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  • A Wide Modulation Range and PVT-Tolerant Spread-Spectrum Modulation Clock Generator

    Creator:
    Sun, Hyuk
    Abstract:
    This dissertation presents a phase domain in-loop-bandwidth spread-spectrum clock generation technique. In this proposed technique, a charge-based discrete-time loop filter is proposed to enable the phase domain in-loop-bandwidth spread-spectrum modulation without a delta-sigma modulator or time-to-digital converter. The in-loop-bandwidth modulation technique maximizes the loop bandwidth to improve phase noise suppression...
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    Dissertation
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Hyuk Sun for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical

  • Power-Efficient Design Techniques and Architectures for Scalable Submicron Analog Circuits

    Creator:
    Xu, Yang
    Abstract:
    As the CMOS process scales down to submicron, digital circuit performance improves, while reduced supply voltage and lower transistor intrinsic gain make it difficult to implement analog circuits in a power efficient manner. Therefore, it has become advantageous to shift more analog signal processing functions conventionally realized in voltage (analog)...
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    Yang Xu for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Computer Engineering presented on

  • Physical layer design of a robust low-power low-complexity optical wireless sensor system with angular diversity for metal-enclosed environments

    Creator:
    Trullinger, Von
    Abstract:
    The desire to apply short-range wireless communication systems to telemetry sensor networks in a metal-enclosed chamber has prompted this study. This thesis will discuss the design of an infrared (IR) communication system for a wireless low-power, low-data- rate sensor network in a metal enclosure. This design requires an in-depth understanding...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Plant, Dr. Jimmy Yang and Dr. Ratish Punnoose, for taking the time to serve on my defense committee. I

  • Investigating Time-Digital-Converters for Hardware Security in FPGAs

    Creator:
    Lytikov, Daniil
    Abstract:
    In this comprehensive thesis, we present a series of experiments and findings that highlight the critical importance of TDC Voltage Sensors in the hardware security domain. Our research begins by introducing a novel self-calibrating module, demonstrating its efficiency through preliminary calibration tests. We then delve into the Peak-to-Peak tests, which...
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    Masters Thesis

  • Quantum dot plasmon coupling : Fundamental study and applications

    Creator:
    Kannegulla, Akash
    Abstract:
    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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    Dissertation
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    Professor Jimmy Yang for serving as my committee members. I also would like to thank all my current and

  • A 1V 40mA Fast Transient Capless LDO with 7uA Quiescent Current in 180nm CMOS using Ring Amplifier with Adaptive Damping

    Creator:
    Xiao, Bohui
    Abstract:
    Ring amplification has emerged as an efficient technique to drive large capacitive loads in switched capacitor circuits. We propose circuit techniques to demonstrate the first application of a ring amplifier in a non-capacitive feedback system of a LDO. These techniques enable a simple cap-less LDO structure in 180nm CMOS that...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Sun, Yang Xu, Ahmed El-Shater, Calvin Lee, Michael Oatman, and Hang Hu. I wish them the best in the

  • 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

  • Cryptanalysis and enhancement of authentication protocols

    Creator:
    Kim, Minho
    Abstract:
    Authentication protocols play important roles in network security. A variety of authentication protocols ranging from complex public-key cryptosystems to simple password-based authentication schemes have been proposed. However, currently there is no fully secure authentication scheme that can resist all known attacks. When a user authentication is performed over an insecure...
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    Dissertation
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    Wanalertlak, and Wen-Chun Yang that they were always good mentors, general supports and being such good

  • Design techniques for low-power electrical and optical serial link receivers

    Creator:
    Bai, Rui
    Abstract:
    As computation power continues to grow, the demand for data transfer bandwidth is also rising. This is reflected in the increasing data-rate of high-speed links. However, the increase in data-rate is sustainable only if the I/O energy efficiency improves as well. This dissertation explores several techniques to enable high-speed links...
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    Dissertation
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    , Vahid Behravan, Neil Glover, Nan Qi, Liqiong Yang, Shuai Chen from the VLSI research group

  • A Novel CCRW Receiver with Variable Width Window for Mitigating Multipath and Ambiguity in GNSS Positioning

    Creator:
    Alhussein, Fahad
    Abstract:
    This work presents a novel CCRW receiver that utilizes a window of variable width, for e˙ectively mitigating multipath and ambiguity in both civil and military positioning applica-tions using Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). This CCRW receiver incorporates a single stroboscopic window, whose width is iteratively reduced until the e˙ect of...
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    Dissertation