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  • Risk and Uncertainty Quantification Methods in Electrical Power Systems

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    Johnson, Brandon S.
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    Load flow studies are one of the most essential engineering applications for grid operators because they provide a clear picture of the operating conditions of the power system. Traditionally, the load flow problem is assumed to be deterministic; that is, the system variables contain no randomness. Unfortunately, this assumption is...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Brandon S. Johnson

  • Evaluating the seismic risk and resilience of an electrical power system

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    Chalishazar, Vishvas H.
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    The Pacific Northwest is part of the "Ring of Fire," which is well-known for heavy seismic activity. Numerous active faults in the area have encouraged electric grid managers in the region to more deeply contemplate and proactively intervene to support grid resilience. This research introduces Monte Carlo (MC) based power...
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    precisely defined Damage state (D1 or D2) given the type of response; p[L|D] denotes the probability of

  • Design techniques for low-voltage analog-to-digital converter

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    Chang, Dong-Young
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    Continuous process scale-down and emerging markets for low-power/low-voltage mobile systems call for low-voltage analog integrated circuits. Switched-capacitor circuits are the building blocks for analog signal processing and will encounter severe overdrive problems when operating at low-voltage conditions. There are several well-known techniques to bypass the problem. These approaches include: (1)...
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    people who helped me. They include Brandon Greenley, Jose' Silva, Mustafa Keskin, Peter Kiss, Tetsuya

  • Validation of Wave Energy Converter Models and the Development of Control Strategies in WEC-Sim

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    So, Ratanak
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    When the term renewable energy is mentioned in a conversation, wind, solar, and hydro energy typically come to mind. However, there is one major resource that has remained mostly untapped: wave energy. Wind and solar power technologies are well established around the world but they cannot generate electricity all the...
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    addition, I would like to thank my colleagues JiaJia Song, Mike Starrett, Ziwei Ke, Han Xiong, and Brandon

  • Efficient Spectrum Sensing and Sharing Techniques for Dynamic Wideband Spectrum Access

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    Khalfi, Bassem
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    Besides enabling an enhanced mobile broadband access, fifth-generation (5G) wireless mobile networks are envisioned to support the connectivity of massive, heterogeneous Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Connecting these devices through 5G systems and providing them with their needed data rates require huge amounts of spectrum and power resources, thus calling...
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  • Quantum dot plasmon coupling : Fundamental study and applications

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    Kannegulla, Akash
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    The dissertation focuses on the engineering of light-matter interaction using plasmonic nanoparticles and metamaterials to achieve enhanced luminescence and based on which to improve the performance of biosensing and light-emitting technologies. We designed and fabricated a spectrum of nanostructures to exhibit particular dispersion relations capable of controlling the spontaneous emission...
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    ) Figure 3.3. Microfluidic flow cell (1.2 μL volume) preparation flow: (i) fabricate ORA metal- assisted

  • High-performance delta-sigma analog-to-digital converters

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    da Silva, Jose Barreiro
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    Multi-stage delta-sigma (ΔΣ) architectures, commonly known as MASH, are the preferred choice for analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) used in broadband communication applications, where high-resolution (above 14 bits) and high-bandwidth (several MHz) performances are required. Current state-of-the-art designs are capable of as much as 5-MS/s output data rates with 90-dB SNR. However,...
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    , Byung-Moo Mi Ranganathan Desikachari, Kiseok Yoo, Zhenyong Zhang, Ting Wu, Dan Thomas, Brandon Greenley

  • Distributed Dynamic Multi-Area State Estimation with Fusion Technique

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    Guo, Jia
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    As the power system grows larger and more complex, real-time monitoring and control become very significant in order to achieve reliable operation of the power system. Before any security assessment can be made or control actions are taken, the reliable estimate of the existing state of the system must be...
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  • Location Privacy-Preserving Strategies for Secondary Spectrum Use

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    Grissa, Mohamed
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    The scarcity of wireless spectrum resources and the overwhelming demand for wireless broadband resources have prompted industry, government agencies and academia within the wireless communities to develop and come up with effective solutions that can make additional spectrum available for broadband data. As part of these ongoing efforts, cognitive radio...
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  • Architectures and algorithms for dynamic overlay networks

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    Abdelwahab, Sherif
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    Most of today’s Internet of Things (IoT) applications assume that data will be moved offdevices into centralized cloud platforms. While existing IoT systems leverage cloud-based analytics for meaningful data reasoning, the assumption that data should always be moved off the devices is problematic. The amount of data to be moved...
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