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Robotic Tactile Sensors Fabricated From A Monolithic Silicon Integrated Circuit And A Piezoelectric Polyvinylidene Fluoride Thin Film, Craig S. Dyson Dec 1991

Robotic Tactile Sensors Fabricated From A Monolithic Silicon Integrated Circuit And A Piezoelectric Polyvinylidene Fluoride Thin Film, Craig S. Dyson

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this research effort was to design, fabricate, and test a tactile sensor system consisting of an external high impedance switch circuit, an external multiplexing circuit, and a tactile sensor IC. In order to accomplish this objective, a hardware design and selection process was implemented along with a logical test methodology. An external multiplexer circuit samples all of the array elements in 50 ms. The current prototype sensor has linearity spanning loads of 0.8 g to 135 g, a load resolution of 20 g, and a maximum bandwidth of 25 Hz. Using an elementary shape recognition algorithm the …


Study Of Cathodoluminescence In Semiconductors, Mandakini V. Kale Oct 1991

Study Of Cathodoluminescence In Semiconductors, Mandakini V. Kale

Electrical & Computer Engineering Theses & Dissertations

Cathodoluminescence in Zn doped GaAs and ZnSe, the materials of interest for electron-beam controlled semiconductor switches, has been investigated. A new diagnostic technique, using telescopic setup of lenses, was developed to study the spatially resolved cathodoluminescence. The setup eliminated the light, other than rays from the sample, parallel to the optical axis, resulting in an enhanced spatial resolution. At high e-beam energies, light was detected, from the Zn layer region in the GaAs. It is proposed to be due to the radiative recombination of electron-hole pairs, created by the e-beam. For the polycrystalline ZnSe no light emission was detected. This …


Novel Chemical Preparative Route For Semiconducting Mose2 Thin Films, K. C. Mandal, O. Savadogo Jan 1991

Novel Chemical Preparative Route For Semiconducting Mose2 Thin Films, K. C. Mandal, O. Savadogo

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