Saturday, September 1, 2012
Got up at nine o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner. Stayed at home for the entire day.
Today's maximum temperature was 101 degrees F (38.3 degrees C).
Sunday, September 2, 2012
Got up at eight-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch. Went out shopping at a grocery store this afternoon. Ate pieces of Central Market's pizza for dinner.
Today's maximum temperature was 100 degrees F (37.8 degrees C).
Monday, September 3, 2012
Today is Labor Day. Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Today's maximum temperature was 101 degrees F (38.3 degrees C).
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
Today's maximum temperature was 103 degrees F (39.4 degrees C).
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a dish of Japanese noodles for dinner.
Today's maximum temperature was 103 degrees F (39.4 degrees C).
Thursday, September 6, 2012
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Fortunately, both my wife and I have never become infected with West Nile virus. Except that my wife once caught the flu when traveling in Japan in 2005, we have never started showing even a flu-like symptom accompanying fever for the last decade. For caution's sake, we restrain ourselves from staying going out from dusk till dawn for the next few months.
Today's maximum temperature was 102 degrees F (38.9 degrees C).
Friday, September 7, 2012
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
Today's maximum temperature was 103 degrees F (39.4 degrees C).
Saturday, September 8, 2012
Got up at nine o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner. Stayed at home for the entire day. The heat of late summer has moderated to some degree.
Sunday, September 9, 2012
Got up at eight forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch. Went out shopping at a grocery store this afternoon. Ate pieces of California Pizza Kitchen's pizza for dinner.
Monday, September 10, 2012
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a Western-Japanese meal for dinner.
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Western-Japanese meal for dinner.
Blessed rain for the next few days will end the ravages of drought in my neighborhood residential area this year.
Friday, September 14, 2012
Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
Saturday, September 15, 2012
Got up at nine-fifteen in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner. Stayed at home for the entire day.
Sunday, September 16, 2012
Got up at ten-fifteen. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner. Stayed at home for the entire day.
Monday, September 17, 2012
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner. Went out shopping at a grocery store this evening.
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and pieces of Central Market's pizza for dinner.
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
Because our house is built on a firm and flat foundation, severe drought has caused no damage to it. Only a small part of the patio attached to our house moved very slowly down and up by about one inch relative to the main house during the summer in the last two years. In the last week, a series of welcome rainy days changed it back to what it was before.
Friday, September 21, 2012
Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch. Had my wife's car inspected at a nearby car maintenance shop. Its engine oil was also changed there. My wife's car has been in good condition for the last five months. Ate a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
Today, my wife found that our Visa credit card account has been charged with the purchases of some products or services from Guitar Center #720 Nashville TN we didn't make. We have never even heard the name of that shop before. Made a report of this unknown transaction seen in our credit card account to the Visa customer service by telephone in order to remove it from our account this afternoon.
Saturday, September 22, 2012
Got up at nine-fifteen in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner. Stayed at home for the entire day.
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Got up at nine-fifteen in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch. Went out shopping at grocery stores this afternoon. Ate pieces of California Pizza Kitchen's pizza for dinner.
Monday, September 24, 2012
Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Found the following website at CiteseerX that is supposed to be linked to my publication entitled 'Moderately doped channel multiple-FinFET for logic applications' according to the website name, via the Google search engine tonight. This website is strange because it's linked to the other publication written by two Chinese in Hong Kong:
The title of the publication by two Chinese is as follows:
Analysis of Geometry-Dependent Parasitics in Multifin Double-Gate FinFETs
Published Year: April 2007
Authors: Wen Wu and Mansun Chan (Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Technol.)
Because it was recently shown within the top three ranks of the search result for a keyword through Google, it seems that there's a hidden message from a liberal socialist group in the US, Europe, Russia, and/or Japan. To be honest, their intimation is still unclear. In order to make it clear, some related matters should be described tomorrow.
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Got up at seven-thirty in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner.
I worked on extracting the parasitic capacitances found in the FinFET structure by using TCAD in the latter half of 2005. Unlike the authors of the technical paper above, however, the purpose of that work wasn't to conduct the device modeling of these parasitic capacitances. My main purpose for that sort of work is to identify the best device structure by evaluating the simulated circuit performances more accurately using the mixed-mode device and circuit simulation, as described in my weekly reports those days. In my 2005 IEDM publication, any topic for parasitic capacitances was not dealt with intentionally because it would touch some sensitive matters at that time. Unfortunately, that project was terminated suddenly in 2006. The following sentences will tell some of what I had been considering after that.
As explained in my diary in September 2009, the highest parasitic capacitances of the FinFET structure that are located on the top of the fins can be easily removed by adapting the Triple Gate FinFET structure, which Intel Corp. patented. Giving consideration to the presence of the W contact plugs between the S/D electrodes and the metal lines found in both the FinFET device and a planar device, the influence of some of the other small parasitic capacitances existing between the gate sidewall and the S/D electrodes of the FinFET on the circuit performance shouldn't be so significant, especially when the silicide S/D extension that allows keeping its distance longer without significant performance loss due to the increase in the series resistance in the S/D extension is utilized. These parasitic capacitances can be minimized further and other remaining small components can also be when a low-k insulating dielectric material fills the spaces at the transistor level. The circuit performances that my 2005 IEDM publication reported were obviously calculated according to the best-case scenario. Both the uses of either the Tri-Gate-type FinFET or the other structure and the lowering the permittivity of the insulating dielectric material should enable us to realize its best approximately.
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Got up at seven forty-five in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner.
Friday, September 28, 2012
Got up at eight o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner. The rain had started falling gently since the early evening.
Saturday, September 29, 2012
Got up at nine o'clock in the morning. Ate a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and a Japanese meal for dinner. It rained fitfully through the day. Stayed at home for the entire day.
Sunday, September 30, 2012
Got up at ten-thirty. Ate a bowl of rice porridge for lunch, and a dish of Italian pasta for dinner. The sky was overcast with thick clouds today. Stayed at home for the entire day.
