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  • A test fixture and deembedding procedure for high-frequency substrate characterization

    Creator:
    Webb, Kyle M.
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    At frequencies exceeding 1-2 GHz, the substrate network models used in substrate coupling simulation must account for the reactive nature of the substrate. Unlike at low frequencies, where the purely resistive substrate models can be validated through DC resistance measurements, these high-frequency models, comprising reactive components, must be validated through...
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    are presented. c©Copyright by Kyle M. Webb June 27, 2005 All Rights Reserved A Test Fixture and

  • A MOSCAP pipeline pseudo passive DAC

    Creator:
    Behera, Prachee Shree
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    The design of a 10-bit pipelined charge redistribution DAC employing MOSCAPs biased in their accumulation mode is presented in this thesis. A switched capacitor filter and output buffer have also been designed for the system. The effect of MOSCAP nonlinearity on the performance of the pipelined charge redistribution DAC has...
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    : Gabor C. Temes The design of a 10-bit pipelined charge redistribution

  • Discrete trap modeling of thin-film transistors

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    Yerubandi, Ganesh Chakravarthy
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    A discrete trap model is developed and employed for elucidation of thin-film transistor (TFT) device physics trends. An attractive feature of this model is that only two model parameters are required, the trap energy depth, E[subscript T], and the trap density, N[subscript T]. The most relevant trends occur when E[subscript...
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    other questions. Special thanks to my group mates Hai Chang, David Hong, and Matt Spielberg for

  • A comparative study of lowpass continuous-time delta-sigma modulators with pulse-shaped DACs

    Creator:
    Fang, Jie
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    Recently, continuous-time ΔΣ modulators are appearing increasingly often in both the literature and the marketplace due to their features of inherent antialiasing and relaxed requirements for opamp and so on. However, several nonideal factors such as clock jitter, excess loop delay, inter-symbol interference and so on, degrade the SNR performance...
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    : Gábor C Temes Recently, continuous-time ∆Σ modulators are appearing increasingly often in both

  • Noise optimization for low-voltage CMOS audio preamplifier systems

    Creator:
    Brown, Matthew Eugene
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    There is a large and growing market for portable consumer audio products with very small size. As the size of these products is reduced, the area occupied by batteries becomes significant and hence limits the number of batteries to one. In order to build such small products, high levels of...
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    Optimization for Low-Voltage CMOS Audio Preamplifier Systems Abstract approved: Un-Ku Moon Gábor C. Temes

  • Effects of release from suppression on hydraulic architecture, photosynthetic capacity and functional wood characteristics in Douglas-fir and western hemlock

    Creator:
    Renninger, Heidi
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    Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco), a shade intolerant species, and western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla (Raf.) Sarg.), a shade tolerant species, were compared to learn more about the temporal pattern of release from suppression in both species, whether hydraulic architecture or photosynthetic capacity constrain release and how wood functional properties change...
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    approved: Barbara L. Gartner Frederick C. Meinzer Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga

  • A domain-specific embedded language for probabilistic programming

    Creator:
    Kollmansberger, Steven
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    Functional programming is concerned with referential transparency, that is, given a certain function and its parameter, that the result will always be the same. However, it seems that this is violated in applications involving uncertainty, such as rolling a dice. This thesis defines the background of probabilistic programming and domain-specific...
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    University. The process and results of this development are discussed. c©Copyright by Steven

  • Fiber Bragg grating-tunable diode laser

    Creator:
    Ericksen, Doug
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    Continuously tunable diode laser sources coupled to single-mode fiber are useful sources for fiber Bragg grating (FBG) strain sensors. This paper describes the development and fabrication of such a device. An introduction is given describing applications of tunable lasers and some of the different methods of creating a tunable diode...
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    : Multiple Littrow configurations for an ECDL: a) Reflection, b) Transmission, and c) Modified cavity

  • Four centuries of soil carbon and nitrogen change after severe fire in a Western Cascades forest landscape

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    Giesen, Thomas William
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    Fire is a major disturbance process in many forests. Long-term studies of the biogeochemical effects of fires, especially on soils, are very rare. Consequently, long-term effects of fire on soils are often hypothesized from short-term effects. In a chronosequence study, I studied 24 western Cascades (Oregon) forest stands thought to...
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    hypothesized that young stands would have less carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) in forest floor and in 0 -10 cm

  • Persistence of spatial distribution patterns of coastal cutthroat trout in a Cascade mountain stream

    Creator:
    Novick, Marc S.
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    Previous research in South Fork Hinkle Creek suggested that coastal cutthroat trout exhibit an aggregated spatial pattern across multiple spatial scales. To evaluate the persistence of the observed abundance patterns and identify factors that affect those patterns, half-duplex passive integrated transponders (PIT-tags) were implanted in 320 coastal cutthroat trout (>...
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    David Pyke of the United States Geological Survey, Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center (USGS