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Abstract: The alkaline platinum hydrides are considered the most promising as hydrogen storage materials. The alloying ability of crystal, elastic constants and related parameters, electronic and optical properties have been studied using pseudo-potential plane–wave method based on the density functional theory. The investigated compounds show a weaker resistance to compression along the principal a-axis and their resistance to shear deformation is lower than the resistance to the unidirectional compression. The band structure indicates that A2PtH6 (A=K, Rb and Cs) are X–X direct gap semiconductors. The effective electron mass at equilibrium has been predicted towards X–Γ, X–W and L–W directions. The strong hybridization between Pt-d and H-s states in the upper valence band translates the existence of covalent bonding character in these compounds. The static optical dielectric constant is inverse proportional to the fundamental gap. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

A single-chip dual-band 5.15-5.35-GHz and 2.4-2.5-GHz zero-IF transceiver for IEEE 802.11a/b/g WLAN systems is fabricated on a 0.18-µm CMOS technology. It utilizes an innovative architecture including feedback paths that enable digital calibration to help eliminate analog circuit imperfections such as transmit and receive I/Q mismatch. The dual-band receive paths feature a 4.8-dB (3.5-dB) noise figure at 5.25 GHz (2.45 GHz). The corresponding sensitivity at 54 Mb/s operation is -76 dBm for 802.11a and -77 dBm for 802.11g, both referred at the input of the chip. The transmit chain achieves output 1-dB compression at 6 dBm (9 dBm) at 5 GHz (2.4 GHz) operation. Digital calibration helps achieve an error vector magnitude (EVM) of -33 dB (-31 dB) at 5 GHz (2.4 GHz) while transmitting -4 dBm at 54 Mb/s. The die size is 19.3 mm² and the power consumption is 260 mW for the receiver and 320 mW (270 mW) for the transmitter at 5 GHz (2.4 GHz) operation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]