Zhizhi Chen, Qian Wang, Houpeng Chen, Xi Li, Xiaogang Chen, Sannian Song, Zhitang Song
{"title":"Research and Improvement of Muller C Element","authors":"Zhizhi Chen, Qian Wang, Houpeng Chen, Xi Li, Xiaogang Chen, Sannian Song, Zhitang Song","doi":"10.1049/ell2.70184","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/ell2.70184","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The basic structure of conventional Muller C element is studied and the output errors caused by node parasitic capacitors are analysed in this letter. In order to avoid such errors, an improved C element with two inverted ratio MOS transistors added is proposed to control high resistance nodes of the circuit. To reduce the power consumption of C element, two resistors are added. The proposed C element has been designed in 28 nm CMOS process and 2.5 V devices are adopted. The simulation results show that proposed C element avoids such errors and the size of the layout is 67.33 µm<sup>2</sup>.</p>","PeriodicalId":11556,"journal":{"name":"Electronics Letters","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/ell2.70184","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143438801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dual-Loop Antennas With a Branched Feed-Line for Broadband Circular Polarisation","authors":"Kazuhide Hirose, Shintaro Mita, Yuya Urushibata, Hisamatsu Nakano","doi":"10.1049/ell2.70180","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/ell2.70180","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Using the method of moments, we first analyse reference and present dual-loop antennas with a perturbation segment and branched feedline, respectively. The loop elements of each antenna are gradually rotated for an increased 3 dB axial ratio bandwidth. Analysis reveals that as the loop rotation angle increases, the bandwidths of the reference and present antennas reach 20% and 43%, respectively, twice and three times as broad as those of the corresponding antennas without the rotation. Next, we modify the present antenna using a sequential rotation technique and discuss the radiation characteristics. The simulated results are verified with experimental ones.</p>","PeriodicalId":11556,"journal":{"name":"Electronics Letters","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/ell2.70180","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143438802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Paul Haas, Nils Surkamp, Navina Kleemann, Heike Christopher, Andrea Knigge, Carsten Brenner, Martin R. Hofmann
{"title":"Diode Laser-Based Generation of Mode-Locked Pulses at 1067 Nm (290 fs, 69 W Peak Power)","authors":"Paul Haas, Nils Surkamp, Navina Kleemann, Heike Christopher, Andrea Knigge, Carsten Brenner, Martin R. Hofmann","doi":"10.1049/ell2.70176","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/ell2.70176","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We demonstrate the diode laser-based generation of mode-locked pulses with 290 fs temporal width and 69 W peak power at a centre wavelength of 1067 nm. The laser diode is operated in an external cavity configuration at a repetition rate of 1.05 GHz. The laser operates passively modelocked with a reverse biased absorber section. The chirped output pulses are compressed close to the transform limit by means of an optimized grating compressor. This tailored pulse compression delivers almost transform limited pulses with specifications sufficient for THz time domain spectroscopy or nonlinear microscopy applications.</p>","PeriodicalId":11556,"journal":{"name":"Electronics Letters","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/ell2.70176","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143424150","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zhendong Su, Jiang Li, Guoyun Huang, Zhanheng Tang, Honghan Qin, Liren Huang, Jian Zhou, Benxue Liu
{"title":"Cigarette defect detection based on independent feature extraction constraints","authors":"Zhendong Su, Jiang Li, Guoyun Huang, Zhanheng Tang, Honghan Qin, Liren Huang, Jian Zhou, Benxue Liu","doi":"10.1049/ell2.70163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/ell2.70163","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The detection of appearance defects in cigarettes is crucial in the field of industrial defect detection. Most existing detection methods achieve defect detection by utilizing deep learning to learn feature representations of various types of defects. However, due to the complexity and randomness of the production and processing process, the differences between defects in different cigarettes are not significant, which greatly affects the detection performance. Therefore, to address this issue, this article proposes a cigarette defect detection method based on independent feature extraction constraints, called IFEC. The core idea of this method is to extract independent features of different defect categories to increase the differences between features of different categories, enhance the distinguishability of features, and achieve accurate cigarette defect detection. In IFEC, an independence feature extraction constraint module is proposed that constrains the network to extract highly independent defect features of different categories through feature decoupling and feature decorrelation. The sufficient experimental results indicate that the proposed IFEC has superior detection performance compared to existing detection methods.</p>","PeriodicalId":11556,"journal":{"name":"Electronics Letters","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/ell2.70163","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143424148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CSS-UNet: Convolution-State Space Enhanced UNet for Cardiac MRI Segmentation","authors":"Yaliang Tong, Kun Liu, Yuquan He, Ping Yang","doi":"10.1049/ell2.70175","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/ell2.70175","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) is widely adopted in clinic for the assessment of cardiac anatomical structures and functions, and accurately segmenting left ventricular, myocardium and right ventricle from CMR plays an important role in clinical practice. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs), for example, U-Net, have been widely used in CMR segmentation. However, current CNN-based models focus on extracting local features via convolution modules, which cannot well understand the long-range dependencies within images, leading to the sub-optimal solution for CMR segmentation task. Inspired by Mamba that efficiently captures global context information using state space model, we propose a novel CMR segmentation model, called CSS-UNet, that can capture both local features and global contexts simultaneously by fusing features from convolution block and visual state space block. Our new model follows the design of U-Net architecture that contains encoder and decoder with skip connections, where a proposed feature fusion module, called spatial-state space, is seamlessly integrated into our model. By using the spatial-state space module, the low-level and high-level features can be extracted and fused for capturing both global and local information, enhancing the capability of feature extraction of CSS-UNet. We evaluate our proposed model on two public CMR datasets, and the experimental results reveal that our proposed model outperforms the most widely-used UNet, demonstrating the effectiveness of our model.</p>","PeriodicalId":11556,"journal":{"name":"Electronics Letters","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/ell2.70175","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143424147","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yonghua Zhang, Hui Wang, He Tang, Xingze Liu, Benxue Liu, Siyuan Sun
{"title":"Small target detection with decoupling and decorrelation of confusion features","authors":"Yonghua Zhang, Hui Wang, He Tang, Xingze Liu, Benxue Liu, Siyuan Sun","doi":"10.1049/ell2.70158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/ell2.70158","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Small target detection has important application value in military, cigarette defect detection, monitoring and remote sensing fields. However, due to the complex background interference of infrared images, the background and target features are confused with each other, which makes it difficult for existing detection methods to effectively distinguish the features of the background and the target, resulting in poor detection effect. Therefore, to solve this problem, this paper proposes a small target detection method based on confusion feature decoupling and decorrelation, aiming to achieve accurate detection of small targets in complex environments by extracting robust small target features. Specifically, in confusion feature decoupling and decorrelation, we propose a confusion feature decoupling and decorrelation module. By introducing a feature decoupling mechanism, the features of the input image are decomposed into independent background features and target features, and feature decorrelation is used to achieve independence between the target and the background. The target features after decoupling and decorrelation are purer, which helps to reduce background interference and thus improve detection performance. Systematic experimental results show that the detection performance of the proposed method on public small target detection datasets is much better than that of existing advanced detection methods.</p>","PeriodicalId":11556,"journal":{"name":"Electronics Letters","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/ell2.70158","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143423586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Implementation of an Ultra-Low Profile High-Purity OAM Generator","authors":"Songtao Peng, Youlei Pu","doi":"10.1049/ell2.70174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/ell2.70174","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This letter presents an orbital angular momentum (OAM) generator based on a uniform circular array (UCA) micro-integrated structure that produces ultra-high purity OAM vortex beams at Ka-band while maintaining a low profile. Utilizing cut-angle microstrip patch elements, the UCA excites circularly polarized waves and generates OAM modes with (<span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>l</mi>\u0000 <mo>=</mo>\u0000 <mo>±</mo>\u0000 <mn>1</mn>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation>$l=pm 1$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math>) through specific amplitude and phase signal inputs. A key feature of this design is the integration of a substrate-integrated waveguide (SIW) radial feed network with the UCA, significantly lowering fabrication costs and reducing the overall thickness to only 1.1 mm (0.11<span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <msub>\u0000 <mi>λ</mi>\u0000 <mn>0</mn>\u0000 </msub>\u0000 <annotation>$lambda _{0}$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math> at 30.0 GHz). Measurements of the Ka-band prototype reveal an OAM mode purity of 93% for (<span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>l</mi>\u0000 <mo>=</mo>\u0000 <mo>+</mo>\u0000 <mn>1</mn>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation>$l=+1$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math>) and a 10 dB bandwidth of approximately 1.8 GHz.</p>","PeriodicalId":11556,"journal":{"name":"Electronics Letters","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/ell2.70174","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143423942","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Novel D-InSAR and Offset Tracking Fusion Algorithm Based on Variance-Masked Mean Filtering","authors":"Yifan Wang, Gen Li, Zihan Hu, Chuanxu Sun, Zhe Li","doi":"10.1049/ell2.70173","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/ell2.70173","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Accurate ground deformation monitoring is crucial for understanding geophysical activities and mitigating disaster risks. D-InSAR and offset tracking are widely used but face limitations: D-InSAR struggles with phase unwrapping errors in large-scale deformation regions, while offset tracking lacks precision in small-scale deformation. This paper proposes a fusion algorithm based on variance-masked mean filtering to combine the strengths of both methods. The algorithm filters noise in gentle regions of the offset map and fuses refined results with D-InSAR to enhance accuracy. Applied to the 2023 Türkiye earthquake, the method effectively reduces noise, corrects unwrapping errors, and achieves superior accuracy in large-scale deformation scenarios such as earthquakes and landslides.</p>","PeriodicalId":11556,"journal":{"name":"Electronics Letters","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/ell2.70173","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143404453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hardware implementation of fast polar decoders based on a simplified control unit","authors":"Useok Lee, Myung Hoon Sunwoo","doi":"10.1049/ell2.70132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/ell2.70132","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper proposes a simplified control unit for fast simplified successive cancellation (FSSC)-based decoders. Specifically, this paper presents detailed hardware architectures for the simplified stage and operation decision modules based on the one-hot encoding of control signals. In addition, the proposed simplified control unit is applied to an FSSC decoder and it is compared with state-of-the-art polar decoders. The proposed control unit requires approximately 71% less normalized area than the existing finite-state machine-based control unit. Furthermore, the proposed FSSC decoder for the control unit improves the normalized area efficiency by up to 63% compared to conventional FSSC-based decoders.</p>","PeriodicalId":11556,"journal":{"name":"Electronics Letters","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/ell2.70132","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143397174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Energy efficiency maximization in IRS-aided cooperative WPCN with non-linear EH users","authors":"Bharti Katiyar, Deepak Mishra, Sudhakar Modem, Ravikant Saini","doi":"10.1049/ell2.13291","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/ell2.13291","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This work investigates energy efficiency (EE) maximization in intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) aided wireless-powered communication network with hybrid access point (HAP) and non-linear energy harvesting (EH) users. For system designers, maximizing EE is important to ensure a sustaining operation of the energy constrained wireless-powered communication network. The HAP powers the users in energy transmission mode (ETM), and it receives information from the users in cooperative manner through information transmission mode (ITM). The focus is on maximizing EE at the HAP by jointly optimizing IRS phase shifts along with transmit time and power allocation at users. The inherent non-convexity of the problem arises from the non-linear EH model at users and the practical non-linear design of IRS phase shifts. To address this, a decoupling strategy is employed, and optimal ITM IRS phase shifts are obtained using the penalty-based method. Subsequently, an alternating optimization approach is proposed where optimal IRS phase shifts in ETM are iteratively updated, incorporating a semidefinite relaxation technique. By utilizing the obtained optimal phase shifts for both ITM and ETM, the joint optimization problem is iteratively solved to maximize EE while considering time and power allocation, employing Dinkelbach's algorithm. Simulation results showcase a substantial enhancement of the system performance using proposed scheme compared to benchmark methods.</p>","PeriodicalId":11556,"journal":{"name":"Electronics Letters","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/ell2.13291","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143397173","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}