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A Realistic Dream – a Top-Down Feasibility Study for MEMS Planetary Exploration

Newman R.M., Gaura E.I., Tabor J., Mount S., Coventry University, UK

A feasibility study of a 'dream application', detailing the technological requirements, and using them to produce the design of a sensor node in a top-down manner, in order to establish the feasibility of the scenario [...]

Multi-Degree of Freedom Micromachined Decoupled Gyroscope for Automotive Applications

Acar C., Painter C.C., Schofield A.R., Shkel A.M., UCI Microsystems Laboratory, US

Towards a robust sensor design for automotive systems, we introduce a novel multi-degree of freedom gyroscope system. The design offers a number of unique advantages over conventional gyroscope designs. Firstly, quadrature error is reduced due [...]

In Situ Atmospheric Profiling Using Mobile Ad-hoc Sensor Networks

Adams M.L., Manobianco D.M., Manobianco J., Bickford J., Manobianco D.M., Manobianco J., ENSCO, Inc., US

ENSCO, Inc. is developing an innovative atmospheric observing system known as Global Environmental Micro Sensors (GEMS). The GEMS concept features in situ airborne buoyant probes that can take measurements over all regions of the Earth. [...]

Data Centric Wireless Sensor Networks

Dulman S., Havinga P., Twente University, NL

The vision of wirteless sensing systems requires the development of devices and technologies that can be pervasive without being intrusive. The basic component of such a smart environment will be a small node with sensing [...]

Speckled Computing

Arvind D.K., University of Edinburgh, UK

Speckled Computing is an adventurous research program, which offers radical new ideas for information technology in the future. This will be realized by minuted, autonomous semiconductor speckes – each speck will encapsulate capabilities for sensing, [...]

In-plane and Out-Of-Plane Mechanical Characterization of Thin Polysilicon

Cacchione F., De Masi B., Corigliano A., Ferrera M., Vinay A., Politecnico di Milano, IT

In this paper is presented the mechanical characterization of thin polysilicon using different test structures. There are described two classes of on-chip test structures, with movement respectively in a plane parallel to the substrate and [...]

The Modeling and Characterization of Nano-Scale MOSFET Resistance

Lee H.J., Lee J-H., Lee J-Y, Lee W.H., Lee H.J., Lee J-H., Lee J-Y, Lee W.H., Lee H.J., Lee J-H., Lee J-Y, Lee W.H., Kang E-S, Kang J-W, Lee H.J., Lee J-H., Lee J-Y, Lee W.H., Byun K.R., Kang E-S, Kang J-W, Hwang H-J., Kwon O-K., Sangmyung University, KR

It has been reported that both the shallow junction and the heavily doped extension as the methods to minimize the off-current and to stabilize the on-current of the sub-90nm scaled device, can solve the short-channel [...]

Month: May 2005