简介:Globalpositioningsystem(GPS)forvehicleapplicationsintheurbanareaischallengedbylowsignalintensity.ThecarrierloopbasedonfastFouriertransform(FFT)canobtainahighsignaltonoiseratio(SNR)gainbyincreasingtheobservationtime.However,thisleadstoamajorproblemthattheaccelerationcannotbeignored.TheperformanceoftheFFT-basedloopwilldeclinewiththeaccelerationincreasing.ThispaperdiscussestheeffectofthedynamiconFFTfirst.ThenahighperformancecarriertrackingloopforweakGPSL5signalsisproposed.Itcombinesdiscretechirp-Fouriertransform(DCFT)andthephasefittingmethodtoestimateDopplerfrequencyandDopplerratesimultaneously.First,asequenceofintegrationresultsisusedtoperformDCFTtoestimatecoarseDopplerfrequencyandDopplerrate.Second,thephaseofthesequenceiscalculatedandusedtoperformlinearfitting.Bythephasefittingmethod,thefineDopplerfrequencyandDopplerratecanbeestimated.ThecomputationcostissmallbecausetheintegrationresultsareusedandthephasefittingmethodneedsonlycoarseestimatesofDopplerfrequencyandDopplerrate.ComparedwithFFTandDCFT,theprecisionofthephasefittingmethodisnotlimitedbytheresolution.Thustheproposedloopcangethighprecisionandlowcarriertonoiseratio(C/N0)trackingthreshold.Simulationresultsshowthisloophasagreatimprovementthanconventionalloopsforurbanweak-signalapplications.
简介:A2D-directionofarrivalestimation(DOAE)formultiinputandmulti-output(MIMO)radarusingimprovedmultipletemporal-spatialsubspacesinestimatingsignalparametersviarotationalinvariancetechniquesmethod(TS-ESPRIT)isintroduced.InordertorealizetheimprovedTS-ESPRIT,theproposedalgorithmdividestheplanararrayintomultipleuniformsub-planararrayswithcommonreferencepointtogetaunifiedphaseshiftsmeasurementpointforallsub-arrays.TheTS-ESPRITisappliedtoeachsub-arrayseparately,andinthesametimewiththeotherstorealizetheparallellytemporalandspatialprocessing,sothatitreducesthenon-linearityeffectofmodelanddecreasesthecomputationaltime.Then,thetimedifferenceofarrival(TDOA)techniqueisappliedtocombinethemultiplesub-arraysinordertoformtheimprovedTS-ESPRIT.Itisfoundthattheproposedmethodachieveshighaccuracyatalowsignaltonoiseratio(SNR)withlowcomputationalcomplexity,leadingtoenhancementoftheestimatorsperformance.
简介:UnipolarresistiveswitchingbehaviorsoftheZnOandAl2O3/ZnOfilmsfabricatedonflexiblesubstratesbypulselaserdepositionwerestudiedinthispaper.Thefilmsweredepositedatroomtemperaturewithoutpost-annealingtreatmentduringtheprocess.XraydiffractionresultsindicatedthatZnOfilmhasadominantpeakat(002).ScanningelectronmicroscopyobservationshowedacolumnargrainstructureoftheZnOfilmtothesubstrate.ThebilayerdeviceofAl2O3/ZnOfilmshadstableresistiveswitchingbehaviorswithagoodenduranceperformanceofmorethan200cycles,highresistiveswitchingratioofover103atareadvoltageof0.1V,whichisbetterthanthatofthesingleoxidelayerdeviceofZnOfilm.Apossibleresistiveswitchingfilamentarymodewasdemonstratedinthispaper.TheconductionmechanismsofhighandlowresistancestatescanbeexplainedbyspacechargelimitedconductionandOhmic’sbehaviors.Theenduranceofthebilayer(BL)devicewasnotdegradeduponbendingcycles,whichindicatesthepotentialoftheflexibleresistiveswitchingrandomaccessmemoryapplications.