various techniques and methods have evolved recently for the characterization and measurement of microwave devices. Waveform measurement and engineering system among them is a very promising candidate for the optimization and characterization of transistor device for use in power amplifier design. This paper presents an all encompassing waveform measurement and engineering system which is capab...

We present a novel visual attention tracking technique based on Shared Attention modeling. Our proposed method models the viewer as a participant in the activity occurring in the scene. We go beyond image salience and instead of only computing the power of an image region to pull attention to it, we also consider the strength with which other regions of the image push attention to the region in...

The design of released microstructures depends on accurate knowledge of residual stresses and associated elastic constants. The MIT-developed material test procedure, M-Test, uses the variation of pull-in voltage with beam length to extract residual stress and elastic modulus from in-situ test structures. This thesis reports a fully automated computer-microvision procedure that automatically de...

Direct-carrier modulation is an attractive technique for low-cost high-performance radar transceivers. In this paper, it is shown that, when the technique is applied to a generic homodyne radar architecture, the signaling waveform can be software adapted without requiring any hardware modifications. The key circuit in this novel software radar is a -band monolithic – vector modulator employing ...

Abtract: Bond pull testing, a well-known method in the failure analysis community, is used to evaluate the integrity of an electronic microchip as well as to detect counterfeit ICs. Existing bond pull tests require that the microchip be de-capsulated in order to obtain physical access to the bond wires in the IC package. Bond pull analysis based on simulation and finite element methods also exi...

I feel somewhat relaxed and freer since I resigned from the position of Vice Minister of Finance for International Affairs about a month ago. At least now I don’t have to worry about what I say about the yen/US dollar rate for the wire people who used to follow me all over the world. I would like to remind you that what I say today does not necessarily reflect the official views of the Japanese...

Introduction Geriatric patients and their relative fragility with respect to younger patients represent a surgical dilemma for the general surgeon. This has led surgeons to adopt "tailored" techniques and strategies to treat them. The rapid increase of this aged population has given the clinician the chance to push forward the knowledge on this subset of patients and challenge previous concepts...

In this paper, theAdomiandecompositionmethod and Padé approximants are integrated to study thedeflection andpull-in instability of nanocantilever electromechanical switches. In a distributed parameter model, intermolecular forces, including Casimir forces, are taken into account considering their range of application. A closed form power series solution based on Adomian polynomials is obtained....

In this paper, a nonlinear theory applicable to the design of nanotube based devices is presented. The role of finite kinematics for a doubly clamped nanotube device is investigated. In particular, we analyze the continuous deformation and instability (pull in) of a clamped-clamped nanotube suspended over an electrode from which a potential differential is imposed. The transformation of an appl...