Periodic structures composed of quarter-wavelength or Helmholtz resonators have been widely used in the design acoustic metamaterials. An interesting phenomenon achievable through hybridization such is slow sound, which results from strong dispersion produced by local resonances. It gives rise to many applications as deep subwavelength sound absorbers metadiffusers. All proposed so far analyzed...

Analog Delay Line, " has been reviewed in final form. Permission, as indicated by the signatures and dates given below, is now granted to submit final copies to the College of Graduate Studies for approval. ABSTRACT High-speed synchronous interface circuits require that the controlling clock signals be accurately aligned. A dynamic de-skew circuit can be used to ensure good clock alignment acro...

The recent explosion of interest in wireless personal communication systems motivates the development of fully integrated radio receivers. The parallel reduction of the dimension in CMOS technology, and hence higher levels of integration enables the combined integration of bandpass or baseband analog-to-digital converter along with the traditional front-end receiver building blocks. While this ...

Designing a non-ideal delay line (DL) with phase distortion in a transmitted-reference ultra-wideband system (TR-UWB) with an autocorrelation receiver (AcR) is a great technical challenge. Differing from the currently empirical design method of DL, in this paper a semi-analytic approach is proposed through Gaussian approximation of the expression for conditional bit error rate (BER), based on i...

Weiwen Wu1,2, Yanbo Zhang2, Qian Wang2, Fenglin Liu1,3,*, Peijun Chen1 and Hengyong Yu2,* 1Key Lab of Optoelectronic Technology and Systems, Ministry of Education, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China 2Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA 01854, USA 3Engineering Research Center of Industrial Computed Tomography Nondestructive...