Saturday, 13 October 2007

VIDEO ECTURES

the following fields of division has video lectures
Arts (19)
Business (15)
Computers (5)
Computer Science (584)
Environment (2)
Science (27)
Society (26)

Video lectures on all subjects

Important blogspot for all general sujects list and science
http://freescienceonline.blogspot.com/2007/09/programming-language-video-lectures.html

http://www.ecse.rpi.edu/Homepages/shivkuma/teaching/video_index.html
(video lectures on Computer Communication Networks,Internet Protocols ,
Broadband and OpticalNetworks)
MIT video lectures link on all Engineering subjects and medicine
http://mitworld.mit.edu/video_index.php

Free streaming audio and video lectures

http://all-streaming-media.com/streaming-audio-and-video-online/free-streaming-audio-video-lectures.htm

Choosing PIC Microcontrollers

Choosing PIC Microcontrollers

When starting a new microcontroller project it's often difficult to decide what sort of microcontroller to use. If you don't have a specific project but want to play with microcontrollers for learning purposes, it's probably best to start with a simple, mid-range device. High-end devices have many complicated modes and large manuals which can be confusing. But moving up to a larger micro from a smaller one is easy. The PIC series is very well designed and uniform throughout the line. This means that learning done on one PIC is easily adapted to a different device.

For new users, the PIC16F627A is highly recommended. It is modern and powerful, but still very easy to use.

For users with specific applications, generally the following criteria should be considered:

  • I/O - How many and what kinds of I/O are required? Be careful when simply counting I/O pins from a specs sheet. Not all I/O pins are the same, and not all of the features can be used at once.
  • Processing Power - Make sure that your application is a reasonable one for a micro. Don't expect to decode MPEG movies on a microcontroller. (at least not in 2006 anyway) As microcontroller projects get more complex, it's often a hard choice between a complicated custom microcontroller project and a small embedded PC or Arm board that can run a full OS. Some applications just work better on a full PC.
  • Storage - Most micros don't have very much RAM and ROM. If you need to store a lot of data, you might need to interface with external memory. Be careful not to underestimate the I/O bandwidth requirements of moving a lot of data around. Sometimes a larger processor is required for memory reasons and not for processing power reasons.

Here are some PIC suggestions:

  • PIC10F200 - The world's smallest microcontroller! Only 6 pins, 4 of which are I/O pins. If you need a little processor for something special, at $1 and the size of a grain of rice this is a great alternative to logic gates for many low-speed applications. A J/K flip-flop can toggle a light on and off, but the PIC10F200 can toggle the light on and off, debounce the switch, and even do dimming... all in software!
  • PIC16F627A - A low cost (<$2) PIC with a lot of power. There are larger version with more memory, but this small PIC has a serial port, timers, PWMs, interrupts, and a good amount of I/O.
  • PIC16F87x - These PICs offer lots of choices of I/O and memory sizes, with the addition of A/D converters and more.
  • PIC18F252/PIC18F2520 - More sophisticated PICs. Still not badly priced at $12 or so, they have much larger memories, and lots of other special features.
  • PIC18F6527/PIC18F8527 - Super massive PICs with tons of I/O, memory and all the peripherals. At $15, these are pricey, and you can't get them in a DIP package. But if you want to do massive I/O, lots of analog inputs, etc. without using external I/O expanders, this is for you. Nearly single cycle access to any I/O pin is really nice for many applications.

Monday, 8 October 2007

n-Type doping of organic molecular electronic films

A. Kahn, Princeton University, USA

N-type Doping of Organic Molecular Films

N-type doping of organic materials is difficult because of the low electron affinity (~1.5 – 2.5 eV) of most electron transport materials (ETM) of interest. Dopants must have low ionization energy to transfer an electron to lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) of the host, and are thus inherently unstable. Alkali cations are mobile and diffuses through the organic layer. Their small size leads to a fairly tightly bond cation-anion pair with the host molecule, resulting in strong electron localization. Larger, less mobile donors are therefore being pursued. We report here on the use of the strongly reducing molecule bis(cyclopentadienyl)-cobalt(II) (cobaltocene, CoCp2) (ionization energy = 4.0 eV) to n-dope an important ETM, a tris(thieno)hexaazaphenylylene derivative (THAP) [1]. UPS, inverse photoemission, ion scattering, X-ray photoemission and I-V measurements are used to characterize the energetics and transport properties of the doped system. We also describe on-going work using the even stronger reducing molecular agent decamethyl cobaltocene to n-dope phthalocyanines and pentacene.

Antoine Kahn received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University in 1978. He joined the Princeton faculty in 1979, and was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor in 1985 and Full Professor in 1991. His research is in the field of semiconductor surfaces and interfaces. Over the past twelve years, he and his group focused on the structural, electronic and chemical properties of surfaces and interfaces of organic molecular and polymer films, and the physics of molecular level alignment across interfaces. He has published over 260 regular and review articles. He is a Fellow of the AVS (1999) and APS (2002).