With the digital systems moving towards higher frequencies, lower operating voltages and higher power, supplying the required current at the right voltage and at the right time to facilitate timely switching of the CMOS circuits becomes increasingly challenging. The board level power supply cannot meet these requirements directly due to the high inductance of the package interconnections. To overcome this problem, several thin film decoupling capacitors have to be placed on the IC or close to the IC in the package. Two approaches were pursued for high-k thin film decoupling capacitors. 1) Low cost sol-gel based thin film capacitors on organic board compatible Cu-foils 2) RF-sputtered thin film capacitors on silicon substrate for silicon compatible processes While sol-gel provides cost effective technology, sputtered ferroelectric devices are more compatible from manufacturing stand point with the existing technology. Nano-crystalline barium titanate and barium strontium titanate film capacitor devices were fabricated and characterized for organic and silicon substrates respectively. Sol-gel barium titanate films were fabricated first on a bare Cu-foil and then transferred to organic board through a standard lamination process. With process optimization and film doping, a capacitance density of 3 µF/cm2 was demonstrated with breakdown voltage greater than 12V. Leakage current characteristics, breakdown voltages, and electrical reliability of the devices were significantly improved through doping of the barium titanate films and modified film chemistry. Films and interfaces were characterized with high resolution electron microscopy, SEM, XRD, and DC leakage measurements. RF sputtering was selected for ferroelectric thin film integration on silicon substrate. Barium strontium titanate (BST) films were deposited on various electrodes sputtered on silicon substrates. The main focus was to improve interface stabilities for high-k thin films on Si to yield large-area defect-free devices. Effect of bottom electrode selection and barrier layers on device yield and performance were investigated carefully. High yield and high device performance was observed for certain electrode and barrier layer combination. A capacitance density up to 1 µF/cm2 was demonstrated with a breakdown voltage above 15 V on large area, 7 mm2, devices. These two techniques can potentially meet mid-high frequency future decoupling requirements.

[pt] Este trabalho de dissertação de mestrado apresenta os resultados obtidos com a conjunção de duas técnicas propostas para utilização em modernos sistemas de comunicações: a Modulação Espacial (Spatial Modulation - SM) e a detecção desacoplada de sinais. Na primeira parte são abordados os fundamentos teóricos da detecção de sinais com modulação espacial, uma comparação entre os sistemas MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) tradicionais e os sistemas SM-MIMO, uma revisão bibliográfica sobre trabalhos previamente feitos no tema e os diferentes tipos de detectores que podem ser empregados em sistemas com modulação espacial. A seguir são abordadas diferentes técnicas para desacoplamento de sinais, as quais permitem a separação na estação radio-base dos sinais oriundos de diferentes tipos de usuários, visando simplificar e adequar o procedimento de detecção às necessidades do usuário da rede. Finalmente uma análise de desempenho, em termos da taxa de erro de bit, e complexidade computacional, em termos do número médio de flops requerido por vetor de símbolos detectado, é realizada para as diferentes associações de técnicas de desacoplamento e detectores SM enfocados neste trabalho. / [en] This work dissertation presents the results obtained from the conjunction of two proposal techniques for the use in modern systems of communications: the Spatial Modulation and the Decoupling Signal Detection. In the first part are discussed the theorical bases of the signal detection with Spatial Modulation, a comparison between the traditional MIMO systems and the SM-MIMO systems, a bibliographical review about previousworks in the topic and the different kinds of detectors that can be used in systems with Spatial Modulation. Then the different techniques of signal decoupling are discussed, which allow the separation in the radio base station of the signals coming from the different classes of users, to simplify and adapt the process of detection and the requirements of the user in the network. Finally a performance analysis in terms of the bit error rate and computational complexity in terms of average number of flops required fot the vector of symbols detected, is done for the studied detectors in the dissertation, using the same different techniques of decoupling studied in this work.

abstract: The dissertation encompasses the transformer-less single phase PV inverters for both the string and microinverter applications. Two of the major challenge with such inverters include the presence of high-frequency common mode leakage current and double line frequency power decoupling with reliable capacitors without compromising converter power density. Two solutions are presented in this dissertation: half-bridge voltage swing (HBVS) and dynamic dc link (DDCL) inverters both of which completely eliminates the ground current through topological improvement. In addition, through active power decoupling technique, the capacitance requirement is reduced for both, thus achieving an all film-capacitor based solution with higher reliability. Also both the approaches are capable of supporting a wide range of power factor. Moreover, wide band-gap devices (both SiC and GaN) are used for implementing their hardware prototypes. It enables the switching frequency to be high without compromising on the converter efficiency. Also it allows a reduced magnetic component size, further enabling a high power density solution, with power density far beyond the state-of-the art solutions. Additionally, for the transformer-less microinverter application, another challenge is to achieve a very high gain DC-DC stage with a simultaneous high conversion efficiency. An extended duty ratio (EDR) boost converter which is a hybrid of switched capacitors and interleaved inductor technique, has been implemented for this purpose. It offers higher converter efficiency as most of the switches encounter lower voltage stress directly impacting switching loss; the input current being shared among all the interleaved converters (inherent sharing only in a limited duty ratio), the inductor conduction loss is reduced by a factor of the number of phases. Further, the EDR boost converter has been studied for both discontinuous conduction mode (DCM) operations and operations with wide input/output voltage range in continuous conduction mode (CCM). A current sharing between its interleaved input phases is studied in detail to show that inherent sharing is possible for only in a limited duty ratio span, and modification of the duty ratio scheme is proposed to ensure equal current sharing over all the operating range for 3 phase EDR boost. All the analysis are validated with experimental results. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Electrical Engineering 2017

Cette thèse se donne pour objectif principal l’explication de l’hétérogénéité que l’on observe en matière de conformité au sein des multinationales. En particulier, je m’intéresse à ce qui pousse les filiales d’une multinationale à mettre en œuvre des pratiques conformes à la politique définie par le siège. Compte-tenu des pressions normatives croissantes exercées sur les multinationales, leur gestion de la conformité interne prend une importance stratégique. Et la responsabilité sociale d’entreprise (RSE) compte au nombre de ces normes émergentes. Mon travail repose sur des données uniques (dont des enquêtes, des données d’archive et des entretiens) sur la mise en œuvre de pratiques RSE que j’ai collectées de 2012 à 2014 au sein d’une multinationale. Dans l’ensemble, les résultats de mes trois essais démontrent que les niveaux hétérogènes de conformité que l’on observe au sein des multinationales résultent certes des différentes pressions internes et externes exercées sur leurs filiales, mais également (1) de leurs divers niveaux d’attention aux demandes normatives en fonction de la conformité de leurs pairs, (2) de leur internalisation de la politique groupe qui limite l’influence du siège et de leurs pairs et (3) des caractéristiques spécifiques et des niveaux d’institutionnalisation des diverses pratiques. / The main objective of this dissertation is to explain heterogeneity in conformity within multinational enterprises (MNEs). More specifically, I focus on what makes an MNE’s subsidiaries implement practices that are consistent with the policy designed by the MNE’s headquarters. Given the increasing normative pressures on MNEs, managing conformity within them is of strategic importance. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is an example of such mounting norms. My work relies on a unique set of data (including surveys, archival data and interviews) I collected on CSR practices in one MNE between 2012 and 2014. Overall, the findings of my three essays show that heterogeneous conformity within MNEs stems not only from diverse internal and external pressures exerted on subsidiaries, but also from (1) the subsidiaries’ varying levels of attention to normative demands that depend on peers’ behaviors, (2) their heterogeneous internalization of the Group policy which reduces peers’ and headquarters’ influence and (3) the specific characteristics and institutionalization levels of different practices.

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Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:54:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 SamaherniMD_TESE.pdf: 1906280 bytes, checksum: 4c045dfdea855b9b5837f362598733e7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-02-01 / This thesis presents a new structure of robust adaptive controller applied to mobile robots (surface mobile robot) with nonholonomic constraints. It acts in the dynamics and kinematics of the robot, and it is split in two distinct parts. The first part controls the robot dynamics, using variable structure model reference adaptive controllers. The second part controls the robot kinematics, using a position controller, whose objective is to make the robot to reach any point in the cartesian plan. The kinematic controller is based only on information about the robot configuration. A decoupling method is adopted to transform the linear model of the mobile robot, a multiple-input multiple-output system, into two decoupled single-input single-output systems, thus reducing the complexity of designing the controller for the mobile robot. After that, a variable structure model reference adaptive controller is applied to each one of the resulting systems. One of such controllers will be responsible for the robot position and the other for the leading angle, using reference signals generated by the position controller. To validate the proposed structure, some simulated and experimental results using differential drive mobile robots of a robot soccer kit are presented. The simulator uses the main characteristics of real physical system as noise and non-linearities such as deadzone and saturation. The experimental results were obtained through an C++ program applied to the robot soccer kit of Microrobot team at the LACI/UFRN. The simulated and experimental results are presented and discussed at the end of the text / Esta tese apresenta o desenvolvimento de uma nova estrutura de controlador adaptativo robusto aplicado a sistemas rob?ticos m?veis com rodas (rob? m?vel de superf?cie) e restri??es n?o-holon?micas de movimento. Este controlador atua tanto na din?mica como na cinem?tica do rob?, e pode ser dividido em duas partes distintas. A primeira parte controla a din?mica, atrav?s da utiliza??o de controladores adaptativos por modelo de refer?ncia e estrutura vari?vel. A segunda parte controla a cinem?tica do rob? atrav?s de um controlador de posi??o, cujo objetivo ? fazer com que o rob? seja capaz de atingir um ponto qualquer no plano cartesiano, sendo que este controlador cinem?tico ? baseado apenas em informa??es da configura??o do rob?. O trabalho aplica um m?todo de desacoplamento para transformar o modelo linear do rob? m?vel, que ? um sistema com m?ltiplas entradas e m?ltiplas sa?das, em dois sistemas desacoplados com apenas uma entrada e uma sa?da cada um, para reduzir a complexidade do projeto do controlador. Em seguida, aplica-se um controlador adaptativo por modelo de refer?ncia e estrutura vari?vel a cada um dos sistemas resultantes. Um controlador ser? respons?vel pelo posicionamento e o outro pela orienta??o do rob?, sendo que estes controladores utilizam como refer?ncias sinais provenientes do controlador cinem?tico de posi??o. Para comprovar o funcionamento da estrutura proposta, obteve-se resultados simulados e experimentais para o rob? m?vel com acionamento diferencial de um kit de futebol de rob?s. O simulador possui as principais caracter?sticas do sistema f?sico real, dentre as quais podem-se destacar os ru?dos de entradas e as n?o-linearidades como zona morta e satura??o. Os resultados experimentais foram obtidos atrav?s de um programa desenvolvido em C++ e aplicado a um kit de futebol de rob?s da empresa Microrobot no Laborat?rio de Acionamento, Controle e Instrumenta??o da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (LACI/UFRN). Os resultados simulados e experimentais s?o apresentados e discutidos ao final da tese

Based upon the export product space, this paper shows the main features of the export product composition of Peru and its regions. With respect to export baskets, these include: a high con- centration in few commodities; a relatively low degree of similarity between products; relatively high levels of productivity at the international level, and; enormous undiscovered or untapped export potential. In addition, this paper analyzes the hypothesis that the natural resource curse affects regional growth, employment and export diversification. Subject to the limitations of the data and the heterogeneous panel methods employed, estimation results indicate that the share of natural capital out of the total tangible wealth and natural capital per capita seems, on average and in a relatively statistically robust way, to spur growth, primary employment and export concentration in a few products. Consequently, the natural resource curse for the Peruvian regions is not about growth but about low regional development, since such resources do not have a significant impact on secondary and tertiary employment or on export product diversification. / Basado en la red de espacio de productos de exportación, este trabajo muestra las principales características de la composición de productos de exportación del Perú y sus regiones. Entre ellas: la de ser altamente concentrada en pocos productos intensivos en el uso de recursos naturales (RN), muy distantes unos de otros, de altos niveles de productividad internacional relativos al valor agregado real per cápita de cada región y de la economía en general, y de un enorme potencial de exportación todavía no explotado o descubierto. De otro lado, se analiza la validez de la hipótesis de la maldición de los efectos de los RN sobre el crecimiento y complementariamente sobre el empleo y la diversificación de los productos de exportación a nivel regional. Sujeto a las limitacio- nes de la información y métodos de paneles heterogéneos empleados, la evidencia relativamente robusta estadísticamente indica que la participación del capital natural del total de riqueza tangible y el capital natural per cápita han incidido en promedio positivamente en el crecimiento regional, el empleo relativo del sector primario, y la concentración de los principales productos de exportación. En consecuencia, la ‘maldición’ radica en la dependencia de las regiones en los RN para crecer retardando así el desarrollo regional por los efectos no significativos sobre elempleo secundario y terciario, y el proceso de diversificación de exportaciones.

O objetivo deste trabalho foi implementar a técnica de dupla ressonância denominada Desacoplamento Heteronuclear em Banda Larga. Tal técnica consiste em eliminar a interação dipolar magnética nuclear existente entre núcleos atômicos raros que desejamos observar (13C, por exemplo) e núcleos atômicos abundantes que existem em sua vizinhança (1H, por exemplo). Para implementar algumas das técnicas de Desacoplamento Heteronuclear em Banda Larga (DBL), foi desenvolvido o instrumental eletrônico necessário, que consistiu em projeto e construção de moduladores de pulsos de radiofreqüência com controle de fase, em programação de seqüências especiais de pulsos para DBL e em sistemas de controle digital. As técnicas de DBL implementadas foram: \"Noise Modulation\", \"Squarewave modulation\", \"MLEV-64\" e \"WALTZ-16\". Avaliamos o desempenho destas técnicas através de resultados experimentais obtidos utilizando o composto ADAMANTANO (Cl10H16). Todos os equipamentos desenvolvidos foram incorporados ao espectrômetro de alta resolução por ressonância magnética nuclear existente no Laboratório de Espectroscopia de Alta Resolução (LEAR), do Departamento de Física e Informática, Instituto de Física de São Carlos, USP, e estão sendo utilizados rotineiramente nos experimentos de espectroscopia de alta resolução / The goal of this work was to improve the double resonance technique called Broadband Heteronuclear Decoupling. This technique consists on eliminate the dipolar heteronuclear interaction that exists between rare nucleous (13C, for example) and abundant nucleous that exists around (1H, for example). To improve some techniques of Broadband Heteronuclear Decoupling (BBDec), an electronic apparatus was made, which consisted of design and implementation of radiofrequency pulse modulators with phase control, special BBDec pulse sequences programming and digital control systems. The implemented Broadband Heteronuclear Decoupling techniques were: Noise Modulation, Square-wave Modulation, MLEV-64 sequence and WALTZ-16 sequence. We evaluated the performance of these techniques utilizing the experimental results obtained with the sample ADAMANTANO (Cl10H16). All developed apparatus was incorporated with the high resolution NMR spectrometer that exists at the High Resolution Spectroscopy Laboratory (LEAR), of the Instituto de Física de Sao Carlos, USP, and are being used at all high resolution NMR experiments

Les systèmes de régulation des turbomoteurs actuels sont basés sur des architectures complexes que les constructeurs tendent à rendre plus modulaires avec des technologies plus économiques tout en garantissant un niveau de fiabilité supérieur ou égal. Dans ce contexte, la surveillance du circuit carburant, qui a pour but de déceler les dysfonctionnements des composants hydrauliques critiques, permet de réduire le coût de maintenance, d'améliorer le niveau de maintenabilité et d'assurer la disponibilité des turbomoteurs. La présente étude porte sur l'élaboration de méthodes de diagnostic performantes et robustes permettant la détection et la localisation des défauts impactant les fonctions hydrauliques primaires du circuit carburant. Des méthodes existantes de génération de résidus à base de modèles non linéaires sont présentées et appliquées au cas du circuit carburant. L'approche analytique pour le découplage, combinée avec des filtres de Kalman étendus, permet la structuration des résidus pour assurer la localisation des défauts. Une nouvelle approche basée sur la théorie de platitude différentielle est proposée pour le diagnostic de défauts des systèmes non linéaires avec une application au cas du circuit carburant. Les différentiateurs à modes glissants sont utilisés pour l'estimation des dérivées de signaux nécessaires à l'application de certaines méthodes de génération de résidus. Des simulations numériques illustrent la pertinence des résultats obtenus. Une application expérimentale est présentée en utilisant un jeu de données réelles issues d'un banc d'essais partiel et fournies par la société Turbomeca du groupe SAFRAN. / The current gas turbine regulation systems are based on complex architectures that manufacturers tend to make more modular with more cost effective technologies while ensuring a greater or equal level of reliability. In this context, the fuel system health monitoring, which aims to identify critical hydraulic components dysfunction, allows to reduce maintenance costs, to improve maintainability level and to ensure gas turbine availability. The present study focuses on the development of performant and robust diagnosis methods for the detection and isolation of faults affecting primary fuel system hydraulic functions. Existing nonlinear model based residual generation methods are presented and applied to the fuel system. The analytical approach for decoupling, combined with extended Kalman filters, helps fault isolation by generating residual structures. A new approach based on differential flatness theory is proposed for nonlinear systems fault diagnosis with an application to the fuel system. Sliding mode differentiators are used to estimate derived signals that are necessary for the application of some residual generation methods. Numerical simulations illustrate the efficiency of obtained results. An experimental application is presented using a real data set from a partial test bench provided by Turbomeca company of the SAFRAN group.

Pour déployer la quatrième génération de téléphonie 4G/LTE ou « LTE advanced », les opérateurs mobiles sont confrontés à de fortes contraintes : d’une part assurer une bonne couverture géographique mais aussi une excellente qualité de service. Ceci nécessite une ingénierie du réseau qui dépasse largement ce qui a été mis en place pour les réseaux GSM ou 3G. L’industrie des télécoms a créé pour cela le concept de « small cells » ou petites cellules qui viennent en renfort des « macrocells » ou grosses cellules. Cette thèse cherche à apporter une solution à cette problématique à travers notamment le développement d'antennes pour « smart cells ». Cette étude, supportée par le projet FUI NETCOM, doit permettre aux opérateurs d’étendre la couverture et la capacité de leurs réseaux à moindre coût tout en préservant la qualité de service. Pour cela, l’objectif plus précis de cette thèse est de concevoir un système multi-antennaire multistandard MIMO (Multiple-Input Multiple-Output) dédié à des noeuds relais pour le déploiement de la quatrième génération de téléphonie LTE. Cette conception doit être compatible avec 3 bandes de fréquences du LTE : (700-900 MHz) pour les bandes LTE 700 et LTE 800, (1710-1880 MHz) pour les bandes GSM 1800 / LTE 1800 et la dernière (2500-2690 MHz) pour le LTE 2600. Pour cela, nous avons étudié tout d’abord un système à 4 accès mono-bande, en nous concentrant uniquement sur la bande basse de 700 à 900 MHz. Dans une seconde étude, nous avons cherché à couvrir les deux autres bandes supérieures en nous servant d’éléments parasites pour constituer un système MIMO à 4 accès tri-bande. Nous avons ensuite étudié l’influence de l’environnement proche du système antennaire, avec la présence d’un radiateur métallique. Un problème important et fréquent dans les systèmes multi-antennes étant le couplage, nous avons également étudié et réalisé une technique de découplage. Celle-ci servira à isoler les éléments rayonnants à espacement réduit, conçus pour nos trois bandes LTE. / To deploy the fourth generation called 4G/LTE or "LTE advanced", mobile operators face strong constraints: they must ensure a good geographic coverage but also an excellent quality of service. This requires new methods that go far beyond what has been implemented for GSM or 3G networks. The telecom industry has created the concept of "small cells" that reinforce the "macrocells" deployed by the operators. This thesis tries to provide a solution to this problem and more particularly through the development of antennas for a product called "smart cell". This study, supported by the FUI project NETCOM, should enable mobile operators to extend the coverage and capacity of their networks at a lower cost while maintaining a good quality of service. To do that, the aim of this thesis more particularly is the design of a multi-band multi-antennas MIMO system (Multiple-Input Multiple-Output) dedicated to relay nodes for the deployment of the fourth generation 4G/LTE or "LTE advanced". The antenna design considers the coverage of the three LTE operating frequency bands and must be compatible with them. The (700-900 MHz) frequency band is used for the LTE 700 and LTE 800 bands, (1710-1880 MHz) for the GSM 1800/LTE 1800 bands and the last (2500-2690 MHz) for the LTE 2600 bands. In our first study, a reference system with 4 access was studied in simulation and measured, for only the low band 700-900 MHz. In a second study, we tried to cover the other two higher bands to have a tri-band system using the parasitic elements to get a three-band MIMO system with 4 access. We studied then, the influence of the environment close to the antenna system, with the presence of a metallic radiator. As we often encounter a frequent problem in multi-antenna systems which is the coupling problem between the different access of a multi antenna system, so we have studied and realized a decoupling technique. This technique was used to enhance the isolation between the different access.