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

    Creator:
    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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    Masters Thesis
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Jeremy S

  • Development, fabrication, and characterization of transparent electronic devices

    Creator:
    Hoffman, Randy L.
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    The objective of this thesis is to provide an initial demonstration of the feasibility of constructing highly transparent active electronic devices. Such a demonstration is successfully achieved in the fabrication of ZnO-based thin film transistors (TFTs) exhibiting transparency greater than ~90% in the visible portion of the electromagnetic spectrum and...
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    Masters Thesis
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Randy L. Hoffman for the degree of

  • Processor memory traffic characteristics for on-chip cache

    Creator:
    Ho, Jeremy Yui Luen
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    The motivation of this research is to study different cache designs for on-chip caches that improve processor performance and at the same time minimize the degradation to system performance caused by an increase in the processor memory traffic. As VLSI technology advances we can have bigger and more complex on-chip...
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    cache AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF (Jeremy) Yui Luen Ho for the degree of Master of Science in

  • Theoretical and experimental investigations of FSK data transmission in the noise and interference environment of broadband two-way cable television systems

    Creator:
    Anderson, Harry R.
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    Two-way transmission of data on broadband community cable television systems is considered in this thesis. A discussion of the data transmission environment is presented which attempts to characterize the channel noise and interference which degrades data transmission performance. The analysis considers channel degradation resulting from additive gaussian noise and various...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Environment of Broadband Two-Way Cable Television Systems Redacted for privacy Abstract approved: Rudolf S

  • Pattern recognition of speech using hybrid computer feature extraction

    Creator:
    Herr, Alan Jack
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    Most technological problems associated with man-machine conversations have been solved and are well documented in both the contemporary technical and lay literature. The major remaining technological problem is the real time conversion of a human's vocal uterances into a "written" phoneme sequence representing the information content of speech. The work...
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    Dissertation
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    for Privacy Abstract approved: (S. A. Stone) Most technological problems associated with man-machine

  • Ultra-low energy digital controller for battery-free wireless sensor network nodes

    Creator:
    Nasroullahi, Mohsen
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    This thesis presents a low-energy application specific digital controller for a battery-free 2.4 GHz wireless sensor network (WSN) node. The digital controller has been designed and fabricated in a standard 0.13 μm CMOS and implements a simple protocol for WSNs. Techniques such as supply voltage reduction and power gating have...
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    : Terri S. Fiez Kartikeya Mayaram This thesis presents a low-energy application specific digital

  • Analysis and design on low-power short-range radios for wireless body area networks

    Creator:
    Cheng, Jiao
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    The release of the IEEE802.15.6 standard has led to increased interest in low-power technologies for wireless body-area-networks (WBANs). The power dissipation, supply voltage, and die area are some of the most important criteria for successful WBAN implementations. Digital-intensive RX architectures can potentially result in sub-1V operation with significant reductions in...
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    Dissertation
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    . Abstract approved: ______________________________________________________ Patrick Yin Chiang Arun S

  • Generalized modal analysis of electromagnetic- and quantum-waveguide structures and discontinuities

    Creator:
    Weisshaar, Andreas
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    Generalized modal analysis techniques for the characterization and modeling of dissipationless planar waveguide structures and discontinuities encountered in microwave and optical integrated circuits, as well as of quantum waveguide structures and devices, are presented. The frequency-dependent transmission properties of the curved microstrip bend are derived by utilizing a second-order perturbation...
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    for Privacy Abstract approved: HH Ru lf S. Engeltfrecht Redacted for Privacy VijairK. Generalized

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

    Creator:
    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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    Masters Thesis
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    steady state electrochemical cell reaction is given by equation 2.4. 𝐴𝑔𝐶𝑙(𝑠) + 𝑒 − ↔ 𝐴𝑔(𝑠

  • Low-cost deposition methods for transparent thin-film transistors

    Creator:
    Norris, Benjamin J.
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    The objective of this dissertation is to introduce low-cost processing methods for the fabrication of ZnO transparent thin-film transistors (TTFTs). A novel method for depositing ZnO body layers via spin-coating of a zinc nitrate-based spin solution is presented. The processing conditions of spin-coated ZnO are optimized to produce continuous and...
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    Dissertation
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    . Spin-coated ZnO TTFT mobilities are consistently in the range of 0.1 - 0.2 cm2/V s. Spin-coating