Books in the Devices, Circuits, and Systems series

This book delivers a comprehensive treatment of complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) time-mode circuits and systems. Featuring contributions from leading experts, the text begins by presenting a critical comparison of voltage-mode, current-mode, and time-mode signaling for mixed-mode signal processing. It then covers the fundamentals o

There is a need to understand and combat potential radiation damage problems in semiconductor devices and circuits. This book explains the effects of radiation on semiconductor devices, radiation detectors, and electronic devices and components. It explores the applications, detector technologies, and circuit design techniques.

Covers research in semiconductor detector and integrated circuit design in the context of medical imaging using ionizing radiation. This book explores other applications of semiconductor radiation detection systems in security applications such as luggage scanning, dirty bomb detection and border control.

Presents illustrations, industry examples, and instructions on the application of wireless and optical networks. This title covers such topics as wireless networks such as WLAN, WPAN, 3G/4G cellular, and RF transmission; and optical networks involving long-haul and metropolitan networks, optical fiber, photonic devices, and VLSI chips.

This work is dedicated to CMOS based imaging with the emphasis on the noise modeling, characterization and optimization in order to contribute to the design of high performance imagers in general and range imagers in particular. CMOS is known to be superior to CCD due to its flexibility in terms of integration capabilities, but typically has to be enhanced to compete at parameters as for instance noise, dynamic range or spectral response. This work gathers the widespread theory on noise and extends the theory by a non-rigorous but potentially computing efficient algorithm to estimate noise in time sampled systems.

This book describes the effects of ionizing radiation on modern semiconductor devices. It also discusses hardening-by-design solutions for custom chips. The text covers a range of devices, from memories and microprocessors to mixed-analog components and imagers. It addresses the experimental aspects as well as the simulation of radiation effects in electronic devices. It deals with several environments of interest, including terrestrial, space, and high-energy physics. The book provides a solid theoretical background, yet is practical enough to assist in making effective use of beam time.

Addresses the developments in CMOS circuit design in the context of system opportunities. This book explores materials such as SiGe, carbon nanotubes, and quantum dots that can potentially take system performance beyond traditional CMOS. It discusses topics like digital radio processing for wireless communications and circuits for medical imaging.

Explores the state-of-the-art in CMOS design in the context of wireless communication for 3G/4G cellular telephony, wireless sensor networks, and wireless medical applications. This text explores coverage of emerging wireless technologies beyond standard WLAN and 3G cell phone applications.

Microsystems technologies have found their way into an impressive variety of applications, from mobile phones and displays to smart grids and electric cars. This book explores the state of the art and the applications of microelectronics technologies. It covers a wide range of topics, including organic and flexible electronics, imaging and display technologies, sensing, and biomedical microsystems. The book serves as a source of inspiration for anyone who wants to further develop the technologies, create new applications, or get a better understanding of this multidisciplinary field.

While similar books concentrate only on microfluidics or nanotechnology, this book describes integrated approaches for the detection of single cells and molecules. Focusing exclusively on biological and chemical targets, it explores state-of-the-art physical, chemical, contact, and noncontact detection methods, explaining the theory behind the different techniques. By highlighting a variety of technologies, the text allows for a comparison of the fundamental advantages and challenges of each, as well as an appreciation of the power of leveraging scalability and integration to achieve sensitivity at low cost.

This book is a valuable resource for experienced analog/radio frequency circuit designers as well as undergraduate-level microelectronics researchers. It introduces novel traveling wave circuit techniques to boost the performance of high-speed circuits in standard low-cost production technologies, like complementary metal oxide semiconductors. Highlights include a dual-loop coupled traveling wave oscillator topology; a force-based starter mechanism for dual-loop, even-symmetry, multiphase traveling wave oscillators; higher-frequency, passive inductive, and quarter-wave-length-based pumped distributed wave oscillators; and a unique method of traveling wave frequency multiplication and power combining.

The demand for portable and lightweight sensors is relentless in several industries, from consumer electronics to biomedical engineering to the military. This book brings together the latest research in smart sensors technology and exposes the reader to myriad applications that the technology has enabled. Contributors delve into advanced topics in photonics and optoelectronic, infrared and thermal, magnetic and inductive, sound and ultrasound, and piezoresistive, wireless, and electrical sensors. Applications include oxygen detection, sensing inside explosions, magnetic field measurements on airplanes, health monitoring, and more.

Circuits and Systems for Security and Privacy begins by introducing the basic theoretical concepts and arithmetic used in algorithms for security and cryptography, and by reviewing the fundamental building blocks of cryptographic systems. It then analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of real-world implementations that not only optimize power, area, and throughput but also resist side-channel attacks. Merging the perspectives of experts from industry and academia, the book provides valuable insight and necessary background for the design of security-aware circuits and systems as well as efficient accelerators used in security applications.

This state-of-the-art work addresses both mainstream and emerging metallic spintronic devices. Featuring contributions from well-known academic and industrial experts, the book examines the latest metallic spintronic device research, developments, and applications, from magnetic tunneling junction sensors and spin torque oscillators to spin torque memory and logic. The text aims to equip anyone who is serious about metallic spintronic devices with up-to-date design, modeling, and processing knowledge. It can be used either by an expert in the field or a graduate student in course curriculum.

The book has two-fold intentions. Firstly it assembles the latest research in the field of nanoscale memories technology in one place. And secondly, it exposes the reader to myriad applications that nanoscale memories technology has enabled. The book is meant for advanced graduate research work or for academicians and researchers. This way the book has a widespread appeal, including practicing engineers, academicians, research scientists, and senior graduate students. Nanoscale memories today have a widespread application range.