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Zhang, Y. (author), Du, L. (author), Bäcke, Olof (author), Kalbfleisch, Sebastian (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author), Vollebregt, S. (author), Hörnqvist Colliander, Magnus (author)As the dimensions of interconnects in integrated circuits continue to shrink, an urgent need arises to understand the physical mechanism associated with electromigration. Using x-ray nanodiffraction, we analyzed the stresses in Blech-structured pure Cu lines subjected to different electromigration conditions. The results suggest that the...journal article 2024
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Du, Y. (author), Viseu Cardoso, Rodrigo (author), Rocco, Roberto (author)The governmental initiative of high-quality development (HQD) marks a shift in the Chinese development paradigm from prioritizing speed to prioritizing quality towards comprehensive goals of economic growth, social vitality, innovation capacity, industrial upgrading, regional cooperation, and green transformation. This initiative is...journal article 2024
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Du, L. (author), Deng, Shanliang (author), Cui, Z. (author), Poelma, René H. (author), Beelen-Hendrikx, Caroline (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)In this study, we combined finite element method (FEM) based on Ansys and Noesis Optimus software to investigate the effect of bump structures and loading conditions on the electromigration properties of solder bumps in WLCSP. A numerical model considering current density, vacancy concentration, stress and temperature was utilized to calculate...conference paper 2024
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Mo, J. (author), Schaffar, Gerald J.K. (author), Du, L. (author), Maier-Kiener, Verena (author), Kiener, Daniel (author), Vollebregt, S. (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)Silicon carbide (SiC) coated vertically aligned carbon nanotubes (VACNT) are attractive material for fabricating MEMS devices as an alternative for bulk micromachining of SiC. In order to examine the mechanical properties of SiC-CNT composites at high temperatures, we fabricated VACNT micro-pillars with different amounts of SiC coating and...conference paper 2024
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Zhu, Qi (author), Guo, Huadong (author), Zhang, Lu (author), Liang, Dong (author), Wu, Zherong (author), de Roda Husman, S. (author), Du, Xiaobing (author)Surface melt plays a vital role in impacting the polar mass balance and global sea level rise. Over the past decades, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery has garnered considerable attention due to its capacity to provide high-precision and long-term information. However, the traditional SAR-based large-scale surface melt detection methods...journal article 2024
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Du, Yunlu (author), Huang, Yunkai (author), Guo, Baocheng (author), Djelloul-Khedda, Zakarya (author), Peng, Fei (author), Yao, Y. (author), Dong, J. (author)In this article, a nonlinear semianalytical model (SAM) is presented to predict the magnetic field distribution (MFD) and electromagnetic performances (EPs) in the cubic spoke-type permanent magnet (PM) machine. To model the rectangular PMs, the rectangular PM is simplified as a combination of fan-shaped regions with different arc angles....journal article 2024
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Yue, X. (author), Mo, J. (author), Chen, Zhiyuan (author), Vollebregt, S. (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author), Du, S. (author)Synchronized rectifiers offer promising solutions for piezoelectric energy harvesting; however, achieving the promised energy extraction performance necessitates using either a bulky inductor or multiple large capacitors, which cannot be on-chip integrated and increase the system form factor. This article introduces a fully integrated...journal article 2024
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Feng, Xiangdong (author), Luo, Yuxuan (author), Cai, Tianyi (author), Xuan, Yangfan (author), Zhang, Yunshan (author), Shen, Yili (author), Yang, Changgui (author), Xiao, Qijing (author), Du, S. (author), Zhao, Bo (author)The growing trend of the Internet of Things (IoT) involves trillions of sensors in various applications. An extensive array of parameters need to be gathered concurrently with high-precision, low-cost, and low-power sensor nodes, such as resistive (R) and capacitive (C) sensors. Single-chip channel fusion can be an effective solution, while...journal article 2024
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Hu, D. (author), Du, L. (author), Alfreider, Markus (author), Fan, J. (author), Kiener, Daniel (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)To fulfill the high-temperature application requirement of high-power electronics packaging, Cu nanoparticle sintering technology, with benefits in low-temperature processing and high-melting point, has attracted considerable attention as a promising candidate for the die-attach interconnect. Comprehensive mechanical characterization of the...journal article 2024
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Lu, T. (author), Wang, Ruizhi (author), Tang, Z. (author), Zou, Yiwei (author), Yue, X. (author), Liang, Yansong (author), Gong, Haoran (author), Liu, Shurui (author), Chen, Zhiyuan (author), Liu, Xun (author), Du, S. (author)This article presents a 10mV-startup-voltage thermoelectric energy harvesting system, assisted by a piezoelectric generator (PEG) as a cold starter. It exploits the fact that when a thermoelectric energy harvesting system is implemented in a place where kinetic energy is also present, the PEG starter can provide a clock signal to start the...journal article 2024
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Yao, X. (author), Du, Zhaocheng (author), Sun, Zhanbo (author), Calvert, S.C. (author), ji, Ang (author)Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has made remarkable progress in autonomous vehicle decision-making and execution control to improve traffic performance. This paper introduces a DRL-based mechanism for cooperative lane changing in mixed traffic (CLCMT) for connected and automated vehicles (CAVs). The uncertainty of human-driven vehicles (HVs...journal article 2024
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Zhen, Qi (author), Zhang, Anxiao (author), Bokel, R.M.J. (author), Zheng, Yue (author), Li, Jing (author), Du, Yiming (author), Zhang, Qi (author)Most respiratory infectious disease transmission events occur in indoor environments, and examining the infection risk in different types of multi-zone buildings is critical to the safe reopening and use of public buildings. Appropriate space design influences occupant behavior and virus spread, thereby aiding in mitigating indoor infection...journal article 2024
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Peng, W. (author), Du, S. (author)A triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) is a new transducer utilizing contact electrification and electrostatic induction to transform mechanical energy into electric energy. Due to its high energy density and flexibility, it can be employed to make electronic devices self-powered by harvesting ambient mechanical energy in many application...journal article 2023
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Du, Guodong (author), Zou, Yuan (author), Zhang, Xudong (author), Li, Z. (author), Liu, Qi (author)The autonomous vehicle is widely applied in various ground operations, in which motion planning and tracking control are becoming the key technologies to achieve autonomous driving. In order to further improve the performance of motion planning and tracking control, an efficient hierarchical framework containing motion planning and tracking...journal article 2023
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Hua, Yuan (author), Lu, Qi (author), Li, Shuangmu (author), Zhao, Bo (author), Du, S. (author)This brief presents a 48V-to-1V 10-level dual inductor hybrid converter (DIHC) containing 11 on-chip switches and an off-chip gallium nitride (GaN) switch. Thanks to the 10-level Dickson switched-capacitor (SC) circuit, most of the voltage stress will be taken over by off-chip capacitors, which reduces the voltage stress of each switch to 4.8...journal article 2023
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Yue, X. (author), Du, S. (author)Synchronized ac-dc rectifiers are widely used for energy rectification in piezoelectric energy harvesting (PEH), which have to employ a bulky inductor or some dedicated flying capacitors for high energy conversion efficiency. This article proposes a synchronized switch harvesting on shared capacitors (SSHSC) rectifier achieving synchronized...journal article 2023
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Zhang, Lei (author), Liu, Wenjie (author), Du, Zhe (author), Du, Lei (author), Li, Xiaobin (author)Collision avoidance is a priority task for ensuring the safety of a maritime transportation system. However, for a ship towing system, which is characterized by multiple vessels and physical connections, the research works about collision avoidance is limited. Thus, this paper proposes a speed and heading control-based conflict resolution of...journal article 2023
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Long, Xu (author), Chong, Kainan (author), Su, Yutai (author), Du, L. (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)The stress–strain response of sintered silver nanoparticles (AgNP) materials is precisely characterized in order to adapt for numerical analysis and rational design of electronic packaging structures in this study. A framework of crystal plasticity finite element method (CPFEM) is established based on the mechanism of crystal plastic...journal article 2023
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Yue, X. (author), Du, S. (author)In the past decades, inductor-based synchronized switch harvesting on inductor (SSHI) rectifiers have been widely employed in many active rectification systems for piezoelectric energy harvesting. Although SSHI rectifiers achieve high energy extraction performance compared to passive full-bridge rectifier (FBR), the performance greatly...journal article 2023
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Liu, Shurui (author), Lu, T. (author), Tang, Z. (author), Chen, Zhiyuan (author), Jiang, Junmin (author), Zhao, Bo (author), Du, S. (author)In this article, we propose a reconfigurable regulating rectifier with a wide operational range for wireless power transfer. The proposed three-mode rectifier achieves a broad range voltage regulation without global loop control to minimize the chip area occupation. Compared with previous work, more working modes and greater voltage gain...journal article 2023