carbon nanotips seem possibly to be controlled by varying bias voltage. These carbon nanotips exhibit the characters of high number density and well vertical alignment. Furthermore, we demonstrated that the growth of carbon nanotips by different metallic catalysts, such as Au, Pt, Ag and Si, could be chosen for applying in various regions. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
An optimum algorithm for compacting error traces for efficient design error debugging
(2006-11-01)
Yen, Chia-Chih
;
Jou, Jing-Yang
;
電子工程學系及電子研究所
;
Department of Electronics Engineering and Institute of Electronics
Diagnosing counterexamples with error traces has acted as one of the most critical steps in functional verification. Unfortunately, error traces are normally very lengthy such that designers need to spend considerable effort to understand them. To alleviate the designers' burden for debugging, we present a SAT-based algorithm for reducing the lengths of error traces. The algorithm performs the paradigm of the binary search algorithm to halve the search space recursively. Furthermore, it applies a novel theorem to guarantee gaining the shortest lengths for the error traces. Based on the optimum algorithm, we develop two robust heuristics to handle real designs. Experimental results demonstrate that our approaches greatly surpass previous work and, indeed, have promising solutions.
Organic light-emitting devices based on a highly robust osmium(II) complex
(2006-11-01)
Liu, Tswen-Hsin
;
Chen, Chin H.
;
光電工程學系
;
Department of Photonics
An osmium(II) complex, Os(fptz)(2)(PPh2Me)(2) [fptz=3-trifluoromethyl-5-(2-pyridyl)-1,2,4-triazole, PPh2Me=methyl-diphenyl-phosphan], when doped in a 4,4(')-N,N-'-dicarbazolebiphenyl host as a phosphorescent red emitter in organic light-emitting devices, has the unusual property of resisting concentration quenching and sustaining its external quantum efficiency (EQE) (8%-9%) over a wide range of doping concentration (20%-40%). Single-crystal x-ray diffraction evidence is presented that the difference in doping behaviors can be linked to the octahedral configuration of Os(fptz)(2)(PPh2Me)(2), which could prevent the undesirable molecular aggregation from occurring at high concentration, thus delaying the onset of quenching. Accordingly, the high doping concentration of Os(fptz)(2)(PPh2Me)(2) leads to a significant suppression of luminescence quenching at high brightness/current and achieves a "flat" EQE versus brightness response owing to the increase in the emission sites in the emission layer. (c) 2006 American Institute of Physics.
An investigation of heat transfer of a reciprocating piston
(2006-11-01)
Fu, Wu-Shung
;
Lian, Sin-Hong
;
Hao, Liao-Ying
;
機械工程學系
;
Department of Mechanical Engineering
A numerical simulation of a reciprocating piston cooled by fluid is performed to investigate effects of frequency, amplitude and Reynolds number on heat transfer rate of the piston. For facilitating the analyses, the model of the reciprocating piston is replaced by a "Pi" shape cooling channel. This subject belongs to a kind of moving boundary problems, and the Finite Element Method and arbitrary Lagragian-Eulerian Kinematics description method are then utilized. The heat transfer mechanisms affected by the main parameters of frequency, amplitude and Reynolds number are discussed in detail. The results show that the heat transfer mechanisms influenced by the frequency are more remarkable than those influenced by the amplitude and Reynolds number. Besides, the larger the above three parameters are, the apparent enhancements of heat transfer are usually obtained. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
The safe operating area of GaAs-based heterojunction bipolar transistors
(2006-11-01)
Lee, Chien-Ping
;
Chati, Frank H. E.
;
Ma, Wenlong
;
Wang, Nanlei Larry
;
電子工程學系及電子研究所
The safe operating area (SOA) of GaAs-based heterojunction bipolar transistors has been studied considering both the self-heating effect and the breakdown effect. The Kirk effect induced breakdown (KIB) was considered to account for the decrease of the breakdown voltage at high currents. With reasonable emitter ballastors, the RIB effect was shown to be the major cause for device failure at high currents, while the thermal effect controls the low current failure. The effect of emitter resistance and base resistance on device stability was also studied. While the emitter resistance always improves the device stability by expanding the SOAs, the base resistance degrades SOAs when the KIB dominates the failure mechanism. The effect of the base resistance on SOAs was explained by its control on the flow of the avalanche current. Since the KIB effect depends on the collector structure, it was shown that a noniuniformly doped collector can effectively improve the SOAs.
IEEE standard 1500 compatible interconnect diagnosis for delay and crosstalk faults
(2006-11-01)
Li, Katherine Shu-Min
;
Su, Chauchin
;
Chang, Yao-Wen
;
Lee, Chung-Len
;
Chen, Jwu E.
An interconnect diagnosis scheme based on the oscillation ring (OR) test methodology for systems-on-chip (SOC) design with heterogeneous cores is proposed. In addition to traditional stuck-at and open faults, the OR test can also detect and diagnose important interconnect faults such as delay faults and crosstalk glitches. The large number of test rings in the SOC design, however, significantly complicates the interconnect diagnosis problem. In this paper, the diagnosability of an interconnect structure is first analyzed then a fast diagnosability checking algorithm and an efficient diagnosis ring generation algorithm are proposed. It is shown in this paper that the generation algorithm achieves the maximum diagnosability for any interconnect. Two optimization techniques are also proposed, an adaptive and a concurrent diagnosis method, to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of interconnect diagnosis. Experiments on the MCNC benchmark circuits show the effectiveness of the proposed diagnosis algorithms. In all experiments, the method achieves 100% fault detection coverage and the optimal interconnect diagnosis resolution.
Syntheses and specific interactions of poly(epsilon-caprolactone)-block-poly(vinyl phenol) copolymers obtained via a combination of ring-opening and atom-transfer radical polymerizations
(2006-11-01)
Kuo, Shiao-Wei
;
Huang, Chih-Feng
;
Lu, Chu-Hua
;
Lin, Ho-May
;
Jeong, Kwang-Un
A series of PCL-b-PVPh diblock copolymers were prepared through combinations of ring-opening and atom-transfer radical polymerizations of c-caprolactone and 4-acetoxystyrene, and subsequent selective hydrolysis of the acetyl protective group. This PCL-b-PVPh diblock copolymer shows a single glass transition temperature over the entire composition range, indicating that this copolymer is able to form a miscible amorphous phase due to the formation of intermolecular hydrogen bonding between the hydroxyl of PVPh and the carbonyl of PCL. In addition, DSC analyses also indicated that the PCL-b-PVPh diblock copolymers have higher glass transition temperatures than their corresponding PCL/PVPh blends. FT-IR was used to study the hydrogen-bonding interaction between the PVPh hydroxyl group and the PCL carbonyl group at various compositions.
Elastic constants identification of composite materials using single angle-ply laminate
(2006-11-01)
Chen, C. M.
;
Kam, T. Y.
;
機械工程學系
;
Department of Mechanical Engineering
A method is presented for identification of elastic constants for composite materials using three measured strains of a single angle-ply laminate subjected to tensile testing. In the proposed method, the trial material constants of the angle-ply laminate are used to predict the corresponding strains in the laminate. An error function is established to measure the difference between the experimental and theoretical predictions of the strains. The identification of material constants is then formulated as a constrained minimization problem in which the material constants are determined to make the error function a global minimum. The accuracy and capability of the proposed method are demonstrated by means of a number of examples of the identification of material constants of angle-ply laminates with different lay-ups. Experimental data obtained from static tensile tests of several angle-ply laminates are used to identify the material constants of the laminates. The excellent results obtained in the experimental investigation have validated the applicability of the proposed method.
Self-substrate-triggered technique to enhance turn-on uniformity of multi-finger ESD protection devices
(2006-11-01)
Ker, Ming-Dou
;
Chen, Jia-Huei
;
電機學院
;
College of Electrical and Computer Engineering
A novel self-substrate-triggered technique for on-chip ESD protection design is proposed to solve the non-uniform turn-on phenomenon of multi-finger gate-grounded nMOS (GGnMOS). The center-finger nMOS transistors in the multi-finger GGnMOS structure are always turned on first under ESD stress, so its source terminal is connected to the base (substrate) terminals of the other parasitic lateral n-p-n bipolar transistors (BJTs in the GGnMOS structure) to form the self-substrate-triggered design. With the proposed self-substrate-triggered technique, the first turned-on center-finger nMOS transistors are used to trigger on the others. Therefore, all fingers of GGnMOS can be triggered on simultaneously to discharge ESD current. From the experimental results verified in a 0.13-mu m CMOS process with the thin gate oxide of 25 A, the turn-on uniformity and ESD robustness of the GGnMOS can be greatly improved without increasing extra layout area through the proposed self-substrate-triggered technique.
Self-organization of microlens arrays caused by the spin-coating-assisted hydrophobic effect
(2006-11-01)
Chen, Fang-Chung
;
Huang, Wen-Kuei
;
Ko, Chu-Jung
;
光電工程學系
;
顯示科技研究所
A simple, low-cost, low-temperature, and shape-controllable approach has been demonstrated to fabricate polymer microlens arrays (MLAs). By using microcontact printing of the self-assembled monolayers and then spin coating, the microlenses were able to organize themselves on the patterned glass substrate. High-quality MLAs made of NOA65 prepolymer with lens-diameters of 50, 75, and 100 pm have been fabricated by this method. Lens shapes can be controlled by changing the spin rates of the prepolymer coating. Optical measurements have revealed an excellent light-collecting capability from the fabricated MLAs. It is anticipated that the technique will be ideally suited to low-cost and high-volume production.
A tight bound on remote reference time complexity of mutual exclusion in the read-modify-write model
(2006-11-01)
Chen, Sheng-Hsiung
;
Huang, Ting-Lu
;
資訊工程學系
;
Department of Computer Science
In distributed shared memory multiprocessors, remote memory references generate processor-to-memory traffic, which may result in a bottleneck. It is therefore important to design algorithms that minimize the number of remote memory references. We establish a lower bound of three on remote reference time complexity for mutual exclusion algorithms in a model where processes communicate by means of a general read-modify-write primitive that accesses at most one shared variable in one instruction. Since the general read-modify-write primitive is a generalization of a variety of atomic primitives that have been implemented in multiprocessor systems, our lower bound holds for all mutual exclusion algorithms that use such primitives. Furthermore, this lower bound is shown to be tight by presenting an algorithm with the matching upper bound. (C) 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
使用者介面產生系統及其方法
(2006-11-01)
陳登吉
;
楊尚庭
;
蔡明志
;
洪啟彰
本發明係揭露一種使用者介面產生系統及其方法，此使用者介面產生系統及其方法係用於手持裝置，本系統至少包含一工作平台、一圖形介面資料庫及一樣板資料庫。圖形介面資料庫係用於產生一預設圖形介面且於工作平台上產生一預設關聯特性，並由樣板資料庫所記錄，形成一使用者介面樣板，再經由工作平台之彙整動作後產生可供手持裝置所使用之一使用者介面程式。此使用者介面產生系統之特色在於使用者介面設計者透過創造使用者介面樣板以設計使用者介面，並可重覆使用而無需程式設計者輔助撰寫程式，降低使用者介面設計者與程式設計者間之漫長溝通。
High light-extraction GaN-based vertical LEDs with double diffuse surfaces
(2006-11-01)
Lee, Ya-Ju
;
Kuo, Hao-Chung
;
Lu, Tien-Chang
;
Wang, Shing-Chung
;
光電工程學系
High light-extraction (external quantum efficiency similar to 40%) 465-nm GaN-based vertical light-emitting diodes (LEDs) employing double diffuse surfaces were fabricated. This novel LED structure includes one top transmitted diffuse surface and another diffuse omnidirectional reflector (ODR) on the bottom of a LED chip. The diffusive ODR consists of a roughened p-type GaN layer, an indium-tin-oxide (ITO) low refractive index layer, and an Al layer. The surface of the p-type GaN-layer was naturally roughened while decreasing the growth temperature to 800 degrees C. After flip-bonding onto a Si substrate by AuSn eutectic metal and laser lift-off processes to remove the sapphire substrate, an anisotropic etching by dilute potassium hydroxide (KOH) was employed on the N-face n-GaN layer to obtain transmitted diffuse surfaces with hexagonal-cone morphology. The double diffused surfaces LEDs show an enhancement of 56% and 236% in light output power compared to single side diffused surface and conventional LEDs, respectively. The devices also show a low leakage current in the order of magnitude of 10(-8) A at -5 V and a calculated external quantum efficiency of about 40%. The high scattering efficiency of. double diffused surfaces could be responsible for the enhancement in the device light output power.
I/O clustering in design cost and performance optimization for flip-chip design
(2006-11-01)
Chen, Hung-Ming
;
Liu, I-Min
;
Wong, Martin D. F.
;
電子工程學系及電子研究所
;
Department of Electronics Engineering and Institute of Electronics
Input-output (I/O) placement has always been a concern in modern integrated circuit design. Due to flip-chip technology, I/O can be placed throughout the whole chip without long wires from the periphery of the chip. However, because of I/O placement constraints in design cost (DC) and performance, I/O buffer planning becomes a pressing problem. During the early stages of circuits and package co-design, I/O layout should be evaluated to optimize DC and to avoid product failures. The objective of this brief is to improve the existing/initial standard cell placement by I/O clustering, considering DC reduction and signal integrity preservation. The authors formulate it as a minimum cost flow problem that minimizes alpha W+beta D, where W is the I/O wirelength of the placement and D is the total voltage drop in the power network and, at the same time, reduces the number of I/O buffer blocks. The experimental results on some Microelectronics Center of North Carolina benchmarks show that the author's method averagely achieves better timing performance and over 32% DC reduction when compared with a conventional rule-of-thumb design that is popularly used by circuit designers.
One-step growth process of carbon nanofiber bundle-ended nanocone structure by microwave plasma chemical vapor deposition
(2006-11-01)
Teng, I. J.
;
Chuang, P. K.
;
Kuo, C. T.
;
材料科學與工程學系
;
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
In this work, we report a simple one-step growth process to synthesize a novel and distinct carbon nanostructure, called a carbon nanofiber bundle-ended nanocone (CNFNC) structure, by using microwave plasma chemical vapor deposition (MPCVD) method with CH4 and H, as source gases and Fe catalyst. The nanostructures and their properties after each processing step were characterized by FESEM, HRTEM, ED, AES, and Raman spectroscopy. The preliminary results have demonstrated that the CNFNC structures exhibit excellent field emission properties. The results also show that the favored conditions to form the CNFNC structures include a combination of lower CH4/H-2 flow ratio, higher substrate negative bias, and proper working pressure and deposition time. The possible growth mechanism of the CNFNC structures is proposed. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
A three-coordinate and quadruply bonded Mo-Mo complex
(2006-11-01)
Tsai, Yi-Chou
;
Lin, Yang-Miin
;
Yu, Jen-Shiang K.
;
Hwang, Jenn-Kang
;
生物科技學系
Add/drop applications in fiber ring networks based on a reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer in a re-circulating loop
(2006-11-01)
Huang, Ming-Fang
;
Chen, Jason (Jyehong)
;
Feng, Kai-Ming
;
Lin, Tse-Yu
;
Lai, Chung-Yu
A periodic add/drop system in a fiber ring network was investigated using a reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer (ROADM) in a re-circulating fiber loop. After seven cascaded add/drop nodes at every 150 km along the transmission, at bit error ratio (BER) equals to 10(-9) and data rate of 10 Gbps, we observed a 2.5 dB power penalty for the passing through channels with 1050 km transmission distance, and 0.3 dB sensitivity penalty variation for the periodic add/drop channels at every 150 km, respectively. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Passive reduced-order macro-modeling for linear time-delay interconnect systems
(2006-11-01)
Tseng, Wenliang
;
Liu, Chien-Nan Jimmy
;
Su, Chauchin
;
電控工程研究所
;
Institute of Electrical and Control Engineering
This paper presents a methodology based on congruent transformation for distributed interconnects described by state-space time-delays system. The proposed approach is to obtain the passive reduced order of linear time-delays system. The unified formulations are used to satisfy the passive preservation. The details of the mathematical proof and a couple of validation examples are given in this paper.
Stack robust fine granularity scalable video coding
(2006-11-01)
Huang, Hsiang-Chun
;
Chiang, Tihao
;
電子工程學系及電子研究所
;
Department of Electronics Engineering and Institute of Electronics
A novel scalable video coding technique, namely Stack Robust Fine Granularity Scalability (SRFGS), is presented to provide both temporal and SNR scalability. The SRFGS first simplifies the temporal prediction architecture of RFGS. The approach is further generalized using a reconstructed frame from the previous time instance of the same layer to temporally predict the quantization error of the lower layer. With this concept, the RFGS architecture can be extended to multi-layer stack architecture. The SRFGS can be optimized at several operating points to meet the requirements of various applications, while maintaining the fine granularity and error robustness of RFGS. An optimized macroblock-based alpha adaptation scheme is proposed to improve the coding efficiency. A single-loop enhancement layer decoding scheme is proposed to reduce the decoder complexity. The simulation results show that SRFGS can improve the performance of RFGS by 0.4 to 3.0 dB in PSNR. SRFGS has been reviewed by the MPEG committee and ranked as one of the best algorithms according to subjective testing in the Report on Call for Evidence on Scalable Video Coding.
Measuring production yield for processes with multiple quality characteristics
(2006-11-01)
Pearn, W. L.
;
Wang, F. K.
;
Yen, C. H.
;
工業工程與管理學系
;
Department of Industrial Engineering and Management
Process yield is an important criterion used in the manufacturing industry for measuring process performance. Methods for measuring yield for processes with single characteristic have been investigated extensively. However, methods for measuring yield for processes with multiple characteristics have been comparatively neglected. In this paper, we develop a generalized yield index, called TSpk, PC, based on the index S-pk introduced by Boyles (Journal of Quality Technology, 23, 17-26, 1991) using the principal component analysis (PCA) technique. We obtained a lower confidence bound (LCB) for the true process yield. The proposed method can be used to determine whether a process meets the preset yield requirement, and make reliable decisions. Examples are provided to demonstrate the proposed methodology.