摘要:
An apparatus including a housing having walls is provided. The walls of the housing each have inner surfaces and outer surfaces. The walls may include apertures extending from the inner surface to the outer surface. The inner surfaces of the walls define a volume. The volume includes an electrode. The volume further includes a water-controlling separator disposed between the inner surface of the housing and the electrode. The water-controlling separator can block a flow of liquid from the electrode through the apertures to the ambient environment while allowing oxidant to flow from the ambient environment through the apertures to the electrode.
摘要:
A diode-connected lateral transistor on a substrate of a first conductivity type includes a vertical parasitic transistor through which a parasitic substrate leakage current flows. Means for shunting at least a portion of the flow of parasitic substrate leakage current away from the vertical parasitic transistor is provided.
摘要:
A process for forming a vertical DMOS device with an ESD protection transistor that is configured for carrying a breakdown current includes the steps of masking a substrate of a first polarity type and forming spaced apart surface isolation regions. An insulated gate is formed between the spaced apart surface isolation regions. Selected portions of the surface regions between the gate and the surface isolation regions are heterodoped to form p-n junctions having retrograde doping profiles beneath the substrate surface thereby lowering the breakdown voltage beneath the heterodoped portions in order to direct a substantial portion of the breakdown current below the surface of the substrate and into the body of the substrate between the heterodoped regions. Source and drain regions are formed in the substrate surface on opposite sides of the gate.
摘要:
A method and a structure for a parasitic bipolar silicided ESD device that has high resistivity regions within the collector of the parasitic NPN. The device has the structure of a N-MOS transistor and a substrate contact. The device preferably has silicide regions over the doped regions. The invention has two types of high resistivity regions: 1) isolation regions (e.g., oxide shallow trench isolation (STI)) and 2) undoped or lightly doped regions (e.g., channel regions). The channel regions can have gates thereover and the gates can be charged. Also, optionally a n−well (n minus well) can be formed under the collector. The high resistivity regions increase the collector resistivity thereby improving the performance of the parasitic bipolar ESD device.
摘要:
An ESD device and method using parasitic bipolar transistors that are silicided. The first embodiment is a parasitic Bipolar Junction Transistor comprised of n+/n−/p−/n−/n+ regions. The emitter is formed of the second N+ region and the second N− well. The parasitic base is formed by the p− substrate or well. The collector is formed of the first well and the first n+ region. The benefit of the first embodiment is the trigger voltage is lower because the junction between the n− well (emitter) and P− substrate (base) and the junction between P− substrate (base) and the n− well have lower cross over concentrations. The second embodiment is similar to the first embodiment with the addition of the first gate. The first gate is preferably connected to the first n+ region and the Vpad. The third embodiment contains the same elements as the second embodiment with the addition of a third n+ region. The third n+ region is preferably shorted (or connected) to the first p+ region and the second n+ region. The third embodiment forms a second NPN parasitic bipolar using the third N+ region as an emitter. The forth embodiment contains the same elements as the third embodiment with the addition of a second gate over the first isolation region. The second gate is preferably connected to the third n+ region to the first p+ region and the second n+ region. The gate changes the electrical characteristics of the first parasitic bipolar transistor.
摘要:
A semiconductor structure includes a substrate, a first power device and a second power device in the substrate, at least one isolation feature between the first and second power device, and a trapping feature adjoining the at least one isolation feature in the substrate.
摘要:
Ceramic honeycomb structures and methods to make the same are disclosed. The structures may be comprised of at least two separate smaller ceramic honeycombs that have been coated with a polymer to create a polymeric barrier coating and adhered together with a cement comprised of inorganic fibers and a binding phase which is comprised of amorphous silicate, aluminite or alumino silicate glass and other inorganic particles. The polymer is selected such that it is penetratable into or covering the pores in the honeycomb structure to form a thin barrier layer thereon to mitigate migration of the inorganic fibers, binding phase and water into the pores. The polymer is adapted to be burned off or decomposed at or below cement and honeycomb skin firing temperatures, or at or below honeycomb operating temperatures during application to create a honeycomb structure that, when formed into an exhaust filter, does not have any undesired pressure drop increase due to cement migration.
摘要:
A porous discriminating layer is formed on a ceramic support having at least one porous wall by (a) establishing a flow of a gas stream containing highly porous particles through the support to deposit a layer of the highly porous particles of a ceramic or ceramic precursor onto wall(s) of the support and (b) calcining said deposited layer to form the discriminating layer. This method is an inexpensive and effective route to forming a discriminating layer onto the porous wall.
摘要:
Organic polymer particles are provided in a cement composition that is used to apply a skin to a ceramic honeycomb, or to bond the ceramic honeycomb to another honeycomb or another material. The presence of the organic polymer particles reduces the penetration of the cement composition through porous walls of the honeycomb. In this way, less blocking of the honeycomb cells is seen, and the reduction in thermal shock performance that is often seen when cement compositions are applied to ceramic honeycombs is reduced.
摘要:
In the present invention, two improved variants of the reliability-based iterative majority-logic decoding algorithm for regular low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes are presented. The new algorithms are obtained by introducing a different reliability measure for each check-sum of the parity-check matrix, and taking it into account in the computation of the extrinsic information that is used to update the reliability measure of each received bit in each iteration. In contrast to the first algorithm, the second algorithm includes check reliability that changes at each iteration. For the tested random and structured LDPC codes, both algorithms, while requiring very little additional computational complexities, achieve a considerable error performance gain over the standard one. More importantly, for short and medium block length LDPC codes of relatively large column weight, both algorithms outperform or perform just as well as the iterative decoding based on belief propagation (IDBP) with less decoding complexity.