In this paper, the acquisition performance of a receiver that utilizes a non-coherent digital correlator is analyzed. In order to analyze the acquisition performance, the probability density function of a receiver output random variable has been derived approximately. Using this function, the acquisition performance of the coarse acquisition code receiver in a global positioning system is analyzed.

Considering transition gating of the input unipolar NRZ signal, the equivalent linear time-invariant model has been derived for the PLL in the timing clock recovery circuits. The magnitude of the alignment and accumulated jitter has been found along a chain of repeaters. For the timing recovery circuit of 90 Mbps optical communication system, the computer simulation shows that, for the first stage of the chain, the alignment jiter and the accumulated jitter are of -5.1766 dB and for the 7-th stage, the alignment jitter and accumulated jitter have the value of -1.0193dB, 4.9053 dB respectively.

Bandstop characteristics of dielectric waveguide gratings are investigated using the modal approach. First, single step discontinuity of the dielectric waveguide is analyzed in terms of the mode matching method. Then by cascading those discontinuities characteristics of dielectric waveguide gratings are derived. Experimental results at X-band show good agreement with theoretical ones.

The hierarchical approach method is proposed to sperate each different time scale sub-systems from linear time invariant multi-parameter singular perturbation systems. By means of this proposal, the original multi-parameter singular perturbation systems is completely separated into independent subsystems with each different time scale. It is also investigated that the controllability of the system is invariant. And this paper applies singular perturbation methods to the minimum control effort problem for linear time invariant systems with constrained controls. Also near-optimum control theory, which is based on dividing the total time interval with the time scales respectively, is proposed. As a result, the time scale separation method is show to be particularly useful in a near optimum design which can be otained through a decentralized control structure.

As a means of improving the reliability of a process control system, a FTCS(Fault Tolerant Control System) is designed and applied to the boiler controller of a thermal power plant. The proposed FTCS has capabilities of fault detection and diagnosis as well as back-up control and bumpless switching. A prototype of FTCS is implemented on an IBM PC as an add-on system and it is experimentally verified by using a boiler process simulator together with simplified analog controllers and a switching unit that an one-fold fault is detected in real time and back-up controller takes over the role of the original controller, controlling the faulty loop.

For the registration problem in which the matching of two images is made, a new algorithm using an 1-D LPC model was proposed. The proposed algorithm employed LPC coefficients as feature vector of an image. The similarity of two images was measured using an LPC distance, proposed by Itakura, between each image's feature vector. The comparision of performance with normalized correlation method and template matching method was made by a computer simulation with several real images. The results of simulation showed that the proposed algorithm was more robust to image intensity variation and computationall efficient.

Using the computer-generated Lyapunov functions due to Brayton-tong's constructive algorithm, we estimate the domains of attraction of dynamical systems of the second order, and analyze the asymptotic stability of large scale contincous-time and discrete-time systems by the decomposition and aggregation method. With this approach we get the less conservative stability results than the existing methods.

A new on-line estimation algorithm for a time varying time delay is proposed. This algorithm is based on the concept of minimization of prediction error. As only the parameters directly related to the poles and zeros of the process are estimated in the algorithm, persistently exciting condition for the convergence of parameters can be less restrictive. Under some assumptions which is necessary in adaptive control, it is shown that this algorithm estimates time varying time delay accurately. In view of computational burden, this algorithm needs far less amount of calculations than other methods. The larger the time delay is, the more effective this algorithm is . Computer simulation shows good properties of the algorithm. This algorithm can be used effectively in adaptive control of large dead time processes.

This paper proposes an automatic image segmentation system for machine vision. In this an algorithm using the topological property on the multidimensional feature space for thresholding each primary segment in the image without prior information is presented. Also an effective filter for the removal of regional noises in a code valued image which are artifacts of the thresholding is presented. This method also may be applied for image enhancement or classification, which we show the possibility and the efficiency through computer simulation.

InSb TFT is fabricated by the vacuum evaporation method and I-V characteristics are measured. Employing Davidon Fletcher-Powell algorithm, the device parameters are extracted. The current-voltage relations calculated by extracdted parameters are in good agreement with experimental results. It is found that optimization technique may be more simple and accurate than curve fitting method in device parameters extration.

The physical mechanism of a RF discharge used in photoresist stripping and etching process are not well understood and, plasma reactor design and the determination of optimum operating coditions are done largely on empirical basis. We analyzed the discharge process through the measurement of plasma characteristics and applied out results tothe analysis of the photoresist stripping. We investigated the effects of plasma electron density, neutral oxygen gas pressure and electrode temperature on the stripping rates and related their effects with the characteristics of plasma.

In this study, the recrystallization of polycrystalline silicn by CW CO2 laser is reported. With a variation of CW CO2 laser power, the surface morphology of recrystallized silicon is observed by SEM and the value of resistivity and mobility is obtained by Hall measurement. From the obtained results, it is concluded that the polycrystalline silicon is locally melted at 39W laser power and the reduction of resistivity and the increase of mobility are caused by the increase of grain size and the reduction of the potentical barrier at grain boundaries.

Trench capacitors with four different structures were fabricated using plasma and reactive ion etching technique, and evaluated using their C-V and I-V characteristics. The results shows that the two step plasma etching technique is the best method to fabricate the trench capacitor because of its high breakdown field (~7.75 MV/Cm) and good step coverage. And the fixed oxide charges are comparable between the trench (3.6xE10/Cm\ulcorner~7.5xE10/Cm\ulcorner and the planar(4.5xE10/Cm\ulcorner~6.5E10/Cm\ulcorner capacitors.

Plasma etching can obtain less damaged etch surface than reactive ion etching. This study was performed to get anisotropic etching characteristics of Si using two step etching technique with C2CIF5 and SF6 gas mixture. The results show that the etch rate and aspect ratio of silicon was increased with increment of SF6 contents. The bulging phenomenon on trench side wall in the plasma one-step etching technique was eliminated by the two step etching technique. The anisotropy was decreased from 12(at 120m Torr) to 2.2(at 400m Torr) with increasing the chamber pressure. At the low rf power (350 watts) anisotrpy of silicon was obtained 7 lower than that of high rf power (650 watts. A:~9). In Summary we obtained anisotropic etching profiles of silicon with e 6\ulcornerm depth by using the plasma two-step etching technique.

The edge, a discontinuity or abrupt change in the gray-level or color, is a fundamentally important primitive feature of an image necessary for the image analysis and classification. Two-dimensional 3x3 compass gradient operators (ex. Sobel, Prewitt, and Kirsch operators)are commonly used in the edge detection and usually detect 8 compass directional components. In this paper, we present a new interpretation of the relationships between the resulting 8 gradient magnitudes and the 8 intensity values of neighboring pixels which are covered by the two-dimensional 3x3 mask. It is expected that a new gradient edge operator may be designed by changing the eigenvalues in the transform domain and the fast optical edge operator may be implemented by using the optical system.

This study is carrier out to investigate the carrier injection and the characteristics of trapping for the CVD deposited Al2O3 film on Si substrates. Samples used are metal -Al2O3-Si Structure in which metal field plates are used with Aluminium or God. Canier injection and trapping, which result in flat band voltalge shift, occur at fields as low as 1~2 MV/cm. An approximate method is proposed for computing the location of the centroid of the trapped electrons in this paper. Results show that carriers are trapped near the injecting interface at fields less than about 5MV/cm. Because of continued charging, a steady state can not be reached. Therefore the unique I-V curve is obtained when the traps are initially empty. By utilization of applied voltage on each point of the fresh device sample, it is measured the I-V surves for two polarities of applied voltage. The current densities observed in the Al2O3 films are much larger than those obtained in SiO2.

It is known that digital circuits may produce correct output signals even when some faults are present in them. A reliability measure, known as signal reliability, is the probability that the circuit output is correct. In this paper, the reliability measure is analyzed first and a new procedure for evaluation of the signal reliability is presented. This procedure simplifies signal reliability calculations and can easily be mechanized.

In this paper, we proposed an improved weakly-coupled power divider(TAP UNIT) for CATV and/or MATV systems, by which the degree of freedom in design and density of coupling interval are signifcantly increased compared with the intrinsic one even though the turn ratios are still of discrete values. On the other hand, the new design theory of a generalized n-way power divider with arbitrary dividing ratios, for CATV and/or MATV systems, which consists of ideal multiwinding transformers and resistors only was presented. Since the circuit elements is not frequency dependent, the proposed power divider is to be of considerably broad bandwidth. Furthermore, the experimental verification has been achieved, and, hence, the validity of the design theory proposed here is confirmed.

In this paper, we studied on the design of elliptic digital filters using the bilinear z transformation method, and proposed a design procedure satisfying prescribed specifications. The magnitude characteristics of digital filters are compared with its of analog filiters by computer simulation. Finaly we considered the quantization effects of digital filters. In cascader realization of fixed-point digital filters under dynamic range constraints, the outpout noise for IIR digital filters depends on the pole-zero pairing and ordering of the second order sections. Therfore an optmization procedure to finding a good ordering and pairing is very desirable. Thus, we proposed a sub-optimization procedure for finding "near optimal" solution.

A phase-locked Channel-Substrate-Planar(CSP) laser arrays is described. Arrays of emitters with weak coupling are operated in a set of discrete modes determined by the number and spacing of the emitters. The interactions between emitters lead to a splitting of the wave-length and gain which are calculated from the coupling strength. Phase-locked arrays has exhibited to CW output-power as high as 80 m W and the highest order mode will have preferred oscillation. A strong hole burning is occurred at p=30m W. The most stable lasing mode is occurred at element spacing S=3.5\ulcornerm and there is no coupling at S>7 \ulcornerm.

This paper describes the SEAS which is a 2-dimensional graphic editor for schematic circuit and IC mask layout. This system runs on general purpose computer and Tektronix 4110 series graphic terminal. With this system, user can edit schematic circuits and/or IC mask layout with 2 level hierarchy. This system supports more than 20 kinds of built-in symbol, user definable internal symbols, 60 macros, 16 function keys, 4 level on-screen menu operation and edit-in-place of cell in main drawing. And it provides editing functions such as reflection, rotation, move and copy of one or a group of elements, and modification of polygona geometry etc. To improve the excution speed, we used local memory of graphic terminal. For the portability of the program, the system is written in FORTRAN 77 programming language.

A new family of sinusoidal orthogoal trnasform is introduced. For a derivation, a parametric sinusoidal matrix whose transform might be implemented by a suitable FFT algorithm is modeled basically on the analogy of well-known sinusoidal transform such as DCT,SCT, etc., and its orthogonality condition is calculated. The parameters satisfying orthogonality condition are determined, in a sense, by particular solution after trial and error. However more than then transform matrices not yet known are obtained. It is also shown that these transforms can be computed by a DFT. of an image.

In this paper, the interpolation schemes for Direct Fourier Reconstruction in Diffraction Tomography are discussed. The interpolator using circular sampling theorem is modified so that the reconstructed image may be closer to original object than those produced with other interpolators. Reconstructed images obtained by computer simulations with several interpolators including that derived in this paper are compared to original object: two concentric cylinders.

This paper presents a simple factorization of the Hadamard matrix which is used to develop a fast algorithm for the Hadamard transform. This matrix decomposition is of the kronecker products of identity matrices and successively lower order Hadamard matrices. This following shows how the Kronecker product can be mathematically defined and efficiently implemented using a factorization matrix methods.