This paper presents the design and implementation of a compact 2.4/5.2-GHz rat-race coupler on a glass substrate. Due to the low-loss substrate and thick metal layers, the process provides high-Q capacitors and inductors, and therefore the lumped rat-race coupler is practical. The coupler consists of three bandpass and one bandstop networks to achieve dual-band operations. The measured insertio...

Arranging I/O in a matrix array over the core circuitry of an IC generally provides 5{ 10 times more I/O than the traditional method of restricting pads to the periphery. This approach also minimizes overall die size. This method was pioneered by IBM over thirty years ago and has recently become attractive for new designs requiring several hundred I/O. In this paper we describe the development ...

We present a design of broadband and wide dynamic range low noise amplifier/radio frequency variable gain amplifier (LNA/RF VGA) for digital video broadcasting – satellite (DVBS2) receiver tuner integrated circuit fabricated using the 0.18 μm complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) process. The MOS switching filter was used to get broadband characteristics of the LNA circuit and the MOS ...

Conductance quantization at room temperature is a key requirement for the utilizing of ballistic transport for, e.g., high-performance, low-power dissipating transistors operating at the upper limit of "on"-state conductance or multivalued logic gates. So far, studying conductance quantization has been restricted to high-mobility materials at ultralow temperatures and requires sophisticated nan...

The evaporative cooling pad system permits to cool buildings with less consumption of the electricity and without any use refrigerant gases. A good must have a higher coefficient performance lower rate water consumption. In this study, Taguchi method is used investigate effect velocity, thickness pad, type pads on performances cellulosic pads. It was found that velocity has more influence while...

Metallic debris from metal-on-metal bearings is a recognized mode of failure that may lead to implant loosening and periprosthetic soft tissue reactions. The sequelae of metallosis have been most commonly reported with respect to total hip arthroplasty. The authors report a rare case of metallosis following a hybrid metal-on-polyethylene total knee arthroplasty that used a porous tantalum tibia...

In this paper, the numerical study focuses on stress field of knee meniscus in two gaits jumping motion, and injury its protection effect are studied based distribution characteristics meniscus. The gait simulation was carried out by using a more detailed healthy model including bone, articular cartilage, meniscus, ligaments peripheral soft tissues constructed combining CT MRI tomography, peak ...

At ambient pressure there are 29 elemental superconductors in the periodic table, none of which is an alkali metal. The first alkali metal to become superconducting under high pressure is Cs followed years later by Li. Alkali metals are believed to be exemplary free-electron systems. The fact that an alkali metal becomes superconducting at all is surprising and is a result of the fact that unde...