摘要:
An energy storage circuit includes a first capacitor connected with a power generating element via a first diode and a second capacitor connected with the power generating element via a second diode and a switch. The conduction state of the switch is controlled using the potential difference between its second and third electrodes (driving voltage V). The driving voltage when the switch enters its conductive state is higher than the driving voltage when the switch enters its non-conductive state.
摘要:
Each of APRM units equipped for each of the diversity channels has printed circuit boards having circuit patterns thereon and a circuit description elements installed on the printed circuit board. The circuit description elements are FPGA elements manufactured by mutually different providers for example and implemented an electric circuit described in a hardware description language by a configuration tool. The circuit description elements can be implemented mutually different descriptions of the electric circuit, or can be implemented the electric circuit by mutually different configuration tools. Also, the printed circuit boards for the diversity channels can be different from each other.
摘要:
The method for promoting the size reduction, the performance improvement and the reliability improvement of a semiconductor device embedded with pressure sensor is provided. In a semiconductor device embedded with pressure sensor, a part of an uppermost wiring is used as a lower electrode of a pressure detecting unit. A part of a silicon oxide film formed on the lower electrode is a cavity. On a tungsten silicide film formed on the silicon oxide film, a silicon nitride film is formed. The silicon nitride film has a function to fill a hole or holes and suppress immersion of moisture from outside to the semiconductor device embedded with pressure sensor. A laminated film of the silicon nitride film and the tungsten silicide film forms a diaphragm of the pressure sensor.
摘要:
The method for promoting the size reduction, the performance improvement and the reliability improvement of a semiconductor device embedded with pressure sensor is provided. In a semiconductor device embedded with pressure sensor, a part of an uppermost wiring is used as a lower electrode of a pressure detecting unit. A part of a silicon oxide film formed on the lower electrode is a cavity. On a tungsten silicide film formed on the silicon oxide film, a silicon nitride film is formed. The silicon nitride film has a function to fill a hole or holes and suppress immersion of moisture from outside to the semiconductor device embedded with pressure sensor. A laminated film of the silicon nitride film and the tungsten silicide film forms a diaphragm of the pressure sensor.
摘要:
A surface processing method of a sample having a mask layer that does not contain carbon as a major component formed on a substance to be processed, the substance being a metal, semiconductor and insulator deposited on a silicon substrate, includes the steps of installing the sample on a sample board in a vacuum container, generating a plasma that consists of a mixture of halogen gas and adhesive gas inside the vacuum container, applying a radio frequency bias voltage having a frequency ranging from 200 kHz to 20 MHz on the sample board, and controlling a periodic on-off of the radio frequency bias voltage with an on-off control frequency ranging from 100 Hz to 10 kHz.
摘要:
The present invention has a object to enhance the yield and facilitate bonding in a device provided with micro-mechanical elements formed by a MEMS technique. According to the inveniton, when a first wafer having a plurality of areas in which micro-mechanical elements and pads are formed and a second wafer in which an aperture is formed are to be glued together, the aperture is shared by the pads in the plurality of areas. This makes it possible for individual chips, into which the wafer is cut out, to be bonded with a conventionally used wire bonder because a sufficient aperture is provided above the pads. Further according to the invention, at the step of dicing two glued wafers into individual chips, the two wafers are separately cut. This enables chipping of the wafers to be reduced and the yield at the dicing step to be enhanced.
摘要:
It is an objective to achieve a MEMS switch which can be mounted with a CMOS circuit and has a contact point with high reliability, both mechanically and electrically. An insulator having a compatibility with a CMOS process is formed at the contact surface of a cantilever beam constituting a MEMS switch and a fixed contact 2 opposite thereto. When the switch is used the cantilever beam is moved by applying a voltage to the pull-in electrode and the cantilever beam. After the cantilever beam makes contact with the fixed contact, a voltage exceeding the breakdown field strength of the insulator is applied to the insulator, resulting in dielectric breakdown occurring. By modifying the insulator once, the mechanical fatigue concentration point of the switch contact point is protected, and a contact point is achieved as well in which electrical signals are transmitted through the current path formed by the dielectric breakdown.
摘要:
In a hydrogen gas station where a great number of sensors are installed, in case hydrogen leakage occurs, sensors in the vicinity of the leakage location start to transmit warning to an access point all at once. This causes channel capacity saturation and failure to transmit warning to the access point. Nodes and the access point are connected each other by an uplink channel and a downlink channel. The access point detects congested/uncongested status of the uplink channel by using a wireless transmitter module and notifies the nodes of the congested/uncongested status of the channel by means for transmitting onto the downlink channel. Meanwhile, each node controls its transmission operation, according to the hydrogen concentration level detected by its hydrogen sensor and the uplink channel congested/uncongested status notified from the access point. In this way, channel overflow due to access congestion in case of hydrogen leakage can be prevented.
摘要:
A simple and convenient sensor and measuring apparatus utilizing the optical interference effect of an optical thin film capable of measuring the binding between biochemical substances at a high throughput and having alkali resistance. An optical thin film of silicon nitride is disposed on the first surface and the rear surface of a silicon substrate, and the thickness of the silicon nitride film is modified in a direction parallel to the film. A portion of the thin film with increased thickness is used as a sensor upon which a probe is disposed, and over which a sample-containing solution is caused to flow. The binding between the probe and biochemical sample is detected based upon the change of the intensity of reflected light.
摘要:
A neutron flux measuring apparatus, adapted to a boiling-water reactor (BWR) of a nuclear power plant and an advanced boiling-water reactor (ABWR) of a nuclear power plant, for measuring a neutron flux in a reactor pressure vessel, comprises a neutron flux detector assembly incorporating a local power range monitor detector assembly and a start-up range neutron monitor detector, a preamplifier amplifying a detector signal obtained from said start-up range neutron monitor detector, a start-up range neutron monitor operation unit operating, indicating and monitoring the amplified signal of the start-up range neutron monitor detector, and a local power range monitor operation unit operating, indicating and monitoring a signal obtained from the local power range monitor detector.