158 research outputs found
Improvement of acoustic theory of ultrasonic waves in dilute bubbly liquids
The theory of the acoustics of dilute bubbly liquids is reviewed, and the dispersion relation is modified by including the effect of liquid compressibility on the natural frequency of the bubbles. The modified theory is shown to more accurately predict the trend in measured attenuation of ultrasonic waves. The model limitations associated with such high-frequency waves are discussed
Shock propagation through a bubbly liquid in a deformable tube
Shock propagation through a bubbly liquid contained in a deformable tube is considered. Quasi-one-dimensional mixture-averaged flow equations that include fluid–structure interaction are formulated. The steady shock relations are derived and the nonlinear effect due to the gas-phase compressibility is examined. Experiments
are conducted in which a free-falling steel projectile impacts the top of an air/water mixture in a polycarbonate tube, and stress waves in the tube material and pressure
on the tube wall are measured. The experimental data indicate that the linear theory is incapable of properly predicting the propagation speeds of finite-amplitude waves
in a mixture-filled tube; the shock theory is found to more accurately estimate the measured wave speeds
A theoretical approach to thermal noise caused by an inhomogeneously distributed loss -- Physical insight by the advanced modal expansion
We modified the modal expansion, which is the traditional method used to
calculate thermal noise. This advanced modal expansion provides physical
insight about the discrepancy between the actual thermal noise caused by
inhomogeneously distributed loss and the traditional modal expansion. This
discrepancy comes from correlations between the thermal fluctuations of the
resonant modes. The thermal noise spectra estimated by the advanced modal
expansion are consistent with the results of measurements of thermal
fluctuations caused by inhomogeneous losses.Comment: 10 pages, 4 figure
Spontaneous Extraskeletal Osteosarcoma in the Stomach of an Aged F344 Rat
Extraskeletal osteosarcoma is a very rare tumor in humans and animals including
rats. This paper describes a case of extraskeletal osteosarcoma observed in the
glandular stomach of an aged female Fischer 344 rat. Grossly, a whitish solid
mass was observed at the greater curvature of the glandular stomach.
Histologically, the tumor consisted of both atypical polygonal and pleomorphic
spindle-shaped cells, with pleomorphic nuclei, and it contained variable amounts
of osteoids and small clumps of mature bone tissue. In addition, mitotic figures
were frequently observed. Neither invasion of the muscle layer or vessels in the
stomach nor metastasis to distant organs was detected. There were no skeletal
tumors in the body. Immunohistochemically, the tumor cells were positive for
osteocalcin, osteonectin, vimentin and S-100 protein. Judging from these
results, the present tumor was diagnosed as extraskeletal osteosarcoma. This is
the first report of spontaneous extraskeletal osteosarcoma arising from the
stomach in a rat
Systematic measurement of the intrinsic losses in various kinds of bulk fused silica
We systematically measured and compared the mechanical losses of various
kinds of bulk fused silica. Their quality factors ranged widely from 7x10^5 to
4x10^7, the latter being one of the highest reported among bulk fused silica.
We observed frequency-dependent losses and a decrease in the losses upon
annealing.Comment: 14 pages, 4 figures, Submitted to Phys. Lett.
Shock Propagation in Polydisperse Bubbly Liquids
We investigate the shock dynamics of liquid flows containing small gas bubbles with numerical simulations based on a continuum bubbly flow model. Particular attention is devoted to the effects of distributed bubble sizes and gas-phase nonlinearity on shock dynamics. Ensemble-averaged conservation laws for polydisperse bubbly flows are closed with a Rayleigh–Plesset-type model for single bubble dynamics. Numerical simulations of one-dimensional shock propagation reveal that phase cancellations in the oscillations of different-sized bubbles can lead to an apparent damping of the averaged shock dynamics. Experimentally, we study the propagation of waves in a deformable tube filled with a bubbly liquid. The model is extended to quasi-one-dimensional cases. This leads to steady shock relations that account for the compressibility associated with tube deformation, bubbles and host liquid. A comparison between the theory and the water-hammer experiments suggests that the gas-phase nonlinearity plays an essential role in the propagation of shocks
Embedded DRAM using c-axis-aligned crystalline In-Ga-Zn oxide FET with 1.8V-power-supply voltage
An embedded memory using c-axis aligned crystalline In-Ga-Zn oxide (CAAC-IGZO) FETs with an extremely low off-state current on the order of yoctoamperes (yA) (yocto- is a metric prefix denoting a factor of 10-24) is known as a potential next-generation memory [1][2]. A dynamic oxide semiconductor RAM (DOSRAM), where each memory cell is composed of one CAAC-IGZO FET and one capacitor, enables long data retention and long interval of refresh operations with an advantage of extremely low off-state current of the CAAC-IGZO FET. However, negative backgate voltage (Vbg) and word-line driving voltages of 0/3.3 V (VSSL/VDDH) had been required for an access transistor of the memory cell to satisfy high on-state current and low off-state current.
This work shows that DOSRAM operates with 1.8 V-power supply voltage by using a novel driving method.
Figure 1 shows Vg-Id performance of a CAAC-IGZO FET used as a cell transistor. The threshold voltage (Vth) of the CAAC-IGZO FET is controlled by changing a level of Vbg, whereas Vth of the Si FET is controlled by channel doping. Figure 2 shows a block diagram of a prototyped DOSRAM. The refresh rate in DOSRAM mainly depends on the leakage current of cell transistors. To reduce the refresh rate to once an hour, the off-state current of the cell transistors on a non-selected word line needs to be reduced to 200 zeptoamperes (zA) per FET (zepto- is a metric prefix denoting a factor of 10-21) or lower at 85C. The required Vbg is -7.0 V to achieve such an off-state current at Vg 0 V, for example. To obtain approx. 100 MHz-driving frequency, the required on-state current is at least several microamperes. The voltage level difference in the word line, VDDH VSSL, is a factor that determines the on-state current, and in this work is fixed to 3.3 V so that the combination of Vbg and the word line voltage is optimized. The application of negative voltage to the word line enables the leakage current of the cell transistor to be maintained low even when Vbg is increased. For example, whereas the existing driving method meets the above off-state current value with Vbg -7.0 V and the VSSL 0 V, the novel driving method meets the value with Vbg 0 V and VSSL -1.5 V. In the novel driving method, VDDH 1.8 V. There has been a report of a reduction in leakage current of a memory cell by application of negative voltage to a top gate in DRAM using Si CMOS [3]. In contrast to it, DOSRAM including CAAC-IGZO FETs with L 60 nm has a leakage current of 200 zA or lower, which is 7-digit lower than that of the DRAM using Si CMOS, and enables longer data retention.
The evaluation results of the prototyped DOSRAM verify that a reduction in power-supply voltage from 3.3 V to 1.8 V is possible in terms of operation and data retention. This suggests a highly compatible and efficient configuration of an embedded DRAM and a logic circuit where signals can be transmitted with low VDD.
References
[1] S. H. Wu, et al., IEEE Symp. VLSI Tech., pp. 166-167, 2017.
[2] T. Ishizu, et al., IEEE Symp. VLSI Cir., pp. 162-163, 2017.
[3] F. Hamzaoglu et al., IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 150-157, Jan. 2015
End-to-End Joint Target and Non-Target Speakers ASR
This paper proposes a novel automatic speech recognition (ASR) system that
can transcribe individual speaker's speech while identifying whether they are
target or non-target speakers from multi-talker overlapped speech.
Target-speaker ASR systems are a promising way to only transcribe a target
speaker's speech by enrolling the target speaker's information. However, in
conversational ASR applications, transcribing both the target speaker's speech
and non-target speakers' ones is often required to understand interactive
information. To naturally consider both target and non-target speakers in a
single ASR model, our idea is to extend autoregressive modeling-based
multi-talker ASR systems to utilize the enrollment speech of the target
speaker. Our proposed ASR is performed by recursively generating both textual
tokens and tokens that represent target or non-target speakers. Our experiments
demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed method.Comment: Accepted at Interspeech 202
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