Sintering Process Simulation of Ag Nanoparticles by Phase Field Method

Low-temperature sintering technology of Ag nanoparticles is widely used in high-power electronic device packaging. Utilizing simulation methods to comprehend and control the microstructure and properties of Ag sintering materials has emerged as a prominent research area. This work uses the General Form PDE module in COMSOL to simplify the...

Warpage deformation analysis of AMB ceramic substrates in power modules

Driven by the increasing demand for high-power systems, ceramic substrates have received more attention for handling higher power density. Warpage in active metal brazed (AMB) ceramic substrate becomes a critical issue as it can deteriorate the reliability performance. This study comprises three phases, including investigation of the cause of...

A Pitch-Matched ASIC with Integrated 65V TX and Shared Hybrid Beamforming ADC for Catheter-Based High-Frame-Rate 3D Ultrasound Probes

Intra-cardiac echography (ICE) probes (Fig. 32.2.1) are widely used in electrophysiology for their good procedure guidance and relatively safe application. ASICs are increasingly employed in these miniature probes to enhance signal quality and reduce the number of connections needed in mm-diameter catheters [1]-[5]. 3D visualization in real...

A columnar architecture for modern risk management systems

3D digital city models form the basis for flow simulations (e.g. wind flow and water runoff), urban planning, underand over- ground formation analysis, and they are very important for automated anomaly detection on man made structures. They consist of large collections of semantically rich objects which have many properties such as material and...

Parallel Matrix Multiplication on Memristor-Based Computation-in-Memory Architecture

One of the most important constraints of today’s architectures for data-intensive applications is the limited bandwidth due to the memory-processor communication bottleneck. This significantly impacts performance and energy. For instance, the energy consumption share of communication and memory<br/>access may exceed 80%. Recently, the concept of...

Beamforming in sparse, random, 3D array antennas with fluctuating element locations

The impact of the fluctuations in the locations of elementary radiators on the radiation properties of three-dimensional (3D) array antennas is studied. The principal radiation features (sidelobes level, beam squint) are examined based on illustrative examples. Some atypical behaviours, that are specific to 3D arrays, are highlighted. The effect...