– We have derived the local electric field inside graded metal-dielectric composite films with weak nonlinearity analytically, which further yields the effective linear dielectric constant and third-order nonlinear susceptibility of the graded structures. As a result, the composition-dependent gradation can produce a broad resonant plasmon band in the optical region, resulting in a large enhanc...

We present an AC-coupled modular 16-channel analog frontend with 1.774 fJ/c-s?mm2 energy- and area-product for a multichannel recording of broadband neural signals including local field potentials (LFPs) extracellular action (EAPs). To achieve such small area- energy-product, we employed operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) positive feedback, instead widely-used folded cascode OTA (FC-O...

To improve the responsivity of terahertz (THz) antenna-coupled bolometer, heater (load) resistance has to be increased suppress thermal conduction and realize larger temperature rise thermistor. Proper design antenna is therefore essential assure impedance matching between heater. From this viewpoint, a high-impedance folded-dipole (FDA) been studied numerically by finite element simulation. Th...

A systematic experimental study is conducted on floating field rings (FFR) incorporated into 4H-SiC junction barrier Schottky (JBS) diodes across four voltage ratings 650, 1200, 1700 and 3300V, in pursuit of highly efficient FFR designs. 30 designs 3 categories are studied for each rating, the measured breakdown (Vbr) JBS divided by ring system width (W) taken as figure merit (FOM) design. The ...

This paper presents an ultra low-power and low-voltage pulse-width modulation based ratiometric capacitive sensor interface. The interface was designed and fabricated in a standard 90 nm CMOS 1P9M technology. The measurements show an effective resolution of 10 bits using 0.5 V of supply voltage. The active occupied area is only 0.0045 mm2 and the Figure of Merit (FOM), which takes into account ...

Keyword Spotting (KWS) aims at detecting speech segments that contain a given query within large amounts of audio data. Typically, a speech recognizer is involved in a first indexing step. One of the challenges of KWS is how to handle recognition errors and out-of-vocabulary (OOV) terms. This work proposes the use of discriminative training to construct a phoneme confusion model, which expands ...

This invited paper discusses the challenging task of assessing the millmeter-wave spectrum for the use of 5G mobile systems. 3 key KPIs related to mobile systems, coverage, capacity and mobility are individually assessed and quantified with a simplistic figure of merit (FoM). The coverage and capacity KPIs are assessed through simulations while an analytical approach is developed for mobility. ...

The maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) and Bayesian maximum a-posteriori (MAP) adaptation methods for Gaussian mixture models (GMM) have proven to be effective and efficient for speaker verification, even though each speaker model is trained using only his own training utterances. Discriminative criteria aim at increasing discriminability by using out-of-class data. In this paper, we consider ...

A low-power on-off-keying impulse-radio (IR) ultra-wideband (UWB) pulse generator (PG) intended for wireless-powered IR-UWB radio applications is presented. The proposed PG has high flexibility, the center frequency, output power and pulse-width (PW) are controllable depending on channel conditions and data rates. Qualitative frequency-domain and transient analyses are presented. A new figure-o...