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A microfabricated device having a high vertical aspect ratio and electrical isolation between a structure region and a circuit region. The device may be fabricated on a single substrate and may include electrical interconnections between the structure region and the circuit region. The device includes a substrate and an isolation trench surrounding a structure region in the substrate. The isolation trench includes a lining of a dielectric insulative material. A plurality of microstructure elements are located in the structure region and are laterally anchored to the isolation trench.

The invention provides a capacitive distance sensor. The capacitive distance sensor is on the basis of the physical principle that the value of a capacitor is inversely proportional to the distance between capacitor plates; and once a coupling capacitor is generated between the surface of a detected conductor and a capacitance measuring plate on the single side of the surface of a sensor, the distance from the capacitance measuring plate to the surface of the detected conductor can be calculated by measuring the value of the coupling capacitor. The capacitive distance sensor provided by the invention has a circuit structure, and comprises the capacitance measuring plate, a reference capacitor, a capacitor coupling plate, a reference capacitor charging circuit, a capacitance measuring plate discharging circuit, a charge neutralization circuit, a programmable level generator 1, a programmable level generator 2 and a voltage comparator. The capacitive distance sensor has the characteristics of linearization, resistance to shifting, and low noise.

A multi-bit continuous-time sigma-delta analog-to-digital converter (ADC) has a differential input stage which receives an analog input signal current. A multi-bit feedback current digital-to-analog converter (IDAC) generates a multi-level feedback current depending on a digital feedback signal from a flash ADC. An integrator has a differential input that integrates the difference of the generated current by the multi-bit IDAC and the input signal current on a continuous-time basis. The input stage further comprises a first biasing current source and a second biasing current source which bias the input stage in a mid-scale condition. A first summing node connects to the first differential input line, a first differential input of the integrator and the first output branch. A second summing node connects to the second differential input line, a second differential input of the integrator and the second output branch. A set of chopping switches alternately connect the biasing current sources to the summing nodes in a first configuration and a second, reversed, configuration. The converter receives a modulator clock signal at a frequency FS and the chopping switches can operate at FS or a binary subdivision thereof. The integrator amplifier can also be chopper-stabilized.

A differential voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) employed in a frequency synthesizer used as a local oscillator of a wireless communication on-chip transmitter / receiver is provided. More particularly, a differential current negative feedback VCO equipped with a current-current negative feedback circuit that suppresses low- and high-frequency noise is provided. A differential current negative feedback VCO includes a resonator determining oscillation frequency, and an oscillator generating negative resistance. In the oscillator of the differential current negative feedback VCO, transistors Q1 and Q2 form a cross-coupled pair, and negative resistance is generated by positive feedback of the cross-coupled pair. And, transistors Q1 and Q3 together with an emitter resistor and a capacitor form a current negative feedback part, and transistors Q2 and Q4 together with an emitter resistor and a capacitor form another current negative feedback part which is disposed opposite to a resonator. Thus, the VCO operates differentially. In the oscillator of the differential current negative feedback VCO, emitter noise currents generated by base noise voltages of Q1 and Q2 induced by low- and high-frequency noise sources in the bases of Q1 and Q2 are sampled by emitter resistors, amplified through bases of Q3 and Q4, and thus return to the bases of the Q1 and Q2 and suppress the base noise voltages. Measurement of the phase noise of the differential current negative feedback VCO reveals a phase noise reduction of approximately 25 dB compared to a conventional differential VCO.

The invention discloses a high-reliability constant voltage mode semiconductor laser driver with continuously adjustable output light power, and relates to a semiconductor laser driver. The driver solves the problems of serious amplifier heating and slow current limiting protection response in the high power of a conventional semiconductor laser. A voltage sampling circuit of the driver is used for acquiring the voltage of a laser diode. A current sampling circuit of the driver is used for acquiring the current of the laser diode. Constant current control circuit is used for controlling the intensity of the current flowing through the laser diode. The sampling signal output end of the voltage sampling circuit is connected with the sampling signal input end of a micro control unit (MCU). The sampling signal output end of the current sampling circuit is connected with the sampling signal input end of the constant current control circuit. The control signal input end of the constant current control circuit is connected with the constant current control signal output end of the MCU. A thermal resistor is used for acquiring the temperature of the laser diode. A thermoelectric cooler (TEC) is used for cooling the laser diode. The driver is suitable for use as a novel high-reliability constant voltage mode light source with the continuously adjustable output light power.

A multi-bit continuous-time sigma-delta analog-to-digital converter (ADC) has an input stage which receives an analog input signal current. A multi-bit feedback current digital-to-analog converter (IDAC) generates a multi-level feedback current depending on a feedback signal. An integrator integrates a sum of the generated current and input signal current on a continuous-time basis. The IDAC has a first output branch including a first biasing current source and a second output branch including a second biasing current source. The biasing current sources supply a bias current to a respective branch of the IDAC to bias the input stage in a mid-scale condition. The biasing current sources are connected to the branches via chopping switches which connect the biasing current sources to the branches in a first configuration and a second, reversed, configuration. The integrator amplifier can also be chopper-stabilized, although preferably only the first stage is chopper-stabilized.

An improved per-tone FEQ method with a noise reduction technique using periodic training pilot tones increases the throughput for long-reached modems. This method can reduce the noise effects in estimating FEQ equalizer coefficients. Each per-tone FEQ can be estimated by using the periodic training signals and an averaging technique to remove noise from each sub-channel (EQN. VI). After solving the system equations (EQN. IV), per-tone equalization coefficients of the FEQ equalizer for each group can be combined to obtain the optimized results in the form of the Toeplitz matrix (EQN. V). Each element within the Toeplitz matrix can be derived from the averaging technique used to remove noise from each sub-channel (EQN. VI). To demodulate a signal with the Toeplitz matrix, an inverse of every element in a row of the Toeplitz matrix is taken and multiplied by the sending signal which creates an N Log N matrix.

The invention provides an image pick-up device of a mobile phone and a mobile phone. The image pick-up device of the mobile phone comprises a lens unit, a voice coil motor (VCM), an infrared cut-off filter, a sensor and a flexible circuit board (FPC), wherein the lens unit is sleeved with the VCM; a metal housing is arranged outside the VCM; a base of the lens unit is connected with the FPC; the infrared filter and the sensor are arranged between the base of the lens unit and the FPC; at least one edge of the FPC extends outwards until an extending part of the FPC is in contact with the metal housing; furthermore, a copper layer is arranged on the surface of the extending part of the FPC and electrically connected with the metal housing. The image pick-up device provided by the invention solves the technical problems that the technical problems that the working performance of the VCM is reduced, the number of noisy points of an image shot by a camera is relatively large and the imaging quality is reduced as heat cannot be dissipated in time in an existing image pick-up device.

A SQUID Bootstrap Circuit (SBC) consists of a mutually coupled dc-SQUID and a feedback coil. The SQUID and the coil are connected in series. The feedback coil, which can be made of a superconductor or of a normal metal, can be either integrated on the SQUID chip, or be placed separately next to the SQUID. Together, both SQUID and coil form a novel two-terminal device, which will be named SBC. The invention combines the advantages of both, APF and NC and avoids certain drawbacks thereof. With the help of this new design, the current or voltage -Phi characteristics of SQUID will be asymmetric and the equivalent dynamic resistance will be changed.

A headset driver circuit is described which comprises a connector interface. The connector interface comprises a first terminal, a second terminal and a third terminal for establishing respective electrical connections to a first speaker, a microphone and a common ground node of a headphone, earphone or headset, respectively. A first power amplifier is coupled to the first terminal to supply a first audio output signal to the first speaker of the headset. A first switch arrangement comprises a first ground switch is configured for selectively connecting and disconnecting the second terminal and a ground node of the headset driver circuit. The headset driver circuit further comprises a second ground switch configured for selectively connecting and disconnecting the third terminal and the ground node. The headset driver circuit also comprises a differential preamplifier, e.g. a microphone preamplifier, configured to generate a microphone output voltage where the differential preamplifier comprises a first signal input coupled to the second terminal and a second signal input coupled to the third terminal of the connector interface. An error suppression circuit is configured to sense or sample a noise or error voltage at the second terminal when ground connected or the third terminal when ground connected. The error suppression circuit is further configured to add the sensed or sampled noise or error voltage to a predetermined DC bias voltage and generate an error compensated DC bias voltage for the ungrounded one of the second and third terminals of the connector interface.

A photosensor array includes data and scan lines (124, 148), circuitry of each data line / scan line pair formed in a backplane (110) on a substrate (102). On a first electrode scan line (148) a switching element (112) responds to a scan signal, connecting a first terminal (106) to a second terminal (108). A front plane (120) has sensing elements (122) indicating a measure of a received stimulus and including a charge collection electrode (130). An insulating layer (140) disposed between the backplane (110) and the front plane (120) contains at least a first via (136) connecting the first terminal (108) of the switching element (112) in the backplane (110) to a charge collection electrode (130) of the sensing element (122) in the front plane (120). A second via (126) connects between the second terminal (108) of the switching element (112) and the data line (124).

A capacitance type vibration sensor has a substrate including a hollow portion, a vibration electrode plate, which is arranged facing the hollow portion at an upper surface side of the substrate and which performs film vibration upon receiving vibration, and a fixed electrode plate which is arranged facing the vibration electrode plate and which is opened with a plurality of acoustic perforations passing therethrough in a thickness direction. The capacitance type vibration sensor has an air path, which communicates a space between the vibration electrode plate and the fixed electrode plate to the hollow portion, between an upper surface of the substrate and a lower surface of the vibration electrode plate in at least one part of a periphery of the hollow portion.

The invention discloses a GPS weak signal tracking system based on I / Q branch correlation integral observation filtering. A receiver is used for receiving a satellite signal which is converted into an intermediate frequency signal through down conversion and transmitted to a frequency mixer. The frequency mixer is also used for receiving local sine and cosine reproduction carrier signals outputted by a local carrier digital-controlled oscillator, and outputting a I-branch output signal and a II-branch output signal to a correlation arithmetic unit. The correlation arithmetic unit also receives a local advanced C / A code, an instant reproduction C / A code and a lagged reproduction C / A code, wherein the local advanced C / A code, the instant reproduction C / A code and the lagged reproduction C / A code are generated by a code generator. Results are outputted to an integral eraser, and six-way relevant integral values are generated and outputted to a Kalman filter. The Kalman filter obtains an estimated carrier phase difference, an estimated carrier frequency difference and an estimated code phase difference, and the estimated carrier phase difference, the estimated carrier frequency difference and the estimated code phase difference are transmitted to the local carrier digital-controlled oscillator and the code generator. The system effectively reduces the noise intensity of the satellite signal, can trace the satellite signal better in a weak-signal environment, and improves the tracing precision.

A SRD narrow pulse signal generator basis on clock drive belongs to the electronic technical field, which relates to the technique of super wide-band communication, pulse radar and pulse source. The generator comprises a clock source, a coupling capacitance, a resonance matching circuit, a pulse forming circuit and a pulse shaping circuit. The invention has simple circuit and convenient modulation. Complexity and power consumption of the circuit is reduced under the help of automatic bias circuit of SRD which is formed by the matching network and the load resistance, extended power consumption and thermal noise of the circuit are further reduced since all the resonance matching circuits adopt reactive element, particularly a lumped inductance L3 and a Schottky diode are introduced to be a shaping circuit, pulse stretching is effectively inhibited, and pulse delay fall time is greatly compressed, and simultaneously the problem of pulse side lobe and overshoot can be effectively solved. Narrow pulse signals which are generated by the invention have good wave shaping symmetrical characteristic, which can be used as triggering source of gaussian pulse of higher order differential with high quality and signal source of super broadband wireless communication and impacting radar.

A analog to digital converter, comprising: an input for receiving an input signal to be digitised; a first converter core for performing a first part of an analog to digital conversion, and for outputting a first digital result; a first residue calculator for calculating a first residue as a difference between the input signal and the first digital result; a second converter core for performing a second part of the analog to digital conversion by converting the first residue; wherein at least one of the first and second converter cores comprises at least three analog to digital conversion engines and a controller for controlling the operation of the engines such that the engines collaborate to perform a successive approximation search, and wherein a plurality of bits can be determined during a single trial step of the successive approximation search.

A method to form a stacked CMOS image sensor includes forming a signal processing layer including a plurality of discrete signal processing circuit, an image sensor layer including a plurality of discrete image sensing units, and an intermediate capacitor layer including a dielectric layer and a plurality of capacitors. Each capacitor includes a first electrode, a V-shaped or U-shaped first electrode material layer electrically connecting to the first electrode, a second electrode material layer on the first electrode material layer having the dielectric layer there-between, and a second electrode electrically connecting to the second electrode material layer. The method further includes bonding the signal processing layer to the intermediate capacitor layer with each second electrode electrically connected to a signal processing circuit, and bonding the image sensor layer to the intermediate capacitor layer with each first electrode electrically connected to an image sensing unit.

The invention discloses a method for recovering condensation water in the production process of gas concrete. The method comprises the following steps of: firstly, sending the saturated steam produced by a boiler to a still kettle in which gas concrete slabs or blocks are placed, and heating the gas concrete product, wherein the saturated steam is cooled to form the condensation water through the heat exchange; secondly, sending the condensation water drained from the still kettle to a plurality of secondary heating user devices filled with materials, and pre-heating the materials by using the afterheat of the condensation water, wherein the saturated steam is cooled to form the secondary condensation water through the heat exchange; and thirdly, after the secondary condensation water drained from the secondary heating user device satisfies the requirement of boiler water feeding through the purification treatment, sending the secondary condensation water to the boiler of the first step for recycle. By adopting the method, the afterheat resources and water resources discharged from the production process are sufficiently, reasonably and gradually utilized, and the energy and resource consumptions and the production cost of product per unit are reduced.

A solid-state infrared imager comprises a matrix array of infrared sensing pixels which are formed as an imaging area on a semiconductor substrate and each of which contains a pn-junction thermoelectric converter element to sense incident infrared radiation, row selection lines each connected to the pixels of a corresponding row, signal lines each connected to the pixels of a corresponding column, a row selection circuit which selects and drives one of the row selection lines, and a signal readout circuit which reads out signal currents output to the signal lines from the pixels corresponding to the row selection line driven by the row selection circuit. Particularly, the signal readout circuit includes a signal line potential stabilizer which stabilizes the potential of the signal line to a constant level, and a current-voltage converter which converts the signal current flowing in a signal line to a signal voltage.

A analog to digital converter, comprising: an input for receiving an input signal to be digitized; a first converter core for performing a first part of an analog to digital conversion, and for outputting a first digital result; a first residue calculator for calculating a first residue as a difference between the input signal and the first digital result; a second converter core for performing a second part of the analog to digital conversion by converting the first residue; wherein at least one of the first and second converter cores comprises at least three analog to digital conversion engines and a controller for controlling the operation of the engines such that the engines collaborate to perform a successive approximation search, and wherein a plurality of bits can be determined during a single trial step of the successive approximation search.

A 2 [mu]m band low-noise narrow-linewidth single-frequency fiber laser is provided, which comprises a single-frequency laser resonant short cavity, a resonant cavity temperature control module, a wavelength division multiplexer, a co-band pumping source, a pumping source intensity noise suppression module and an optical isolator. The invention uses a laser with small difference between the workingwavelength and the laser signal wavelength as a co-band pumping source, uses an intensity noise suppression module to suppress the noise of the pumping source, and then uses a low-noise pumping source to pump the 2 [mu]m single-frequency laser resonant short cavity. Finally, single frequency fiber laser with low noise, narrow linewidth, and the working band of 2 [mu]m is output from the cavity. The laser provided by the invention has the advantages of all-optical fiber structure, excellent noise performance, extremely narrow laser linewidth, high conversion efficiency, simple structure, etc.,and can be used for atmospheric measurement, laser radar, biomedical, and realizing laser output in 3-5 [mu]m band as a pump source of an optical parametric oscillator (OPO) and the like.

A differential voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) employed in a frequency synthesizer used as a local oscillator of a wireless communication on-chip transmitter / receiver is provided. More particularly, a differential current negative feedback VCO equipped with a current-current negative feedback circuit that suppresses low- and high-frequency noise is provided.A differential current negative feedback VCO includes a resonator determining oscillation frequency, and an oscillator generating negative resistance. In the oscillator of the differential current negative feedback VCO, transistors Q1 and Q2 form a cross-coupled pair, and negative resistance is generated by positive feedback of the cross-coupled pair. And, transistors Q1 and Q3 together with an emitter resistor and a capacitor form a current negative feedback part, and transistors Q2 and Q4 together with an emitter resistor and a capacitor form another current negative feedback part which is disposed opposite to a resonator. Thus, the VCO operates differentially.In the oscillator of the differential current negative feedback VCO, emitter noise currents generated by base noise voltages of Q1 and Q2 induced by low- and high-frequency noise sources in the bases of Q1 and Q2 are sampled by emitter resistors, amplified through bases of Q3 and Q4, and thus return to the bases of the Q1 and Q2 and suppress the base noise voltages. Measurement of the phase noise of the differential current negative feedback VCO reveals a phase noise reduction of approximately 25 dB compared to a conventional differential VCO.

The invention discloses a laser fuse reception system, which comprises a reception optical unit, a photoelectric detector connected to the reception optical unit, a preposition amplification circuit connected to the photoelectric detector, and a distance gain control circuit connected to an output terminal of the preposition amplification circuit. According to the invention, the photoelectric detector and the preposition amplification circuit arranged in the reception system, a photoelectric crosstalk problem can be solved; the distance gain control circuit is arranged, so that signal filtering and distance gaining functions can be increased, problems of large laser fuse view field and long effect distance can be solved, and reception rate is increased.

The invention discloses a balanced type photoelectric detector in a 2mu m coherent laser wind-finding radar system, which aims at solving the problems that in the 2mu m coherent laser wind-finding radar system, analog devices of the balanced type heterodyne photoelectric detector are multiple, so that no only is the cost high, but also heat noise is caused. Two PIN photoelectric diodes with almost completely same parameters are manufactured on one detection unit simultaneously. Incident signal light and local light are divided into two beams respectively through a beam splitter, are respectively guided into two reverse PIN tubes with matched parameters so as to carry out optical frequency mixing on light sensitive surfaces of two PIN photoelectric detectors, then generating heterodyne signals respectively, and outputting the balanced heterodyne intermediate-frequency signal by a two-stage amplifier after passing through a differentiator, wherein a capacitor C1, a capacitor C2 and a capacitor C3 play a role in filtering. The balanced type photoelectric detector disclosed by the invention is used for converting optical signals into electric signals.

The invention provides a non-refrigeration infrared polarization detector pixel structure and a preparation method. The non-refrigeration infrared polarization detector pixel structure comprises a bottom layer, a middle layer and an upper layer, wherein the bottom layer comprises a reading circuit substrate, a first metal electrode layer, a metal reflection layer and a first medium protection layer, and the first metal electrode layer, the metal reflection layer and the first medium protection layer are arranged on the reading circuit substrate; the middle layer comprises a first supporting layer, a thermosensitive layer, a second medium protection layer, a second metal electrode layer and a third medium protection layer; and the upper layer comprises a second supporting layer and an optical grating layer, wherein the second supporting layer is arranged above the third medium protection layer, and the optical grating layer is arranged on the second supporting layer and comprises a plurality of optical gratings arranged in sequence. By use of the non-refrigeration infrared polarization detector pixel structure and the preparation method, volume is greatly reduced, thermal noise introduced by the optical grating layer is lowered, and polarization detection sensitivity is improved so as to be favorable for increasing the extinction ratio of the optical grating layer.

A signal processing circuit has a sample / hold circuit for sampling an input signal comprised of a first signal and a second signal and for holding the first signal. The first signal comprises an optical signal obtained due to storage of electric charges generated due to light incident upon a photoelectric converter, and the second signal comprises a reference signal obtained due to resetting of the photoelectric converter. A subtracter receives an output signal of the sample / hold circuit and the input signal and obtains a difference between the output signal of the sample / hold circuit and the input signal. A voltage clamp circuit clamps a part or all of an output signal from the subtracter.

According to an embodiment, a circuit includes a first charge pump configured to generate a first current at a first node, a second charge pump configured to generate a second current at a second node, a loop filter coupled between the first and second nodes, the loop filter including a first filter path coupled to the first node, a second filter path coupled to the second node, and an isolation buffer interposed between the first and second filter paths. The second current at the second node is different than the first current at the first node. The circuit further includes an oscillator configured to apply a first gain to an output of the first filter path and a second gain to an output of the second filter path.

A microphone circuit includes a capacitor capsule and first and second impedance converters connected differentially to the capacitor capsule. The microphone circuit includes first and second output buffer amplifiers connected differentially to the first and second impedance converters.

A solid-state infrared imager comprises a matrix array of infrared sensing pixels which are formed as an imaging area on a semiconductor substrate and each of which contains a pn-junction thermoelectric converter element to sense incident infrared radiation, row selection lines each connected to the pixels of a corresponding row, signal lines each connected to the pixels of a corresponding column, a row selection circuit which selects and drives one of the row selection lines, and a signal readout circuit which reads out signal currents output to the signal lines from the pixels corresponding to the row selection line driven by the row selection circuit. Particularly, the signal readout circuit includes a signal line potential stabilizer which stabilizes the potential of the signal line to a constant level, and a current-voltage converter which converts the signal current flowing in a signal line to a signal voltage.

A plasma device having low thermal noise, which results in a high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the plasma device. The plasma device includes devices with a plasma that is responsive to electromagnetic radiation and / or electrical signals. In various configurations, the plasma device has a plasma in which the temperature, resistance, pressure, and / or collision frequency are at a level sufficiently low to produce an acceptable level of noise. In another configuration, the operating frequency of the plasma device is at a level sufficiently high to produce an acceptable level of noise. Decreasing the noise level results in increasing the signal-to-noise ratio and increasing the data rate. The plasma temperature is reduced by operating the plasma device in the afterglow state. The plasma electron temperature is reduced by confining high energy electrons in a potential well and by using an electron emitting filament.