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Classical ways of cooling require some of these elements: phase transition, compressor, non-linearity, valve, and/or switch. A recent example is the 2018 patent of Linear Technology Corporation; they utilize the shot noise of a diode to…
Active headrests can reduce low-frequency noise around ears based on active noise control (ANC) system. Both the control system using fixed control filters and the remote microphone-based adaptive control system provide good noise reduction…
Automatic modulation classification (AMC) has emerged as a key technique in cognitive radio networks in sixth-generation (6G) communications. AMC enables effective data transmission without requiring prior knowledge of modulation schemes.…
We present a sub-Nyquist analog-to-digital converter of wideband inputs. Our circuit realizes the recently proposed modulated wideband converter, which is a flexible platform for sampling signals according to their actual bandwidth…
Low resolution analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) can be employed to improve the energy efficiency (EE) of a wireless receiver since the power consumption of each ADC is exponentially related to its sampling resolution and the hardware…
Quantum measurement is physically realized through a finite dynamical interaction between a system and a measuring apparatus, giving rise to a continuous transition from weak to strong regimes. While this crossover is well understood under…
Microwave devices capable of near-quantum-limited signal processing are essential components in the toolbox of solid-state quantum technologies. The manipulation and readout of single-photon microwave signals through amplifiers, mixers,…
We analyze the performance of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) links with one-bit output quantization in terms of achievable rates and characterize their performance loss compared to unquantized systems for general channel statistical…
It is known that the estimated energy consumption of digital-to analog converters (DACs) is around 30\% of the energy consumed by analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) keeping fixed the sampling rate and bit resolution. Assuming that…
Key parameters of analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) are their sampling rate and dynamic range. Power consumption and cost of an ADC are directly proportional to the sampling rate; hence, it is desirable to keep it as low as possible. The…
This paper presents a fully-integrated CMOS temperature sensor for densely-distributed thermal monitoring in systems on chip supporting dynamic voltage and frequency scaling. The sensor front-end exploits a sub-threshold PMOS-based circuit…
We report here the first RF noise measurements on two designs of n-doped GaN/AlN double-barrier resonant tunneling diodes (RTDs), each having a room-temperature negative differential resistance (NDR) and also strong near-UV light emission.…
Cross-correlated measurements of thermal noise are performed to determine the electron temperature in nanopatterned channels of a GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure at 4.2 K. Two-dimensional (2D) electron reservoirs are connected via an extended…
Digital PID control requires a differencing operation to implement the D gain. In order to suppress the effects of noisy data, the traditional approach is to filter the data, where the frequency response of the filter is adjusted manually…
The purpose of this project was to design and implement a pipeline Analog-to-Digital Converter using 0.35um CMOS technology. Initial requirements of a 25-MHz conversion rate and 8-bits of resolution where the only given ones. Although…
We have designed low noise temperature sensing and control units with the objective of using them for the fabrication of far infrared active cavity radiometers. The sensing unit, first characterized at 300K using industrial platinium…
We propose a modified moment matching algorithm to avoid catastrophic failures for sources with a low signal to noise ratio (SNR). The proposed modifications include a method to eliminate non-physical negative pixel values and a forced…
A novel method is presented for measuring impulsive forces generated by devices which are fed with medium power microwave signals. The forces are measured with a torsion balance or weighing scale, as usual, but the microwave signal is…
We describe the use of digital phase noise test sets at frequencies well beyond the sampling rate of their analog-to-digital converters. The technique proposed involves the transfer of phase fluctuations from an arbitrary high carrier…
Time interleaved analog-to-digital conversion (TIADC) based on parallelism is an effective way to meet the requirement of the ultra-fast waveform digitizer beyond Gsps. Different methods to correct the mismatch errors among different…