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  • Atomic solid state energy scale applied to novel thin-film solar absorbers

    Creator:
    Pelatt, Brian D.
    Abstract:
    The atomic solid state energy (SSE) scale is introduced as a tool for inorganic materials design. The SSE scale is obtained by assessing an average electron affinity (EA) (for a cation) or an average ionization potential (IP) (for an anion) for each atom using data from compounds having that specific...
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    Dissertation
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    degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical And Computer Engineering presented on June 12, 2013. Title

  • Modeling and analysis of spur structure of digital-to-time conversion based frequency synthesizers

    Creator:
    Talwalkar, Sumit A.
    Abstract:
    Frequency synthesizers are critical components of all communication systems. This thesis considers the issue of undesirable frequency spurs of a relatively recent type of frequency synthesis architecture called digital-to-time conversion (DTC). The DTC-based frequency synthesis architecture has important performance benefits over older frequency synthesizers, such as fast frequency switching, large...
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    Dissertation
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    Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering presented on May 21, 2013. Title: Modeling and Analysis

  • Fabrication of a flexible glucose sensing catheter for human implantation

    Creator:
    Matthews, David J.
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    Flexible electronics processing techniques were applied to integrate a glucose sensor with a hormone-delivery catheter in order to create a cheap and minimally invasive method for patients with type 1 diabetes to continually monitor and control their blood sugar levels. Ultimately, this work intends to move toward the development of...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering presented on December 18 2013. Title: Fabrication

  • Micropower incremental analog-to-digital converters

    Creator:
    Chen, Chia-Hung
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    Incremental ADCs (IADCs) have many advantages for low-frequency high-accuracy data conversion—they are easy to multiplex between channels, need simpler digital decimation filter, and allow extended counting with a Nyquist-rate ADC. A single-loop incremental ADC was designed and fabricated in 90 nm for a biosensor interface circuit. It incorporates one integrator,...
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    Dissertation
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    Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering on November 25, 2013. Title: Micropower

  • Cross-layer aware routing approach for lifetime maximization in wireless sensor networks with multiple sinks

    Creator:
    Hamid, Arwa Zakaria
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    In wireless sensor networks (WSNs) nodes are battery powered. Therefore, the available energy resources of sensor nodes should be managed efficiently in order to increase the network lifetime. As a result, researchers have proposed routing schemes in order to maximize network lifetime. Even though these schemes increase the network lifetime,...
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    Masters Thesis
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    for the degree of Master of Science in Computer Science presented on June 4, 2013. Title: Cross

  • Adaptive broadband wireless interference mitigation architecture applying higher order statistics algorithm for computer platform

    Creator:
    Wang, Qiwei
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    The broadband wireless interference in a computer platform is resulted by multiple electro-magnetic emission sources. This non-Gaussian interference is proved to be double-sided K-distributed in previous research. With the limitation of transmission power and dimension of the device, interference mitigation is an efficient way to improve received signal bit error...
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    Masters Thesis
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    presented on November 18, 2013. Title: Adaptive Broadband Wireless Interference Mitigation

  • Design techniques for low-power multi-GS/s analog-to-digital converters

    Creator:
    Jiang, Tao
    Abstract:
    Ultra-high-speed (>10GS/s), medium-resolution (5~6bit), low-power (<50mW) analog-to-digital converter can find it application in the areas of digital oscilloscopes and next-generation serial link receivers. There are several challenges to enable a successful design, however. First, the time-interleaved architecture is required in order to achieve over 10GS/s sampling rate, with the trade-off...
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    Dissertation
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    Computer Engineering presented on June 10, 2013. Title: Design Techniques for Low-Power Multi-GS/s

  • Passive health monitoring with wirelessly powered medical devices

    Creator:
    House, Samuel
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    The proliferation of body worn autometric devices has been enabled by advances in low-power electronics and fueled by the quantified-self movement. These devices range in complexity from pedometers to clinical vital sign measurement. They all share the same drawback, typically the most expensive and heaviest component, the battery. The future...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Electrical and Computer Engineering presented on March 20, 2013. Title: Passive Health Monitoring With

  • Flexible dual TCP/UDP streaming for H.264 HD video over WLANs

    Creator:
    Zhao, Jing
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    High Definition video streaming over WLANs faces many challenges because video data requires not only data integrity but also frames have strict playout deadline. Traditional streaming methods that rely solely on either UDP or TCP have difficulties meeting both requirements because UDP incurs packet loss while TCP incurs delay. This...
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    Masters Thesis
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    the degree of Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering presented on May 30, 2013

  • Power efficient analog-to-digital converters using both voltage and time domain information

    Creator:
    Oh, Taehwan
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    As advanced wired and wireless communication systems attempt to achieve higher performance, the demand for high resolution and wide signal bandwidth in their associated ADCs is strongly increased. Recently, time-domain quantization has drawn attention from its scalability in deep submicron CMOS processes. Furthermore, there are several interesting aspects of time-domain...
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    Dissertation
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    , 2013. Title: Power Efficient Analog-to-Digital Converters using Both Voltage and Time Domain