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Moving HomePlug to Industrial Applications with Power-Line Communication Network
(2004-01)
Home networking is becoming an attractive application not only for the Internet access but also for home automation. Being a high-speed and dominant standard presently, HomePlug has an important role in home LAN connecting ...
Optimizing Safety Stock Placement in General Network Supply Chains
(2004-01)
In the paper, we minimize the holding cost of the safety stock held in a supply chain modeled as a general network. By our assumption, the demand is bounded by a concave function. This fact allows us to formulate the problem ...
Modeling Dielectric Erosion in Multi-Step Copper Chemical-Mechanical Polishing
(2004-01)
A formidable challenge in the present multi-step Cu CMP process, employed in the ultra-large-scale integration (ULSI) technology, is the control of wafer surface non-uniformity, which primarily is due to dielectric erosion ...
Modeling of Piezoelectric Tube Actuators
(2004-01)
A new dynamic model is presented for piezoelectric tube actuators commonly used in high-precision instruments. The model captures coupling between motions in all three axes such as bending motion due to a supposedly pure ...
On Dual Actuation in Atomic Force Microscopes
(2004-01)
In this paper, the problem of dual actuation in the atomic force microscope (AFM) is analyzed. The use of two actuators to balance the trade-off between bandwidth, range, and precision has been recently extended to ...
Characterization and Modeling of Chemical-Mechanical Polishing for Polysilicon Microstructures
(2004-01)
Long the dominant method of wafer planarization in the integrated circuit (IC) industry, chemical-mechanical polishing is starting to play an important role in microelectromechnical systems (MEMS). We present an experiment ...
A Lab Scale Polymer Micro-Embossing Machine for Process Control Research
(2004-01)
Micro embossing is the process of fabricating micron-sized features by plastic deformation of a work piece by means of a shaped tool or die. In our work we are concerned with hot embossing of PMMA to produce features in ...
Accuracy Analysis and Improvement for Direct Laser Sintering
(2004-01)
The accuracy issue of a rapid prototyping-direct laser sintering system is studied in this paper. The sources of errors are analyzed for their contribution to the final accuracy of built parts. The error sources are related ...
Material and Product Design Integration: Establishing Relationships between Design Variables of Both Domains
(2004-01)
Due to the increasing demand of application-specific and/or multi-functional materials, it is necessary to integrate material design and product design. To support such design integration, this paper proposes a methodology ...
Pharmaceutical Properties of Nanoparticulate Formulation Composed of TPGS and PLGA for Controlled Delivery of Anticancer Drug
(2004-01)
A suitable management of the pharmaceutical property is needed and helpful to design a desired nanoparticulate delivery system, which includes the carrier nature, particle size and size distribution, morphology, surfactant ...