Research and Development of a Unifying Electromagnetic Platform for Emerging Technology Designs

用于新兴技术设计的统一电磁平台的研究和开发

• 批准号: 155230-2012
• 负责人: Chen, Zhizhang
• 金额: $ 4.52万
• 依托单位: Dalhousie University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2015-01-01 至 2016-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=569435
• 关键词: Research; Development; Unifying; Electromagnetic; Platform

Emergence and applications of novel electronic and electrical technologies have spread into almost every corner of our lives, from patient monitoring to wireless power transmission, and terahertz imaging and sensing. As a result, the range of operating frequencies in electrical and electronic systems has been extended from a low frequency of a few Hertz to terahertz and optical frequency. Such applications have made designs of related electrical and electronic circuits and systems very challenging; this is because circuits and systems are required to be of low cost and small size, and electromagnetic effects and stochastic phenomena, such as spatial field distributions, parasitics, radiation, plasmonics, noises and random material property variations, are no longer negligible. As a result, a single unifying efficient and effective electromagnetic modeling and design platform that can simulate all electrical and electronic phenomena, including noises from low to optical frequency, is very much desirable in order to shorten design cycles and increase competitiveness. Our recent preliminary work in generalizing existing numerical methods has presented the possibility of creating such a unifying platform; it will not only place numerical methods under a single mathematical framework, but also allow easy development of new numerical methods catering to specific problems. The proposed research program is intended to expand and complete our preliminary unfinished original work by developing a mathematical unifying platform with a full theory and create an associated software package for efficient and effective electromagnetic modeling of electronic and electrical components and systems. The developed platform and software package will be then applied to model and design new components and systems for emerging applications in low-frequency underground & underwater modeling for search & rescue, wireless power transmission for home appliance and automobile charging, ultra-wideband systems for home based health monitoring and communications among vehicles, nano-devices, and terahertz systems for imaging and detection of biological tissues and chemical agents (e.g. explosives and DNA) for safety and security.

新的电子电气技术的出现和应用几乎已经渗透到我们生活的每一个角落，从患者监护到无线电力传输，再到太赫兹成像和传感。因此，电气和电子系统的工作频率范围已经从几赫兹的低频率扩展到太赫兹和光学频率。这种应用使得相关电路和电子系统的设计变得非常具有挑战性；这是因为要求电路和系统具有低成本和小型化，电磁效应和随机现象，如空间场分布、寄生、辐射、等离子体、噪声和随机材料性质变化，不再是不可忽视的。因此，为了缩短设计周期和提高竞争力，迫切需要一个统一、高效、高效的电磁建模和设计平台，能够模拟所有的电学和电子现象，包括从低频到光学频率的噪声。我们最近在推广现有数值方法方面的初步工作为创建这样一个统一的平台提供了可能性；它不仅将数值方法置于单一的数学框架下，而且还允许针对特定问题轻松开发新的数值方法。 拟议的研究计划旨在通过开发一个具有完整理论的数学统一平台来扩展和完成我们初步未完成的原创性工作，并创建一个相关的软件包，用于高效和有效地对电子和电气元件和系统进行电磁建模。然后，开发的平台和软件包将用于建模和设计新的组件和系统，用于新的应用，包括用于搜索和救援的低频地下和水下建模，用于家用电器和汽车充电的无线电力传输，用于基于家庭的健康监测和车辆之间通信的超宽带系统，纳米设备，以及用于生物组织成像和检测的太赫兹系统，以及用于安全和安全的化学制剂(如炸药和DNA)。