Hydraulic structures installed in rivers inevitably create a water level difference between upstream and downstream regions. The potential energy due to this difference in water level is converted into kinetic energy, causing high-velocity flow and h...
Air entrainment at the intake of a bottom outlet often gives rise to air pockets in its conduit and formation of geysers. The outlet in question comprises a bulkhead gate, gate shaft, horizontal conduit, and exit. Operations show that it suffers from...
This paper presents a new field-effect sensor called open-gate junction gate field-effect transistor (OG-JFET) for biosensing applications. The OG-JFET consists of a p-type channel on top of an n-type layer in which the p-type serves as the sensing c...
Hydraulic structures, such as movable weir gates, are widely installed in rivers and streams for various purposes. Among these is the rising sector gate, which is the focus of this study. This research investigated how different gate openings affect...
This study presents an experimental analysis of high-pressure liquid and gas gate valve leakage under multiple operating conditions, based on the variation patterns of ultrasonic signals. Focusing on a multi-physics field analysis of gate valve inter...
A current improved and electric field reduced double-gate (DG) polycrystalline silicon thin-film transistor with two-step source/drain (DGTSD-TFT) design is proposed and demonstrated in this study. The two-step source/drain (TSD) design, which consis...
We present a review of reliability issues in AlGaN/GaN and AlGaAs/GaAs high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) as well as Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors (HBTs) in the AlGaAs/GaAs materials systems. Because of the complex nature and multi-facet...
In this work, the surge reliability of 1200 V SiC metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) from various manufactures has been investigated in the reverse conduction mode. The surge current tests have been carried out in the channe...
Recent research showed that the chaotic maps are considered as alternative methods for generating pseudo-random numbers, and various approaches have been proposed for the corresponding hardware implementations. In this work, an efficient hardware pse...
We present herein a novel method of bipolar field-effect control on DC electroosmosis (DCEO) from a physical point of view, in the context of an intelligent and robust operation tool for stratified laminar streams in microscale systems. In this uniqu...
Noise radar has become attractive owing to progress in hardware technology. Aside from the low probability of exploitation, the use of noise waveform is likely to grow due to its low interference features, especially in circumstances where multiple r...
We investigated the effects of various high-k gate dielectrics as well as microwave annealing (MWA) calcination and a postcalcination oxygen plasma treatment on the electrical properties and stability of electrospun indium gallium zinc oxide (IGZO)-n...
This paper presents a low-latency streaming on-device automatic speech recognition system for inference. It consists of a hardware acoustic model implemented in a field-programmable gate array, coupled with a software language model running on a smar...
Details are given in the paper of the refinement of a three-dimensional layer integrated turbulence model and its application to a scaled physical model of a reservoir, named Hamidieh Reservoir, in Iran. The strong turbulent flows generated in this r...
This paper describes the design, implementation, and testing of a novel multi-function software defined Radio Frequency (RF) system designed for small airborne drone applications. The system was created using an inexpensive Field Programmable Gate Ar...
Urban traffic congestion and vehicle/passenger port recurring delays are major obstacles of coastal urban area sustainability. Most research in coastal urban road management has focused on congestion detection without the effective integration of the...
The pulse laser emission circuit plays a crucial role as the emission unit of time-of-flight (TOF) LiDAR. This paper proposes a nanosecond-level pulse laser diode array drive circuit for LiDAR, primarily aimed at addressing the issue of high-speed sc...
This paper presents a proposal for a new type of regulator for switched reluctance motor (SRM) drives. The proposed regulator enables a significant extension of the rotational speed range and drive output power. This regulator is characterized by a c...
During the flood season, Francis turbines often operate under low-head and full-load conditions, frequently experiencing significant pressure pulsations, posing potential threats to the safe and stable operation of the units. However, the factors con...
While impressive progress has been already achieved in wide-bandgap (WBG) semiconductors such as 4H-SiC and GaN technologies, the lack of intelligent methodologies to control the gate drivers has prevented exploitation of the maximum potential of sem...
The paper presents the concept, implementation, and test operation of a modernized solar radio spectrograph for an investigation of the solar emission and solar bursts in radio frequency bands. Besides having a strong diagnostic significance for stud...
In this article, an experimental study on the gate-induced drain leakage (GIDL) current repairing worst hot carrier degradation (HCD) in Si p-FinFETs is investigated with the aid of an ultra-fast measurement (UFM) technique (~30 μs). It is found t...
This paper presents the design of a predictive controller for a boost converter and validation through real-time simulation. First, the boost converter was mathematically modeled, and then the electronic components were designed to meet the operation...
An accelerometer utilising the optomechanical coupling between an optical whispering gallery mode (WGM) resonance and the motion of the WGM cavity itself was prototyped and field-tested on a vehicle. We describe the assembly of this portable, battery...
RNA aptamers that bind non-fluorescent dyes and activate their fluorescence are highly sensitive, nonperturbing, and convenient probes in the field of synthetic biology. These RNA molecules, referred to as light-up aptamers, operate as molecular nano...
Nowadays, electronic circuits’ time to market is essential, with engineers trying to reduce it as much as possible. Due to this, simulation has become the main testing concept used in the electronics domain. In order to perform the simulation o...
Based on the standardization in the automotive industry, systems require extensive testing, which represents significant costs regarding personnel and equipment. The testing systems must be built in such a way that a bidirectional power flow is possi...
Pseudo-random number generators (PRNGs) are important cornerstones of many fields, such as statistical analysis and cryptography, and the need for PRNGs for information security (in fields such as blockchain, big data, and artificial intelligence) is...
In this paper, we experimentally investigate the effects of degradation observed on 0.15-µm GaN HEMT devices when operating under realistic power amplifier conditions. The latter will be applied to the devices under test (DUT) by exploiting a l...
To address the challenges of layered fertilization in orchards and the lack of dedicated equipment, this study proposes a layered fertilization technique based on the three-dimensional distribution characteristics of jujube root systems and develops...
When a sluice gate is arranged in parallel with pumping station units, biased flow occurs in the forebay when the units are operating. The transverse flow velocity in front of the channel inlet is relatively high, and, in severe cases, it may lead to...
In this paper, a nonlinear observer is proposed for the estimation of the current ripple in a ferrite-core inductor working in partial saturation, mounted on a boost converter. The estimator is based on a recently proposed nonlinear inductance model,...
This work is focused on creating an open-source software-based solution for monitoring traffic transmitted through gigabit passive optical network. In this case, the data are captured by the field-programmable gate array (FPGA) card and reassembled u...
Silicon carbide (SiC)-based metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) hold promising application prospects in future high-capacity high-power converters due to their excellent electrothermal characteristics. However, as...
This paper presents the architecture and field-programmable gate array (FPGA) implementation of a 32-bit central processing unit (CPU) dedicated to programmable logic controllers (PLCs). The CPU instruction set directly matches the instructions of th...
This paper addresses the problem of real-time onboard routing for dynamic low earth orbit (LEO) satellite networks. It is difficult to apply general routing algorithms to dynamic LEO networks due to the frequent changes in satellite topology caused b...
In this work, floating-gate organic field-effect transistor memory using the n-type semiconductor poly-{[N,N′-bis(2-octyldodecyl) naphthalene-1,4,5,8-bis (dicarbo- ximide)-2,6-dili]-alt-5,5′-(2,2′-bithiophene)} (N2200) as a charge-t...
We describe the integration of techniques and technologies to develop a Point-of-Care for molecular diagnosis PoC-MD, based on a fluorescence lifetime measurement. Our PoC-MD is a low-cost, simple, fast, and easy-to-use general-purpose platform, aime...
Polymer-ceramic dielectric composites have been of great interest because they combine the processability of polymers with the desired dielectric properties of the ceramics. We fabricated a low voltage-operated flexible organic field-effect transisto...
In order to solve the testing and verification problems at the early development stage of a high-speed Maglev positioning and speed measurement system (MPSS), a hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation platform is presented, which includes induction loo...
Memristive technology is a promising game-changer in computers and electronics. In this paper, a system exploring the optimal paths through a maze, utilizing a memristor-based setup, is developed and concreted on a FPGA (field-programmable gate array...
The underwater environment is still unknown for humans, so the high definition camera is an important tool for data acquisition at short distances underwater. Due to insufficient power, the image data collected by underwater submersible devices canno...
One of the main aspects of the control system development process for direct drives is the selection of the required computational accuracy while establishing its impact on the quality of the control. Understanding this relationship allows designers...
In this paper, we propose a method to enhance the performance of a random number generator (RNG) that exploits ring oscillators (ROs). Our approach employs additional phase detectors to extract more entropy; thus, RNG uses fewer resources to produce...
This research aims to test the feasibility of a prototype of a newly designed thermal engine for a hybrid propulsion vehicle. This study consists of the implementation of an innovative supercharger for city car ICE (900 cc). The preliminary proposal...
Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death worldwide. Due to advancements facilitating the integration of electric and adhesive technologies, long-term patch electrocardiogram (ECG) monitors (PEMs) are currently used to conduct daily cont...
A high-speed dual super-systolic core for reconstructive signal processing (SP) operations consists of a double parallel systolic array (SA) machine in which each processing element of the array is also conceptualized as another SA in a bit-level fas...
Modern computers’ network interface cards (NICs) are undergoing changes in order to handle greater data rates and assist with scaling problems caused by general-purpose CPU technology. The inclusion of programmable accelerators to the NIC’s data chan...
The development of digital technologies is in many ways associated with an improvement of integrated technologies, microelectronic components, and the capabilities of hardware acceleration of the most computationally complex operations. Field-program...
As a key field in music information retrieval, music emotion recognition is indeed a challenging task. To enhance the accuracy of music emotion classification and recognition, this paper uses the idea of inception structure to use different receptive...
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