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Communicating with a Smart Pillbox via Near Field Communication (NFC) : A Mobile Application for Healthcare ProfessionalsAl-qaysi, Ibrahim January 2018 (has links)
The lack of medication adherence leads to an incremental risk of diseases which can be a major burden on the individual, healthcare system, and society. Hence, healthcare professionals have a central role and should manage, guide, educate, and make their patient more involved in their treatment and thereby promoting a better medication adherence. Medication adherence is a great challenge for many patients with chronic conditions, elderly patient, or patient prescribed to long-term medication. The rapid development and deployment of mobile phones in the healthcare industry has an important role to play in this area and has led to the development of new phone features and applications that can help both caregivers and patients with managing and monitoring medication intakes. This development and support of mobile phones and applications have created and improved doctor-patient interaction. Today, there is no easy way for healthcare professionals to monitor and help patients with their medication intakes. A solution to this problem is to develop a mobile application that communicates with a smart pillbox via near field communication (NFC) to monitor, manage, and improve patient’s medication intakes in an easy and accessible manner. Using NFC as a communication technology allows data to be wirelessly transferred from phone to pillbox and vice versa. This solution will help healthcare professionals to create better treatment conditions and fewer side effects for their patients. These patients will be more knowledgeable and motivated to take greater responsibility in following doctor’s instructions, thereby improving their treatment process. The application is tested and evaluated during every iteration phase of the development process. These tests have been conducted by allowing healthcare professionals to test the application and provide feedback on their experience when using the app. Conducting these tests have helped with generating new ideas, features, and functionalities, but also helped to improve the user interface to make the application as user-friendly as possible. / Bristen på medicinering följsamhet leder till en ökad risk för sjukdomar som kan vara en stor belastning för individen, vårdsystemet och samhället. Hälsooch sjukvårdspersonal har därför en central roll och bör hantera, vägleda, utbilda och göra patienten mer delaktig i behandlingen och därigenom främja en bättre medicinering följsamhet. Medicinering följsamhet är en stor utmaning för många patienter med kroniska tillstånd, äldre patient eller patient som är ordinerad för långvarig medicinering. Den snabba utvecklingen och användningen av mobiltelefoner inom vårdindustrin har en viktig roll att spela i detta område och har lett till utvecklingen av nya funktioner och applikationer som kan hjälpa både vårdgivare och patienter med att hantera och övervaka medicinsk intag. Denna utveckling och support av mobiltelefoner och applikationer har skapat och förbättrat interaktion mellan läkare och patient. Idag finns det inget enkelt sätt för sjukvårdspersonal att övervaka och hjälpa patienter med sina medicinintag. En lösning på detta problem är att utveckla en mobilapplikation som kommer att kommunicera med en smart pillbox via nära fältkommunikation (eng. Near Field Communication, NFC) för att övervaka, hantera och förbättra patientens medicinintag på ett enkelt och tillgängligt sätt. Med hjälp av NFC som kommunikationsteknik kommer data att överföras trådlöst från telefon till pillerdosa och vice versa. Denna lösning kommer att hjälpa vårdpersonal att skapa bättre behandlingsförhållanden och färre biverkningar för sina patienter. Dessa patienter kommer i sin tur att vara mer kunniga och motiverade att ta större ansvar i efterföljande läkares instruktioner och därigenom förbättra deras behandlingsprocess. Applikationen har testat och utvärderat under varje iteration av utvecklingsprocessen. Dessa tester har utförts genom att låta vårdpersonal testa applikationen och ge feedback på hur dem upplevar applikationen. Dessa tester hjälper till att skapa nya idéer, funktioner och funktioner som bör ingå i den slutliga applikationen, men också bidra till att förbättra användargränssnittet för att göra ansökan så användarvänlig som möjligt.
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Jämförande analys av kontaktlösa betalningar med bankkort och smarttelefon ur ett säkerhetsperspektiv / Comparative analysis of contactless payment with cards and smartphones from a security perspectiveHolmberg Tvingstedt, Tove January 2022 (has links)
Att betala med kort är idag standardiserat, men något som också är väldigt vanligt är att betala kontaktlöst. Detta kan göras både med ett kontaktlöst kort eller med en smarttelefon. Teknologin som möjliggör detta är närfältskommunikation. Examensarbetet undersöker hur säkerheten i dessa betalningsmetoder är uppbyggd, vad det finns för säkerhetsproblem samt hur användningen kan se ut i framtiden. Den primära frågeställningen var att undersöka om det är lika säkert eller till och med säkrare att använda en smarttelefon för kontaktlösa betalningar jämfört med ett kontaktlöst kort. För att undersöka detta, gjordes en omfattande litteraturstudie och en enkätundersökning. Resultatet av examensarbetet visade på att det fanns olika typer av hot och sårbarheter som exempelvis avlyssning, modifikation och korruption av data, reläattacker, skadlig applikation och programvara, svag autentisering och manipulation av applikationer. Det fanns även flertalet aspekter som påverkade hur väl dessa hot kunde utföras, bland annat tokenisering, kryptering men även det korta avståndet som krävs och social ingenjörskonst. Det upptäcktes även att attackytan skiljde sig mellan metoderna. Smarttelefonen hade flertalet hot och sårbarheter som ofta baseras på att det finns ett användargränssnitt, att enheten har ett annat användningsområde, och exempelvis skadlig programvara och ”rootade” enheter. När en enhet är ”rootad” betyder det att användaren får en annan typ av åtkomstkontroll. Enkätundersökningen visade att ungefär hälften av deltagarna kan tänka sig använda smarttelefonen i framtiden för att utföra kontaktlösa betalningar. / To pay with a card is standardized today, but something that is also very common is to pay contactless. This is possible to do with a contactless card or with a smartphone. The technology that makes this possible is Near Field Communication. This thesis examines how the security in these payment methods is structured, which security issues exists but also how the use may look in the future. The thesis also includes to investigate if it is as safe or even safer to use a smartphone for contactless payments compared to a contactless card. To investigate this, an extensive literature study and a questionnaire survey was conducted. The results of the thesis showed that there were different types of threats and vulnerabilities such as eavesdropping, data modification, data corruption, relay-attacks but also malicious application and software, weak authentication, and manipulation of applications. However, there were also several aspects that affected how well these threats could be carried out, including tokenization, encryption but also the short distance required and social engineering. It was also discovered that the attack surface differed between the two methods. The smartphone had several threats and vulnerabilities many of them existed since there is a user interface, and that the device is used in other ways. For example, malware and “rooted” devices, when a device is “rooted” it means that the user gets another type of access control for the device. The survey showed that about half of the participants may be willing to use a smartphone in the future to make contactless payments.
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Tip-enhanced near-field optical microscopy / from symmetry selectivity to single molecule sensitivityNeacsu, Corneliu Catalin 14 February 2011 (has links)
Die vorliegende Arbeit beschreibt neue Entwicklungen im Verständnis und in der Umsetzung der optischen Nahfeldmikroskopie (scattering - type scanning near-field optical microscopy, s-SNOM) für die lineare und nichtlineare optische Bildgebung mit ultrahoher Auslösung und Empfindlichkeit. Die fundamentalen Mechanismen, die der Feldverstärkung am Ende von ultrascharfen metallischen Spitzen zugrunde liegen, werden systematisch behandelt. Die plasmonischen Eigenschaften der Spitze wurden erstmalig beobachtet, und ihre Bedeutung für die optische Kopplung zwischen Spitze und Probe sowie für die sich ergebende Einengung des Nahfeldes wird diskutiert. Ein aperturloses Nahfeldmikroskop für die spitzenverstärkte Ramanspektroskopie (tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy, TERS) wurde entwickelt. Die Grundlagen der TERS und die wesentliche Rolle des plasmonischen Verhaltens der Spitze sowie die klare Unterscheidung von Nahfeld-Ramansignatur und Fernfeld-Abbildungsartefakten werden beschrieben. Nahfeld Raman Verstärkungsfaktoren von bis zu 10 wurden erreicht, was einer Feldverstärkung von bis zu 130 entspricht und Raman-Messungen bis auf Einzel-Molekül-Niveau ermöglichte. Die optische Frequenzverdopplung (second harmonic generation, SHG) an einzelnen Spitzen wurde untersucht. Aufgrund ihrer teilweise asymmetrischen Nanostruktur erlauben die Spitzen eine klare Unterscheidung von lokalen Oberflächen und nichtlokalen Volumenbeiträgen zur nichtlinearen Polarisation sowie die Analyse ihrer Polarisations- und Emissions-Auswahlregeln. Die spitzenverstärkte Frequenzverdopplungs-Spektroskopie und die räumlich hoch aufgelöste Abbildung auf Basis des dielektrischen Kontrasts werden demonstriert. Mit Hilfe einer phasen-sensitiven, Selbst-homodyn-Frequenzverdopplungs-s-SNOM-Abbildungsmethode kann die Oberflächen-Struktur der intrinsischen 180-Domänen im hexagonal multiferroischen YMnO aufgelöst werden. / This thesis describes the implementation of scattering-type near-field optical microscopy (s-SNOM) for linear and nonlinear optical imaging. The technique allows for optical spectroscopy with ultrahigh spatial resolution. New results on the microscopic understanding of the imaging mechanism and the employment of s-SNOM for structure determination at solid surfaces are presented. The method relies on the use of metallic probe tips with apex radii of only few nanometers. The local-field enhancement and its dependence on material properties are investigated. The plasmonic character of Au tips is identified and its importance for the optical tip-sample coupling and subsequent near-field confinement are discussed. The experimental results offer valuable criteria in terms of tip-material and structural parameters for the choice of suitable tips required in s-SNOM. An near-field optical microscope is developed for tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS) studies. The principles of TERS and the role of the tip plasmonic behavior together with clear distinction of near-field Raman signature from far-field imaging artifacts are described. TERS results of monolayer and submonolayer molecular coverage on smooth Au surfaces are presented. Second harmonic generation (SHG) from individual tips is investigated. As a partially asymmetric nanostructure, the tip allows for the clear distinction of local surface and nonlocal bulk contributions to the nonlinear polarization and the analysis of their polarization and emission selection rules. Tip-enhanced SH microscopy and dielectric contrast imaging with high spatial resolution are demonstrated. SHG couples directly to the ferroelectric ordering in materials and in combination with scanning probe microscopy can give access to the morphology of mesoscopic ferroelectric domains. Using a phase sensitive self-homodyne SHG s-SNOM imaging method, the surface topology of 180 intrinsic domains in hexagonal multiferroic YMnO is resolved.
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Investigating the far- and near-field thermal radiation in carbon-based nanomaterialsZhang, Zihao 07 January 2016 (has links)
Two classes of carbon nanomaterials—carbon nanotubes and graphene—have promoted the advancement of nanoelectronics, quantum computing, chemical sensing and storage, thermal management, and optoelectronic components. Studies of the thermal radiative properties of carbon nanotube thin film arrays and simple graphene hybrid structures reveal some of the most exciting characteristic electromagnetic interactions of an unusual sort of material, called hyperbolic metamaterials. The features and results on these materials in the context of both far-field and near-field radiation are presented in this dissertation.
Due to the optically dark nature of pyrolytic carbon in the wavelength range from visible to infrared, it has been suggested vertically aligned carbon nanotube (VACNT) coatings may serve as effective radiative absorbers. The spectral optical constants of VACNT are modeled using the effective medium theory (EMT), which is based on the anisotropic permittivity components of graphite. The effects of other EMT parameters such as volume filling ratio and local filament alignment factor are explored. Low reflectance and high absorptance are observed up to the far-infrared and wide range of oblique incidence angles. The radiative properties of tilt-aligned carbon nanotube (TACNT) thin films are illustrated. Energy streamlines by tracing the Poynting vectors are used to show a self-collimation effect within the TACNT thin films, meaning infrared light can be transmitted along the axes of CNT filaments.
Graphene, a single layer sheet of carbon atoms, produces variable conductance in the terahertz frequency regime by tailoring the applied voltage gating or doping. Periodically embedding between dielectric spacers, the substitution of graphene provides low radiative attenuation compared to traditional metal-dielectric multilayers. The hyperbolic nature, namely negative angle of refraction, is tested on the graphene-dielectric multilayers imposed with varying levels of doping. EMT should be valid for graphene-dielectric multilayers due to the nanometers-thick layers compared to the characteristic wavelength of infrared light. For metal- or semiconductor-dielectric multilayers with thicker or lossier layers, EMT may not hold. The validity of EMT for these multilayers is better understood by comparing against the radiative properties determined by layered medium optics.
When bodies of different temperatures are separated by a nanometers-size vacuum gap, thermal radiation is enhanced several-fold over that of blackbodies. This phenomenon can be used to develop more efficient thermophotovoltaic devices. Due to their hyperbolic nature, VACNT and graphite are demonstrated to further increase evanescent wave tunneling. The heat flux between these materials separated by vacuum gaps smaller than a micron is vastly improved over traditional semiconductor materials. A hybrid structure composed of VACNT substrates covered by doped graphene is analyzed and is shown to further improve the heat flux, due to the surface plasmon polariton coupling between the graphene sheets.
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Antenna characterization using phaseless near-field antenna measurementsBrown, Trevor 12 September 2016 (has links)
This thesis focuses on the application of electromagnetic inverse source techniques to characterize antennas using phaseless (amplitude-only) near-field (NF) measurement data. Removing the need to measure phase reduces the overall cost of the measurement apparatus since simple power meters can be used instead of expensive vector network analyzers. It has also been shown in the literature that a phaseless approach can improve the accuracy of the calculated far-field (FF) pattern in the presence of probe positioning errors compared to the amplitude-and-phase approach. A brief discussion on the state-of-the-art methods for characterizing antennas using phaseless near-field measurement data is presented. Two general approaches used most often to perform near-field to far-field (NF-FF) transformations, namely modal expansion and source reconstruction, are explained in detail for scenarios with and without phase information. A phaseless source reconstruction method (SRM) is the primary focus of this work. The SRM is an application of an electromagnetic inverse source technique and therefore, the complexities of solving the associated ill-posed inverse source problem are discussed. The application of the SRM to spherical and planar measurement geometries are presented along with the concerns regarding regularization resulting from discretizing the ill-posed system. A multiplicative regularization (MR) scheme originally developed for inverse scattering is adapted to suit the nonlinear cost functional for the phaseless planar measurement case and the mathematical framework is derived in detail. The resulting MR-SRM is fully automated and incorporates adaptive regularization. The developed algorithms are evaluated using several examples with synthetic phaseless NF data demonstrating the benefits and limitations of the source reconstruction method and the multiplicative regularization scheme. The application of the SRM to antenna diagnostics using phaseless NF data is also shown. Finally, the developed planar algorithms are tested with experimentally collected phaseless measurement data to demonstrate their potential as suitable antenna characterization techniques that can be of interest to the antenna measurement community. / October 2016
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Etude et réalisation d’antennes à concentration de champ pour la génération et la détection locale de champs électromagnétiques / Styding and realization of concentrated antennas field for generating and detecting local electromagneticBen Mbarek, Sofiane 15 December 2011 (has links)
L’objectif de cette thèse est le développement des détecteurs pour la microscopie champproche électromagnétique pour deux domaines fréquentiels. Pour le domaine des microondesnous présentons des micro-antennes non conventionnelles basées sur un guidagecoplanaire et l’effet de pointe. Nous pr´esentons les différentes étapes de la conceptionet de la réalisation avec les techniques de micro-fabrication. L’évaluation de leur performancea été obtenue avec une confrontation des résultats de mesure et de cartographie surdes éléments passifs et ceux d’une modélisation d’intégration finie. Pour le domaine desTérahertz, nous avons réalisé des micro-bolométres à température ambiante. Dans le butd’améliorer l’absorption de ces d´etecteurs, leur conception a été basée sur l’étude théoriquede l’absorption d’une onde électromagnétique en incidence normale sur un empilement descouches métalliques et diélectrique. Deux versions ont été réalisées et caractérisées é l’aidedes sources électroniques qui peuvent atteindre 1, 1 THz en continue. Les performancesde ces d´etecteurs en termes de bruit, de sensibilit´e et de temps de r´eponse sont mises enexergue. / The objective of this thesis is the development of detectors for near-field microscopy fortwo electromagnetic frequency domains. For microwave domain we present unconventionalmicro-antennas based on coplanar line and point effect. We present the different stages ofthe design and implementation with micro-fabrication technique. The evaluation of theirperformance was obtained with a comparison of measurement results and mapping ofpassive elements and those of a model of finite integration. For the THz domain, we performedroom temperature micro-bolometers. In order to improve the absorption of thesedetectors, their design was based on the theoretical study of the absorption of an electromagneticwave normally incident on a stack of metal and dielectric layers. Two versionswere prepared and characterized using electronic sources that can reach continuous 1,1THz. The performance of these detectors in terms of noise, sensitivity and time responseare highlighted.
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Étude des micro/nano sondes pour la Résonance Magnétique Nucléaire (RMN) / Investigation of micro/nano probes for Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)Akel, Mohamad 17 December 2013 (has links)
Dans ce travail, nous exposons une méthode basée sur la détection localisée en couplage capacitif de la composante électrique du signal RMN via des micro/nano sondes spécifiquement développées. Dans la première étape de ce travail nous avons utilisé des NEMS à base de nanotube de carbone pour réaliser une détection du signal RMN à l'échelle nanométrique. En effet, grâce à un couplage électromécanique, nous avons caractérisé ces systèmes en émission de champ, déterminé expérimentalement leur fréquence de résonance et montré qu'ils sont capables de détecter un signal radiofréquence. Pour utiliser ces dispositifs en RMN, l'adaptation du champ statique B0 de l'aimant pour atteindre la valeur de la fréquence de Larmor d'un atome est nécessaire. L'excitation locale autour de ces systèmes permettra une caractérisation complète et fiable. Pour mettre en place cette excitation localisée, nous avons choisi, dans la deuxième étape de cette thèse, une sonde locale de champ électromagnétique à l'échelle micrométrique. D'abord, nous présentons des simulations autour de la microsonde, décrivant la propagation des champs électrique et magnétique injectée par la microsonde. Nous avons caractérisé la microsonde en mode collection. Nous montrons une décroissance de l'intensité du signal RMN, en fonction de la distance. Nous avons observé et modélisé démontrant ainsi que La microsonde est capable de détecter localement un signal RMN tandis que la bobine capte de façon globale. Nous présentons les premières expériences de l'utilisation de la microsonde en mode émission. Ces mesures nous fournissent un modèle qui décrit une excitation inhomogène, dûe à l'émission locale de la puissance (décroissance exponentielle de la puissance), proche de la microsonde. Une distribution des angles de basculement est répartie d'une façon inhomogène induisant une distribution des intensités du signal RMN autour de la microsonde. À la fin de cette thèse, nous avons réalisé deux expériences comme applications directes suite des études sur la caractérisation de la microsonde. La première consiste à imager un volume d'eau placé dans un bain d'huile de silicone. L'image est obtenue en déplaçant mécaniquement la microsonde et en réalisant pour chaque point une mesure de spectroscopie localisée. Dans la deuxième expérience, la microsonde est utilisée pour injecter dans ce volume d'eau des impulsions électromagnétiques et détecte à la suite le signal RMN. Notre étude sur la caractérisation de l'émission locale par une microsonde et la détection du signal radiofréquence par un NEMS à base de NTC, nous permet de proposer un nouveau type de dispositifs capable de détecter un signal RMN. / In this work, we explain our method based on the detection localized capacitive coupling of the electric component of the NMR signal via micro/nano probes specifically developeds. In the first stage of this work we use NEMS based on carbon nanotube to achieve a detection of the NMR signal at the nanoscale. Because of an electromechanical coupling, we characterize these systems in field emission, and we determine experimentally their resonance frequency and shown that they are able to detect a radio signal. To use these devices in NMR, it is necessary to adapt the value of the static field B0 of the magnet to reach the value of the Larmor frequency. We found that a local excitement around these systems gives them a reliable characterization, to avoid disrupting the parasite measurements. To implement this localized excitation, we choose a micro-probe (coaxial cable). First, we presente simulations, describing the propagation of electric and magnetic fields transmitted by the microprobe. After we characterize in collection mode the microprobe. This study shows us a decrease of the NMR signal as a function as distance. This proves that the microprobe is able to detect an NMR signal in near field, while the coil picks up globally. We characterize the microprobe in the transmit mode . These measurements provide us with a model that describes an inhomogeneous excitation of nuclei, due to the emission of power in vicinity of the microprobe. An inhomogeneous distribution of tilt angles induces an inhomogeneous distribution of the NMR signal around the microprobe. At the end of this thesis, we conducte two applications such as direct studies on the characterization of the microprobe. The first consist to image a small volume of water placed in silicone oil sample. The image obtained by mechanically moving of the microprobe and making a localized spectroscopy. In the second experiment, the microprobe injected into this volume and detects after the NMR signal. Finally, the characterization in transmit mode of the microprobe allows us to better understand the phenomenon of the trasmission of electromagnetic waves to excite the spins of the nuclei in vicinity of the NEMS based on CNT. The latter being used as NMR probe at the nanoscale, to detect a NMR signal.
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Low-Profile, Electrically Small, Huygens Source Antenna With Pattern-Reconfigurability That Covers the Entire Azimuthal PlaneTang, Ming-Chun, Zhou, Boya, Ziolkowski, Richard W. 03 1900 (has links)
A pattern-reconfigurable, low-profile, efficient, electrically small, near-field resonant parasitic (NFRP), Huygens source antenna is presented. The design incorporates both electric and magnetic NFRP elements. The electric ones are made reconfigurable by the inclusion of a set of p-i-n diodes. By arranging these electric and magnetic NFRP elements properly, a set of three Huygens sources are attained, each covering a 120 degrees sector. Pattern reconfigurability is obtained by switching the diodes on or off; it encompasses the entire 360 degrees azimuth range. A prototype was fabricated and tested. The numerical and experimental studies are in good agreement. The experimental results indicate that in each of its instantaneous states at f(0) = 1.564 GHz, the antenna provides uniform peak realized gains, front-toback ratios, and radiation efficiencies, respectively, as high as 3.55 dBi, 17.5 dB, and 84.9%, even though it is electrically small: ka = 0.92, and low profile: 0.05 lambda(0).
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[en] STUDY OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF MODULATORS OF AMPLITUDE MANUFACTURED WITH SEMICONDUCTING STRUCTURES INALAS/INGAAS AND ALGAAS/GAAS MQW / [pt] ESTUDO DAS CARACTERÍSTICAS DE MODULADORES DE AMPLITUDE FABRICADOS COM ESTRUTURAS SEMICONDUTORAS INALAS/INGAAS E ALGAAS/GAAS MQWMARIA CRISTINA LOPEZ AREIZA 16 August 2005 (has links)
[pt] No presente trabalho de tese, se faz uma avaliação de
moduladores de
amplitude baseados no efeito de electro-absorção. As
estruturas usadas para a
fabricação dos dispositivos foram estruturas com poços
quânticos múltiplos de
InAlAs/InGaAs e AlGaAs/GaAs. As estruturas de
InAlAs/InGaAs foram
projetadas para trabalhar na faixa comercial das
telecomunicações (1.55 µm).
Por isto a importância de aperfeiçoar os parâmetros de
desempenho do
dispositivo, tais como Stark shift, chirp, razão de
contraste, perda por inserção,
entre outros. Um estudo sistemático prévio destas
estruturas foi realizado por
Pires [Pires,1998]. Ele propõe variar a concentração de
gálio na liga para
produzir uma leve tensão na estrutura e modificar desta
forma as propriedades
ópticas do material. O estudo de [Pires,1998] propôs uma
faixa de valores para
variar a concentração de gálio (entre 46 por cento e 52 por cento) onde
pode ser encontrada a
melhor condição de operação do dispositivo. Cabe a esta
tese aprofundar o
estudo nesta faixa de valores, e decidir os parâmetros
mais adequados para
operação. No referente às estruturas de AlGaAs/GaAs, se
toma como partida
uma proposta teórica de [Batty et al, 1993], e estudada
posteriormente por
[Tribuzy, 2001], onde se sugere usar finas camadas de
dopagem delta nos
poços de GaAs para melhorar o deslocamento Stark em 87%
para um campo
aplicado de 40 kV/cm. O dispositivo foi desenhado e
fabricado, obtendo-se um
valor de 78 por cento para o mesmo campo aplicado, resultado
relevante, pois é a
verificação experimental de uma proposta teórica. / [en] In this thesis work, is made an evaluation of modulators of
amplitude based
in the electrum-absorption effect. The structures used for
the devices were
multiple quantum wells of InAlAs/InGaAs and AlGaAs/GaAs.
The structures of
InAlAs/InGaAs are used to work in the commercial band of the
telecommunications (1,55 µm). This is the reason it is
important to optimize the
parameters of performance of the device, such as the Stark
shift, chirp, contrast
reason, insertion loss, etc. Previously, a systematic study
of these structures was
made by [Pires, 1998], the gallium concentration was varied
to produce a strain in
the structure and to modify the optic properties of the
material. In the study of
[Pires, 1998] considered the Gallium concentration was
varied between 46 percent and
52 percent in which range the best condition to operate the device
can be found. This is
part of the work here presented. In this thesis this range
of values was studied in
more detail. For the structures of AlGaAs/GaAs, a
theoretical proposal of [Batty et
al, 1993] was experimentally investigated. It was suggested
a nipi structure to
use a fine delta doped in the GaAs wells, this delta
doped will improve in 87 percent
the Stark shift for a field of 40 KV/cm. The device was
simulated and
manufactured, obtaining a value of 78 percent for the same field
applied, this is a
excellent result, because this confirm the theoretical
prediction.
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Etude de systèmes d’auto-adaptation pour les systèmes de Communication en Champ Proche dits NFC (Near Field Communication) / NFC antenna Self CalibrationDieng, Mouhamadou 17 June 2014 (has links)
La technologie NFC (Near Field Communication) est une nouvelle technique de communication basée sur la technologie RFID (Radio-Fréquence IDentification). La NFC utilise le couplage magnétique entre deux antennes afin de transférer les données et / ou l'énergie entre deux dispositifs électroniques. Elle exploite la fréquence de 13,56 MHz. En raison de la large gamme de dispositifs et d'applications, une définition de la géométrie de l'antenne et de ses paramètres électriques associés est très difficile. En effet, chaque dispositif présente des caractéristiques physiques différentes. En revanche, le circuit intégré (CI) de contrôle NFC est générique et indépendant d'une antenne où d'un dispositif. C'est pourquoi, chaque intégrateur associe le circuit intégré NFC avec une antenne pour chaque dispositif. Or le module de transmission du système NFC nécessite une bonne adaptation de l'antenne à son circuit intégré (IC). Actuellement, cette adaptation est effectuée à la main pour chaque dispositif selon un processus itératif chronophage. En outre, l'adaptation est effectuée une seule fois au moment de la conception du dispositif, quel que soit le mode de communication (lecteur, carte ou peer-to-peer) et à vide c'est-à-dire sans considérer l'influence du dispositif secondaire. Dans ce manuscrit, nous proposons une description détaillée des performances électriques des systèmes NFC. Ensuite un modèle électrique analytique complet et précis de l'antenne NFC est proposé. Enfin, nous développons une nouvelle technique d'adaptation automatique d'impédance afin d'optimiser les performances électriques dans la phase d'émission en termes de transfert d'énergie entre le lecteur et le transpondeur. / Near Field Communication (NFC) is a standardized communication technology derived from Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). NFC uses magnetic induction between two antennas in order to transfer data and/or energy between two electronic devices. NFC operating frequency is 13.56 MHz.Due to the wide range of devices and applications, a predefinition of antenna geometry and corresponding electrical parameters is difficult. In fact, each device shows different antennaphysical characteristics ; On the Other hand, the NFC control integrated circuit (IC) is generic and does not depend on antenna nor a device. Therefore, each integrator associates the NFC IC with a specific antenna for each device. Current NFC transmission modules require the antenna circuitry to be matched with the integrated circuit. Nowadays, the matching is performed manually using a time consuming iterative procedure for each device. Moreover, the matchingcan be done only once at the device design level, regardless of the communication mode (reader, card or peer-to-peer) and regardless of the secondary device influence on the primary antenna characteristics.In this manuscript, we propose a detailed description of the electrical performances of NFC Systems. Then an accurate and complete analytical electrical model of NFC antennas is proposed.Finally, we develop a new technic of automatic adaptation of the matching network in order to optimize the electrical performances in the transmission phase in terms of energy transfer from the reader to the transponder.
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