With getting older in the whole population, the prevalence of stroke and its residual disability is getting higher and higher recently in Taiwan. The functional electrical stimulation cycling system (FESCS) is useful for hemiplegic patients. Because that the muscle of stroke patients is under hybrid activation. The raw electromyography (EMG) represents the residual muscle force of stroke subjec...

Generation of residual direct-current (DC) voltage (VrDC) induces serious image sticking liquid crystal displays (LCDs). In this study, a novel technique to determine the VrDC LC cells is proposed. We found that could be determined from current-voltage (I-V) curve obtained by application triangular voltage. case vertically aligned twisted nematic (VTN) mode cell, where vertical electric field a...

In the current study, a multi-arc predicting model for DC critical flashover voltage of iced and pre-contaminated long insulator strings under low atmospheric pressure is developed. The model is composed of a series of different polarity surface arcs, icicle-icicle air gap arcs, and residual layer resistance. The calculation method of the residual resistance of the ice layer under DC multi-arc ...

The relationships of the residual stress versus process parameters of diamond films grown by Hot Filament CVD were investigated by XRD. The intrinsic macrostress in the diamond films was tensile. The tensile stress decreased almost linearly with acetone concentration, and a minimum tensile stress was obtained at a deposition temperature of 9OOOC and 50 V bias voltage. The microstress in the fil...

This paper presents a monolithic three-axis accelerometer with wafer-level package by CMOS MEMS process. The compositions of the microstructure are selected from CMOS layers in order to suppress the in-plane and out-of-plane bending deflection caused by the residual stresses in multiple layers. A switched-capacitor sensing circuit with a trimming mechanism is used to amplify the capacitive sign...

This paper reports on the design, fabrication, and testing of a low-actuation voltage Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) switch for high-frequency applications. The mechanical design of low spring-constant folded-suspension beams is presented first, and switches using these beams are demonstrated with measured actuation voltages of as low as 6 V. Furthermore, common nonidealities such as res...

this paper presents a detailed small-signal and transient analysis of a full bridge pwm dc-dc converter designed for high voltage, high power applications using an average model. the derived model is implemented in a typical system and used to produce the small-signal and transient characteristics of the converter. results obtained in the analysis of the high voltage and high power design examp...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to compare two different microelectrode materials--the conductive polymer composite poly-3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene (PEDOT)-carbon nanotube(CNT) and titanium nitride (TiN)--at activating spikes in retinal ganglion cells in whole mount rat retina through stimulation of the local retinal network. Stimulation efficacy of the microelectrodes was analyzed by compa...

A 5.3 GHz low voltage CMOS frequency divider whose modulus can be varied from 220 to 224 is presented. Programmability is achieved by switching between different output phases of a D flip-flop (DFF). An improved glitchfree phase switching technique through the use of a retimer circuit is introduced. A high speed low voltage DFF circuit is given. The programmable divider fabricated in m technolo...

-During normal operation of a three-phase AC induction motor, the magnetic flux in a healthy rotor forms a sinusoidal pattern. Typically, in healthy rotors, little residual flux will remain after the motor is de-energized. However, as rotor anomalies such as cracked or broken bars develop, a net residual flux may be established. This additional flux appears as a variation in the residual flux a...