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Negative Group Delay Devices

Author : Blaise Ravelo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781523121861
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Negative Group Delay Devices written by Blaise Ravelo and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book has 11 chapters dealing with the following topics: Microstrip line negative group delay circuits and applications to communication systems; Negative group delay power dividers; Delay-induced negative group delay; Microwave transversal and recursive filter-based negative group delay circuits and non-Foster elements; Hybrid coupler-based NGD circuit; NGD-based Hilbert filter; Design technique on the microwave amplifier-based active lumped NGD devices; Limits of passive and active negative group delay distributed circuits; Superluminality and detectable information in dispersive channels; Split-ring resonator-loaded X-band waveguide supporting negative group velocity; and Metamaterial-based common-mode noise filter with NGD effect for multilayer PCB.

Active Negative Group Delay Circuits and Applications

Author : Thomas Thatapudi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (133 download)

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Study and Application of Microwave Active Circuits with Negative Group Delay

Author : Blaise Ravelo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789537619671
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (196 download)

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Book Synopsis Study and Application of Microwave Active Circuits with Negative Group Delay by : Blaise Ravelo

Download or read book Study and Application of Microwave Active Circuits with Negative Group Delay written by Blaise Ravelo and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A simple topology of an NGD active circuit consisting in a FET terminated by a shunt RLCresonant network and dedicated to the microwave signals was proposed and extensively studied. To our knowledge, this experimental demonstration in the time domain of the ability of a circuit to exhibit simultaneously gain and NGD in microwave domain is the first one available in the literature. By injecting in the NGD circuit a sufficiently smoothed input short-pulse modulating a sine carrier, we showed that the output has an envelop peak in advance compared to the input one. Of course, this phenomenon is not in contradiction with the causality principle. It is also worth emphasizing that the circuit under test meets all of the criteria required for classical active microwave devices, i.e. gain, matching and stability. As predicted by theory (Ravelo et al., 2007a, 2007b, 2007c and 2008a), for a prototype implemented in planar technology, measurements showed that, in the time-domain, the pulse peak advance was about -2 ns or 24% of the 1/e-input pulse half-width with no attenuation. It is also worth noting that this experiment confirmed that the occurrence of time-domain advance induced by the NGD active circuit was not suppressed by the input noise contribution. Moreover, thanks to the S21-magnitude form, the NGD circuit under test demonstrated its ability to exhibit a pulse compression phenomenon together with a possibility of amplification. Then, it should be worth using the presented NGD active topology to compensate for dispersion effects and especially to reduce the intersymbol interference (ISI) in certain telecommunication channels. As a potential application of this NGD circuit, we proposed a new principle of frequencyindependent phase shifter. Cascading a classical transmission line with this NGD circuit allowed us to get a constant phase value. The efficiency of this principle was demonstrated by measurement. Indeed, a constant phase value of 90°±5° was obtained within a 76% relative frequency band centred at about 1.5 GHz. The impacts of the PS parameter variations were described and a sensitivity analysis was performed and discussed. The main benefits of this NGD active PS are its compactness and also the facility to generate very low group delay, and the broad band characteristics. Besides, a two-stage NGD PS was also designed; the simulation results showed a bandwidth enhancement of the constant phase up to 125% (-90°10°). Some fields of applications such as the design of a broadband active balun for RF front end architectures are discussed. As ongoing researches, design of reconfigurable devices dedicated to telecommunication applications is planned. Future investigations will be devoted to the design of NGD devices able to operate at higher frequencies through the use of distributed elements. In this prospect, implementation of MMIC devices based on distributed elements is envisaged.

Negative Group Delay Devices

Author : Blaise Ravelo
Publisher : Materials, Circuits and Device
ISBN 13 : 1785616404
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (856 download)

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Download or read book Negative Group Delay Devices written by Blaise Ravelo and published by Materials, Circuits and Device. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces the theoretical concept, analysis, design methodology and implementation of negative group delay (NGD). The NGD concept is a recent topic in electrical and electronic engineering research based on an unconventional function; the generation of an output signal seemingly in time-advance of the input signal.

Smart Systems

Author : Glauco Fontgalland
Publisher : Amplla Editora
ISBN 13 : 655381063X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (538 download)

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Download or read book Smart Systems written by Glauco Fontgalland and published by Amplla Editora. This book was released on 2022-09-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to highlight the strength and state-of-art of some techniques and methods applied to intelligent systems. Rather to cover the variety of techniques and methods available in the literature, which is out of scope of this book, it focuses on those consolidated and applied and on those with high potential of implementation to smart systems. This book has fourteen chapters covering abroad range of topics in communications. The first three chapters are devoted to state-of-art and review papers on planar filters, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), negative group delay, nanoclusters, and tunable lights, while the remain chapters cover specific topics such as smart monitoring, V2I, high-speed links, RF and Optical sensors, composite material, metamaterial, energy harvesting, radar, SWIPT, and electromagnetic sources.

VLSI

Author : Zhongfeng Wang
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9533070498
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book VLSI written by Zhongfeng Wang and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The process of Integrated Circuits (IC) started its era of VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) in 1970’s when thousands of transistors were integrated into one single chip. Nowadays we are able to integrate more than a billion transistors on a single chip. However, the term “VLSI” is still being used, though there was some effort to coin a new term ULSI (Ultra-Large Scale Integration) for fine distinctions many years ago. VLSI technology has brought tremendous benefits to our everyday life since its occurrence. VLSI circuits are used everywhere, real applications include microprocessors in a personal computer or workstation, chips in a graphic card, digital camera or camcorder, chips in a cell phone or a portable computing device, and embedded processors in an automobile, et al. VLSI covers many phases of design and fabrication of integrated circuits. For a commercial chip design, it involves system definition, VLSI architecture design and optimization, RTL (register transfer language) coding, (pre- and post-synthesis) simulation and verification, synthesis, place and route, timing analyses and timing closure, and multi-step semiconductor device fabrication including wafer processing, die preparation, IC packaging and testing, et al. As the process technology scales down, hundreds or even thousands of millions of transistors are integrated into one single chip. Hence, more and more complicated systems can be integrated into a single chip, the so-called System-on-chip (SoC), which brings to VLSI engineers ever increasingly challenges to master techniques in various phases of VLSI design. For modern SoC design, practical applications are usually speed hungry. For instance, Ethernet standard has evolved from 10Mbps to 10Gbps. Now the specification for 100Mbps Ethernet is on the way. On the other hand, with the popularity of wireless and portable computing devices, low power consumption has become extremely critical. To meet these contradicting requirements, VLSI designers have to perform optimizations at all levels of design. This book is intended to cover a wide range of VLSI design topics. The book can be roughly partitioned into four parts. Part I is mainly focused on algorithmic level and architectural level VLSI design and optimization for image and video signal processing systems. Part II addresses VLSI design optimizations for cryptography and error correction coding. Part III discusses general SoC design techniques as well as other application-specific VLSI design optimizations. The last part will cover generic nano-scale circuit-level design techniques.

Synthesis and Applications of Nanoparticles

Author : Atul Thakur
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811668191
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Synthesis and Applications of Nanoparticles written by Atul Thakur and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-06-20 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides thorough information on various nanomaterials, techniques for their synthesis and characterization, and examines their agricultural, environmental, biomedical, and clinical applications. The initial part of the book presents different nanomaterials; covers various physical, chemical, and biological methods for their synthesis; and reviews techniques to characterize their physicochemical and biological properties. Subsequently, the chapters of the book focus on the innovative applications of nanomaterials in disease diagnosis, tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, and cancer therapy. It also explores the green biosynthesis of nanomaterials and highlights their biological applications. Towards the end, the book examines the toxicity and biocompatibility of various nanomaterials. It aims to serve as a resource guide for researchers and biomedical clinicians working with nanomaterials.

An Analysis of Negative Group Delay in Electronic Circuits [microform]

Author : Suzanne J. (Suzanne Joy) Erickson
Publisher : Library and Archives Canada = Bibliothèque et Archives Canada
ISBN 13 : 9780494022030
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book An Analysis of Negative Group Delay in Electronic Circuits [microform] written by Suzanne J. (Suzanne Joy) Erickson and published by Library and Archives Canada = Bibliothèque et Archives Canada. This book was released on 2005 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The existence of superluminal and negative group velocities has been recognized and studied in both the theoretical and experimental domains for many years. This thesis examines the closely-related phenomenon of negative group delay (NGD) in passive and active electronic media. A passive NGD structure operating close to 1.3 GHz generated negative group delays of 20% of the input pulse width for a device with three loading stages, but exhibited losses of 20 dB in the NGD band. These high losses motivated the design and construction of an active NGD circuit. A mathematical and geometrical analysis of the transfer function determined the necessary conditions for NGD and gain. The chosen transfer function was implemented for operation at 15 kHz, and was simulated and measured in the frequency and time domains. Experimental NGDs of 19% of the input pulse width were achieved for three stages of circuit, with unity gain.

Analytical Methodology of Tree Microstrip Interconnects Modelling For Signal Distribution

Author : Blaise Ravelo
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811505527
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book Analytical Methodology of Tree Microstrip Interconnects Modelling For Signal Distribution written by Blaise Ravelo and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the modelling methodology of microstrip interconnects, discussing various structures of single-input multiple-output (SIMO) tree interconnects for signal integrity (SI) engineering. Further, it describes lumped and distributed transmission line elements based on single-input single-output (SIMO) models of symmetric and asymmetric trees, and investigates more complicated phenomenon, such as interbranch coupling. The modelling approaches are based on the analytical methods using the Z-, Y- and T-matrices. The established method enables the S-parameters and voltage transfer function of SIMO tree to be determined. Providing illustrative results with frequency and time domain analyses for each tree interconnect structure, the book is a valuable resource for researchers, engineers, and graduate students in fields of analogue, RF/microwave, digital and mixed circuit design, SI and manufacturing engineering.

WDM and Photonic Switching Devices for Network Applications

Author :
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Op Amps for Everyone

Author : Ron Mancini
Publisher : Newnes
ISBN 13 : 0750677015
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book Op Amps for Everyone written by Ron Mancini and published by Newnes. This book was released on 2003 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The operational amplifier ("op amp") is the most versatile and widely used type of analog IC, used in audio and voltage amplifiers, signal conditioners, signal converters, oscillators, and analog computing systems. Almost every electronic device uses at least one op amp. This book is Texas Instruments' complete professional-level tutorial and reference to operational amplifier theory and applications. Among the topics covered are basic op amp physics (including reviews of current and voltage division, Thevenin's theorem, and transistor models), idealized op amp operation and configuration, feedback theory and methods, single and dual supply operation, understanding op amp parameters, minimizing noise in op amp circuits, and practical applications such as instrumentation amplifiers, signal conditioning, oscillators, active filters, load and level conversions, and analog computing. There is also extensive coverage of circuit construction techniques, including circuit board design, grounding, input and output isolation, using decoupling capacitors, and frequency characteristics of passive components. The material in this book is applicable to all op amp ICs from all manufacturers, not just TI. Unlike textbook treatments of op amp theory that tend to focus on idealized op amp models and configuration, this title uses idealized models only when necessary to explain op amp theory. The bulk of this book is on real-world op amps and their applications; considerations such as thermal effects, circuit noise, circuit buffering, selection of appropriate op amps for a given application, and unexpected effects in passive components are all discussed in detail. *Published in conjunction with Texas Instruments *A single volume, professional-level guide to op amp theory and applications *Covers circuit board layout techniques for manufacturing op amp circuits.

Electronic Circuit Design and Application

Author : Stephan J. G. Gift
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030793753
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Electronic Circuit Design and Application written by Stephan J. G. Gift and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-11-27 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook for core courses in Electronic Circuit Design teaches students the design and application of a broad range of analog electronic circuits in a comprehensive and clear manner. Readers will be enabled to design complete, functional circuits or systems. The authors first provide a foundation in the theory and operation of basic electronic devices, including the diode, bipolar junction transistor, field effect transistor, operational amplifier and current feedback amplifier. They then present comprehensive instruction on the design of working, realistic electronic circuits of varying levels of complexity, including power amplifiers, regulated power supplies, filters, oscillators and waveform generators. Many examples help the reader quickly become familiar with key design parameters and design methodology for each class of circuits. Each chapter starts from fundamental circuits and develops them step-by-step into a broad range of applications of real circuits and systems. Written to be accessible to students of varying backgrounds, this textbook presents the design of realistic, working analog electronic circuits for key systems; Includes worked examples of functioning circuits, throughout every chapter, with an emphasis on real applications; Includes numerous exercises at the end of each chapter; Uses simulations to demonstrate the functionality of the designed circuits; Enables readers to design important electronic circuits including amplifiers, power supplies and oscillators.

Theory and Design of Analogue and Numerical Elementary NGD Circuits

Author : Blaise Ravelo
Publisher : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9783848415588
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book Theory and Design of Analogue and Numerical Elementary NGD Circuits written by Blaise Ravelo and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an innovative theory of active circuit topologies exhibiting the negative group delay (NGD) function appli. in RF/electronic engineering. The basic properties of this abnormal function are established. An analogy between the NGD behaviour and filter gain is developed. Then, several elementary cells operating as low-pass, high-pass, band-pass and stop-band circuits are identified. Then, simulation and experimental results in very good agreement with the theory are offered. Design techniques of NGD low-pass and band-pass proof of concepts respectively operating with super ultra-wide band (UWB) RF signals are described. It is demonstrated theoretically and experimentally that the NGD circuits enable to realize the propagation of limited bandwidth signals with negative time-delay and applications for pure delay cancellation. In other words, the possibility of certain signal wave forms anticipation was verified in theory, simulation and practice. The feasibility of the NDG multiband devices implementation and digital FIR/IIR circuits is presented. Novel topologies of distributed circuits potentially integrable and susceptible to operate up to tens GHz are examined.

VLSI

Author : Zhongfeng Wang
Publisher : IntechOpen
ISBN 13 : 9789533070490
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book VLSI written by Zhongfeng Wang and published by IntechOpen. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The process of Integrated Circuits (IC) started its era of VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) in 1970’s when thousands of transistors were integrated into one single chip. Nowadays we are able to integrate more than a billion transistors on a single chip. However, the term “VLSI” is still being used, though there was some effort to coin a new term ULSI (Ultra-Large Scale Integration) for fine distinctions many years ago. VLSI technology has brought tremendous benefits to our everyday life since its occurrence. VLSI circuits are used everywhere, real applications include microprocessors in a personal computer or workstation, chips in a graphic card, digital camera or camcorder, chips in a cell phone or a portable computing device, and embedded processors in an automobile, et al. VLSI covers many phases of design and fabrication of integrated circuits. For a commercial chip design, it involves system definition, VLSI architecture design and optimization, RTL (register transfer language) coding, (pre- and post-synthesis) simulation and verification, synthesis, place and route, timing analyses and timing closure, and multi-step semiconductor device fabrication including wafer processing, die preparation, IC packaging and testing, et al. As the process technology scales down, hundreds or even thousands of millions of transistors are integrated into one single chip. Hence, more and more complicated systems can be integrated into a single chip, the so-called System-on-chip (SoC), which brings to VLSI engineers ever increasingly challenges to master techniques in various phases of VLSI design. For modern SoC design, practical applications are usually speed hungry. For instance, Ethernet standard has evolved from 10Mbps to 10Gbps. Now the specification for 100Mbps Ethernet is on the way. On the other hand, with the popularity of wireless and portable computing devices, low power consumption has become extremely critical. To meet these contradicting requirements, VLSI designers have to perform optimizations at all levels of design. This book is intended to cover a wide range of VLSI design topics. The book can be roughly partitioned into four parts. Part I is mainly focused on algorithmic level and architectural level VLSI design and optimization for image and video signal processing systems. Part II addresses VLSI design optimizations for cryptography and error correction coding. Part III discusses general SoC design techniques as well as other application-specific VLSI design optimizations. The last part will cover generic nano-scale circuit-level design techniques.

Negative-group-delay and Non-foster Electromagnetic Structures

Author : Hassan Mirzaei
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)

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Practical Analog and RF Electronics

Author : Daniel B. Talbot
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000178420
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Practical Analog and RF Electronics written by Daniel B. Talbot and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-09-23 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about real-world design techniques for analog circuits: amplifiers, filters, injection-locked oscillators, phase-locked loops, transimpedance amplifiers, group delay correction circuits, notch filters, and spectrum regrowth in digital radio frequency (RF) transmitters, etc. The book offers practical solutions to analog and RF problems, helping the reader to achieve high-performance circuit and system design. A variety of issues are covered, such as: How to flatten group delay of filters How to use reciprocity to advantage How to neutralize a parasitic capacitance How to deepen a notch by adding only two components to the network How to demodulate a signal using the secant waveform and its benefit How to flatten the frequency response of a diode detector When to use a transimpedance amplifier and how to maximize its performance How to recover non-return-to-zero (NRZ) data when alternating current (AC) coupling is required Why phase noise corrupts adjacent communication channels Simple method to prevent false locking in phase-locked loops How to improve the bandwidth of amplification by using current conveyors A very simple impedance matching technique requiring only one reactive component How to use optimization Quadrature distortion and cross-rail interference This book is meant to be a handbook (or a supplemental textbook) for students and practitioners in the design of analog and RF circuitry with primary emphasis on practical albeit sometimes unorthodox circuit realizations. Equations and behavioral simulations result in an abundance of illustrations, following a "words and pictures" easy-to-understand approach. Teachers will find the book an important supplement to a standard analog and RF course, or it may stand alone as a textbook. Working engineers may find it useful as a handbook by bookmarking some of the step-by-step procedures, e.g., the section on simplified impedance matching or group delay flattening.

Photonic Signal Processing, Second Edition

Author : Le Nguyen Binh
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 0429792638
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Photonic Signal Processing, Second Edition written by Le Nguyen Binh and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Second Edition of "Photonic Signal Processing" updates most recent R&D on processing techniques of signals in photonic domain from the fundamentals given in its first edition. Several modern techniques in Photonic Signal Processing (PSP) are described: Graphical signal flow technique to simplify the analysis of the photonic transfer functions, plus its insights into the physical phenomena of such processors. The resonance and interference of optical fields are presented by the poles and zeros of the optical circuits, respectively. Detailed design procedures for fixed and tunable optical filters. These filters, "brick-wall-like", now play a highly important role in ultra-broadband (100GBaud) to spectral shaping of sinc temporal response so as to generate truly Nyquist sampler of the received eye diagrams 3-D PSP allows multi-dimensional processing for highly complex optical signals Photonic differentiators and integrators for dark soliton generations. Optical dispersion compensating processors for ultra-long haul optical transmission systems. Some optical devices essentials for PSP. Many detailed PSP techniques are given in the chapters of this Second Edition.