Modeling and Analysis of Low Frequency Noise in Ion-Field-Effect Transistors Sensors

Ions Sensitive Field Effect Transistors (ISFETs) are becoming the platform sensors for important chemical and biomedical applications. However, the accuracy of ISFET output measurement is greatly affected by the presences of low-frequency noise, drift and slow response of the device. This requires more safety in measured results and the tools of analysis. In this paper, we present fundamental limits on the sensitivity of ISFETs micro-sensors, arising from intrinsic and extrinsic noise sources. We developed an algorithm in MATLAB in order to model the frequency analysis of the 1/f noise in ISFET sensor using Hooge theory. We have shown that the 1/f noise of the ISFETs sensors is due to both the electrochemical system (pH solution) and the MOS component (canal size, insulator thickness). The temperature effect on the ISFET noise and the signal conditioning are also performed.

Absolute Stability of Nonlinear Systems with Two Additive Time-varying Delay Components

In this paper, we present a new sufficient condition for absolute stability of Lure system with two additive time-varying delay components. This criterion is expressed as a set of linear matrix inequalities （LMIs）, which can be readily tested by using standard numerical software. We use this new criterion to stabilize a class of nonlinear time-delay systems. Some numerical examples are given to illustrate the applicability of the results using standard numerical software.

Global Warming and Its Multiple Causes

The global warming which preoccupies humanity,is still considered to be linked to a single cause which is the emission of greenhouse gases,CO2 in particular.In this article,we try to show that,on the one hand,the greenhouse effect(the radiative imprisonment to use the scientific term)took place in conjunction with the infrared radiation emitted by the earth.The surplus of CO2 due to the combustion of fossil fuels,but also the surplus of infrared emissions from artificialized soils contribute together or each separately,to the imbalance of the natural greenhouse effect and the trend of global warming.In addition,another actor acting directly and instantaneously on the warming of the ambient air is the heat released by fossil fuels estimated at 17415.1010 kWh/year inducing a rise in temperature of 0.122°C,or 12.2°C/century.

Production of Hydrogen by Electrolysis of Water: Effects of the Electrolyte Type on the Electrolysis Performances

The production of hydrogen, vector of energy, by electrolysis way and by using photovoltaic solar energy can be optimized by suitable choice of electrolytes. Distilled water, usually used, due to membrane presence may be substituted by wastewaters, which enters more in their treatment. Waste water such as those of the Cleansing National Office, and also of the factories such as those referring with ammonia, the margines, and even urines that make it possible to produce much more hydrogen as distilled or salted water, more especially as they do not even require an additive or membranes: conventional electrolysers with two electrodes. This study seeks to optimize the choice among waste water and this, by electrolysis in laboratory or over the sun according to produced hydrogen flow criteria, electrolysis efficiency and electric power consumption. The additive used is NaCl. The most significant results are on the one hand the significant increase in the produced hydrogen flow by the addition of the additive;on the other hand the advantage of gas liquor and urine compared to the others tested electrolytes.

An Efficient AES 32-Bit Architecture Resistant to Fault Attacks

The Advanced Encryption Standard cryptographic algorithm,named AES,is implemented in cryptographic circuits to ensure high security level to any system which required confidentiality and secure information exchange.One of the most effective physical attacks against the hardware implementation of AES is fault attacks which can extract secret data.Until now,a several AES fault detection schemes against fault injection attacks have been proposed.In this paper,so as to ensure a high level of security against fault injection attacks,a new efficient fault detection scheme based on the AES architecture modification has been proposed.For this reason,the AES 32-bit round is divided into two half rounds and input and pipeline registers are implemented between them.The proposed scheme is independent of the procedure the AES is implemented.Thus,it can be implemented to secure the pipeline and iterative architectures.To evaluate the robustness of the proposed fault detection scheme against fault injection attacks,we conduct a transient and permanent fault attacks and then we determine the fault detection capability;it is about 99.88585%and 99.9069%for transient and permanent faults respectively.We have modeled the AES fault detection scheme using VHDL hardware language and through hardware FPGA implementation.The FPGA results demonstrate that our scheme can efficiently protect the AES hardware implementation against fault attacks.It can be simply implemented with low complexity.In addition,the FPGA implementation performances prove the low area overhead and the high efficiency and working frequency for the proposed AES detection scheme.

Towards an Efficient Hierarchical Codebooks for Content-Based Images Retrieval

In space feature quantization, the most important problem is designing an efficient and compact codebook. The hierarchical clustering approach successfully solves the problem of quantifying the feature space in a large vocabulary size. In this paper we propose to use a tree structure of hierarchical self-organizing-map （H-SOM） with the depth length equal to two and a high size of branch factors （50, 100, 200, 400, and 500）. Moreover, an incremental learning process of H-SOM is used to overcome the problem of the curse of the dimensionafity of space. The method is evaluated on three public datasets. Results exceed the current state-of-art retrieval performance on Kentucky and Oxford5k dataset. However, it is with less performance on the Holidays dataset. The experiment results indicate that the proposed tree structure shows significant improvement with a large number of branch factors.

An AOP-Based Security Verification Environment for KECCAK Hash Algorithm

Robustness of the electronic cryptographic devices against fault injection attacks is a great concern to ensure security.Due to significant resource constraints,these devices are limited in their capabilities.The increasing complexity of cryptographic devices necessitates the development of a fast simulation environment capable of performing security tests against fault injection attacks.SystemC is a good choice for Electronic System Level(ESL)modeling since it enables models to run at a faster rate.To enable fault injection and detection inside a SystemC cryptographic model,however,the model’s source code must be updated.Without altering the source code,Aspect-Oriented Programming(AOP)may be used to evaluate the robustness of cryptographic models.This might replace conventional cryptanalysis methods in the real world.At the ESL,we discuss a unique technique for simulating security fault attacks on cryptographic systems.The current study presents a fault injection/detection environment for assessing the KECCAK SystemC model’s resistance against fault injection attacks.The approach of injecting faults into KECCAK SystemC model is accomplished via the use of weaving faults in AspectC++based on AOP programming language.We confirm our technique by applying it to two scenarios using a SystemC KECCAK hash algorithm case study:The first concerns discuss the effect of the AOP on fault detection capabilities,while the second concerns discuss the effect of the AOP on simulation time and executable file size.The simulation results demonstrate that this technique is fully capable of evaluating the fault injection resistance of a KECCAK design.They demonstrate that AOP has a negligible effect on simulation time and executable file size.

Lanthanum-Neodymium-Co-Substituted Calcium Fluorobritholites

Britholites are considered as potential matrices for storage of nuclear wastes such as minor actinides and long-lived fission byproducts. This investigation is concerned with the study of simultaneous substitution in calcium fluor-britholite framework of two lanthanide ions assimilated to radionuclides. A series of calcium fluorbritholites doped with lanthanum and neodymium Ca8La2-xNdx(PO4)4(SiO4)2F2 with 0 ≤ x ≤ 2 were prepared via a solid state reaction in the temperature range 1450℃- 1250℃. The obtained products were characterized by several techniques such as Chemical analysis via Inductively coupled plasma Atomic emission spectrometry ICP-AES, X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier transformed infrared spectroscopy FTIR and Nuclear magnetic resonance 31P NMR (MAS). Obtained solid solutions containing lanthanum and neodymium in variable proportions were typically apatite of hexagonal structure P63/m spatial group. The stoichiometry of the powders was verified via the metal/(phosphate + silicate) molar ratios found at about 1.67. The lattice parameters a and c calculated by the Rietveld method decreased as neodymium level increased. Despite, the close respective sizes of lanthanum and neodymium ions (VIrLa3+= 1.032A, VIrNd3+= 0.983A), their mutual substitutions led to solid solutions in whole range of composition with preferential occupation of Me (2) sites.

CRP Binding Kinetics Enhancement Using Local Narrowing into a Bent Channel: Finite Element Analysis

Binding kinetics enhancement of a microfluidic biosensor into a micro-channel through the application of a supplementary mechanism has received tremendous attention because of the obtained significant enhancement factor. However, biosensor’s performance enhancement using only simple channel engineering is still rarely realized. Herein, we present a novel design of a complex reactive protein (CRP) biosensor into a U-shaped channel with a sensitive membrane located in the middle of the bent zone. Various critical factors affecting the equilibrium binding time are numerically investigated. The turn geometry is then optimized when the arc length along the inner and outer radii is almost the same, which leads to locally minimizing the channel height overhead the reaction surface and improves the analyte transport towards the sensing area. The numerical studies reveal that applying a local narrowing above the reaction surface can notably enhance the trapping and the surface formation of complex antibody-antigen, thus upgrading the biosensor performance. This work puts a significant advance towards microfluidic channel engineering and the exploration of micro-flow injection experimental studies.

Optimal Multimodel Representation by Laguerre Filters Applied to a Communicating Two Tank System

这份报纸由为每个操作区域利用 multimodel 途径和新线性表示 ARX-Laguerre 论述一个新非线性的代表的发展。产生 multimodel，有权享受的 ARX-Laguerre multimodel，被参数数字减小与一个递归的代表一起描绘。然而，这 multimodel 的重要减小服从于描绘各本地的线性模型 ARX-Laguerre 的 Laguerre 杆的一种最佳的选择。因此，作者建议一个优化算法估计，从输入／输出大小， Laguerre 杆的最佳的价值。ARX-Laguerre multimodel 以及建议优化算法在一个连续搅动的坦克反应堆系统(CSTR ) 上被测试。而且，作者在试验性的交流上考虑实际确认二个坦克系统(CTTS ) 。

Natural Convection in a Horizontal Cylinder with Partial Heating: Energy Efficiency Analysis

The current study reports a numerical analysis of free convection of air in an isothermal horizontal cylinder,cooled and heated at different wall locations.Three heater sizes are discussed in this study.The first heated zone is spread across one-quarter of the sidewall;the second is uniformly distributed over the half of the wall and the third active wall covers three-quarters of the cylinder.Five various locations are considered and examined for each active zone of the sidewall.The computation is carried out for Rayleigh number ranging from 102 to 106.Numerical results characterizing heat transfer and flow features are achieved using an iterative model developed in COMSOL Multiphysics.The effect of Rayleigh number on heat transfer and fluid flow characteristics within the cavity are investigated.Particular attention is paid to the influence of heater location and heater size on energy efficiency.It is found that the mean Nusselt number and dimensionless velocity increase when increasing the Rayleigh number.Moreover,the optimal level of energy efficiency is achieved if the heating zone is centered at the upper part of the cylinder,regardless of the heater size.It is also shown that the optimal configuration providing higher energy efficiency is obtained when three-quarters of the sidewall are locally heated,and more precisely,if the active zone is centered at the top of the cylinder.