This work presents a case study for the investigation of the interconnects reliability while migrating from a traditional CMOS Bulk to a SOI technology. The Bulk-to-SOI migration has been recently explored, even considering the improvements and drawbacks related to SOI, including low power advantages of this technology and low thermal properties as well. The focus point of this paper is the est...

NATURE PHOTONICS | VOL 9 | DECEMBER 2015 | www.nature.com/naturephotonics Light consists of electromagnetic waves that oscillate in time and propagate in space. Scalar waves are described by their intensity and phase distributions. These are the spatial (orbital) degrees of freedom common to all types of waves, both classical and quantum. In particular, a localized intensity distribution determ...

BACKGROUND Risks prediction models of 30-day all-cause hospital readmissions are multi-factorial. Severity of illness (SOI) and risk of mortality (ROM) categorized by All Patient Refined Diagnosis Related Groups (APR-DRG) seem to predict hospital readmission but lack large sample validation. Effects of risk reduction interventions including providing post-discharge outpatient visits remain unce...

Neuropeptide hormones produced by neurosecretory cells in the central or peripheral nervous systems regulate various physiological and behavioral events during insect development and reproduction. PBAN/Pyrokinin is a major neuropeptide family, characterized by a 5-amino-acid C-terminal sequence, FXPRLamide. This family of peptides has been implicated in regulating various physiological function...

Applications involving smart cards have rapidly emerged since a few years. Up to now, chips are realized in conventional bulk technology. But as the need for performance rises, alternative technologies must be investigated. In this paper we study the feasibility of realizing the blocks for a smart card chip in Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) technology. For most of the circuit blocks, SOI realizatio...

Novel device architectures such as ultra-thin body silicon-on-insulator (UTB SOI) MOSFETs which are more resistant to some of the sources of intrinsic parameter fluctuations are expected to play an increasingly important role beyond the 45 nm technology node. Apart from reduced device variability UTB SOI SRAM would benefit considerably from the superior electrostatic integrity and reduced junct...

An overview of the present silicon-on-insulator (SOI) waveguide technology is given and supplemented with an extensive set of theory and simulation results. Characteristics of slab-, rectangularand ridge waveguides in SOI are explained. In particular, the number of modes and the single-mode conditions are carefully analyzed. Experimental work with straight and bent 8 to 10 μm thick SOI ridge wa...

Fully-depleted SOI devices are being considered for low power applications due to their threshold voltage, sub-threshold slope and capacitance advantages over other technologies. However, the threshold voltage of a fully-depleted SOI device is a strong function of the silicon film and sacrificial oxide thicknesses. Thus, to fully realize the advantages of fully-depleted SOI devices in commercia...

Despite considerable interest in two-dimensional (2D) topological insulators (TIs), a fundamental question still remains open how mesoscopic conductance fluctuations in 2D TIs are affected by spin-orbit interaction (SOI). Here, we investigate the effect of SOI on the universal conductance fluctuation (UCF) in disordered 2D TIs. Although 2D TI exhibits UCF like any metallic systems, the amplitud...

Among the open-literature on pulse-position-modulation (PPM) radiowave wireless communications, this work is first to advance a semi-‘blind’/‘blind’ spatial-rake receiver with interference-rejection capability. This proposed adaptive ‘smart antennas’ detector uses the signal-of-interest’s (SOI) earlier decoded information-symbols to segment earlier collected data into two data-groups: one data-...