Electronics, Volume 10, Issue 9

This paper presents the design of a high-performance 0.45–0.50 THz antenna on chip (AoC) for fabrication on a 100-micron GaAs substrate. The antenna is based on metasurface and substrate-integrated waveguide (SIW) technologies. It is constituted from...

A 17.8–34.8 GHz (64.6%) locking range current-reuse injection-locked frequency multiplier (CR-ILFM) with dual injection technique is presented in this paper. A dual injection technique is applied to generate differential signal and increase the power...

A reconfiguration technique using a switched-capacitor (SC)-based voltage equalizer differential power processing (DPP) concept is proposed in this paper for photovoltaic (PV) systems at a cell/subpanel/panel-level. The proposed active diffusion char...

In nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC), higher accuracy can be obtained with a shorter prediction horizon in steady-state, better dynamics can be obtained with a longer prediction horizon in a transient state, and calculation burden is proporti...

Exponential integrator (EI) method based on Krylov subspace approximation is a promising method for large-scale transient circuit simulation. However, it suffers from the singularity problem and consumes large subspace dimensions for stiff circuits w...

In recent years, non-linear loads on the distribution side are increasing rapidly. Notably, the electric arc furnace (EAF) is the most used non-linear load due to its diverse applications for industrial needs. However, EAF has some disadvantages like...

The 360° cameras have served as a convenient tool for people to record their special moments or everyday lives. The supported panoramic view allowed for an immersive experience with a virtual reality (VR) headset, thus adding viewer enjoyment. Nevert...

Recently, to enhance the security of the Internet of Things (IoT), research on blockchain-based encryption algorithms has been actively conducted. However, because blockchains have complex structures and process large amounts of data, there are still...

With the popularization of 5G communications, the scale of social networks has grown rapidly, and the types of messages have become increasingly complex. The rapid increases in the number of access nodes and the amount of data have put a greater burd...

The conventional three-level SVPWM (Space Vector Pulse Width Modulation) algorithm is a basic modulation algorithm, which can be performed easily due to clear modulation ideas. Considering different criteria for sectors, however, the basic vector act...

The goal of this paper is to provide a comparative analysis of the thermal impact on the microwave performance of high electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) based on GaAs and GaN technologies. To accomplish this challenging goal, the relative sensiti...

Computing the sparse fast Fourier transform (sFFT) has emerged as a critical topic for a long time because of its high efficiency and wide practicability. More than twenty different sFFT algorithms compute discrete Fourier transform (DFT) by their un...

Soft robots present an avenue toward unprecedented societal acceptance, utility in populated environments, and direct interaction with humans. However, the compliance that makes them attractive also makes soft robots difficult to control. We present...

In this paper, we propose a viewpoint-aware action recognition method using skeleton-based features from static images. Our method consists of three main steps. First, we categorize the viewpoint from an input static image. Second, we extract 2D/3D j...

A retransmission chipless tag with multiple U-shaped slot resonators is proposed to cut down the cost of traditional tags with chips. Multiple side-by-side U-shaped slot structures of different lengths are printed on the microstrip line, and the two...

In order to meet the real-time requirements of the autonomous driving system, the existing method directly up-samples the encoder’s output feature map to pixel-wise prediction, thus neglecting the importance of the decoder for the prediction of detai...

Communications for IoT sensor networks in Smart City applications are demanding new technologies to avoid the radio frequency spectrum saturation and support the massive nodes situation required in this kind of network. Visible Light Communications a...

Cyber attackers exploit a network of compromised computing devices, known as a botnet, to attack Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks. Recent research works have recommended the use of Deep Recurrent Neural Network (DRNN) for botnet attack detection in...

Quasi-cyclic low-density parity-check (QC–LDPC) codes are introduced as a physical channel coding solution for data channels in 5G new radio (5G NR). Depending on the use case scenario, this standard proposes the usage of a wide variety of codes, whi...

In the current state of the art, WiFi-alike standards require achieving a high Image Rejection Ratio (IRR) while having low power consumption. Thus, quadrature structures based on passive ring mixers offer an attractive and widely used solution, as t...

Customer Edge Switching (CES) is an extension of the already known classical firewall that is often described and used in future networks like 5G. It extends its functionality by enabling information exchange with other firewalls to decide whether th...

The demand for power is increasing due to the rapid growth of the population. Therefore, energy harvesting (EH) from ambient sources has become popular. The reduction of power consumption in modern wireless systems provides a basis for the replacemen...

A DC-DC converter with a 16:1 (V_in,max = 16V_in,min) wide input voltage operation is presented for auxiliary power supplies on solar power conversion circuits or railway vehicles. The solar cell output voltage is associated with the solar intensity (d...

In this article, three evolutionary search algorithms: particle swarm optimization (PSO), simulated annealing (SA) and genetic algorithms (GA), have been employed to determine the optimal parameter values of the fractional-order (FO)-PI controllers i...

Recently, high-performance embedded systems have adopted phase change memory (PCM) as their main memory because PCMs have attractive advantages, such as non-volatility, byte-addressability, high density, and low power consumption. However, PCMs have...

We identify the need for an easy-to-use self-driving simulator where game mechanics implicitly encourage high-quality data capture and an associated low-cost physical test platform. We design such a simulator incorporating environmental domain random...

The Residue Number System (RNS) is a non-weighted number system. Benefiting from its inherent parallelism, RNS has been widely studied and used in Digital Signal Processing (DSP) systems and cryptography. However, since the dynamic range in RNS has b...

Background: Although various technologies are used to evaluate driving skill, there are some limitations such as the limited range of the monitor and the possible risk of causing cybersickness. The purpose of this study is to investigate differences...

Extending CMOS Image Sensors’ dynamic range is of fundamental importance in applications, such as automotive, scientific, or X-ray, where a broad variation of incoming light should be measured. The typical logarithmic pixels suffer from poor performa...

Biometric recognition has become a burgeoning research area due to the industrial and government needs for security and privacy concerns [...]

The limitedness of the nonrenewable local energy resources in Israel, even in the background of the later gas fields’ findings, continues to force the state to devote various efforts towards ‘green’ energy development. These efforts include installat...

Conventional sol-gel solutions have received significant attention in thin-film transistor (TFT) manufacturing because of their advantages such as simple processing, large-scale applicability, and low cost. However, conventional sol-gel processed zin...

In this article, novel 3D printed sensors for temperature measurement are presented. A planar structure of the resistive element is made, utilizing paths of a conductive filament embedded in an elastic base. Both electrically conductive and flexible...

In the modern optimization context, this paper introduces an optimal PID-based control strategy for a two-tank installation, namely ASTANK2. The process model was identified by using raw and spline smoothed measured data, respectively. Two PID contro...

As video compression is one of the core technologies that enables seamless media streaming within the available network bandwidth, it is crucial to employ media codecs to support powerful coding performance and higher visual quality. Versatile Video...

Class imbalance remains an open problem in pattern recognition, machine learning, and related fields. Many of the state-of-the-art classification algorithms tend to classify all unbalanced dataset patterns by assigning them to a majority class, thus...

As the idea of a new wireless communication standard (5G) started to circulate around the world, there was much speculation regarding its performance, making it necessary to carry out further research by keeping in view the challenges presented by it...

Inspection of high-voltage power lines using unmanned aerial vehicles is an emerging technological alternative to traditional methods. In the Drones4Energy project, we work toward building an autonomous vision-based beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS...

A security indicator is a sign that shows us what something is like or how a situation is changing and can aid us in making informed estimations on cyber risks. There are many different breeds of security indicators, but, unfortunately, they are not...

The currently deployed contact-tracing mobile apps have failed as an efficient solution in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. None of them have managed to attract the number of active users required to achieve efficient operation. This urges the r...

Smart integration of the upcoming proliferation of electric forms of transport in our energy system is the key in order to make it more robust and ready for a greener future. As such, technologies as Vehicle to Home are key in order to optimize the h...

We introduce a blockchain-based online employment contract system to protect the rights and interests of both employees and employers. In the proposed model, an employer and a worker can interactively create a new electronic online contract, and the...

In this paper, a DC fault short circuit was conducted to analyze the DC fault current limiting characteristics of a flux-coupling type superconducting fault current limiter (SFCL) that has two coils connected in series via one iron core. Similar to t...

For mixed-signal systems, identifying the analog and digital circuit blocks in the transistor-level netlist has many benefits for system analysis and verification. However, existing approaches still have difficulty handling large mixed-signal designs...

The present study primarily investigates the topic of image reconstruction at high compression rates. As proven from compressed sensing theory, an appropriate algorithm is capable of reconstructing natural images from a few measurements since they ar...

The Binary Edwards Curves (BEC) are becoming more and more important, as compared to other forms of elliptic curves, thanks to their faster operations and resistance against side channel attacks. This work provides a low-complexity architecture for p...

In this work transformation electromagnetics/optics (TE/TO) were employed to realize a non-homogeneous, anisotropic material-embedded beam-steerer using both a single antenna element and an antenna array without phase control circuitry. Initially, th...

The performance of multiagent systems depends heavily on information flow. As agents are populated more densely, some information flow can be redundant. Thus, there can be a tradeoff between communication overhead and control performance. To address...

The study of Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) methylation has allowed important advances in the understanding of genetic diseases related to abnormal cell behavior. DNA methylation analysis tools have become especially relevant in recent years. However, t...

Accomplishing multi-level programming in resistive random access memory (RRAM) arrays with truly discrete and linearly spaced conductive levels is crucial in order to implement synaptic weights in hardware-based neuromorphic systems. In this paper, w...