Hot-carrier-induced degradation of partially depleted SOI CMOSFETs was investigated with respect to body-contact (BC-SOI) and floating-body (FB-SOI) for channel lengths ranging from 0.25 down to 0.1 m with 2 nm gate oxide. It is found that the valence-band electron tunneling is the main factor of device degradation for the SOI CMOSFET. In the FB-SOI nMOSFET, both the floating body effect (FBE) ...

The silicon-on-insulator (SOI) material system is today widely recognized as one of the most important platforms for the development of photonic components. This is mainly due to the fact that the mass fabrication techniques of the CMOS technology can be used for the fabrication of these SOI components. However, using silicon for photonic components has significant downsides. For example, it is...

Smart power ICs, which monolithically integrate low-loss power devices and control circuitry, have attracted much attention in a wide variety of applications [1], [2]. Commonly used smart power devices are the LDMOS and LIGBT implemented in bulk silicon or SOI (Silicon on Insulator). One of the key issues in the realization of such ‘smart power’ technology is the isolation of power devices and ...

in petrochemical industry, the production of polyvinyl chloride (pvc) is accompanied by formation of heavy end wastes which consist of a mixture of di and multichloro compounds as kind of materials which are generated in ethylene dichloride (edc) purifcation. a high quantity of chloro compounds found in the heavy end waste allows it to be polymerized with alkaline polysulfdes to form polysulfde...

This study investigated the performance of recycled polypropylene (RPP)/peanut shell powder (PSP) composites with untreated PSP and treated PSP with alkaline peroxide. The RPP/PSP and RPP/PSPH2O2 composites were prepared by melt mixing and compression molding at different PSP loadings (10 wt.% to 40 wt.%). The samples were characterized by processing properties, tensile properties, Fourier tran...

Submitted for the DFD12 Meeting of The American Physical Society Lifetime Characterization of Electro-Luminescence Based Pressure-Sensitive Paint System for Unsteady Flow Field Measurements YOSHIMI IIJIMA, HIROTAKA SAKAUE, JAXA — Electro-luminescence based pressure-sensitive paint (EL-PSP) system uses an EL as an illumination source for a PSP measurement. EL can be directly applied onto a PSP m...

In recently proposed electricity markets, price-based competitive behaviours of power suppliers (i.e., generators), energy service providers and large users (i.e., consumers) have been formulated using various auction algorithms (see Post et al., 1995; Wolfram, 1998; Dekrajangpetch and Shebl, 2000; Nicolaisen et al., 2001; Swider and Weber, 2007). In this paper, quantized Progressive Second Pri...

BACKGROUND Patients with primary spontaneous pneumothorax (PSP) usually complain of sudden-onset dyspnea and pleuritic chest pain. However, asymptomatic PSP has been incidentally detected on chest X-rays. In this study, we analyzed the incidence, characteristics, risk factors, and prognosis of asymptomatic PSP detected during regular medical check-ups in university students. METHODS In this s...

PSP is a methodology for an individual software engineer's continuous self-improvement. Currently, few PSP experience reports are available from non-US sources, and hardly any from people other than the PSP inventor Watts Humphrey. We describe independent experiences with PSP. We nd that PSP is a viable and useful approach and has quanti able, positive impact. Problems in teaching PSP are in ke...

Parkinson’s disease (PD), progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), and multiple system atrophy (MSA) are distinctive neurodegenerative disorders, which manifest similar motor features. Their differentiation is crucial but difficult. Dysfunctional speech, especially dysprosody, is a common symptom accompanying PD, PSP, and MSA from early stages. We hypothesized that automated analysis of monologue ...