This paper presents a new monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) based on coplanar waveguide (CPW) design for a tunable resonator based on RF MEMS. This RF structure, which can be used for system on chip (SOC), is constituted with MEMS Bridge placed between two meander inductors and the tenability is controlled by a variable applied DC voltage. Moreover, this device presents a compactne...

A new half bridge gate driver IC for high voltage applications developed in high-voltage CMOS technology is described. It includes two driving stages able to source and sink 2A and 3A respectively: one driver is referenced to ground voltage, while the other may float up to 1200V above the former. The IC integrates the full digital section to interface a 3.3V controller and includes a set of fea...

abstractthe occurrence of deoxynivalenol (don) in retail foods in tehran (iran) was determined using high-performance liquid chromatography technique and immunoaffinity column as the clean-up step. a method was validated for analysis of don in rice, bread, puffed corn snack and wheat flour. the average recoveries and precision (rsd) for don in different foods ranged 84.2-93.1% and 2.9-12.0%, re...

A novel monolithic piezoelectric actuated wire clamp is presented in this paper to achieve fast, accurate, and robust microelectronic device packaging. The wire clamp has compact, flexure-based mechanical structure and light weight. To obtain large and robust jaw displacements and ensure parallel jaw grasping, a two-stage amplification composed of a homothetic bridge type mechanism and a parall...

In recent years, the use of nanotechnology (nano-particles, nanomaterial, nano-additives and nanostructuredmaterials) has attracted attention of scholars, engineers and scientists in all scientificfields such as chemistry, medicine, material, agriculture, electronic etc. The use of nanotechnologyhas also become widespread in the refractory products (which mainly used in variou...

The Minnesota Department of Transportation (Mn/DOT) Precast Slab Span System was initially designed by Mn/DOT with input from University of Minnesota researchers and local fabricators. The bridge system consisted of a series of precast, prestressed concrete inverted tee bridge elements which also served as stay-in-place formwork for the cast-in-place portion of the deck placed in the field. One...

A micromechanical model is developed for grain bridging in monolithic ceramics. Specifically, bridge formation of a single, non-equiaxed grain spanning adjacent grains is addressed. A cohesive zone framework enables crack initiation and propagation along grain boundaries. The evolution of the bridge is investigated through a variance in both grain angle and aspect ratio. We propose that the bri...

Automatic generation of manufacturing information from design has been the research focus in advanced CAD/CAM applications, i.e. feature-based applications for design, process planning and other automated manufacturing applications. However, our current development mode has seriously troubled research in these application fields. For example, with our current development mode, the functionality...

Colloidal quantum dots have recently attracted lot of interest in the fabrication of optoelectronic devices due to their unique optical properties and their simple and low cost fabrication. PbS nanocrystals emerged as the most advanced colloidal material for near infrared photodetectors. In this work we report on the fabrication and characterization of PbS colloidal quantum dot photoconductors....