Abstract:
Renewable Energy (RE) sources are already one of the cheapest sources of energy available today but are variable and infirm, and the open ocean offers many opportunities to generate energy by using various disparate sources and methods on a floating station. These energy stations converting renewable energy including solar, ocean currents, wind, waves and batteries and hydrogen to store energy and provide sufficient stable power and energy as required and available most of the hours. The invention claimed here is a system to capture energy from a combination of wind, solar and ocean currents, along with batteries for storage and later use and hydrogen creation, storage and use for generation. In addition, apparatus is described that provide mechanical stability and resilience in deep open seas and reliably survive storms and hurricanes. Also described is a method for overcoming intermittency of ensuring continuous and stable energy export from the station, and finally methods to continually operate RE station in the open seas even during storms and hurricanes and survive the high winds and waves.
Abstract:
Complementary metal oxide semiconductor transistors are formed on a silicon substrate. The substrate has a {100} crystallographic orientation. The transistors are formed on the substrate so that current flows in the channels of the transistors are parallel to the direction. Additionally, longitudinal tensile stress is applied to the channels.
Abstract:
A semiconductor device and method for its fabrication are described. An active region spacer may be formed on a top surface of an isolation region and adjacent to a sidewall of an active region. In one embodiment, the active region spacer may suppress the formation of metal pipes in the active region.
Abstract:
Various methods for forming a layer of strained silicon in a channel region of a device and devices constructed according to the disclosed methods. In one embodiment, a strain-inducing layer is formed, a relaxed layer is formed on the strain-inducing layer, a portion of the strain-inducing layer is removed, which allows the strain-inducing layer to relax and strain the relaxed layer.
Abstract:
The present invention is a semiconductor device having and a method for forming wells by growing an epitaxial silicon layer wherein the epitaxial silicon layer has at least three silicon sublayers. The first sublayer is highly doped, the second sublayer is less doped, and the third sublayer is also highly doped. The use of the epitaxially grown wells allows for the placement of high dopant concentrations in regions of the well where electrical isolation is an issue and the placement of lower doped concentrations in regions of the well where electrical isolation is not as great an issue in order to help reduce the problem of parasitic capacitance.
Abstract:
A monitoring device to monitor process induced charge employing a single layer of polysilicon forming a floating gate. The device comprises two capacitors, one for charging and the other for discharging a floating gate of an n-channel transistor. Embodiments which permit the monitoring of positive charge, negative charge and both positive and negative charge are described. The device is reusable and lends itself to in-line monitoring as opposed to some prior art devices used for end-of-line monitoring.
Abstract:
Embodiments related to the conversion of DC power to AC power are disclosed. For example, one disclosed embodiment provides a power conversion system, comprising a plurality of direct current (DC) power sources, a plurality of power output circuits connected to one another in a parallel arrangement, each power output circuit being connected to a corresponding DC power source to receive power from the corresponding DC power source and to selectively discharge power received from the corresponding DC power source, a power combiner configured to combine power received from the plurality of power output circuits to form a combined power signal, an output stage configured to convert the combined power signal into an AC signal or a DC signal, and a controller in electrical communication with each power outlet circuit and the power combiner to control the output of power by the power converter.
Abstract:
A semiconductor device and method for its fabrication are described. An isolation body may be formed prior to formation of an active region. In one embodiment, the isolation body is void-free.
Abstract:
A method comprising running an error correction code on data and storing the data and the result of the error correction code in memory, running an error correction code on the data when it is read from the memory, comparing the results of the error correction codes on the data from before and after the memory, correcting errors when the comparator determines a difference in the results of the error correction codes and lowering the operating voltage of the memory array while using the error correction.
Abstract:
Various methods for forming a layer of strained silicon in a channel region of a device and devices constructed according to the disclosed methods. In one embodiment, a strain-inducing layer is formed, a relaxed layer is formed on the strain-inducing layer, a portion of the strain-inducing layer is removed, which allows the strain-inducing layer to relax and strain the relaxed layer.