A universal BiCMOS low-voltage-swing transceiver (driverlreceiver) with low on-chip power consumption is reported. Operating at 3.3V, it can drivekeceive low-voltageswing signals with termination voltages ranging from SV down to 2V without using any external reference voltages.

Currents: Positive current is defined as conventional current flow into a device. Negative current is defined as current flow out of a device. Voltages: All voltages are referenced to the ground pin.

The difficulty in characterizing ion conduction through membrane channels at the level of individual permeation events has made it challenging to elucidate the mechanistic principles underpinning this fundamental physiological process. Using long, all-atom simulations enabled by special-purpose hardware, we studied K(+) permeation across the KV1.2/2.1 voltage-gated potassium channel. At experim...

Starting from the quasiclassical equations for non-equilibrium Green's functions we derive a simple kinetic equation that governs ac Josephson effect in a superconducting quantum point contact at small bias voltages. In contrast to existing approaches the kinetic equation is valid for voltages with arbitrary time dependence. We use this equation to calculate frequency-dependent linear conductan...

This paper presents the analytical and experimental results on optimal placement of piezoceramic actuators for shape control of beam structures. The objective is to determine the optimum piezoceramic actuator locations and voltages to minimize the error between the desired shape and the achieved shape. The analytical model for predicting beam deformation due to a piezoelectric actuator is based...

In recent years, multiphase PWMs have been proposed because of their increased efficiency, reduced torque pulsation, improved fault tolerance, and lower power handling requirement by adopting multiphase machines. In the digital implementation, multiphase reference voltages are sampled and fed into the digital modulator to produce gating signals at a constant clock rate f. This means a finite pu...