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  • Enabling metal-fill-aware design of integrated circuits

    Creator:
    Shilimkar, Vikas S.
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    In advanced integrated circuit (IC) processes, the metal fill inserted to meet foundry imposed density requirements degrades the performance of interconnects and passive components which ultimately affects the overall circuit performance. Accounting for this degradation through electromagnetic and equivalent circuit modeling is becoming a critical aspect of IC design. However,...
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    Dissertation
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    Vikas S. Shilimkar for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • Distributed temperature sensing with neodymium-doped optical fiber

    Creator:
    Lounsbury, Jimson S.
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    Polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cells are being studied for use as high efficiency power plants in alternative fuel vehicles. To maintain high efficiency the operating temperatures of the membranes in these fuel cells must be closely monitored and controlled. However, the environment inside of the fuel cell is not...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Neodymium Doped Optical Fiber AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Jimson S. Lounsbury for the degree

  • Enhancing macrocell downlink performance through femtocell user cooperation

    Creator:
    Zaid, Adem Mabruk
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    This thesis studies cooperative techniques that rely on femtocell user diversity to improve the downlink communication quality of macrocell users. We analytically analyze and evaluate the achievable performance of these techniques in the downlink of Rayleigh fading channels. We provide an approximation of both the bit-error rate (BER) and the...
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    Masters Thesis
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    (i.e., during cooperation period), the MBS can concurrently transmit data to other macrocell user(s

  • Design and Analysis of an Optical Wireless Receiver for a Hybrid WiFi Free-Space Optical (WiFO) Communication Network

    Creator:
    Borah, Anindita
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    The increasing demand for higher data-rates in spectrum-deficient indoor WiFi networks calls for the adaptation of hybrid systems, consisting of RF and optical wireless channels. The novel hybrid WiFi Free-Space Optical (WIFO) system was introduced to enhance the wireless capacity of indoor WiFi networks. In this thesis, an optical wireless...
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    Masters Thesis
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    100Mb/s at a non-directed line-of-sight distance of 2 meters from the transmitter. To achieve a higher

  • Radiation tolerance of magnetic tunnel junctions with MgO barriers

    Creator:
    Ren, Fanghui
    Abstract:
    In the next decade, technology trends--smaller dimension, lower voltage, higher operating frequency--introduce new technical considerations and challenges for radiation effects in integrated circuits. Semiconductor based circuits and traditional dynamic random-access memories will malfunction when exposed to extreme environments, such as space and nuclear reactor. The mechanisms for radiation effect are...
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    Masters Thesis
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    magnetoresistive random access memory. 7 The effect of AMR is attributed to a larger probability of s

  • Radiation Detection Module and Radioactive Isotope Identification System

    Creator:
    Ma, Naixuan
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    Radiation is part of our life. Most people may know a radioactive source is very dangerous. But there are very few situations people are exposed to uncontrolled radionuclides above background. A radioactive source can emit gamma rays which are the highest energy type in electromagnetic radiation.[2] Gamma rays are like...
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    Capstone Project
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    including a switch S, breakdown voltage VBD, junction capacitor CJ, a resistor RS (the silicon substrate

  • Design Techniques of High-Speed Silicon Photonics Transceiver

    Creator:
    Li, Hao
    Abstract:
    The rapid scaling of network bandwidth and data center throughput has motivated the wide adoption of high speed transceivers. Silicon photonics (Si-Photonic) is one of the most promising techniques to realize tightly integrated optical transceivers for next-generation high speed I O standards. This dissertation focuses on the design techniques of...
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    Dissertation
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    thank Prof. Un-Ku Moon, Prof. Alan Wang, Prof. Arun S. Natarajan for the help of my dissertation. I

  • Energy and area efficient techniques for data converters

    Creator:
    Venkatram, Hariprasath
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    Data converters are ubiquitous building blocks of a signal chain. The rapid increase in communication and connectivity devices presents new avenues for pushing the state of the art analog to digital converters. Techniques for improving resolution, bandwidth, linearity and bit-error rate, while reducing the power, energy and area is the...
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    Dissertation
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    at 20 MS/s. Built in 1P4M 0.18 µm technology and operating at 1.3 V sup- ply, the ADC consumes 5.9

  • Comprehensive depletion-mode modeling of oxide thin-film transistors

    Creator:
    Zhou, Fan
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    The primary focus of this thesis is modifying the comprehensive depletion-mode model and extending its applicability to p-channel thin-film transistor (TFT) behavior and subthreshold (subpinchoff) operation. The comprehensive depletion-mode model accurately describes depletion-mode TFT behavior and establishes a set of equations, different from those obtained from square-law theory, which can...
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    Masters Thesis
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    , Professor John Conley, Professor Larry Cheng, Professor Alan Wang, Professor Gregory Herman, Professor

  • Energy-efficient routing for delay-constrained data traffic in linear wireless sensor networks

    Creator:
    Alesaimi, Hani
    Abstract:
    Linear wireless sensor networks (LWSN) are special class of wireless sensor networks where sensor nodes are deployed in a straight line. Monitoring industrial pipelines, railroads, tunnels, power lines, and borders are applications of LWSNs. Wireless sensors are tiny devices with limited energy resources; therefore, efficient energy routing in LWSNs is...
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    Masters Thesis
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    advice. Special thanks go out to the graduate committee members, Dr. Alan \ang, Dr. Larry Cheng and Dr