Title :
Poisson models for noisy nonlinear devices
Author :
Coram, Geoffrey J. ; Wyatt, John L.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
This paper investigates further thermodynamic properties of the shot-noise model for nonlinear devices. Under the same constraint on the two Poisson process rates found in those papers, the shot-noise model satisfies thermodynamic requirements when connected to more general networks. Specific examples of a time-varying capacitor and a parallel combination of an inductor and a capacitor are developed. A heat engine is designed that extracts work from two shot-noise devices at different temperatures, and its efficiency is compared to the Carnot engine
Keywords :
Poisson distribution; semiconductor device models; semiconductor device noise; shot noise; Carnot engine; Poisson models; Poisson process rates; heat engine; noisy nonlinear devices; parallel combination; shot-noise devices; shot-noise model; thermodynamic properties; time-varying capacitor; Capacitors; Circuit noise; Circuit testing; Entropy; Heat engines; Inductors; Integrated circuit noise; Resistors; Temperature; Thermodynamics;
Conference_Titel :
Circuits and Systems, 1999. ISCAS '99. Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Orlando, FL
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5471-0
DOI :
10.1109/ISCAS.1999.777573
