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  • Energy Harvesting and Power Management Integrated Circuits for Self-Sustaining Wearables

    Creator:
    Bose, Soumya
    Abstract:
    Harvesting energy from ambient sources can provide power autonomy to energy efficient electronics and sensors. The last decade has seen a multitude of ways to scavenge energy from various sources like solar, thermal, electromagnetic, electrostatic, piezo-electric and many more. Thermal energy from human body heat is ubiquitous and can be...
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    Abstract approved: Matthew L. Johnston Harvesting energy from ambient sources can provide power autonomy

  • New Architectures and Circuits for Pushing the Dynamic Range and Multiplexing Boundaries of CMOS-Integrated Sensors

    Creator:
    Ouh, Hyunkyu
    Abstract:
    Over the last decades, CMOS-integrated sensors have made impressive progress in performance, form-factor, and energy-efficiency for various applications such as imaging, physical/chemical sensing, bio/health monitoring. In the era of the artificial intelligence (AI) and the internet-of-things (IoT), such CMOS-integrated sensors are essential for massive and comprehensive data acquisition, where sensing...
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    -Integrated Sensors Abstract approved: Matthew L. Johnston Over the last decades, CMOS-integrated sensors

  • Highly-Integrated Low-Power RF Receivers for Distributed Sensing and IoT Devices

    Creator:
    Bialek, Hayden
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    Low-power receivers (RX) with 100$\mu W$-scale power consumption can enable several power/energy-constrained IoT applications. However, achieving sensitivity, interferer tolerance and wide operating range with low power presents a challenge for existing architectures, particularly those constrained to highly integrated solutions without high-Q off-chip components. Existing solutions rely heavily on high quality...
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    to thank my advisors Prof. Arun Natarajan and Prof. Matthew Johnston. Prof. Johnston has helped

  • Imepdance Sensing Techniques for Integrated Circuits Sensor Applications

    Creator:
    Shen, Boyu
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    Impedance measurements are increasingly demanded in modern CMOS sensing systems as impedance is the most common electrical signal obtained from sensors, delivering physical, chemical and biomedical quantity changes. Impedance sensing for wide interested frequency, broad dynamic range, and various sensor interfaces has numerous challenges, especially targeted in CMOS miniaturization with...
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    : Matthew L. Johnston Impedance measurements are increasingly utilized in modern integrated circuit

  • CMOS Transducers and Programmable Interface Circuits for Resource-Efficient Sensing Applications

    Creator:
    Sengupta, Shaan
    Abstract:
    Modern sensors are complex systems comprising multiple sub-systems such as transducers, analog and mixed-signal interface circuits, digital processing circuits, and packaging. Over the last few decades, innovations in these sub-systems combined with their increased integration in complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) processes have led to the rapid growth in sensors for...
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    Abstract approved: Matthew L. Johnston Modern sensors are complex systems comprising multiple sub-systems

  • Analysis of the Feasibility of Thermoelectric Energy Harvesters used on the Human Body for the Powering of Wearable Electronic Devices

    Creator:
    Smith, Richard I.
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    Wearable electronic devices are becoming increasingly widespread and are being used to fulfill a variety of needs. These devices range from purely infotainment type systems such as smartwatches and fitness oriented devices to specialized medical devices such as insulin pumps and heart-rate monitors. A challenge faced with all of these...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    . Johnston Wearable electronic devices are becoming increasingly widespread and are being used to fulfill a

  • Leveraging transformer encoder output for effective token summary in simultaneous translation

    Creator:
    Raffel, Matthew
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    Simultaneous speech-to-text translation remains a difficult yet important problem for modern machine learning models whereby a text translation is generated concurrently with receiving partial speech inputs. One state-of-the-art simultaneous speech-to-text model is the augmented memory transformer whose encoder breaks a speech input into fixed-size overlapping segments composed of left, right,...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    . APPROVED: Lizhong Chen, Mentor, representing Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Matthew Johnston

  • Active Noise Shaping Analog-to-Digital Data Converters

    Creator:
    Shi, Lukang
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    Successive-approximation-register (SAR) analog-to-digital converters are popular for medium accuracy, medium speed and low power applications, such as in biomedical applications. They have low latency and simple architecture compared with ΔΣ ADCs. This is because of SAR ADCs’ binary searching scheme. Furthermore, SAR ADCs can apply oversampling and noise shaping schemes...
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    and Prof. Moon as my advisors. I really appreciate Professor Matthew Johnston, Professor Tejasvi

  • Ultra-energy-efficient Silicon Photonic Modulators Driven by Transparent Conductive Oxides

    Creator:
    Li, Erwen
    Abstract:
    Silicon photonics has become the most promising platform for future large-scale optical interconnect and optical computing systems due to its inherent CMOS compatibility, which brings exclusive advantages in bandwidth density, energy efficiency, and cost effectiveness. Parallel optical interconnects based on photonic integrated circuits (PICs) have the capacity to meet the...
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    to Professor Larry Cheng, Professor Tejasvi Anand, Professor Matthew Johnston for serving as my

  • UWB Low Power RF System for Localization

    Creator:
    Sheokand, Anoop
    Abstract:
    Real time indoor positioning awareness systems aim to add localization capabilities to upcoming wireless technologies that are quickly becoming an important feature for indoor environment. RF-based impulse-radio ultra-wideband (IR-UWB) is a promising technology for in-door positioning systems due to obstacle penetration capabilities, immunity to multi-path and fading, and high resolution....
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    Masters Thesis
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    grateful to Professor Matthew Johnston, and Tejasvi Anand for serving as committee members for my final