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  • Implementation of Distributed Localized Communications

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    Snyder, Thomas
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    Artificial collectives are useful for accomplishing tasks that require teamwork from multiple simple robots. Multiple robot and collective testbeds have been developed, yet none stay committed to leverage the local interactions, group size, and imperfect information assumptions that strengthen biological collectives. A review of the collective and multiple robot literature,...
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    Cost Size (mm) Relative Absolute 1 Ant Intelligent Robot [95] Infrared - $390 100× 100 (l × w

  • A Generation Prioritization Method for Power System Restoration with Renewable Resources

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    Mate, Adam
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    The electrical grid is a key component of the Nation's critical infrastructure. Its continuous and reliable operation is of vital importance; any system-wide disruption would have a debilitating impact on crucial services, public health and safety, the economy, and the national security of the United States. High-impact low-frequency events pose...
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    Dissertation
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    Restoration with Renewable Resources AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Adam Mate for the degree of Doctor

  • Random number generation on handheld devices for cryptographic applications

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    Montville, Adam W.
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    Random number generation is important in many fields today. It is particularly important in the field of cryptography when generating nonce values, cryptographic keys, and other data required in many cryptographic applications. The proliferation of small, handheld devices that are typically connected to large networks via a wireless connection requires...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Adam W. Montville for the degree

  • Analysis and modeling of single-ended and differential spiral inductors in silicon-based RFICs

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    Watson, Adam C.
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    A new comprehensive wide-band compact modeling methodology for single-ended spiral inductors and differential spiral inductors is presented. The new modeling methodology creates an equivalent circuit model consisting of frequency-independent circuit elements for use in circuit simulators. A fast automated extraction procedure is developed for determining the circuit element values from...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Adam C. Watson for the degree of

  • An ultra low voltage micropower GPS receiver RF front-end for wildlife tracking

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    Heiberg, Adam C.
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    A fully integrated CMOS GPS receiver RF front end optimized for low power operation is presented. The system operates with a supply voltage down to 250 mV. A prototype has been fabricated in a 0.13μm CMOS process and includes a low voltage LNA, quadrature oscillators, and quadrature mixers. It exhibits...
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    1 AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Adam C. Heiberg for the degree of

  • Instruction fetching, scheduling, and forwarding in a dynamic multithreaded processor

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    Browning, Adam W.
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    Dynamic multithreaded processors attempt to increase the performance of a single sequential program by dynamically extracting threads from sources such as loop iterations. The scheduling of instructions in such a processor plays a vital role in the amount of thread level parallelism that can be extracted and thus the overall...
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    Multithreaded Processor AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Adam W. Browning for the degree of Master of Science

  • Deep ultraviolet solid-state laser development

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    Dutton, David A. (David Adam)
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    There is a new possibility of generating deep ultraviolet laser radiation from a solid-state source. With recent advances in material development, a new nonlinear optical crystal provides a greater damage threshold than current materials making higher conversion efficiencies possible. This thesis examines the possibility of using this crystal to generate...
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    222 . (2.1.6) ω2n and ωn are the indices of refraction at the given light frequencies. L is the

  • Synchronization in a CMOS technology

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    Flannagan, Stephen T.
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    The problem of synchronization arises in the interaction among digital systems not sharing a common clock reference. The reliability of synchronizers is related to metastable operation of bistable elements. Because of its subtle nature, the phenomenon until recently was not widely researched. However, the literature now contains a sound theoretical...
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    figure 3. Smaller values of 6 will result in A IN V1 B IN L----) AOUT \---i--1>-- B V 2 OUT

  • Evaluation of UWB techniques for indoor position locationing

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    Chou, Tai Chian
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    Time of Arrival (TOA) is a popular technique used for geolocation. This thesis evaluates the use of TOA techniques indoors. The accuracy of measuring distances using TOA is dependent on the bandwidth of the system and the multipath conditions between the receiver and transmitter. System bandwidth has a significant effect...
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    . Adam Kent, for sparing the time to serve on my defense committee. I thank Mrs. Ferne and all the

  • Design techniques for high efficiency LED drivers

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    Bang, Sarvesh Jagdish
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    The increasing popularity of cellular phones with integrated cameras in the recent past has led to major improvements in its image quality. However, integration of new features, such as mobile email, video streaming, MP3 etc. tend to put the limitation on image quality as camera phone designers struggle to manage...
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    my academic career. I would also like to thank Prof. Un-Ku Moon, Ted Brekken, and Adam Schultz for

  • Optimizing the advanced encryption standard on Intel's SIMD architecture

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    Godbole, Pankaj
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    The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is the new standard for cryptography and has gained wide support as a means to secure digital data. Hence, it is beneficial to develop an implementation of AES that has a high throughput. SIMD technology is very effective in increasing the performance of some cryptographic...
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    byte from an 12 KeyExpansion (byte key[4*Nk], word w[NB*(NR+l)], NK) begin end word temp i=o

  • Crowdsourcing via Pairwise Co-occurrences: Identifiability and Algorithms

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    Ibrahim, Shahana
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    Crowdsourcing is a popular paradigm to address the high demands for labeled data in big data deluge. It aims to produce accurate labels by effectively integrating noisy, non-expert labeling from crowdsourced workers (annotators). The machine learning community has been studying effective crowdsourcing methods for many years, and many models and...
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    according to Eq. (4.9). Also assume that the constructed Ẑm satisfies ‖Ẑm(:, l)‖1 ≥ η,∀l ∈ {1, . . .KT (m

  • Micro in-lab grid integration of a wave energy converter

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    Okuda, Jeremy S.
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    Ocean wave energy has great potential to develop into a strong and reliable form of renewable energy. As the technology develops, more wave energy converters will be grid interconnected and the variable nature of the ocean will begin to influence the stability of the electrical grid system. There are many...
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  • Advancing Power Grid Computing: Analysis and Synthesis of Wide-Area Data, Distributed Real-Time Hardware-In-the-Loop Simulations, and Machine Learning for Event Detection

    Creator:
    Hagan, Travis
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    Global Positioning Systems have allowed for precise timing of power system measurements over wide areas. This newly found capability has the potential to provide much greater insight into the operation of the power system and its response to contingencies, but few analytical techniques currently exist that provide enough robustness and...
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    < =B 2>F;>)>BGD,A>->@D' G)<-<0;<=8>+<:&<)HIJHKHH L>::<0F<:<0;M90

  • Understanding the ultra-wideband channel within a computer chassis

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    Redfield, Stephen J.
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    Recent developments in computing technology have generated a demand for more streamlined and effective test systems. By replacing traditional in-chassis wired interconnects with a broadcast wireless system, fault detection and error susceptibility will drastically improve, input/output capabilities will expand, and routing complexity will decrease. Ultra-wideband impulse radio's (UWB-IR) characteristic multipath-immunity...
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    . Patrick Chiang, Dr. Raviv Raich, and Dr. Adam Schultz, for giving their valuable time and energy. I

  • An Anthology of Next-Generation WSNs and Transformative IoT Use-Cases

    Creator:
    Williams, Jennifer M.
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    The Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm brought an ever-increasing dependence on low-power devices to collect sensor data and transmit that information to the cloud, placing greater demand on connectivity and lifespan. In response, rapid worldwide innovation demonstrates the trade-offs in processing, communication, and energy consumption with diverse approaches to low-power...
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    , Prof. Matthew Betts, and Prof. Adam Schultz. I extend the utmost thanks to the many others whom helped

  • Fabrication of Cost-effective Flexible Glucose Sensor for Continuous Glucose Monitoring

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    Mullapudi, Sri Sai Kameswara
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    Diabetes is a pandemic that affects nearly 29.1 million Americans and the fourth leading cause of mortality in the US. Type 1 diabetes is a chronic condition which occurs due to little to no production of insulin by the pancreas. This form of diabetes requires constant monitoring of blood glucose...
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    for each of the professors that I took classes from and Drs. Greg Herman, Larry Cheng, Adam Higgins

  • Novel structures for high-speed delta-sigma data converters

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    Chae, Jeong Seok
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    As CMOS processes keep scaling down devices, the maximum operating frequencies of CMOS devices increase, and hence circuits can process very wide band signals. Moreover, the small physical dimensions of transistors allow the placing of many more blocks into a single chip, including highly accurate analog blocks and complicated digital...
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    Professor Adam Schultz for their serving on my graduate committee. I would like thank to the CDADIC

  • Design techniques for time based data converters

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    Gande, Manideep
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    Modern day CMOS processes are characterized by voltage scaling and geometry scaling. Geometry scaling helps reduce gate delays, thereby aiding in the design of data converters which use time based processing. Another artifact of geometry scaling is the increase in complexity of digital circuitry available on traditional analog ICs, as...
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    GCR Prof. Adam Schultz for serving on my program committee. I would like to thank all Dr. Moon’s

  • Efficient Deep Learning Methods for Biomedical Applications

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    Thota, Narayana Bhagirath
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    Deep Learning methods have been gaining a lot of significance for various Biomedical applications for diagnosing several types of diseases. Two applications considered here are: 1) Diabetic Retinopathy Detection and 2) ECG signal Classification (or Arrhythmia Detection). Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) is a major cause of blindness in Diabetic patients, and...
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    ...................................................................................... 20 3.5 ADAM (Adaptive Moment Estimation) Optimizer ........................................ 23

  • Physical vapor deposition of novel thin-film solar absorbers

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    Waters, Benjamin E.
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    Current leading thin-film solar cell technologies, i.e., cadmium telluride (CdTe) and copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS), employ elements which are either toxic (Cd), or rare and/or expensive (In, Te, Ga, and Cd). The aim of this thesis is to investigate new, abundant, non-toxic p-type semiconductors for potential solar absorber application....
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    reader upon request. Benjamin E. Waters, Author In memory of Adam Nathaniel Yauch August 5, 1964

  • Analysis and modeling of coplanar on-chip interconnects on silicon substrates

    Creator:
    Luoh, Yi
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    The electrical behavior of on-chip interconnects has become a dominant factor in silicon-based high speed, RF, and mixed-signal integrated circuits. In particular, the frequency-dependent loss mechanisms in heavily-doped silicon substrates can have a large influence on the transmission characteristics of on-chip interconnects. To optimize the performance of the integrated circuit,...
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    closed-form expressions for the frequency-dependent line parameters R(w), L(w), G(w), and C(w) for

  • New configurations for RF/microwave bandstop and lowpass filters

    Creator:
    Peddibhotla, Harish V.
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    This thesis presents new, compact configurations for RF/microwave bandstop and lowpass filters for embedded passive applications. A simple design methodology is presented for designing the folded-transmission line filters on a microstrip platform. Unlike the conventional stub-loaded filter designs, the proposed folded-line filters will have practical dimensions for a wide range...
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    -form design equations for the frequency independent R, L, C components have been developed for

  • Multi-channel Stochastic Resource Allocation and Dynamic Access Scheduling

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    Wang, Qiwei
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    Modern communication systems often have the ability to transmit signals on multiple communication mediums (e.g., RF, visible light) or interfaces (e.g., MAC layer protocols) at the same time. While each channel has different characteristics, a centralized controller with channel condition information will be able to schedule the resource allocated to...
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    are modeled as queues N tuple, denoting the backlog length of each application. st = (lt0, l t 1

  • Static task scheduling and grain packing in parallel processing systems

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    Kruatrachue, Boontee
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    We extend previous results for optimally scheduling concurrent program modules, called tasks, on a fixed, finite number of parallel processors in two fundamental ways: (1) we introduce a new heuristic which considers the time delay imposed by message transmission among concurrently running tasks; and (2) we introduce a second heuristic...
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    compared to other heuristics [Adam 74]. In order to be more realistic, we need to add the communication

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

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    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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    concatenation of a center context Cn, a left context Ln, and a right context Rn of sizes c, l, and r

  • A case for application-based linear transformers : applied towards text-to-spectrogram

    Creator:
    Agostinelli, Victor
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    Various natural language processing (NLP) tasks necessitate deep models that are fast, efficient, and small based on their ultimate application at the edge or elsewhere. While significant investigation has furthered the efficiency and reduced the size of these models, reducing their downstream latency without significant trade-offs remains a difficult task....
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    decoding time-step 1 to m, with the current decoding time-step being represented as m + 1. - Key m+l

  • Information-theoretic Approach to Design and Evaluate Privacy-preserving and Fair Frameworks for Continuous High-dimensional Data

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    Alsulaimawi, Zahir Ahmed Hussein
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    Deep learning is becoming the latest trend in sensitive applications, such as healthcare, criminal justice, and finance. As these new applications emerge, adversaries are circumventing them. Further, there have been concerns about the possibility of bias and discrimination in predictive applications. In order to address these issues, we propose an...
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    , and its true risk w.r.t. P is R( f ) , EP(X ,Y )[L( f (x),y)], where L : Y ×Y → R is a given loss

  • Printing 3D Magnetic Composite Structures with Arbitrary Anisotropy using UV-curable Magnetic Ink

    Creator:
    Clay, Garrett
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    Inkjet printing offers a cost effective, highly customizable method for rapid manufacturing of functional devices with minimal material waste. Although this method has been used for a variety of composites, little work has been done in the area of 3D printing magnetic composites. Presented here is a process for inkjet...
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    printing project – Han Song, Jeremy Spencer, April Fisher, Adam Fargher and Partha Paul. I would be remiss

  • Large Scale Tensor Decomposition Algorithms Using Block-randomized Stochastic Proximal Gradient

    Creator:
    Gao, Cheng
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    We consider the problem of computing the cannonical polyadic decomposition (CPD) for large-scale dense tensors. This work is a combination of alternating least squares and fiber sampling. Data sparsity can be leveraged to handle large tensor CPD, but this route is not feasible for dense data. Inspired by stochastic optimization's...
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    (J × L) produces a IJ ×KL matrix A⊗B :=  BA(1, 1) BA(1, 2) · · · BA(1,K) BA(2, 1) BA(2, 2

  • Power System Resilience Following a Cascadia Subduction Zone Earthquake

    Creator:
    Weinmann, Riley
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    Just off the coast of the Pacific Northwest lies the Cascadia Subduction Zone (CSZ); odds of a very large CSZ earthquake occurring in the next 50 years is estimated to be about 37%. A CSZ seismic event has the potential to cause wide scale damage not just to the power...
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    . Tomoiaga, P. Taylor, and L. Cipcigan. The Identification of Critical Equipment and Optimum Configurations

  • Evaluating the Effects of System Operators’ Response on the Propagation of PowerSystem Cascading Failures

    Creator:
    Hennessy, Conor F.
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    The majority of power system cascading models assume that system operators will react perfectly and timely to an electrical event. However, as evidenced by several blackouts in the last decades, the inadequate system operators’ situation awareness and response can contribute significantly to the severity of an electrical disturbance. Under these...
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    Honors College Thesis
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    L N S vs N o D el ay C as e Change in LNS vs Operator Response Delay for RTS 96 Case 0

  • Analysis and modeling of monolithic on-chip transformers on silicon substrates

    Creator:
    Mayevskiy, Yevgeniy
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    Passive components, including spiral inductors and transformers, fabricated on silicon-based substrates are placing an increasing demand on radio-frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) design. Performance of the RFIC suffers from several non-ideal effects that must be taken into account in order to create a successful design. In particular, monolithic transformers can be...
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    as well as wonderful lectures he gave in the classes. Thanks to my colleagues, Adam Watson, Amy

  • Development of high efficiency solar absorbers

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    Ravichandran, Ram
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    Current cadmium telluride and copper indium gallium diselenide thin-film solar cells (TFSCs) utilize thick absorbers (2 - 4 μm). For efficient carrier extraction in these TFSCs, the absorber layer requires high carrier mobilities and a long minority carrier lifetime, which necessitates the use of a high purity, defect-free thin film....
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    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 3.5 Components of an ellipsometer, including a lamp source (L), linear polar- izer (P

  • An ultra low power frequency reference for timekeeping applications

    Creator:
    Oporta, Hector Ivan
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    An ultra low power crystal oscillator that provides a frequency reference for battery powered timekeeping applications is presented. An amplitude control circuit is employed to ensure that minimum current is consumed. A subthreshold voltage regulator provides a supply voltage for the oscillator with minimum current consumption. The oscillator and regulator...
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    document. Finally, I would like to thank James Ayers, Thomas Brown, Adam Heiberg, Steve Meliza, Napong

  • Decoding EEG Signals to Detect and Classify Hand Movement

    Creator:
    McGrath, Patrick
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    Electroencephalogram (EEG) signals have recently gained attention to classify associated hand movement. This is particularly useful for amputees with prostatic hands or people who are unable to move their hands voluntarily. Among the decoding algorithms used to classify hand movements are support vector machines and multilayer perceptron networks. In this...
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    ] = 1 5 ∑𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟_𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑎[𝑡][𝑙] 5 𝑙=1 The hand’s averaged readings were subsequently

  • Network Traffic-Driven Hybrid Learning for Classifying Seen and Unseen IoT Device Types

    Creator:
    Bao, Jiaqi
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    IoT networks can be viewed as collections of Internet-enabled physical devices and objects, embedded with sensor, actuator, computation, storage and communication components, that are capable of connecting and exchanging data to one another. In recent years, organizations have allowed more and more IoT devices to be connected to their networks,...
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    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 5.1 The confusion matrix with L=2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 5.2 The

  • Location Privacy Preservation for Optimal Sensing in Cognitive Radio Networks

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    Grissa, Mohamed
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    Cognitive Radio Networks (CRNs) enable opportunistic access to the licensed channel resources by allowing unlicensed users to exploit vacant channel opportunities. One effective technique through which unlicensed users, often referred to as Secondary Users (SUs), acquire whether a channel is vacant is cooperative spectrum sensing. Despite its effectiveness in enabling...
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    of a binary string s = sγ sγ−1 . . . s1 ∈ {0, 1}l is given by S0 = {sγ sγ−1 . . . si+11|si = 0, 1

  • A P-well GaAs MESFET technology

    Creator:
    Canfield, Philip C.
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    The semiconductor gallium arsenide (GaAs) has many potential advantages over the more widely used semiconductor silicon (Si). These include higher low field mobility, semi-insulating substrates, a direct band-gap, and greater radiation hardness. All these advantages offer distinct opportunities for implementation of new circuit functions or extension of the operating conditions...
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    used for the gates. L Figure 2.1 GaAs MESFET. SEMIINSULATING GaAs SUBSTRATE 1 Cross-sectional

  • CAM : a new Circuit Augmentation Method for modeling interconnects and passive components

    Creator:
    Kolstad, Joel W.
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    Contemporary circuit design involves significant computer-based simulation, calling for a balance between circuit model accuracy and simulation run time. Traditionally, circuit modelers concentrated on producing either (1) physically-based models, where each element in the model correlates to a physically meaningful aspect of the device being modeled or (2) mathematically-based "macromodels,"...
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    Daniel Melendy and Adam Watson. Eric Vernon has also contributed to CAM’s code base. Most of the data

  • Direct torque control for brushless doubly-fed machines

    Creator:
    Brassfield, William R.
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    The Brushless Doubly-Fed Machine (BDFM) has recently become an important research topic in the field of variable-speed AC drives. In recent studies, the BDFM has shown significant potential for improving the reliability and performance of AC drive systems, as well as reducing total system cost. While the BDFM offers several...
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    , David Goodwin, Mark Descalzo, Adam Lund, Jonathan Johnson, and our group leader, Jeff Harris. I also

  • Leveraging Multiple Transmissions and Receptions for Channel-Agnostic Wireless Device Identification

    Creator:
    Basha, Nora
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    Enabling accurate and automated identification of wireless devices is critical for ensuring secure and authenticated data communication in large-scale networks such as IoT networks. In the aim of devising practical identification techniques that are immune to spoofing, hardware-driven RF fingerprinting using deep neural networks, which leverages the inevitable presence of...
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    techniques. 3.2 Mitigating AWGN Channel Impact For a SIMO system with L receiving antennas sending a signal

  • The Architecture of a Reusable Built-In Self-Test for Link Training, IO and Memory Defect Detection and Auto Repair on 14nm Intel SOC

    Creator:
    Querbach, Bruce
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    The complexity of designing and testing today's system on chip (SOC) is increasing due to greater integrated circuit (IC) density and higher IO and memory frequencies. SOCs for the mobile phone and tablet market have the unique challenge of short product development windows, at times less than six months, and...
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    his insights on DDR debug, data collection, and paper contribution 10. Adam Taylor for sharing his

  • A nano-power wake-up circuit for RF energy harvesting wireless sensor networks

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    Lindsley, Christopher J.
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    A fully integrated CMOS latched comparator is presented for use as a wake-up circuit that is attached to an RF energy harvester in a battery free wireless sensor network. The system consumes less than 36nA static current at 20°C and dissipates 2pJ of energy per conversion. The comparator comprises of...
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    Weaver, Ben Hershberg, Farah Farahbakhshian, Hector Oporta, Steve Meliza, and Adam Heiberg all helped

  • Ultra-low energy digital logic controller design for wireless sensor networks

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    Meliza, Stephen W.
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    Low energy design techniques for digital circuits are examined to determine their suitability for use in a digital logic controller for wireless sensor network nodes. Transistor level simulations are used to evaluate the techniques and those demonstrating an energy reduction are used to implement a digital logic controller. The digital...
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    , Triet Lee, Thomas Brown, James Ayers, Napong Panitantum, Adam Heiberg, Hector Oporta, Farhad Farah

  • Weak-supervision Time-series Analysis

    Creator:
    You, Zeyu
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    Efficient time-series analysis can impact multiple application domains such as motif discovery in gene analysis or music data, extracting spectro-temporal patterns in acoustic scene analysis, or annotating and classifying electrical bio-signals (such as ECG, EEG, and EMG) for medical applications. Time-series analysis involves a variety of tasks. To predict future...
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    are sparse. minimize w,X0 kX0 �Xk2F subject to kwx0ik0  p� l, 81  i  n, kwjk2 = 1, 81  j  p

  • Analysis and modeling of multi-mode effects in coplanar waveguide bends

    Creator:
    Senguttuvan, Rajarajan
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    A novel method for modeling bends in coplanar waveguides (CPWs) is described. The CPW can be viewed as a pair of parallel coupled quasi-slot lines. Bends in the CPW are modeled as a non-uniform coupled line system in terms of their even- and odd- mode characteristics. This modeling approach is...
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    colleagues, Amy Luoh, Harish Peddhibhotla, Sorwar Hossain, Yevgeniy Mayevisky, Adam Watson, Kala Gururajan

  • Growing digital circuits : logic synthesis and minimization with genetic operators

    Creator:
    Dill, Karen M.
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    This research applies the biologically inspired, artificial evolutionary processes of Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming to digital hardware circuit synthesis and minimization. In this new application, three approaches are taken to genetic hardware development. First, as a method for logic synthesis, Genetic Programming is applied to the building of logic...
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    Meyer, Herbert L. Roitblat, and Stewart W. Wilson (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1993

  • Quantum dot plasmon coupling : Fundamental study and applications

    Creator:
    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

  • New Detection Methods for Transmission at Faster-Than-Nyquist Rates Using Quasi-Orthogonal Sequences

    Creator:
    Fang, Zhou
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    Direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) was initially used for anti-jamming in military applications and was later developed in other commercial applications. Walsh codes, which are a set of mutually orthogonal codes, are one type of the spreading codes used in DSSS systems. For any spreading codes of length N, these...
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    for any i and j(i 6= j). c) For any fi ∈ F , but /∈ Wm, wj ∈ Wm, and any integer L, r, where L = 2l, 2