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In this paper, we demonstrate a simple scheme of 6.835 GHz microwave frequency synthesizer based on the sub-sampling phase lock loop (PLL) technique. The application of the sub-sampling PLL is the key to simplify the architecture of the…
This study presents a novel three-way unequal filtering power divider/combiner, addressing challenges in unequal power distribution while incorporating filtering functions in communication systems. Wilkinson power divider (WPD) is the…
A prototype of DIRC-like Time-of-Flight detector (DTOF), including a pico-second time measurement electronics, is developed and tested preliminarily. The basic structure of DTOF is composed of a fused silica radiator connected to fast…
Phase Coded (PC) waveforms possess desirable Auto-Correlation Function (ACF) properties for use in radar and sonar systems. However, their spectra possess high spectral leakage due to the abrupt phase transitions between the chips in the…
A readout electronic with high time and energy resolution performance is designed for the SDD (Silicon Drift Detector) signals readout, which is aimed for X-ray pulsar based navigation (XNAV). For time measurement, the input signal is fed…
Charge Coupled Devices (CCDs) have been successfully used in several high energy physics experiments over the past two decades. Their high spatial resolution and thin sensitive layers make them an excellent tool for studying short-lived…
We present a high performance low-power digital base-band architecture, specially designed for an energy optimized duty-cycled wake-up receiver scheme. Based on a careful wake-up beacon design, a structured wake-up beacon detection…
This work considers the design of short non-binary low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes over finite fields of order m, for channels with phase noise. In particular, m-ary differential phase-shift keying (DPSK) modulated code symbols are…
Partial discharge (PD) incidents can occur in critical components of high-speed rail electric systems, such as transformers and switchgears, due to localized insulation defects that cannot withstand electric stress, leading to potential…
We demonstrate that phase-difference between terahertz signals on the source and drain of a field effect transistor (a TeraFET) induces a plasmon-assisted dc current, which is dramatically enhanced in vicinity of plasmonic resonances. We…
Demand for on-chip low-dropout regulators (LDOs) with both high power-supply rejection ratio (PSRR) and fast transient response is growing as system-on-chip (SoC) integration increases. However, conventional LDO architectures face…
In this paper, we combine the design of band-pass frequency selective surfaces (FSSs) with polarization converters to realize a broadband frequency-selective polarization converter (FSPC) with lowbackward scattering, which consists of the…
In the last decades, the applications of power inverter increased rapidly. As a result, in spite of rectifier, an inverter with a high-power electronic oscillator has capability to convert direct current (DC) into alternating current (AC)…
Up-conversion single photon detector (UCSPD) has been widely used in many research fields including quantum key distribution (QKD), lidar, optical time domain reflectrometry (OTDR) and deep space communication. For the first time in…
For enhancing power flow control in power transmission, a simplified new structure of direct power flow controller with continuous full regulation range (F-DPFC) was proposed. It has only one-stage power conversion and comprises of a…
Ultra Fast Silicon Detectors (UFSD) are sensors optimized for timing measurements employing a thin multiplication layer to increase the output signal. A multipurpose read-out board hosting a low-cost, low-power fast amplifier was designed…
Phaseless super-resolution refers to the problem of superresolving a signal from only its low-frequency Fourier magnitude measurements. In this paper, we consider the phaseless super-resolution problem of recovering a sum of sparse Dirac…
Real-time decoding is crucial for fault-tolerant quantum computing but likely requires specialized hardware such as field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), whose parallelism can alter relative algorithmic performance. We analyze…
To ensure reliability, power transformers are monitored for partial discharge (PD) events, which are symptoms of transformer failure. Since failures can have catastrophic cascading consequences, it is critical to preempt them as early as…
Recently, recycled field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) pose a significant hardware security problem due to the proliferation of the semiconductor supply chain. Ring oscillator (RO) based frequency analyzing technique is one of the…