Optoelectronic Properties of Organic Semiconductors
This book focuses on organic semiconductors with particular attention paid to their use as photovoltaic devices. It addresses a fundamental and hitherto overlooked concept in the field of organic optoelectronics, namely the role that sub-gap states play in the performance of organic semiconducting devices. From a technological point of view, organic semiconductor-based devices are of significant interest due to their lightweight, ease of processability, conformal flexibility, and potentially low cost and low embodied energy production. Motivated by these rather unique selling points, the performance of organic semiconductors has been a subject of multidisciplinary study for more than 60 years with steady progress in applications such as solar cells, transistors, light emitting diodes, and various sensors.The book begins with a review of the main electro-optical phenomena in organic solar cells and presents a new method for measuring exciton diffusion lengths based on a low-quencher-content device structure. Furthermore, the book reveals how mid-gap trap states are a universal feature in organic semiconductor donor-acceptor blends, unexpectedly contributing to charge generation and recombination, and having profound impact on the thermodynamic limit of organic photovoltaic devices. Featuring cutting-edge experimental observations supported with robust and novel theoretical arguments, this book delivers important new insight as to the underlying dynamics of exciton generation and diffusion, charge transfer state dissociation, and indeed the ultimate fate of photogenerated free carriers.
Deception and Delay in Organized Conflict
This book explores the role of deception, delay, and self-deception in the dynamics of organized conflict, taking a formal approach that hews closely to the asymptotic limit theorems of information and control theories. The resulting probability models can, with some effort--and some confidence--be converted to statistical tools for the analysis of real-time observational and 'experimental' data on institutionalized confrontation across both traditional and emerging 'Clausewitz Landscapes'.
Pressure Estimation During Internal Arc Test of Circuit Breaker
Master's Thesis from the year 2013 in the subject Electrotechnology, grade: 1, Nirma University (Institute of technology), course: M.Tech, language: English, abstract: An internal arc test is not a mandatory test. It is a consumer premises test. It should be done on the terminal box, panel, enclosure, etc. Overpressure at internal arc, inside the penal, may be a danger for the worker working inside the field. compact substation in the public area must have to be arc proof. In this thesis report, in the beginning, the internal arc phenomena are discussed. Thereafter the internal arc test condition and their standards are given. In the middle part of the thesis, the analytical method is given and its failure is discussed and the limitation is of the old method is clearly shown with taking practical data at calculation data. The internal arc test is very expansive in the real working field and may danger sometimes because of loss of equipment during the test. although it is consumer selection to decide the level and location of the short circuit. It is always a risky test. In this thesis, the computer simulation method using Finite Volume Method (FVM) for simulation of the internal arc test with following all testing standards with selecting particular assembly is modeled. The electromagnetic and fluid combined analysis is presented to a detailed plasma arc. The MHD equation is derived and solved at the end using ANSYS software.
PCB Basics for Buyers
Whether you are a novice in the printed circuit board assembly industry, or an old hand who sometimes needs a refresher, PCB Basics for Buyers is for you. It's a quick read, but it offers a straightforward understanding of the board business and what it takes to make a PCB. The book contains detailed images of the manufacturing process, information on specs and standards, tips for creating successful PCB partnerships, and a glossary of industry terms. It's a great resource and training tool for PCB buying professionals. PCB buying expert Greg Papandrew has been saving circuit board customers money for over 25 years. He pioneered a number of innovative approaches to offshore PCB purchasing, including high-mix, low-to-medium volume production. He was also among the first to deploy Asia-based personnel to successfully manage the manufacture of quality product delivered on time, at competitive prices. Papandrew has sold more than $250 million in printed circuit boards. For over a decade, he ran one of the fastest-growing circuit board distributors in the United States. He has seen the industry grow and change. He knows what works and what does not work. Now, he is using his hard-won expertise to help circuit board buyers and to offer PCB customers a closer, more cost-effective relationship with overseas manufacturers.
Deep Learning Based Speech Quality Prediction
This book presents how to apply recent machine learning (deep learning) methods for the task of speech quality prediction. The author shows how recent advancements in machine learning can be leveraged for the task of speech quality prediction and provides an in-depth analysis of the suitability of different deep learning architectures for this task. The author then shows how the resulting model outperforms traditional speech quality models and provides additional information about the cause of a quality impairment through the prediction of the speech quality dimensions of noisiness, coloration, discontinuity, and loudness.
Unapologeticly Unedited
A compilation of my greatest short stories and poems, also ones that i wasn't sure if i put in a book already.
Bio-Inspired Motor Control Strategies for Redundant and Flexible Manipulator with Application to Tooling Tasks
Chapter 1. Bio - inspired Motor Control Strategies for Redundant Manipulators.- Chapter 2. Bio - inspired Motor Control Strategies: Cable - driven Manipulator using Agonist - Antagonis actuation.- Chapter 3. Design and Control of 2D-Plotter Planar Parallel Robot.- Chapter 4. Combining 3D motion tracker with IMU sensor signals of muscles to discover macro- and micro-vibration for Stroke Rehabilitation.- Chapter 5. A Pneumatic Actuator-Powered Robotic Glove for Hand Rehabilitation.- Chapter 6. Artificial Intelligence in Rehabilitation Evaluation Based Robotic Exoskeletons: A Review.
Applied Smart Health Care Informatics
Applied Smart Health Care Informatics Explores how intelligent systems offer new opportunities for optimizing the acquisition, storage, retrieval, and use of information in healthcare Applied Smart Health Care Informatics explores how health information technology and intelligent systems can be integrated and deployed to enhance healthcare management. Edited and authored by leading experts in the field, this timely volume introduces modern approaches for managing existing data in the healthcare sector by utilizing artificial intelligence (AI), meta-heuristic algorithms, deep learning, the Internet of Things (IoT), and other smart technologies. Detailed chapters review advances in areas including machine learning, computer vision, and soft computing techniques, and discuss various applications of healthcare management systems such as medical imaging, electronic medical records (EMR), and drug development assistance. Throughout the text, the authors propose new research directions and highlight the smart technologies that are central to establishing proactive health management, supporting enhanced coordination of care, and improving the overall quality of healthcare services. Provides an overview of different deep learning applications for intelligent healthcare informatics management Describes novel methodologies and emerging trends in artificial intelligence and computational intelligence and their relevance to health information engineering and management Proposes IoT solutions that disseminate essential medical information for intelligent healthcare management Discusses mobile-based healthcare management, content-based image retrieval, and computer-aided diagnosis using machine and deep learning techniques Examines the use of exploratory data analysis in intelligent healthcare informatics systems Applied Smart Health Care Informatics: A Computational Intelligence Perspective is an invaluable text for graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, academic lecturers, and industry professionals working in the area of healthcare and intelligent soft computing.
Multiphysics Modeling Using Comsol 5 and MATLAB
COMSOL 5 and MATLAB are valuable software modeling tools for engineers and scientists. This updated edition includes five new models and explores a wide range of models in coordinate systems from 0D to 3D, introducing the numerical analysis techniques employed in COMSOL 5.6 and MATLAB software. The text presents electromagnetic, electronic, optical, thermal physics, and biomedical models as examples. It presents the fundamental concepts in the models and the step-by-step instructions needed to build each model. The companion files include all the built models for each step-by-step example presented in the text and the related animations, as specified. The book is designed to introduce modeling to an experienced engineer or can also be used for upper level undergraduate or graduate courses. FEATURES: Focuses on COMSOL 5.x and MATLAB models that demonstrate the use of concepts for later application in engineering, science, medicine, and biophysics for the development of devices and systemsIncludes companion files with executable copies of each model and related animationsIncludes detailed discussions of possible modeling errors and resultsUses a step-by-step modeling methodology linked to the Fundamental Laws of Physics.The companion files are also available online by emailing the publisher with proof of purchase at info@merclearning.com.
Electric Circuits
This textbook serves as a tutorial for engineering students. Fundamental circuit analysis methods are presented at a level accessible to students with minimal background in engineering. The emphasis of the book is on basic concepts, using mathematical equations only as needed. Analogies to everyday life are used throughout the book in order to make the material easier to understand. Even though this book focuses on the fundamentals, it reveals the authors' deep insight into the relationship between the phasor, Fourier transform, and Laplace transform, and explains to students why these transforms are employed in circuit analysis.
Physical Assurance
This book provides readers with a comprehensive introduction to physical inspection-based approaches for electronics security. The authors explain the principles of physical inspection techniques including invasive, non-invasive and semi-invasive approaches and how they can be used for hardware assurance, from IC to PCB level. Coverage includes a wide variety of topics, from failure analysis and imaging, to testing, machine learning and automation, reverse engineering and attacks, and countermeasures.
Fundamentals of Power Electronics
The application of solid-state electronics for controlling and converting electric power is referred to as power electronics. Modern power electronics systems use semiconductor switching devices such as diodes, thyristors and power transistors to perform the conversion. The power conversion systems can be classified into various categories such as AC to DC, DC to AC, DC to DC and AC to AC. AC to DC converter is found in many consumer electronic devices such as television sets, battery chargers and personal computers. DC to AC converters are known as power inverters. They are used in numerous devices such as adjustable speed drives, uninterruptible power supplies and flexible AC transmission systems. This book elucidates the concepts and innovative models around prospective developments with respect to modern power electronics. Different approaches, evaluations and principles related to this field have been included herein. Coherent flow of topics, student-friendly language and extensive use of examples make this book an invaluable source of knowledge.
The Stationary Bionic Wavelet Transform and Its Applications for ECG and Speech Processing
This book first details a proposed Stationary Bionic Wavelet Transform (SBWT) for use in speech processing. The author then details the proposed techniques based on SBWT. These techniques are relevant to speech enhancement, speech recognition, and ECG de-noising. The techniques are then evaluated by comparing them to a number of methods existing in literature. For evaluating the proposed techniques, results are applied to different speech and ECG signals and their performances are justified from the results obtained from using objective criterion such as SNR, SSNR, PSNR, PESQ, MAE, MSE and more.
Step by Step Guide to Design a Magneto-Electric Dipole Antenna
Observer-Based Fault Diagnosis and Fault-Tolerant Control for Switched Systems
This book focuses on the fault diagnosis observer design for the switched system. Model-based fault diagnosis and fault tolerant control are one of the most popular research directions in recent decades. It contains eight chapters. Every chapter is independent in the method of observer design, but all chapters are around the same topic. Besides, in each chapter, the model description and theoretical results are firstly provided, then some practical application examples are illustrated to prove the obtained results. The advanced theoretical methodologies will benefit researchers or engineers in the area of safety engineering and the arrangement of the structure will help the readers to understand the content easily.
The Art and Science of Microelectronic Circuit Design
This book guides readers through the entire complex of interrelated theoretical and practical aspects of the end-to-end design and organization of production of silicon submicron integrated circuits. The discussion includes the theoretical foundations of the operation of field-effect- and bipolar transistors, the methods and peculiarities of the structural and schematic design, basic circuit-design and system-design engineering solutions for bipolar, CMOS, BiCMOS and TTL integrated circuits, standard design libraries, and typical design flows.
Robotics Simplified
A comprehensive outlook on all the concepts of Robotics for beginnersKey FeaturesIncludes key concepts of robot modeling, control, and programming.Numerous examples and exercises on various aspects of robotics.Exposure to physical computing, robotic kinematics, trajectory planning, and motion control systems.DescriptionRobotics Simplified is a learner's handbook that provides a thorough foundation around robotics, including all the basic concepts. The book takes you through a lot of essential topics about robotics, including robotic sensing, actuation, programming, motion control, and kinematic analysis of robotic manipulators. To begin with, the book prepares you with the basic foundational knowledge that assists you in understanding the basic concepts of robotics. It helps you to understand key elements of robotic systems, including various actuators, sensors, and different vision systems. It explains the actual physics that robotic systems work upon such as trajectory planning and motion control of manipulators. It covers the kinematics and dynamics of multi-body systems while you learn to develop a robotic model. Various programming techniques and control systems have practically been demonstrated that guide you to reverse engineer, reprogram and troubleshoot some existing simple robots. You will also get a practical demonstration of how your robots can become smart and intelligent using various image processing techniques illustrated in detail.By the end of this book, you will gain a solid foundation of robotics and get well-versed with the modern techniques that are used for robotic modeling, controlling, and programming.What you will learnUnderstand and develop robotic vision and sensing systems.Integrate various robotic actuators and end-effectors.Design and configure manipulators with robotic kinematics.Prepare the trajectory and path planning of robots.Learn robot programming using C, Python, and VAL.Who this book is forThis book has been meticulously crafted for engineers, students, entrepreneurs, and robotics enthusiasts. This book provides a complete explanation of all major robotics principles, allowing readers of all levels to learn from scratch.Table of Contents1. Introduction to Robotics 2. End-Effectors3. Sensors4. Robotic Drive Systems and Actuators5. Robotic Vision Systems and Image Processing6. Introduction to Robotic Kinematics7. Forward and Inverse Kinematics 8. Velocity Kinematics and Trajectory Planning 9. Control Systems for Robotic Motion Control10. Robot Programming11. Applications of Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Model Predictive Control for AC Motors
This book introduces how to improve the accuracy and robustness of model predictive control. Firstly, the disturbance observation- and compensation-based method is developed. Secondly, direct parameter identification methods are developed. Thirdly, the seldom-focused-on issues such as sampling and delay problems are solved in this book. Overall, this book solves the problems in a systematic and innovative way. Chapter 2 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com
35 Years of Electronic Reviews
Reprints about 140 book reviews that originally appeared in the Pittsburgh Oscillator, the Old timer's Bulletin, the Antique Wireless Association Journal, etc. The emphasis is on radio history but also includes books related to radio repair, collecting, instrumentation, social aspects of radio, etc.
Principles of Image Printing Technology
History and philosophy of prepress.- Image processing.- Halftones.- Halftoning.- Means and methods of electronic reproduction.- Image sampling, quantization and encoding.- Fine detail reproduction.- Tonal conversions.- Color and its presentation in information environment.- Multicolor printing.- Dimensional conversions.- Moir矇 in printing.- Color management in printing.- High definition halftone printing.
Design of Miniaturized Variable-Capacitance Electrostatic Energy Harvesters
Introduction.- Kinetic energy harvesting systems overview.- Electrostatic harvesters overview and applications.- Variable capacitors, their implementation flexibility and employed technologies.- Electrostatic switched-capacitor harvesters.- Asynchronous electrostatic harvesters.- Electrostatic harvesters with inductor.- Comprehensive comparison framework and optimization under application's constraints.
High Efficiency Power Amplifier Design for 28 GHz 5G Transmitters
This book introduces power amplifier design in 22nm FDSOI CMOS dedicated towards 5G applications at 28 GHz and presents 4 state-of-the-art power amplifier designs. The authors discuss power amplifier performance metrics, design trade-offs, and presents different power amplifier classes utilizing efficiency enhancement techniques at 28 GHz. The book presents the design process from theory, simulation, layout, and finally measurement results.
Wavelets and Wavelet Transform Systems and Their Applications
This textbook is unique because of its in-depth treatment of the applications of wavelets and wavelet transforms to many areas, across many disciplines. The book is written to serve the needs of a one or two semester course at either the undergraduate or graduate level. The author uses a very simplified, accessible approach that de-emphasizes mathematical rigor. The presentation includes many diagrams to illustrate points being discussed and uses MATLAB for all of application code. The author reinforces concepts introduced in the book with easy to grasp review questions and problems, tailored to each specific chapter for better mastery of the subject matter. This book enables students to understand the fundamental concepts of wavelets and wavelet transforms, as well as how to use them for problem solutions in digital signal and image processing, mixed-signal testing, space applications, aerospace applications, biomedical, cyber security, homeland security and many other application areas.
Advances in Numerical Analysis Emphasizing Interval Data
This book provides the basic theoretical foundations of numerical methods, discusses key technique classes, explains improvements and improvements, and provides insights into recent developments and challenges. The theoretical parts of numerical methods, including the concept of interval approximation theory, are explained in detail.
Geospatial Modeling for Environmental Management
This is a comprehensive resource that integrates the application of innovative remote sensing techniques and geospatial tools in modeling Earth systems for environmental management beyond customary digitization and mapping practices
Dependable Embedded Systems
This Open Access book introduces readers to many new techniques for enhancing and optimizing reliability in embedded systems, which have emerged particularly within the last five years. This book introduces the most prominent reliability concerns from today's points of view and roughly recapitulates the progress in the community so far. Unlike other books that focus on a single abstraction level such circuit level or system level alone, the focus of this book is to deal with the different reliability challenges across different levels starting from the physical level all the way to the system level (cross-layer approaches). The book aims at demonstrating how new hardware/software co-design solution can be proposed to ef-fectively mitigate reliability degradation such as transistor aging, processor variation, temperature effects, soft errors, etc.Provides readers with latest insights into novel, cross-layer methods and models with respect to dependability of embedded systems;Describes cross-layer approaches that can leverage reliability through techniques that are pro-actively designed with respect to techniques at other layers;Explains run-time adaptation and concepts/means of self-organization, in order to achieve error resiliency in complex, future many core systems.
Contemporary Research and Cutting-Edge Technology in Electrical Engineering
The objective of this book is to present cutting-edge technology in electrical engineering. The research areas as diverse as computer and communication networks; electronic circuits and systems; lasers and photonics; semiconductor and solid-state devices; nano-electronics; biomedical engineering; computational methods; artificial intelligence; robotics, design and manufacturing; control and optimization; computer algorithms; games and graphics; software engineering; computer architecture; cryptography and computer security; power and energy systems; and financial analysis; have been presented in sufficient depth to provide the students the basic theory as well as insights into applications. The approach is designed to develop the thinking process in the students, enabling them to reach a sound understanding of a broad range of topics related to electrical engineering, while motivating their interest in the electrical power industry.For more details, please visit https: //centralwestpublishing.com
Propagation Modeling for Wireless Communications
This book introduces the various approaches and tools used for modelling different propagation environments and lays the foundation for developing a unified theoretical framework for future integrated communication networks. In the case of each type of network, the book uses basic concepts of physics, mathematics, geometry and probability theory to study the impact of the dimension and shape of the propagation environment and relative transmit-receive position on the information flow. The book provides an introduction into wireless communication systems and networks and their applications. For both systems and networks, the basic hard (encoder, modulator, etc.) and soft components (information, signal, etc.) are discussed through schematic block diagrams. Next each of the modes of communication, namely radio waves, acoustic waves, magnetic induction, optical waves, biological particles (molecules, aerosols, neural synapse etc.) and quantum field, are discussed. For each communication scenario presented, the impact of different environmental factors on the propagation phenomenon is articulated, followed by different channel modelling (deterministic, analytical, and stochastic) techniques that are used to characterize the propagation environment. Finally future trends in wireless communication networks are examined and envisioned for next generations 6G/7G of communication systems, like space information networks, sea-to-sky internet of vehicles, and internet of bio-nano things. Based on the future trends of integrated networks, the book drives the need for a generalized channel model irrespective of the media and mode of information transfer. The primary audience for the book is post-graduate students, researchers and academics in electronics and communications engineering, electrical engineering and computer science.
Starting Digital Signal Processing in Telecommunication Engineering
This hands-on, laboratory driven textbook helps readers understand principles of digital signal processing (DSP) and basics of software-based digital communication, particularly software-defined networks (SDN) and software-defined radio (SDR). In the book only the most important concepts are presented. Each book chapter is an introduction to computer laboratory and is accompanied by complete laboratory exercises and ready-to-go Matlab programs with figures and comments (available at the book webpage and running also in GNU Octave 5.2 with free software packages), showing all or most details of relevant algorithms. Students are tasked to understand programs, modify them, and apply presented concepts to recorded real RF signal or simulated received signals, with modelled transmission condition and hardware imperfections. Teaching is done by showing examples and their modifications to different real-world telecommunication-like applications. The book consists of three parts: introduction to DSP (spectral analysis and digital filtering), introduction to DSP advanced topics (multi-rate, adaptive, model-based and multimedia - speech, audio, video - signal analysis and processing) and introduction to software-defined modern telecommunication systems (SDR technology, analog and digital modulations, single- and multi-carrier systems, channel estimation and correction as well as synchronization issues).Many real signals are processed in the book, in the first part - mainly speech and audio, while in the second part - mainly RF recordings taken from RTL-SDR USB stick and ADALM-PLUTO module, for example captured IQ data of VOR avionics signal, classical FM radio with RDS, digital DAB/DAB+ radio and 4G-LTE digital telephony. Additionally, modelling and simulation of some transmission scenarios are tested in software in the book, in particular TETRA, ADSL and 5G signals.​Provides an introduction to digital signal processing and software-based digital communication;Presents a transition from digital signal processing to software-defined telecommunication;Features a suite of pedagogical materials including a laboratory test-bed and computer exercises/experiments​​.
Optimal Control Theory
This book focuses on how to implement optimal control problems via the variational method. It studies how to implement the extrema of functional by applying the variational method and covers the extrema of functional with different boundary conditions, involving multiple functions and with certain constraints etc. It gives the necessary and sufficient condition for the (continuous-time) optimal control solution via the variational method, solves the optimal control problems with different boundary conditions, analyzes the linear quadratic regulator & tracking problems respectively in detail, and provides the solution of optimal control problems with state constraints by applying the Pontryagin's minimum principle which is developed based upon the calculus of variations. And the developed results are applied to implement several classes of popular optimal control problems and say minimum-time, minimum-fuel and minimum-energy problems and so on. As another key branch of optimal control methods, it also presents how to solve the optimal control problems via dynamic programming and discusses the relationship between the variational method and dynamic programming for comparison. Concerning the system involving individual agents, it is also worth to study how to implement the decentralized solution for the underlying optimal control problems in the framework of differential games. The equilibrium is implemented by applying both Pontryagin's minimum principle and dynamic programming. The book also analyzes the discrete-time version for all the above materials as well since the discrete-time optimal control problems are very popular in many fields.
Visual Inference for IoT Systems
Introduction.- Embedded Vision for the Internet of the Things: State-of-the-Art.- Hardware, Software, and Network Models for Deep-Learning Vision: A Survey.- Optimal Selection of Software and Models for Visual Interference.- Relevant Hardware Metrics for Performance Evaluation.- Prediction of Visual Interference Performance.- A Case Study: Remote Animal Recognition.
Internet of Things
This reference text introduces drones and robotic technology with the Internet of Things (IoT) in a single volume. It will serve as a useful text for graduate students and professionals in the fields of electrical engineering, electronics engineering, computer science, and mechanical engineering.
Spectral, Photon Counting Computed Tomography
Spectral, Photon Counting Computed Tomography is a comprehensive cover of the latest developments in the most prevalent imaging modality (x-ray computed tomography (CT)) in its latest incarnation: Spectral, Dual-Energy, and Photon Counting CT. Disadvantages of the conventional single-energy technique used by CT technology are that different materials cannot be distinguished and that the noise is larger. To address these problems, a novel spectral CT concept has been proposed. Spectral Dual-Energy CT (DE-CT) acquires two sets of spectral data, and Spectral Photon Counting CT (PC-CT) detects energy of x-ray photons to reveal additional material information of objects by using novel energy-sensitive, photon-counting detectors. The K-edge imaging may be a gateway for functional or molecular CT. The book covers detectors and electronics, image reconstruction methods, image quality assessments, a simulation tool, nanoparticle contrast agents, and clinical applications for spectral CT.
Image Pattern Recognition
The comprehensive textbook discusses fundamental of data retrieval, image retrieval using extrema patterns in a single volume. It will serve as an ideal study material for senior undergraduate and graduate students in the fields of electrical engineering and electronics and communications engineering.
Computer Fundamentals
This book entitled as ""Computer Fundamentals"" to the students of First Semester Diploma in Engineering. The book is written according to the New Syllabus of State Board of Technical Education (SBTE), Jharkhand. The book covers theory of Fundamentals of Computer, Introduction to MS Office, Introduction to Internet, Introduction to HTML and Software, Information Technology.
Authentication of Embedded Devices
This book provides comprehensive coverage of state-of-the-art integrated circuit authentication techniques, including technologies, protocols and emerging applications.The authors first discuss emerging solutions for embedding unforgeable identifies into electronics devices, using techniques such as IC fingerprinting, physically unclonable functions and voltage-over-scaling. Coverage then turns to authentications protocols, with a special focus on resource-constrained devices, first giving an overview of the limitation of existing solutions and then presenting a number of new protocols, which provide better physical security and lower energy dissipation. The third part of the book focuses on emerging security applications for authentication schemes, including securing hardware supply chains, hardware-based device attestation and GPS spoofing attack detection and survival. Provides deep insight into the security threats undermining existing integrated circuit authentication techniques;Includes an in-depth discussion of the emerging technologies used to embed unforgeable identifies into electronics systems;Offers a comprehensive summary of existing authentication protocols and their limitations;Describes state-of-the-art authentication protocols that provide better physical security and more efficient energy consumption;Includes detailed case studies on the emerging applications of IC authentication schemes.
Programming with TensorFlow
This practical book provides an end-to-end guide to TensorFlow, the leading open source software library that helps you build and train neural networks for deep learning, Natural Language Processing (NLP), speech recognition, and general predictive analytics. The book provides a hands-on approach to TensorFlow fundamentals for a broad technical audience--from data scientists and engineers to students and researchers. The authors begin by working through some basic examples in TensorFlow before diving deeper into topics such as CNN, RNN, LSTM, and GNN. The book is written for those who want to build powerful, robust, and accurate predictive models with the power of TensorFlow, combined with other open source Python libraries. The authors demonstrate TensorFlow projects on Single Board Computers (SBCs).
Fundamentals of Modern VLSI Devices
A thoroughly updated third edition of an classic and widely adopted text, perfect for practical transistor design and in the classroom. Covering a variety of recent developments, the internationally renowned authors discuss in detail the basic properties and designs of modern VLSI devices, as well as factors affecting performance. Containing around 25% new material, coverage has been expanded to include high-k gate dielectrics, metal gate technology, strained silicon mobility, non-GCA (Gradual Channel Approximation) modelling of MOSFETs, short-channel FinFETS, and symmetric lateral bipolar transistors on SOI. Chapters have been reorganized to integrate the appendices into the main text to enable a smoother learning experience, and numerous additional end-of-chapter homework exercises (+30%) are included to engage students with real-world problems and test their understanding. A perfect text for senior undergraduate and graduate students taking advanced semiconductor devices courses, and for practicing silicon device professionals in the semiconductor industry.
An Introduction to Cyber Analysis and Targeting
This book provides a comprehensive view of cyber operations, analysis and targeting, including operational examples viewed through a lens of conceptual models available in current technical and policy literature. Readers will gain a better understanding of how the current cyber environment developed, as well as how to describe it for future defense. The author describes cyber analysis first as a conceptual model, based on well-known operations that span from media to suspected critical infrastructure threats. He then treats the topic as an analytical problem, approached through subject matter interviews, case studies and modeled examples that provide the reader with a framework for the problem, developing metrics and proposing realistic courses of action. Provides first book to offer comprehensive coverage of cyber operations, analysis and targeting;Pulls together the various threads that make up current cyber issues, including information operations to confidentiality, integrity and availability attacks;Uses a graphical, model based, approach to describe as a coherent whole the development of cyber operations policy and leverage frameworks;Provides a method for contextualizing and understanding cyber operations.
Sensors in Science and Technology
Sensors are used to measure physical, chemical and biological quantities. The book offers a comprehensive overview of physical principles, functions and applications of sensors. It is structured according to the fields of activity of sensors and shows their application by means of typical examples. Measured variables that can be recorded by sensors are e.g. mechanical, dynamic, thermal, electrical and magnetic. Furthermore, optical and acoustical sensors are discussed in detail in the book. The sensor signals are recorded, processed and converted into control signals for actuators. Such sensor systems are also presented.
Deep Learning for Remote Sensing Images with Open Source Software
This is the first practical book to introduce deep learning techniques using free open source tools for processing real world remote sensing images. The approaches are generic and adapted to suit applications for various remote sensing images processing in landcover mapping, forestry, urban, in disaster mapping, image restoration, etc.
Introduction to Electronic Materials and Devices
This textbook lays out the fundamentals of electronic materials and devices on a level that is accessible to undergraduate engineering students with no prior coursework in electromagnetism and modern physics. The initial chapters present the basic concepts of waves and quantum mechanics, emphasizing the underlying physical concepts behind the properties of materials and the basic principles of device operation. Subsequent chapters focus on the fundamentals of electrons in materials, covering basic physical properties and conduction mechanisms in semiconductors and their use in diodes, transistors, and integrated circuits. The book also deals with a broader range of modern topics, including magnetic, spintronic, and superconducting materials and devices, optoelectronic and photonic devices, as well as the light emitting diode, solar cells, and various types of lasers. The last chapter presents a variety of materials with specific novel applications, such as dielectric materials usedin electronics and photonics, liquid crystals, and organic conductors used in video displays, and superconducting devices for quantum computing.Clearly written with compelling illustrations and chapter-end problems, Rezende's Introduction to Electronic Materials and Devices is the ideal accompaniment to any undergraduate program in electrical and computer engineering. Adjacent students specializing in physics or materials science will also benefit from the timely and extensive discussion of the advanced devices, materials, and applications that round out this engaging and approachable textbook.
Design, Technologies and Applications of High Power Vacuum Electronic Devices from Microwave to THz Band
The last decade has contributed to the rapid progress in developing high-power microwave sources. This Special Issue aims to bring together information about the most striking theoretical and experimental results, new trends in development, remarkable modern applications, new demands in parameter enhancement, and future goals. Although only a tiny part of the achievements of recent years is included in this Issue, we hope that the presented articles will be useful for experts and students focusing on modern vacuum electronics.
Autonomous Navigation and Deployment of Uavs for Communication, Surveillance and Delivery
Autonomous Navigation and Deployment of UAVs for Communication, Surveillance and Delivery Authoritative resource offering coverage of communication, surveillance, and delivery problems for teams of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) Autonomous Navigation and Deployment of UAVs for Communication, Surveillance and Delivery studies various elements of deployment of networks of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) base stations for providing communication to ground users in disaster areas, covering problems like ground traffic monitoring, surveillance of environmental disaster areas (e.g. brush fires), using UAVs in rescue missions, converting UAV video surveillance, and more. The work combines practical problems, implementable and computationally efficient algorithms to solve these problems, and mathematically rigorous proofs of each algorithm's convergence and performance. One such example provided by the authors is a novel biologically inspired motion camouflage algorithm to covert video surveillance of moving targets by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). All autonomous navigation and deployment algorithms developed in the book are computationally efficient, easily implementable in engineering practice, and based only on limited information on other UAVs of each and the environment. Sample topics discussed in the work include: Deployment of UAV base stations for communication, especially with regards to maximizing coverage and minimizing interference Deployment of UAVs for surveillance of ground areas and targets, including surveillance of both flat and uneven areas Navigation of UAVs for surveillance of moving areas and targets, including disaster areas and ground traffic monitoring Autonomous UAV navigation for covert video surveillance, offering extensive coverage of optimization-based navigation Integration of UAVs and public transportation vehicles for parcel delivery, covering both one-way and round trips Professionals in navigation and deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles, along with researchers, engineers, scientists in intersecting fields, can use Autonomous Navigation and Deployment of UAVs for Communication, Surveillance and Delivery to gain general knowledge on the subject along with practical, precise, and proven algorithms that can be deployed in a myriad of practical situations.
Software Defined Internet of Everything
This book provides comprehensive discussion on key topics related to the usage and deployment of software defined networks (SDN) in Internet of Everything applications like, healthcare systems, data centers, edge/fog computing, vehicular networks, intelligent transportation systems, smart grids, smart cities and more. The authors provide diverse solutions to overcome challenges of conventional network binding in various Internet of Everything applications where there is need of an adaptive, agile, and flexible network backbone. The book showcases different deployment models, algorithms and implementations related to the usage of SDN in Internet of Everything applications along with the pros and cons of the same. Even more, this book provides deep insights into the architecture of software defined networking specifically about the layered architecture and different network planes, logical interfaces, and programmable operations. The need of network virtualization and the deployment models for network function virtualization is also included with an aim towards the design of interoperable network architectures by researchers in future. Uniquely, the authors find hands on practical implementation, deployment scenarios and use cases for various software defined networking architectures in Internet of Everything applications like healthcare networks, Internet of Things, intelligent transportation systems, smart grid, underwater acoustic networks and many more. In the end, design and research challenges, open issues, and future research directions are provided in this book for a wide range of readers
