A personal distributed exposimeter (PDE) consisting of 3 radio frequency (RF) acquisition nodes is constructed using textile antennas and wearable electronics. Numerical simulations are used to design the PDE. Calibration measurements at 950 MHz, using a human subject, are performed in an anechoic chamber. Compared to conventional exposimeters, which only measure in 1 position on the body, an e...

Rotary traveling-wave oscillators (RTWOs) represent a new transmission-line approach to gigahertz-rate clock generation. Using the inherently stable LC characteristics of on-chip VLSI interconnect, the clock distribution network becomes a low-impedance distributed oscillator. The RTWO operates by creating a rotating traveling wave within a closed-loop differential transmission line. Distributed...

We fabricated CMOS circuits from polycrystalline silicon films on steel foil substrates at process temperatures up to 950 C. The substrates were 0.2-mm thick steel foil coated with 0.5m thick SiO2. We employed silicon crystallization times ranging from 6 h (600 C) to 20 s (950 C). Thin-film transistors (TFTs) were made in either self-aligned or nonself-aligned geometries. The gate dielectric wa...

Colonic motility curve was continuously recorded in dog using a strain gauge force transducer and the curve was analyzed by fast Fourier transform. (1) The basic pattern of the colonic motility curve was a gradually increasing and decreasing contractile wave. (2) The frequency components of the basic contractile wave showed a trimodal distribution with peaks at around 1, 20 and 80 mHz. (3) The ...

Background & objectives: Cell phone microwave (MW) is one of the most harmful physical agents in modern society. This study was designed to determine the effects of exposure to cell phone microwaves on mice sperm morphologic indices. Methods: Animals were divided into two groups including: Microwave (MW) (n=6; exposed to 950-MHz cell phone MW with 5 W output power density and 200 KHz modulatio...

The pure rotational 6-type spectrum of the van der Waals complex Ne-CO has been measured using a pulsed jet, intracavity millimeter wave spectrometer. The millimeter wave generation is based on the OROTRON principle. The high sensitivity of the spectrometer allowed measurements of R( J), K = 1 0 transitions between 108 and 150 GHz of the Ne isotopomers Ne-CO and Ne-CO. This new millimeter wave ...

We present a design of broadband and wide dynamic range low noise amplifier/radio frequency variable gain amplifier (LNA/RF VGA) for digital video broadcasting – satellite (DVBS2) receiver tuner integrated circuit fabricated using the 0.18 μm complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) process. The MOS switching filter was used to get broadband characteristics of the LNA circuit and the MOS ...

Feasibility Study of Shaped Electrode The objective of this project was a feasibility study of a novel, large-area plasma reactor for thin film production, based on a shaped electrode technique (“lens”) to compensate the standing wave non-uniformity. Cylindrical Test Reactor In the first phase a cylindrical reactor was designed and constructed to show the “proof of principle” of a novel electro...