15,208 research outputs found
Comments on "On resistor-induced thermal noise in linear circuits"
Correspondència referida a l'article de R. Giannetti, publicat ibid. vol.49 p.87-88Peer Reviewe
Thermal budget of superconducting digital circuits at sub-kelvin temperatures
Superconducting single-flux-quantum (SFQ) circuits have so far been developed
and optimized for operation at or above helium temperatures. The SFQ approach,
however, should also provide potentially viable and scalable control and
read-out circuits for Josephson-junction qubits and other applications with
much lower, milli-kelvin, operating temperatures. This paper analyzes the
overheating problem which becomes important in this new temperature range. We
suggest a thermal model of the SFQ circuits at sub-kelvin temperatures and
present experimental results on overheating of electrons and silicon substrate
which support this model. The model establishes quantitative limitations on the
dissipated power both for "local" electron overheating in resistors and
"global" overheating due to ballistic phonon propagation along the substrate.
Possible changes in the thermal design of SFQ circuits in view of the
overheating problem are also discussed.Comment: 10 pages, 8 figures, submitted to J. Appl. Phy
Noise and thermal stability of vibrating micro-gyrometers preamplifiers
The preamplifier is a critical component of gyrometer's electronics. Indeed
the resolution of the sensor is limited by its signal to noise ratio, and the
gyrometer's thermal stability is limited by its gain drift. In this paper, five
different kinds of preamplifiers are presented and compared. Finally, the
design of an integrated preamplifier is shown in order to increase the gain
stability while reducing its noise and size.Comment: Submitted on behalf of EDA Publishing Association
(http://irevues.inist.fr/EDA-Publishing
A micromachined flow shear-stress sensor based on thermal transfer principles
Microhot-film shear-stress sensors have been developed by using surface micromachining techniques. The sensor consists of a suspended silicon-nitride diaphragm located on top of a vacuum-sealed cavity. A heating and heat-sensing element, made of polycrystalline silicon material, resides on top of the diaphragm. The underlying vacuum cavity greatly reduces conductive heat loss to the substrate and therefore increases the sensitivity of the sensor. Testing of the sensor has been conducted in a wind tunnel under three operation modes-constant current, constant voltage, and constant temperature. Under the constant-temperature mode, a typical shear-stress sensor exhibits a time constant of 72 ÎĽs
Low-Jitter Clock Multiplication: a Comparioson between PLLs and DLLs
This paper shows that, for a given power budget, a practical phase-locked loop (PLL)-based clock multiplier generates less jitter than a delay-locked loop (DLL) equivalent. This is due to the fact that the delay cells in a PLL ring-oscillator can consume more power per cell than their counterparts in the DLL. We can show that this effect is stronger than the notorious jitter accumulation effect that occurs in the voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) of a PLL. First, an analysis of the stochastic-output jitter of the architectures, due to the most important noise sources, is presented. Then, another important source of jitter in a DLL-based clock multiplier is treated, namely the stochastic mismatch in the delay cells which compose the DLL voltage-controlled delay line (VCDL). An analysis is presented that relates the stochastic spread of the delay of the cells to the output jitter of the clock multiplier. A circuit design technique, called impedance level scaling, is then presented which allows the designer to optimize the noise and mismatch behavior of a circuit, independently from other specifications such as speed and linearity. Applying this technique on a delay cell design yields a direct tradeoff between noise induced jitter and power usage, and between stochastic mismatch induced jitter and power usage
Circuit approach to photonic heat transport
We discuss the heat transfer by photons between two metals coupled by a
linear element with a reactive impedance. Using a simple circuit approach, we
calculate the spectral power transmitted from one resistor to the other and
find that it is determined by the photon transmission coefficient, which
depends on the impedances of the metals and the coupling element. We study the
total photonic power flow for different coupling impedances, both in the linear
regime, where the temperature difference between the metals is small, and in
the non-linear regime of large temperature differences.Comment: 6 pages, 6 figure
Noise characterization of an atomic magnetometer at sub-millihertz frequencies
Noise measurements have been carried out in the LISA bandwidth (0.1 mHz to
100 mHz) to characterize an all-optical atomic magnetometer based on nonlinear
magneto-optical rotation. This was done in order to assess if the technology
can be used for space missions with demanding low-frequency requirements like
the LISA concept. Magnetometry for low-frequency applications is usually
limited by noise and thermal drifts, which become the dominant
contributions at sub-millihertz frequencies. Magnetic field measurements with
atomic magnetometers are not immune to low-frequency fluctuations and
significant excess noise may arise due to external elements, such as
temperature fluctuations or intrinsic noise in the electronics. In addition,
low-frequency drifts in the applied magnetic field have been identified in
order to distinguish their noise contribution from that of the sensor. We have
found the technology suitable for LISA in terms of sensitivity, although
further work must be done to characterize the low-frequency noise in a
miniaturized setup suitable for space missions.Comment: 11 pages, 12 figure
Electro-optomechanical equivalent circuits for quantum transduction
Using the techniques of optomechanics, a high- mechanical oscillator may
serve as a link between electromagnetic modes of vastly different frequencies.
This approach has successfully been exploited for the frequency conversion of
classical signals and has the potential of performing quantum state transfer
between superconducting circuitry and a traveling optical signal. Such
transducers are often operated in a linear regime, where the hybrid system can
be described using linear response theory based on the Heisenberg-Langevin
equations. While mathematically straightforward to solve, this approach yields
little intuition about the dynamics of the hybrid system to aid the
optimization of the transducer. As an analysis and design tool for such
electro-optomechanical transducers, we introduce an equivalent circuit
formalism, where the entire transducer is represented by an electrical circuit.
Thereby we integrate the transduction functionality of optomechanical systems
into the toolbox of electrical engineering allowing the use of its
well-established design techniques. This unifying impedance description can be
applied both for static (DC) and harmonically varying (AC) drive fields,
accommodates arbitrary linear circuits, and is not restricted to the
resolved-sideband regime. Furthermore, by establishing the quantized
input-output formalism for the equivalent circuit, we obtain the scattering
matrix for linear transducers using circuit analysis, and thereby have a
complete quantum mechanical characterization of the transducer. Hence, this
mapping of the entire transducer to the language of electrical engineering both
sheds light on how the transducer performs and can at the same time be used to
optimize its performance by aiding the design of a suitable electrical circuit.Comment: 30 pages, 9 figure
Rectification of thermal fluctuations in a chaotic cavity heat engine
We investigate the rectification of thermal fluctuations in a mesoscopic
on-chip heat engine. The engine consists of a hot chaotic cavity capacitively
coupled to a cold cavity which rectifies the excess noise and generates a
directed current. The fluctuation-induced directed current depends on the
energy asymmetry of the transmissions of the contacts of the cold cavity to the
leads and is proportional to the temperature difference. We discuss the maximal
power output of the heat engine and its efficiency.Comment: Published version, 8 pages, 4 figure
- …