A series of charge compensation investigations on SrS:Cu grown by physical vapor phase are reported. In this study, the trivalent ion, Y, was codoped during SrS growth to substitute on the Sr-site. Although similar EL performance to high temperature annealed sputtered samples was obtained using an annealing temperature of 6508C, our results indicated that the thermal quenching in this material ...

Due to the contradiction between high precision control with complexity of fuzzy controller design, an method for multi-variable fuzzy controller design is presented. A dynamic compensation model for the fuzzy controller is introduced, which simplify the analysis and design of multi-variable fuzzy controller, and improve control performance. The method is applied to high precision water tank te...

This work analyzes several drift compensation mechanisms in wireless sensor networks (WSN). Temperature is an environmental factor that greatly affects oscillators shipped in every WSN mote. This behavior creates the need of improving drift compensation mechanisms in synchronization protocols. Using the Flooding Time Synchronization Protocol (FTSP), this work demonstrates that crystal oscillato...

Biological rhythms are regulated by homeostatic mechanisms that assure that physiological clocks function reliably independent of temperature changes in the environment. Temperature compensation, the independence of the oscillatory period on temperature, is known to play a central role in many biological rhythms, but it is rather rare in chemical oscillators. We study the influence of temperatu...

The performance of inertial MEMS sensors – gyroscopes and accelerometers – depends heavily on the operating temperature. That is, their accuracy will degrade dramatically with rising temperature. In this paper the errors of inertial sensors as a result of varying temperature will be first modelled. The accuracies obtained with constant and varying temperatures will be compared and analysed. The...

CREDIT is generally given to Taggart1 for introducing the cast gold inlay to the dental profession. Although he realized that gold shrinks when cooled from molten state to solid state of room temperature, the investment available to him did not supply sufficient compensation. In 1910, Van Horn2 published a paper dealing with a method by which he obtained the compensation by means of wax expansi...

Differential group delay measurements of a fiber-based dispersion compensation module under different controlled temperature variations experience long birefringence relaxation times (>10  h) in response to temperature changes. These are interpreted here qualitatively with a stress strain behavioral model based on silica's viscoelastic property.

An on-chip process, supply voltage, and temperature (PVT) compensation technique for low-voltage CMOS digital circuits was proposed. Because the degradation of circuit performance originates from the variation of the saturation current in transistors, we developed a compensation circuit consisting of a reference current that is independent of PVT variations. The circuit is operated so that the ...

In heterogeneous catalysis, rates with Arrhenius-like temperature dependence are ubiquitous. Compensation phenomena, which arise from the linear correlation between the apparent activation energy and the logarithm of the apparent pre-exponential factor, are also common. Here, we study the origin of compensation and find a similar dependence on the rate-limiting surface coverage term for each Ar...