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  • Passive health monitoring with wirelessly powered medical devices

    Creator:
    House, Samuel
    Abstract:
    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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    . Activity levels are a major contributor to the overall health of an individual [3], [4]. This metric is

  • Prototyping a triple-layer phoswich detection system

    Creator:
    Duncan, Christopher L.
    Abstract:
    Multi-layer optically coupled scintillation based radiation detectors, known as phoswich detectors, have rapidly evolved in recent years. During the same time, digital signal processing has improved radiation discrimination accuracy and enhanced reliability, while reducing complexity and size of traditional analog signal processing methods. A new generation of high-speed radiation detectors...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Christopher L. Duncan for the degree of Master of Science in Radiation Health Physics presented on June

  • Real-time radioxenon measurement using a Compton-suppressed well-type phoswich detector for nuclear explosion monitoring

    Creator:
    Alemayehu, Bemnet
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    Radioxenon detection is a technique used to monitor nuclear explosion and verify the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT). Because of an ultra-low concentration of radioxenon at radioxenon monitoring stations, radioxenon detection systems must have high sensitivity. This sensitivity is measured in terms of detector's minimum detectable concentration (MDC). It is required...
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    Dissertation
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    ___________________________________________________________________ Head of the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Health Physics

  • Development of a CZT-Silicon Detection System in Support of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty

    Creator:
    Alhawsawi, Abdulsalam M.
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    The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) bans all nuclear explosion tests for military or civilian purposes. The International Monitoring System (IMS) was established to verify compliance with the treaty. It consists of several monitoring stations that detect: seismic activities, hydrocoustic activities, infrasound waves, and radionuclide particles and noble gases. Radioxenon detection...
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    Dissertation
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    DISSERTATION OF Abdulsalam Mohammed Alhawsawi for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Radiation Health

  • A Two-element CZT-based Radioxenon Detection System for Nuclear Weapon Test Monitoring

    Creator:
    Ranjbar, Lily
    Abstract:
    Detection of xenon radioisotopes (radioxenons) has proven to be an important method for detecting nuclear explosions and is particularly well suited for detecting undeclared underground testing. The radioxenon isotopes ¹³¹mXe (t₁/₂ = 11.934 d), ¹³³mXe (t₁/₂ = 2.19 d), ¹³³Xe (t₁/₂ = 5.243 d) and ¹³⁵Xe (t₁/₂ = 9.14 h)...
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    Dissertation
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    the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Radiation Health Physics presented on March 9, 2016

  • Ultra-low power receivers for wireless sensor networks

    Creator:
    Ayers, James S.
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    In wireless sensor network applications, low-power operation of the wireless receiver is critical. To address this need an ultra-low power Binary Frequency Shift Keying (BFSK) receiver using the super-regenerative architecture is developed. A prototype receiver is built and tested for operation in the 900 MHz ISM band. Lab measurements show...
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    Dissertation
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF James S. Ayers for the degree

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

    Creator:
    Jiang, Tao
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    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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    /s and 30.5dB at 1.25GS/s, consuming 5.28mW and 6.08mW respectively, leading to FoM of 148fJ

  • Some contributions to asymmetric error control codes

    Creator:
    Elmougy, Samir
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    In some practical systems, most of the errors are of 1 → 0 type and 0 → 1 errors occur very rarely. In this thesis, first, the capacity of the asymmetric channel is derived. The capacity of the binary symmetric channel (BSC) and the Z-channel can be derived from this...
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    Dissertation
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    generated as follows. Count the number of 0's, k0, in the information part and take this modulo 2, i.e. CS

  • 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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    : S. Lawrence Marple, Jr. Frequency synthesizers are critical components of all communication

  • Multi-dimensional parametric estimation: two-dimensional sharpening by predictive bandwidth extrapolation and fast algorithms for three dimensional autoregressive estimation

    Creator:
    Liew, Ji Seok
    Abstract:
    Achieving sharpened (enhanced detail) features of a multi-dimensional data source using the linear prediction (LP) bandwidth extrapolation (BWE) technique in the transform domain is the main objective of this research. The evolution of sensor technology has provided acquisition scenarios in which the data format is inherently multi-dimensional, including hyperspectral imaging...
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    Dissertation
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    : _____________________________________________________ S. Lawrence Marple, Jr. Achieving sharpened (enhanced detail) features of a multi