This paper presents a kind of passive wireless pressure sensor comprised of a planar spiral inductor and a cavity parallel plate capacitor fabricated through low-temperature co-fired ceramic (LTCC) technology. The LTCC material with a low Young's modulus of ~65 GPa prepared by our laboratory was used to obtain high sensitivity. A three-step lamination process was applied to construct a high qua...

In this paper, a new square-root domain, first order, all-pass filter based on the MOSFET square law is presented. The proposed filter is designed by using nonlinear mapping on the state variables of a state space description of the transfer function. To the best knowledge of the authors, the filter is the first square-root domain first order all-pass structure designed by using state space syn...

The Au/DyMnO₃/Nb:SrTiO₃/Au stack was demonstrated to be not only a high performance memristor but also a good memcapacitor. The switching time is below 10 ns, the retention is longer than 10(5) s, and the change ratio of resistance (or capacitance) is larger than 100 over the 10(8) switching cycles. Moreover, this stack has a broad range of intermediate states that are tunable by the operating ...

In this paper, a new trans-admittance-mode biquad filter configuration based on two multi output voltage differencing transconductance amplifiers (MO-VDTAs) as newly active elements is proposed which also consists of two grounded MOS resistors and two capacitors with one of the capacitor is being permanently grounded. The proposed configuration is competent of realizing trans-admittance-mode lo...

A nanomosaic network of metallic nanoparticles for the detection of ultralow concentrations of proteins is reported, which uses two planar microelectrodes embedded in a microchip that permit generation of capacitive coupling to the nanomosaic system without the need for direct electrical contact with the channel. By tailoring the microchannel surface using a sandwich configuration of polyethyle...

MEMS-based oscillators offer a silicon-based alternative to quartz-based frequency references. Here, a MEMS-based programmable oscillator is presented which achieves better than 0.5-ppm frequency stability from 40 C to 85 C and less than 1-ps (rms) integrated phase noise (12 kHz to 20 MHz). A key component of this system is a thermistor-based temperature-to-digital converter (TDC) which enables...

An electro-optic tunable single and multi-channel optical filter based on one-dimensional defective photonic crystal (1DDPC) structure is proposed. A couple of externally tunable defects in arrangement of (AB)5D1(BA)D2(BA)5, where A and B are dielectric materials, D1 and D2 are the tunable defects are used. The defects are composed of the ferroelectric LiNbO3 crystals and two pairs of thin Ag l...

The main focus of this thesis is the study of a novel microwave component, the tunable thin film bulk acoustic wave resonator (TFBAR), based on ferroelectric BaxSr1−xTiO3 thin films. Conventional fixed frequency TFBARs, widely used for filtering applications in wireless communication systems, are based on ordinary piezoelectrics. The tunable TFBAR on the other hand utilizes the dc field induced...

The multi-billion-dollar market for micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) devices containing micron-sized moving parts produced by photolithographic processes is overwhelmingly dominated by silicon. However, this material is not suitable for the fabrication of certain devices, and academic institutions and company research labs are using various compound semiconductor materials to produce MEM...