{"title":"A new approach to on-chip probing in the MM-wave to THz range","authors":"M. J. H. Larsen, E. Brown","doi":"10.1109/NAECON.2012.6531021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAECON.2012.6531021","url":null,"abstract":"One of the bigger obstacles in the development of THz devices and integrated circuits is their electrical characterization in the upper-millimeter to terahertz range above 100 GHz. Today's technology is mainly based on metal-to-metal, dc-coupled contact probes. This technology is, however, expensive and fragile, and is difficult to scale to higher frequencies. This paper concerns contact-free probes that are (ac) coupled to the device or circuit-under-test by the polarization current rather than the conduction current. Numerical simulations are carried out to 1.0 THz and the probe coupling is found to be around -26 dB, with a bandwidth of at least 500 GHz.","PeriodicalId":352567,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference (NAECON)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114824490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Increased output power 300 GHz oscillator based on linear superposition","authors":"S. Tenneti, N. Nahar, J. Volakis","doi":"10.1109/NAECON.2012.6531022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAECON.2012.6531022","url":null,"abstract":"Harmonic oscillators have generally demonstrated lower phase noise, higher frequencies, and less DC power consumption as compared to fundamental oscillators. However, oscillator designs using simple harmonic techniques have persistent issues with low output power and instability. Herewith, we propose an oscillator design at 300GHz with common-source amplifiers to stabilize signals in voltage-controlled oscillators. A buffer at the final output stage also increases power gain. Preliminary simulation shows that output powers up to -26.5 dBm are possible, a significant improvement over -46 dBm in previous work.","PeriodicalId":352567,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference (NAECON)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133560348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yen-Ting Wang, Chen Zhao, Degang Chen, Shu-Chuan Huang, R. Geiger
{"title":"An ultra-small on-chip sensor for temperature and thermal gradient measurements","authors":"Yen-Ting Wang, Chen Zhao, Degang Chen, Shu-Chuan Huang, R. Geiger","doi":"10.1109/NAECON.2012.6531047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAECON.2012.6531047","url":null,"abstract":"An ultra-small, low-power CMOS temperature sensor designed for multi-site temperature and temperature gradient monitoring to support power/thermal management in integrated circuits where electromigration limits system reliability is proposed. The temperature sensor utilizes the temperature characteristics of the threshold voltage of MOS transistors to sense temperature and is highly linear throughout the temperature range required for power/thermal management and has good accuracy throughout this range with calibration at a single temperature. Prototype temperature sensors have been designed in a TSMC 0.18μm process with a 1.8V supply voltage. The sensing device has a very small die area of only 2.5μm×6.2μm and a low power consumption of about 0.95μW at a 1% duty cycle making it suitable for multi-site thermal monitoring.","PeriodicalId":352567,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference (NAECON)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116396897","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dual-band, Wide-incident-angle absorber for far-IR and THz frequencies","authors":"Woon-Gi Yeo, N. Nahar, K. Sertel","doi":"10.1109/NAECON.2012.6531019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAECON.2012.6531019","url":null,"abstract":"We present an electrically thin, dual-band, perfect absorber design that can be scaled to operate in the far infrared (FIR) or THz band. A dual-polarization frequency selective surface (FSS) consisting of crossed dipoles is modified using additional parasitic tip metallizations to achieve dual-band performance. The conducting FSS layer is placed on a silicon carbide (SiC) substrate backed by a metallic ground. The structure is optimized for absorption efficiency over a wide incidence angle range for both transverse electric (TE) and transverse magnetic (TM) polarizations.","PeriodicalId":352567,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference (NAECON)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131646080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. Walter, K. Bryan, J. Stephens, C. Bullmaster, V. Chakravarthy
{"title":"Localization of RF emitters using compressed sensing with multiple cooperative sensors","authors":"D. Walter, K. Bryan, J. Stephens, C. Bullmaster, V. Chakravarthy","doi":"10.1109/NAECON.2012.6531060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAECON.2012.6531060","url":null,"abstract":"Small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have limits on the weight and size of direction finding (DF) systems that can be used. However, by employing multiple sensors that work cooperatively, simple DF systems need only to provide a rough estimate of the signal's angle of arrival (AOA) and received signal strength (RSS). As the UAVs move, a plurality of data points can be obtained from diverse locations. Combining this information from multiple sensor locations can provide a low-cost and effective solution to electronic emitter location problems, using low-accuracy DF technology. In this paper we present an algorithm, based on the compressed sensing technique, that uses AOA and RSS from mobile sensors (UAVs) to geolocate the source of radio signals on the ground.","PeriodicalId":352567,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference (NAECON)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131281638","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Erik Blasch, Zheng Liu, D. Petkie, R. Ewing, G. Pomrenke, K. Reinhardt
{"title":"Image fusion of the Terahertz-visual NAECON Grand Challenge data","authors":"Erik Blasch, Zheng Liu, D. Petkie, R. Ewing, G. Pomrenke, K. Reinhardt","doi":"10.1109/NAECON.2012.6531058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAECON.2012.6531058","url":null,"abstract":"Terahertz (THz) sensing has been developed over the past three decades for concealed weapons detection, medical imaging, and non-destructive evaluation; however methods for THz image exploitation have not been well reported. We test a multiscale image fusion algorithm for the 2011 IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conf. (NAECON) Grand Challenge which consists of Terahertz (THz) and visual images. The study consists of image characterization (signals distribution), image processing (data fusion), and image analysis (edge detection). We found that THz image characterization did not necessarily follow a distinct Gaussian distribution, THz imagery fusion with visual data supported target detection, and that image analysis enhanced target assessment. For the initial experiment, we assess the target segmentation through edge detection, image fusion results, and image fusion quality assessment. The preliminary image exploitation and fusion results can further develop THz collection over clothing-obscured concealed weapons imaging, parameter optimization, and targeting evaluation.","PeriodicalId":352567,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference (NAECON)","volume":"37 12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131324722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Anaylsis of motion estimation using multiple reference frames in MPEG-4AVC/H.264","authors":"J. P. Skeans, E. Balster, W. Turri","doi":"10.1109/NAECON.2012.6531051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAECON.2012.6531051","url":null,"abstract":"In the latest video coding standard, MPEG-4 AVC /H.264, motion estimation is permitted to use multiple reference frames as opposed to the previous MPEG-4 standards that support only single reference frames[4]. This feature of H.264 improves performance but adds computational complexity. The H.264 encoder supports up to 7 inter-prediction modes: 16×16, 16×8, 8×16, 8×8, 8×4, 4×8, and 4×4. In this paper, an H.264 encoder using the 16×16 prediction mode is analyzed for both compression performance and computational complexity using multiple reference frames on various video clips.","PeriodicalId":352567,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference (NAECON)","volume":"15 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114118146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Automatic object recognition applied to Where's Waldo","authors":"T. Buchenroth, F. Garber, B. Gowker, S. Hartzell","doi":"10.1109/NAECON.2012.6531040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAECON.2012.6531040","url":null,"abstract":"The illustrated series of Wheres Waldo books [1] provide an excellent set of challenge problems for designing and testing hardware/algorithms to approximate human object recognition capability. Developing a process for automatically locating and identifying Waldo in his many varied environments incorporates aspects of pattern recognition, machine learning, and image processing. This paper addresses the development and evaluation of multiple algorithms used separately and in conjunction to find Waldo.","PeriodicalId":352567,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference (NAECON)","volume":"255 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123347993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A programmable charger for monitoring and control of multi-cell lithium-ion batteries","authors":"Abdullah Al-Refai, R. Abousleiman, O. Rawashdeh","doi":"10.1109/NAECON.2012.6531031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAECON.2012.6531031","url":null,"abstract":"Lithium-Ion batteries are becoming the favorable selection for most portable electronics and more recently electric and hybrid-electric vehicles. This is mainly due to their high energy density and low self-discharge rate. On the other hand, lithium-ion batteries require supervision while charging and discharging to maintain the voltage and current within safe limits. This paper presents a real-time programmable approach to charge lithium-ion batteries with multiple cells. Mathwork's Simulink environment is used in real-time to control a current source to charge the battery. The control logic monitors the battery cells voltages that are read through an A/D converter and then calculates the desired charging current levels. The proposed system allows engineers and researchers to easily implement and test different lithium ion battery charging methods. Furthermore, the Simulink environment allows real-time monitoring and permits charging profiles to be implemented at ease. The system is demonstrated through two different charging methods. The variations of the charging current and cell voltages are presented and compared, demonstrating the flexibility of the system.","PeriodicalId":352567,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference (NAECON)","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124576527","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Diffusion maps for exploring electro-optical synthetic vehicle image data","authors":"J. Ramirez, O. Mendoza-Schrock","doi":"10.1109/NAECON.2012.6531042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAECON.2012.6531042","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, we explore low-dimensional representations of high-dimensional data derived from electro-optical synthetic vehicle images. The collection of vehicle images consists of four different vehicle models: Toyota Camry, Toyota Avalon, Toyota Tacoma, and Nissan Sentra. This data contains 3,601 160 × 213 gray-scale vehicle images sampled uniformly over a camera view hemisphere. We use the non-linear manifold learning technique of diffusion maps with Gaussian kernel to explore low-dimensional structure the high-dimensional cloud of vehicle image observations. Diffusion maps have been shown to be a valuable tool in the analysis of high-dimensional data and the technique is able to extract an approximation for the underlying structure inherent to the data. Our analysis includes examining how the diffusion time and kernel width leads to different low-dimensional representations and we present a novel technique to relate the kernel width to the distribution of data in the observation space. In addition, we present initial results for multi-class vehicle classification through low-dimensional embedding coordinates and the out-of-sample extension of unlabeled vehicle images.","PeriodicalId":352567,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference (NAECON)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126791725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}