In recent years, destructive earthquakes have shown the deficiencies of the existing buildings. One of the most effective mechanisms for dissipating the earthquake energy is inelastic deformation of the steel components. The objective of this research is to study the application of metallic dampers for dissipation of the earthquake energy and to investigate the behavior of concrete structures i...

This paper presents a detailed empirical study and analytical derivation of voltage wave-form and energy dissipation of global lines driven by CMOS drivers. It is shown that at high clock frequencies where the output voltage at the termination point of the transmission line L R C Optimizing the Energy-Delay-Ringing Product in On-Chip CMOS Line Drivers Payam Heydari Department of Electrical and ...

This paper presents a new adiabatic circuit technique called Positive Feedback Adiabatic Logic (PFAL). Power reduction is achieved by recovering the energy in the recovery phase of the supply clock. Energy dissipation comparison with other logic circuits is performed. The main objective of this paper is to provide new low power solutions for Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) designers. The dy...

Understanding how specific protein environments affect the mechanisms of non-radiative energy dissipation within densely assembled chlorophylls in photosynthetic protein complexes is of great interest to the construction of bioinspired solar energy conversion devices. Mixing of charge-transfer and excitonic states in excitonically interacting chlorophylls was implicated in shortening excited st...

In this paper, we present an algorithm for computing the bounds on energy-efficiency of digital very large scale integration (VLSI) systems in the presence of deep submicron noise. The proposed algorithm is based on a soft-decision channel model of noisy VLSI systems and employs information–theoretic arguments. Bounds on energy-efficiency are computed for multimodule systems, static gates, dyna...