Group Publications List

Full Papers

• D M Holburn et al, "A pattern recognition technique using sequences of marks for registration in Electron Beam Lithography", Proc 16th symposium EIPBT, Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology, Vol 19, 4, 1981.

• D M Holburn and K C A Smith, "Topographical analysis in the SEM using an automatic focusing technique", Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, Vol 128, Pt 1, July 1982.

• D M Holburn, "A technique for quantitative analysis of specimen micro-topography using computer control of a Scanning Electron Microscope", Optical Engineering, Society of Photo-optical and Instrumentation Engineers, Vol 368, 1982.

• D M Holburn and I Sommerville, "A high-speed digital image processing system based on the Texas TMS 320"; IEE "Software and Microsystems", January 1986.

• H G Yang and D M Holburn; "A semi-analytic model for CMOS switch-level timing verification"; Proc IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, pp 2032-2035, May 1989.

• D M Holburn and T D Rowsell; "Real-time analysis of fetal phonography signals using the TMS320", paper presented at IEE Colloquium on Biomedical Applications of DSP, November 1989.

• H G Yang and D M Holburn, "Switch-level timing verification verification for CMOS circuits: a semi-analytic approach", IEE Proceedings Part G: Circuits, Devices & Systems, pp 405-412, Vol 137, No 6, December 1990.

• H G Yang and D M Holburn, "A hierarchical approach to timing verification in CMOS VLSI design", Proceedings of the European Design Automation Conference (Amsterdam), IEEE Computer Society Press, February 1991.

• H G Yang and D M Holburn, "Timing verification in computer-aided design of CMOS VLSI circuits", Proceedings of the International Conference on Concurrent Engineering and Electronic Design Automation (Bournemouth), Woodhead Publishing Ltd, March 1991.

• D F Moore, D M Holburn, C E Nockolds & G C Rosolen, "CMOS ring oscillators as teaching tools", IEE Proceedings-G, Vol 139, No 2, April 1992 (Special issue: Teaching and Research Initiatives in VLSI Design).

• G Chand and D M Holburn, "Method for cross-correlating images in the presence of geometric distortion", IEE Electronics Letters, Vol 29, No 12, 10th June 1993.

• C E Hawkins & D M Holburn, "Statistical method for segmentation of fingerprint images for an image retrieval system", Computer Vision for Industry, SPIE Proceedings Vol. 1989.

• G Chand & D M Holburn, "A real-time control application using remote procedure calls", Proceedings of the 1994 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 94), Phoenix, Arizona.

• M Anstey & D M Holburn, "The Chiprack Project - a report on progress", Proceedings of the First European Conference on Electronic Packaging Technology, (Interconnection Technology in Electronics), pp 93-98, February 1994, Essen, Germany.

• D M Holburn, M Anstey, D S Jordan & C E Hawkins, "A novel approach to the problem of partitioning highly integrated VLSI systems", Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on ASIC, pp 137-140, October 1994, Beijing, China.

• H G Yang & D M Holburn, "Latency-minimised design technique for improved performance in CMOS bit-parallel array multipliers", Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on ASIC, pp 352-355, October 1994, Beijing, China.

• D M Holburn, M Anstey, D S Jordan & C E Hawkins, "Chiprack: A novel architecture to facilitate disassembly and reuse of electronic components and sub-assemblies", Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Clean Electronics Products and Technology, pp 214-217, October 1995, Edinburgh.

• N.H.M. Caldwell, B.C. Breton, and D.M. Holburn; "An expert system for fault diagnosis in the scanning electron microscope'', presented at the 16th Annual Conference of the British Computer Society Specialist Group on Expert Systems 1996; published in Applications and Innovations in Expert Systems IV, pp 177-188, SGES Publications, 1996.

• D S Jordan and D M Holburn; "A closely integrated reconfigurable image capture system and its applications", Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Image Processing and its Applications (IPA97), Dublin, July 1997, pp. 156-160.

• Caldwell, N.H.M., Breton, B.C., & Holburn, D.M. (1997) "Towards the Intelligent SEM"
  Paper presented at the EMAG'97 conference.
  Full paper in Electron Microscopy and Analysis 1997, (Institute of Physics Conference Series Number 153), pp 53-56, Institute of Physics Publishing.

• Caldwell, N.H.M., Breton, B.C., & Holburn, D.M. (1997) "XpertEze : A Knowledge-Based Approach to Scanning Electron Microscopy".  Paper presented at Expert Systems '97. Full paper in Applications and Innovations in Expert Systems V pp127-140, SGES Publications.

• D M Holburn and T P Bligh; "Effective models for postgraduate education in engineering, science and technology", invited Keynote Address presented at RESPEC ’97, Regional Seminar on Postgraduate Education, September 1997, organised by Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai, Johor Bahru, Malaysia.

• Caldwell, N.H.M., Breton, B.C., & Holburn, D.M. (1998) "Remote Instrument Diagnosis on the Internet"
  Paper published in IEEE Intelligent Systems Vol 13, 3, pp70-76.

• Caldwell, N.H.M. & Rodgers, P.A. (1998) "WebCADET : Facilitating Distributed Design Support"
  Paper presented at the IEE Colloquium on "Web-based knowledge servers" on June 26th, 1998.
  Full paper in Proceedings of the Colloquium on "Web-based knowledge servers'', IEE.

• Caldwell, N.H.M., Breton, B.C., & Holburn D.M.(1998) “Making SEMs Smarter”
  Published in Microscopy & Analysis, (November 1998), pp9-11.

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Caldwell, N.H.M., Breton, B.C., & Holburn D.M. (2000)
"WebXpertEze: intelligent instruments via the Internet"
Paper presented at the 12th European Congress on Microscopy, Brno, Czech Republic.
In Proceedings of the 12th European Congress on Electron Microscopy, Volume III - Instrumentation and Methodology, pp411-412, Czechoslovak Society for Electron Microscopy, Brno, 2000.

Caldwell, N.H.M., Breton, B.C., & Holburn, D.M. (2001) "Prolog Knowledge Base Supplies Embedded and Web Remote Control: Intelligence for Microscopes" PC AI, Vol. 15, 3 (May/June 2001), pp25-26,28.

CMOS 155-Mb/s optical wireless transmitter for indoor networks
David M. Holburn, Robert J. Mears, Rina J. Samsudin, Valencia M. Joyner, Vinod A. Lalithambika
Publication: Proc. SPIE Vol. 4214, p. 124-132, Optical Wireless Communications III; Eric J. Korevaar; Ed.
Publication
Date: Feb 2001

Development of a CMOS 310-Mb/s receiver for free-space optical wireless links
Vinod A. Lalithambika, Valencia M. Joyner, David M. Holburn, Robert J. Mears
Publication: Proc. SPIE Vol. 4214, p. 133-143, Optical Wireless Communications III; Eric J. Korevaar; Ed.
Publication
Date: Feb 2001

High-speed integrated optical wireless transceivers for in-building optical LANs
Dominic C. O'Brien, Grahame E. Faulkner, Kalok Jim, Emmanuel B. Zyambo, David J. Edwards, Mark Whitehead, Paul N. Stavrinou, Gareth Parry, Jacques Bellon, Martin J. Sibley, Vinod A. Lalithambika, Valencia M. Joyner, Rina J. Samsudin, Richard M. Atkinson, David M. Holburn, Robert J. Mears
Publication: Proc. SPIE Vol. 4214, p. 104-114, Optical Wireless Communications III; Eric J. Korevaar; Ed.
Publication
Date: Feb 2001

Integrated CMOS transceiver for indoor optical wireless links
David M. Holburn, Vinod A. Lalithambika, Valencia M. Joyner, Rina J. Samsudin, Robert J. Mears
Publication: Proc. SPIE Vol. 4530, p. 154-159, Optical Wireless Communications IV; Eric J. Korevaar; Ed.
Publication
Date: Nov 2001

High-speed integrated optical wireless system demonstrator
Dominic C. O'Brien, Grahame E. Faulkner, Kalok Jim, Emmanuel B. Zyambo, David J. Edwards, Mark Whitehead, Paul N. Stavrinou, Gareth Parry, Jacques Bellon, Martin J. Sibley, Vinod A. Lalithambika, Valencia M. Joyner, Rina J. Samsudin, David M. Holburn, Robert J. Mears
Publication: Proc. SPIE Vol. 4530, p. 145-153, Optical Wireless Communications IV; Eric J. Korevaar; Ed.
Publication
Date: Nov 2001

Flip-chip integrated optical wireless transceivers
Dominic C. O'Brien, Grahame E. Faulkner, Emmanuel B. Zyambo, David J. Edwards, Paul N. Stavrinou, Gareth Parry, Jacques Bellon, Martin J. Sibley, Vinod A. Lalithambika, Valencia M. Joyner, Rina J. Samsudin, David M. Holburn, Robert J. Mears
Publication: Proc. SPIE Vol. 4873, p. 23-29, Optical Wireless Communications V; Eric J. Korevaar; Ed.
Publication
Date: Dec 2002

Fully integrated CMOS VCSEL driver with nonlinearity suppression for RF optical fiber links Fu-Chuan Lin, Vinod A. Lalithambika, David M. Holburn, Robert J. Mears, Chak H. Hum, Stuart D. Walker Publication: Proc. SPIE Vol. 5356, p. 56-64, Optoelectronic Integrated Circuits VI; Louay A. Eldada; Ed. Publication Date: Jun 2004

Simulation study of BER and signal-to-noise ratio of multichannel optical subcarrier modulated QAM-VDSL signals
Vinod A. Lalithambika, Fu-Chuan Lin, David M. Holburn, Robert J. Mears, Chak H. Hum, Stuart D. Walker
Publication: Proc. SPIE Vol. 5281, p. 640-646, Optical Transmission, Switching, and Subsystems; Cedric F. Lam, Chongcheng Fan, Norbert Hanik, Kimio Oguchi; Eds.
Publication
Date: May 2004

Fu-Chuan Lin, Vinod A. Lalithambika, David M. Holburn, Robert J. Mears, Chak H. Hum and Stuart D. Walker, “'A CMOS Analogue Predistortion Circuit for Wideband Optical Fibre Links” in Proceedings of IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (Special session), Niagara Falls, Canada, May 2004

Fu-Chuan Lin, “IC Design for Optical Wired and Wireless Networks” IFIP First PhD Forum at the VLSI-SOC Conference, Darmstadt, Germany, December 2003.

Fu-Chuan Lin, Vinod A. Lalithambika, David M. Holburn and Robert J. Mears, “A Low-Bounce Adaptive CMOS Output Buffer for 310Mb/s Optical Wireless Receiver” in Proceedings of XVIII Conference on Design of Circuits and Integrated Systems, Ciudad Real, Spain, November 2003.

Fu-Chuan Lin, Vinod A. Lalithambika, David M. Holburn and Robert J. Mears, “A 2.5Gb/s Low-Power CMOS VCSEL Transmitter with Clipping Distortion Suppression for Analogue Optical Fibre Data Links” in Proceedings of The 5th International Conference on ASIC, Beijing, China, October 2003.

Chak. H. Hum, Stuart D. Walker, Fu-Chuan Lin, Vinod A. Lalithambika, David M. Holburn, Robert J. Mears, and Mike C. Parker, “PAPR and Nonlinearity Reduction in a Multicarrier QAM VDSL System using Equilibrium Phase Subcarrier Rotation Cancelling” in Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems, Awaji Island, Japan, December 2003.

Chak. H. Hum, S. D. Walker, Vinod A. Lalithambika, Fu-Chuan Lin, David M. Holburn, Robert J. Mears and Mike C. Parker, “Nonlinearity Reduction in WDM System using Equilibrium Phase Strategic Rotation Cancelling” in Proceedings of The 9th Microoptics Conference, Tokyo, Japan, October 2003.

Fu-Chuan Lin, “A 310Mbps CMOS Low-Noise Adaptive-Load Pad Driver for Optical Wireless Receiver” in Proceedings of EPSRC PREP, Exeter, U.K., April 2003, pp. 103-104.

C. H. Hum, S. D. Walker, V. A. Lalithambika, Fu- Chuan Lin, D. M. Holburn, M. B. Thakur, T. Quinlan and M. C. Parker, “Low-Power Adaptive Access Keying for Fibre Optic Communications” in Proceedings of EPSRC PREP, Exeter, U.K., April 2003, pp. 9-10.

C. H. Hum, S. D. Walker, V. A. Lalithambika, Fu-Chuan Lin, D. M. Holburn, M. B. Thakur, T. Quinlan and M. C. Parker, “Optical Access Keying Featuring Low-Power Electronic Adaptive Function” in Proceedings of IEE Photonic Access Technologies Conference, London, U.K., December 2002, pp. 17/1-17/4.

Solid-state tracking integrated optical wireless transceivers for line-of-sight optical links
Dominic C. O'Brien, Grahame E. Faulkner, David J. Edwards, Paul Stavrinou, Gareth Parry, Jacques Bellon, Martin J. Sibley, Vinod A. Lalithambika, Valencia M. Joyner, Rina J. Samsudin, David M. Holburn, Robert J. Mears
Publication: Proc. SPIE Vol. 5160, p. 153-160, Free-Space Laser Communication and Active Laser Illumination III; David G. Voelz, Jennifer C. Ricklin; Eds.
Publication
Date: Jan 2004

Caldwell, N.H.M., Breton B.C., Holburn, D.M., & Young, T.C.W. (2003)
"Particle Analysis using Neural Networks and Image Processing in the SEM"
Microscopy and Microanalysis, Vol. 9, Supplement 2, pp738-739.

Other Full Papers

• D M Holburn; "EPIC: an image processing system based on a personal computer"; Proc 10th Annual Workshop on Micro-computer Applications, Univ. of Strathclyde, September 1986.

• Chand, G., Breton, B.C., Caldwell, N.H.M. & Holburn, D.M. (1997) "World Wide Web Controlled Scanning Electron Microscope"  Scanning: The Journal of Scanning Microscopies, Vol 19, 4, pp292-296.

• Breton, B.C., Chand, G., Caldwell, N.H.M. & Holburn, D.M. (1997) "Remote Microscopy in the Real World"
  Microscopy and Analysis, September 1997, pp19-21.

• Rodgers, P.A., Clarkson, P.J., Caldwell, N.H.M., & Huxor, A.P. (1998) "Supporting "Intelligent" Navigation of Design Knowledge".  Paper presented at the 1998 Computer Aided Conceptual Design International Workshop (CACD'98). In Proceedings of the 1998 Lancaster International Workshop on Engineering Design CACD’98, pp 123-147, (Eds. A. Bradshaw and J. Counsell), University of Lancaster, 1998.

• Huxor, A.P., Rodgers, P.A., Caldwell, N.H.M., & Clarkson, P.J. (1998) "Knowledge Systems as Navigation Aids to Online Content and Users".  Paper presented at (and included in the Proceedings of) the Distributed Web-based AI Design Tools Workshop as part of the Fifth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Design.

• Rodgers, P.A., Huxor, A.P. & Caldwell, N.H.M. “Design Support Using Distributed Web-Based AI Tools”
  Paper to be published in the journal Research in Engineering Design.

• Rodgers, P.A., Caldwell, N.H.M., & Huxor, A.P. (1999) "Authorship of WebCADET Rule-Bases to Support Distributed Product Development", Adjunct Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI '99), (eds H.J. Bullinger & P.H. Vossen), pp177-178.

Holburn, D.M., Robertson, R.P., Breton B.C.,& Caldwell N.H.M. (2000)
"A Virtual Scanning Electron Microscope for Teaching and Training"
Microscopy & Analysis, March/April 2000, pp5-7.

Concise Papers and Extended Abstracts

• D M Holburn, "A system for digital image processing based on a personal computer"; Proc RMS, Vol 17/2, January 1983.

• D M Holburn; "Computers in Microscopy: Lecture Notes"; CUED internal publication, for distribution to participants in Computers in Microscopy course, 1989 - 1998.

• D M Holburn, "An image processing system based on a personal computer"; Proc RMS, Vol 19/6, November 1984.

• D M Holburn, "Processing the Image", in Imaging Science and Technology, Vol 1, No 1, published by British Journal of Photography.

• D M Holburn, "Images, signals and circuits", Nature, Vol 359, October 1992 (journal review).

• Chand, G., Breton, B.C., Caldwell, N.H.M. & Holburn, D.M. (1996) "World Wide Web Controlled SEM"
  Extended abstract in Proceedings of Scanning '96, in Scanning: The Journal of Scanning Microscopies, Vol 18, 3, pp201-202.

• Caldwell, N.H.M., Breton, B.C., & Holburn, D.M. (1996) "Automated filament saturation in the SEM"
  Paper presented at Micro '96. Extended abstract in Proceedings of the Royal Microscopical Society, Vol 31, (2), pp126.

• Breton, B.C., Caldwell, N.H.M., & Holburn D.M. (1996) "A Java Powered SEM". Paper presented at 11th European Congress on Microscopy (EUREM '96), Dublin. In Proceedings of EUREM-11, Vol 1 : Techniques and Instrumentation, pp356, CESM, 1998.

• NHM Caldwell, BC Breton & DM Holburn; "FIRST A.I.D.: Using remote microscopy and artificial intelligence for SEM fault diagnosis"; Paper presented at Scanning '97, Monterey; extended abstract published in Scanning: The Journal of Scanning Microscopies, (June 1997), Vol 19, 3, pp 204.

• N H M Caldwell, B C Breton & D M Holburn; "Intelligent telemicroscopy", presented at Microscopy and Microanalysis ’98, Atlanta, Georgia, July 12-16 1998.

• Breton, B.C., Chand G., Howard, P.J., Caldwell, N.H.M., & Holburn D.M. (1999) "NetSEM Collaborator - An Application in Telemicroscopy", Microscopy and Microanalysis, Vol 5, Supplement 2, pp320-321. 

Caldwell, N.H.M., Breton B.C., & Holburn, D.M. (2001)
"XpertEze: Developing Embedded Intelligence for the Scanning Electron Microscope"
Microscopy and Microanalysis, Vol. 7, Supplement 2, pp966-967.

Caldwell, N.H.M., Breton B.C., Holburn, D.M., & Robertson, R.P. (2002)
"VSEM: From Technology Demonstrator Towards Integrated Educational Tool"
Microscopy and Microanalysis, Vol. 8, Supplement 2, pp1566-67.

Caldwell, N.H.M., Breton B.C., Holburn, D.M., & Young, T.C.W. (2003)
"Particle Analysis using Neural Networks and Image Processing in the SEM"
Microscopy and Microanalysis, Vol. 9, Supplement 2, pp738-739.

Holburn, D.M., Breton, B.C., Robertson, R.P., Thompson, J.T., & Caldwell N.H.M. (2000)
"VSEM : an interactive simulation and virtual reality model of the scanning electron microscope"
Microscopy and Microanalysis, Vol. 6, Supplement 2, pp1156-1157.
Batten, C.F., Holburn, D.M., Breton, B.C., Caldwell, N.H.M. (2001)
"Sharpness Search Algorithms for Automatic Focusing in the Scanning Electron Microscope"
Extended abstract in Proceedings of Scanning 2001,
in Scanning: The Journal of Scanning Microscopies, Vol. 23, 2, pp112-113.

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