... of matter) Electric current Voltage Substrates ZnO film Ag buffer layer Silicon substrate I‐V curves Zinc oxide (ZnO), is widely used in UV light emitting devices (Liu et al., 2007), surface acoustic wave devices (Krishnamoorthy and IIiadis, 2008), transparent electronics...

...Chan‐Soo Lee; Ho‐Yong Choi; Yeong‐Seuk Kim; Nam‐Soo Kim Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a fully integrated power converter. A stacked spiral inductor is applied in a voltage‐mode CMOS DC‐DC converter for the chip miniaturization and low‐power operation. Design/methodology...

...‐ray diffraction, energy dispersive X‐ray, and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). According to experimental results, the current‐voltage characteristics of the device show the typical rectifying behaviour of Schottky diodes. The UV photocurrent measurement was performed using an UV lamp under...

... effects of reverse currents on the normal operation of the solar cells and modules. J. Sidawi can be contacted at: jsidawi@ul.edu.lb © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Solar power Electric current Voltage Capacitance Energy technology Photovoltaic (PV) solar cell...

... on the gate oxide of MOS devices and electrical characterization is performed after each period of stress, a comparison is presented. Findings Compared results between the two types of stress show that certain doses of stress can increase the device speed. The underlying changes of the threshold voltage...

...Vandana Niranjan; Maneesha Gupta Purpose Real‐time multiplication of two analog signals is one of the most important operations in analogue signal processing. Driven by low‐power and low‐voltage requirements for integrated mixedsignal portable applications, the paper's aim is to propose a novel...

...A. Marzuki; Zaliman Sauli; Ali Yeon Shakaff, Md Purpose The purpose of this paper is to design a voltage reference circuit for current source of radio frequency integrated circuit blocks. The voltage reference circuit is called voltage for current source (VCS). Design/methodology/approach...

...Rajeevan Chandel; S. Sarkar; R.P. Agarwal Purpose To study the effect of voltage‐scaling on output voltage waveform, delay and power dissipation in a single inverter/repeater driven interconnect load, in different technology nodes. Design/methodology/approach An analytical expression...

...Radhalakshmi Ramakrishnan; Maqsood A. Chaudhry Purpose In this paper, we study the effect on the performance of a single supply low voltage operational amplifier due to such a mismatch. Design/methodology/approach We start with a given set of specifications and design a MOSFET based...

... technique of repeater insertion in long interconnections to reduce delay in VLSI circuits has been reported during the last two decades. This paper deals with delay, power dissipation and the role of voltage‐scaling in repeaters loaded long interconnects in VLSI circuits for low power environment. Design...