An effective formulation of coupled electromagnetic-TCAD simulation for extremely high frequency onward

This paper presents an effective formulation tailored for electromagnetic-technology computer-aided design coupled simulations for extremely-high-frequency ranges and beyond (> 50 GHz). A transformation of variables is exploited from the starting A-V formulation to the E-V formulation, combined with adopting the gauge condition as the equation for scalar potential. The transformation significantly reduces the cross-coupling between electric and magnetic systems at high frequencies, providing therefore much better convergence for iterative solution. The validation of such transformations is ensured through a careful analysis of redundancy in the coupled system and material properties. Employment of the advanced matrix permutation technique further alleviates the extra computational cost introduced by the variable transformation. Numerical experiments confirm the accuracy and efficiency of the proposed E-V formulation. © 2011 IEEE.published_or_final_versio

Numerically efficient formulation for time-domain electromagnetic-semiconductor co-simulation for Fast-Transient Systems

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O parlamento no ecrã: debate e conversação na televisão contemporânea

A televisão contemporânea caracteriza-se pelo grandíssimo destaque concedido às interacções discursivas. Com efeito, a saliência dos talk-shows e a programas de comentário, bem como rubricas de eminente partilha de opiniões em programas de outros géneros televisivos, confirmam esta incidência conversacional da televisão. Analisando o modo como uma discussão pública da experiência social ocorre, este artigo investiga o parlamento televisivo, isto é, essa tendência generalizada de discursivização ao mesmo tempo que sublinha as mutações positivas que ela impôs às audiências televisivas. Deste modo, e contrariamente à perspectiva convencional disfórica (audiências tendencialmente passivas, desinteressadas e apáticas), esboçar-se-á uma compreensão renovada das audiências televisivas que as coloca como participantes activas deste parlamento no ecrã. Com este objectivo, far-se-á uma breve caracterização do parlamento televisivo, descrever-se-á os seus fundamentos, e distinguir-se-ão os seus modos performativos.Parley on Screen – debate and conversation in contemporary television The contemporary television is characterized by the prominence accorded to discussion. Indeed, talk-shows and chatting programs successes, confirm this prevalence of a conversational dimension on television. Analyzing the way public discussion of social experience happens, this paper investigates the televised parley, i.e. this stress in conversation and dialogue, and, at the same time, underscores the positive change that it has imposed on television audiences. Thus, contrary to the conventional dysphoric perspective (audiences seen as passive, disinterested and apathetic), the paper sketches a renewed understanding of the television audience that put them as active participants on the parley television. With this objective, a brief characterization of the televised parley, its principles and performance modes, will be made.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Quantum Transport in a Nanosize Silicon-on-Insulator Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor

An approach is developed for the determination of the current flowing through a nanosize silicon-on-insulator (SOI) metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFET). The quantum mechanical features of the electron transport are extracted from the numerical solution of the quantum Liouville equation in the Wigner function representation. Accounting for electron scattering due to ionized impurities, acoustic phonons and surface roughness at the Si/SiO2 interface, device characteristics are obtained as a function of a channel length. From the Wigner function distributions, the coexistence of the diffusive and the ballistic transport naturally emerges. It is shown that the scattering mechanisms tend to reduce the ballistic component of the transport. The ballistic component increases with decreasing the channel length.Comment: 21 pages, 8 figures, E-mail addresses: [email protected]

Banking union in historical perspective: the initiative of the European Commission in the 1960s-1970s

This article shows that planning for the organization of EU banking regulation and supervision did not just appear on the agenda in recent years with discussions over the creation of the eurozone banking union. It unveils a hitherto neglected initiative of the European Commission in the 1960s and early 1970s. Drawing on extensive archival work, this article explains that this initiative, however, rested on a number of different assumptions, and emerged in a much different context. It first explains that the Commission's initial project was not crisis-driven; that it articulated the link between monetary integration and banking regulation; and finally that it did not set out to move the supervisory framework to the supranational level, unlike present-day developments