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  • Staying Consistent: Discipline-Specific Language Used in Introductory CS Curricula

    Creator:
    Weber, Jason
    Abstract:
    The understanding of Discipline-Specific Language is an important competency for students of any field to begin mastering early in their studies, since it serves as a prerequisite for both the analysis of expert text and precise communication. Therefore, an introductory curriculum should pay careful attention to how it incorporates, defines,...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Jason Weber for the degree

  • A comparative study of lowpass continuous-time delta-sigma modulators with pulse-shaped DACs

    Creator:
    Fang, Jie
    Abstract:
    Recently, continuous-time ΔΣ modulators are appearing increasingly often in both the literature and the marketplace due to their features of inherent antialiasing and relaxed requirements for opamp and so on. However, several nonideal factors such as clock jitter, excess loop delay, inter-symbol interference and so on, degrade the SNR performance...
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    Masters Thesis
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    , feedback, advice and support. I would like to thank Prof. Un-Ku Moon, Prof. Huaping Liu and Prof. Frank

  • Effects of ultraviolet illumination and a parylene-A activation layer on the gas phase sensing characteristics of ZnO nanobridges

    Creator:
    Mason, Ashley D.
    Abstract:
    ZnO nanowires (NWs) are good candidates for chemical sensing because of their high surface-to-volume ratio. In this work, ZnO nanobridge sensors were fabricated utilizing a novel method which uses carbonized photoresist (C-PR) as a nucleation layer. The use of C-PR allows simultaneous growth and integration of NWs to lithographically-defined features....
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    Masters Thesis
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    Characteristics of ZnO Nanobridges Abstract approved: John F. Conley, Jr. ZnO nanowires (NWs) are good

  • Integration of vapor-solid grown ZnO nanowires through dielectrophoresis

    Creator:
    Ng, Vi-Vie
    Abstract:
    Work on individually constructed devices has demonstrated that nanowires (NWs) offer great promise for applications such as sensing and optoelectronics. Despite this work, reliable large scale alignment and integration of these individual nanostructures into a lithographically defined process remains a challenge. Dielectrophoresis (DEP) is a promising alignment method in which...
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    Masters Thesis
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    : ______________________________________________________ John F. Conley, Jr. Work on individually constructed devices has demonstrated that

  • Fabrication process assessment and negative bias illumination stress study of IGZO and ZTO TFTs

    Creator:
    Hoshino, Ken
    Abstract:
    Indium-gallium-zinc oxide (IGZO) and zinc-tin oxide (ZTO) are investigated for thin-film transistor (TFT) applications. Negative bias illumination stress (NBIS) is employed for electrical stability assessment. Unpassivated IGZO and ZTO TFTs suffer from severe NBIS instabilities. Zinc-tin-silicon oxide is found to be an effective passivation layer for IGZO and ZTO TFTs,...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
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    : _____________________________________________________ John F. Wager Indium-gallium-zinc oxide (IGZO) and zinc-tin oxide (ZTO) are investigated

  • Electronic Stability of Metal Halide Perovskites

    Creator:
    Hong, Min Ji
    Abstract:
    Despite near unanimous opinion on the consequences of climate change by scientific community, the rate at which carbon is emitted into the atmosphere continues to increase. The need for a clean and sustainable source of energy is therefore one of humankind's most urgent challenges. Solar energy is the most abundant...
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    Dissertation
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    . Abstract approved: ______________________________________________________ John Labram Despite

  • Contact resistance and stability assessment of oxide-based thin film transistors

    Creator:
    Hung, Celia M.
    Abstract:
    This thesis focuses on two aspects of oxide-based thin-film transistors (TFTs), contact resistance and instability assessment. First, determination of the contact resistance of indium tin oxide (ITO) on two wide-band gap semiconductors, zinc oxide (ZnO) and indium gallium oxide (IGO), is attempted and the effects of contact resistance on device...
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    Masters Thesis
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    approved: . John F. Wager This thesis focuses on two aspects of oxide

  • Inorganic thin-film solar cells

    Creator:
    Spies, Jack Alexander
    Abstract:
    The primary objective of this thesis is to explore new absorber and p-type window layer materials for thin-film solar cell applications. A new thin-film electron beam deposition system has been installed, is now operational, and has been used to deposit several types of solar cell absorber layers. Material investigations include...
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    Masters Thesis
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    : Inorganic Thin-Film Solar Cells Abstract approved: John F. Wager The primary objective of this thesis is

  • The Pursuit of Hoppiness : Propelling Hop into the Genomic Era

    Creator:
    Hill, Steven T.
    Abstract:
    Hop (Humulus lupulus L. var lupulus) is a plant of great cultural significance, used as a medicinal herb for thousands of years, and for flavor and as a preservative in brewing beer. Studies of the medicinal effects of the unique compounds produced by hop have led to interest from the...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    David A. Hendrix John A. Henning Hop (Humulus lupulus L. var

  • Fine-Grained Object Recognition Under Limited Training Data

    Creator:
    Lam, Michael Q.
    Abstract:
    This dissertation addresses object recognition in challenging settings, where distinct object classes are visually very similar (e.g., species of birds and insects) and/or access to training examples of object classes is limited (e.g., due to the associated high costs of data annotation). In this dissertation, we present a variety of...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation