一种用于AMOLED驱动的多模式高效电荷泵

设计了一种用于AMOLED驱动芯片的多模式高效低纹波电荷泵。该电荷泵通过模式选择,使输出电压可配置,实现多模式功能。针对电压建立和模式切换过程中电荷损耗的问题,利用初始化电路和电压检测电路来保证电荷泵中电荷单向传输,同时利用衬底选择开关来解决电荷泵的体效应问题,提高了电压转换效率。采用双边对称的泵电路结构,减小了输出电压纹波。采用UMC 80 nm CMOS工艺进行仿真。结果表明,负载电流为4 mA时,输出电压为8.4~17 V,四种工作模式下电压转换效率均在90%以上,电压纹波均小于1 mV。     

用于相变存储器的高效开关电容电荷泵

提出一种应用于相变存储器芯片的新型开关电容电荷泵。对于16 位的相变存储器芯片,系统擦写时间大于100 ns,电荷泵的驱动能力至少为60 mA。相比于传统开关电容电荷泵,该电荷泵根据负载电流大小自动生成一个使能信号,该信号通过控制升压模块功率管的开启与关断来调节输出电压,最终将输出电压控制在一个允许的范围内波动。采用40 nm CMOS工艺对电荷泵进行设计和仿真,结果表明在5 mA负载时,电源效率为87%,输出纹波为2.84 mV;负载电流从0 mA变化到60 mA时,电源效率皆高于82%;负载电流变化在300 mA/μs时,输出瞬态响应时间为1.63 μs,满足相变存储器芯片的使用要求。     

轻载高效Buck转换器设计及其纹波控制方案

提出了一种峰值电流模式PWM下的轻载高效Buck DC-DC控制方案。该方案根据负载大小来自适应调节开关频率和电感电流峰值,实现宽负载范围内高的转换效率和对输出纹波的控制。把误差信号与负载自适应的门限相比较,以判定转换器工作模式。在轻载模式下,通过循环开启或者关闭振荡器来降低转换器的开关频率,降低开关损耗。详细推导了在保持输出电压纹波不变的情况下,负载自适应门限与负载大小之间的关系,并在典型应用下得到二者呈线性关系的结论。采用0.5μm BCD工艺进行仿真,结果显示,在输入电压12 V,输出电压3.3 V下,轻载时最高有94.2%的转换效率,在负载从10 mA到500 mA变化时,轻载模式纹波为120~140 mV,与理论分析的控制纹波130 mV较为符合。     

一种用于H桥功率驱动电路的电荷泵设计

提出了一种可驱动H桥功率电路的电荷泵.为了简化电路设计和确保电路稳定性,本电荷泵采用两倍压电荷泵电路拓扑结构,通过加入两路反馈控制电路来提高电荷泵充电电流和输出电压值的控制精度以及电源转换效率.设计采用0.35μm BCD工艺,通过Cadence Spectre仿真器表明,在负载电流为5mA条件下,电荷泵正常工作时输出电压范围广(10~40V),电源转换效率最高达到91%,输出电压建立所需时间为579μs.样片实测结果显示,在不同输入电压条件下,输出电压纹波控制在385mV以下.     

用于TFT-LCD液晶显示的可调电荷泵设计

为了满足TFT-LCD液晶显示的驱动要求,设计了一种通过控制饱和区MOS管的导通电阻来调节输出电压的可调电荷泵。与传统的电荷泵相比,该电荷泵通过负反馈系统进行控制,具有输出可调、最少外围器件、低纹波、易于集成等优点。采用此可调电荷泵电路的芯片已在UMC0.6μm-BCD工艺线投片,测试结果表明,该可调电荷泵电路工作良好,独特的稳压方式使得电荷泵输出纹波降至最低,并且电荷泵的电容尺寸小,从而减小了整个系统的PCB面积,可调电荷泵正电压输出范围为10～30V,负电压输出范围为-5～-30V,负载电流为50mA时,输出纹波为27mV,可调电荷泵的整体效率可达80%。     

一种高效率升压型ＤＣ－ＤＣ转换器设计

设计了一种基于PWM/PFM调制模式的全负载高效率升压型DC-DC转换器。根据负载不同,实现PWM和PFM模式的自动切换。轻载时,进入PFM模式,降低开关损耗,并加入电感峰值限流,减小输出电压纹波。在DCM状态下,利用休眠模式电路,降低静态功耗,同时提出一种抗振铃电路,进一步提升轻载转换效率。芯片实测结果表明,1mA轻载条件下,效率依然达到91.6%,输出电压纹波约为6.6 mV。全负载最高效率可以达到93.1%。     

采用高性能负压电荷泵的AMOLED驱动DC-DC转换器

提出了一种采用高性能负压电荷泵的有源矩阵有机发光二极管(AMOLED)驱动DC-DC转换器.正输出电压(VOP)由升压转换器(BOOST)和线性稳压器(LDO)级联产生,BOOST中使用前馈方法改善线性瞬态响应,LDO保证了芯片在全负载电流范围内输出电压的纹波.负输出电压(VON)由一种新颖负压电荷泵电路产生,电荷泵仅由MOSFET构成以提高效率.提出了一种新型的转换负压的电平转换电路,降低了开关管导通电阻并提高了负压效率.采用突发(BURST)控制模式提高了轻载效率.芯片采用0.18 μm BCD工艺,其VOP和VON分别为4.6V和-2.4 V,工作频率为1 MHz,正常工作时的负载电流为0～ 50 mA,最大电源效率为89.4％.VOP和VON的纹波均小于7 mV,线性瞬态响应均为5 mV,负载瞬态响应分别为5 mV和20 mV.负输出电压在-0.6～-2.4 V可调,调整步长为0.1V.     

一种单片低功耗电荷泵电源管理电路的设计

基于0.6 μm BiCMOS工艺,设计了一款高精度电荷泵电源管理芯片.该芯片利用2倍压电荷泵电源转换原理,芯片内部集成了具有优异频率响应的振荡器电容,施密特触发器提供内部精准频率,PFM调制提供稳定的输出电压.测试结果表明,芯片输入电压范围为2.7～5.5V,输出电压为5V,电压纹波小于20 mV,内部振荡频率为700 kHz,低功耗模式时电流仅为6.73 μA.     

用于相变存储器的超低输出纹波2X/1.5X电荷泵

本文针对相变存储器编程驱动电路,提出了一种超低输出电压纹波的开关电容型电荷泵。该电荷泵可根据输入电压的不同,自适应工作在2X/1.5X升压模式之间,以获得更高的电源转换效率。相比于传统开关电容型电荷泵,在充电阶段泵电容被充电至预先设定的电压值Vo-VDD(Vo为预期的输出电压);放电阶段,泵电容串联在输入电压VDD与输出端,通过此方法将电荷泵输出端电压稳定在Vo,并有效的降低了由于电荷分享所造成的输出纹波。在中芯国际40nm标准CMOS工艺模型下,对电路进行了仿真验证,结果表明在输入电压为1.6-2.1V,输出2.5V电压,最大负载电流为10mA,输出电压纹波低于4mV,电源效率最高可达91%。     

一种用于Flash的新型电荷泵调节技术

在Flash、带电可擦可编程只读存储器(EEROM)等存储器中,电荷泵电路是用于提供编程、擦除和读取高压的重要模块。电荷泵调节电路用于输出稳定的电压和电流。文章提出了一种新型Flash电荷泵调节电路,以解决传统电路在轻负载时纹波过大而难以适用多位Flash的问题。其电路结构特征是对传统频率调节电路增加了时钟幅度调节模块,使得在电流轻载时电荷泵在较小的时钟幅度下工作,而在电流重载时切换到最大时钟幅度,并且通过锁存控制电路避免临界负载时的时钟幅度反复改变。基于XMC 65 nm浮栅工艺的Cadence Spectre仿真表明,该电荷泵调节技术能够在轻载和重载两个状态下都保持40 mV的纹波电压,有效减少了轻载情况下Flash电荷泵输出纹波。     

Preparation and Characterization of TaN ALD Precursors

High purity organic-tantalum precursors for thin film ALD TaN were synthesized and characterized.Vapor pressure and thermal stability of these precursors were studied.From the vapor pressure analysis,it was found that TBTEMT has a higher vapor pressure than any other published liquid TaN precursor,including TBTDET,TAITMATA,and IPTDET.Thermal stability of the alkyl groups on the precursors was investigated using a 1H NMR technique.The results indicated that the tertbutylimino group is the most stable group on TBTDET and TBTEMT as compared to the dialkylamido groups.Thermal stability of TaN precursors decreased in the following order:TBTDET ＞ PDMAT ＞ TBTEMT.In conclusion,precursor vapor pressure and thermal stability were tuned by making slight variations in the ligand sphere around the metal center.     

Curved crystal spectrometer for the measurement of X-ray lines from laser-produced plasmas

In order to diagnose the laser-produced plasmas, a focusing curved crystal spectrometer has been developed for measuring the X-ray lines radiated from a laser-produced plasmas. The design is based on the fact that the ray emitted from a source located at one focus of an ellipse will converge on the other focus by the reflection of the elliptical surface. The focal length and the eccentricity of the ellipse are 1350 mm and 0.9586, respectively. The spectrometer can be used to measure the X- ray lines in the wavelength range of 0.2-0.37 nm, and a LiF crystal （200） （2d = 0.4027 nm） is used as dispersive element covering Bragg angle from 30° to 67.5°. The spectrometer was tested on Shengnang- Ⅱ which can deliver laser energy of 60-80 J/pulse and the laser wavelength is 0.35 μm. Photographs of spectra including the 1 s2p ^1P1-1s^2 ^1S0 resonance line（w）, the 1s2p ^3P2-1s^2 1S0 magnetic quadrupole line（x）, the 1s2p ^3P1-1 s^2 ^1S0 intercombination lines（y）, the 1 s2p ^3S~1-1 s^2 ^1S0 forbidden line（z） in helium-like Ti Ⅹ Ⅺ and the 1 s2s2p ^2P3/2-1 s622s ^2S1/2 line（q） in lithium-like Ti Ⅹ Ⅹhave been recorded with a X-ray CCD camera. The experimental result shows that the wavelength resolution（λ/△ 2） is above 1000 and the elliptical crystal spectrometer is suitable for X-ray spectroscopy.     

Electronic Structure of Semiconductor Nanocrystals

This paper reviews our recent development of the use of the large-scale pseudopotential method to calculate the electronic structure of semiconductor nanocrystals, such as quantum dots and wires, which often contain tens of thousands of atoms. The calculated size-dependent exciton energies and absorption spectra of quantum dots and wires are in good agreement with experiments. We show that the electronic structure of a nanocrystal can be tuned not only by its size,but also by its shape. Finally,we show that defect properties in quantum dots can be significantly different from those in bulk semiconductors.     

Critical Stage Rule-Based Real Time Dispatch（RTD）System in Highly-Mixed-Products （HMP） FAB

An improving utilization and efficiency of critical equipments in semiconductor wafer fabrication facilities are concerned. Semiconductor manufacturing FAB is one of the most complicated and cost sensitive environments. A good dispatching tool will make big difference in equipment utilization and FAB output as a whole. The equipment in this paper is In-Line DUV Scanner. There are many factors impacting utilization and output on this equipment group. In HMP environment one of the issues is changing of reticule in this area and idle counts due to load unbalance between equipments. Here we'll introduce a rule-based RTD system which aiming at decreasing the number of recipe change and idle counts among a group of scanner equipment in a high-mixed-products FAB.     

GaAsSb/InAlAs PA DHBTs Grown by Production MBE

The epi material growth of GaAsSb based DHBTs with InAlAs emitters are investigated using a 4 × 100mm multi-wafer production Riber 49 MBE reactor fully equipped with real-time in-situ sensors including an absorption band edge spectroscope and an optical-based flux monitor. The state-of-the-art hole mobilities are obtained from 100nm thick carbon-doped GaAsSb. A Sb composition variation of less than ± 0.1 atomic percent across a 4 × 100mm platen configuration has been achieved. The large area InAlAs/GaAsSb/InP DHBT device demonstrates excellent DC characteristics,such as BVCEO＞6V and a DC current gain of 45 at 1kA/cm2 for an emitter size of 50μm × 50μm. The devices have a 40nm thick GaAsSb base with p-doping of 4. 5 × 1019cm-3 . Devices with an emitter size of 4μm × 30μm have a current gain variation less than 2% across the fully processed 100mm wafer. ft and fmax are over 50GHz,with a power efficiency of 50% ,which are comparable to standard power GaAs HBT results. These results demonstrate the potential application of GaAsSb/InP DHBT for power amplifiers and the feasibility of multi-wafer MBE for mass production of GaAsSb-based HBTs.     

Noise character analysis and the restraint of self-pulsation laser diodes

We calculate the Langevin noise sources of self-pulsation laser diodes, analyze the effects of active region noise and saturable-absorption region noise on the power fluctuation as well as period fluctuation, and propose a novel method to restrain the noise effects. A visible SIMULINK model is established to simulate the system, The results indicate that the effects of noise in absorption region can be ignored; that with the increase of DC injecting current, the noise effects enhance power jitter, and nevertheless, the period jitter is decreased; and that with external sinusoidal current modulating the self-pulsation laser diode, the noise-induced power jitter and period jitter can be suppressed greatly. This work is valuable for clock recovery in all-optical network.     

High-quality single-crystal CdSe nanoribbons and their optical properties

Large-scale synthesis of single-crystal CdSe nanoribbons is achieved by a modified thermal evaporation method, in which two-step-thermal-evaporation is used to control CdSe sources＇ evaporation. The synthesized CdSe nanoribbons are usually several micrometers in width, 50 nm in thickness, and tens to several hundred micrometers in length. Studies have shown that high-quality CdSe nanoribbons with regular shapes can be obtained by this method. Room-temperature photolumines-cence indicates that the lasing emission at 710 nm has been observed under optical pumping （266 nm） at power densities of 25-153 kW/cm^2. The full width half maximum （FWHM） of the lasing mode is 0.67 nm     

Propagation of hermite-cosh-gaussian beams passing through ABCD optical system with an annular aperture

By using the expansion of the aperture function into a finte sum of complex Gaussian functions, the corresponding analytical expressions of Hermite-cosh-Gaussian beams passing through annular apertured paraxially and symmetrically optical systems written in terms of ABCD matrix were derived, and they could reduce to the cases with squared aperture. In a similar way, the corresponding analytical expressions of cosh-Gaussian beams through annular apertured ABCD matrix were also given. The method could save more calculation time than that by using the diffraction integral formula directly.     

Influence of polarization extinction ratio on distributed polarization coupling detection

Distributed polarization coupling in polarization-maintaining fibers can be detected by using a white light Michelson interferometer. This technique usually requires that only one polarization mode is excited. However, in practical measurement, the injection polarization direction could not be exactly aligned to one of the principal axes of the PMF, so the influence of the polarization extinction ratio should be considered. Based on the polarization coupling theory, the influence of the incident polarization extinction on the measurement result is evaluated and analyzed, and a method for distributed polarization coupling detection is developed when both two orthogonal eigenmodes are excited.     

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