Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering: Recent submissions
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Optical emission study of ion composition in an inductively coupled oxygen plasma
(2015-08-21)The success of ion implantation to precisely modify substrate properties is dependent on controlling the incident ion energies to achieve the desired depth of the implanted ions. Oxygen plasmas generally contain both O+ ... -
Assessing the Performance of Computational Engineering Codes
(2015-05-18)The goal of this thesis is threefold. First, it attempts to gauge the performance of different computational engineering libraries on different platforms. Given a numerical computing library, we compare the performance ... -
Exploring Full-Duplex Gains in Multi-Cell Wireless Networks: A Spatial Stochastic Framework
(2015-05-18)Full-duplex radio technology is becoming mature and holds potential to boost the spectrum efficiency of a point-to-point wireless link. However, a fundamental understanding is still lacking, with respect to its advantage ... -
Design and Analysis of a Quasi-Parallel Regulated Switched-Capacitor Converter
(2014-12-19)In this research, a method to regulate switched-capacitor converters (SCC) by utilizing a regulated magnetic converter in a quasi-parallel configuration is proposed, analyzed, and experimentally verified for a telecommunication ... -
Thermal Feasibility Analysis of Periodic Real-Time Tasks with Jitter
(2014-08-24)It is well-known that spatial and temporal variations in power density within a processor core creates thermal hot spots where the temperatures can exceed 100 C. Such temperatures can degrade device reliability and adversely ... -
Performance Evaluation of a DySER FPGA Prototype
(2014-08-25)Specialization and accelerators are being proposed as an effective way to address the slowdown of Dennard scaling. DySER is one such accelerator, which dynamically synthesizes large compound functional units to match program ... -
The Application of High-Frequency Microwaves in Tissue Ablation for Cancer Treatment
(2014-05-18)The study demonstrates the feasibility of using high-frequency microwaves for tissue ablation by comparing the performance of a 10 GHz microwave ablation system with that of a 1.9 GHz system. Two sets of floating sleeve ... -
Guided Resonance in Photonic Crystals
(2014-05-18)The objective of this thesis research is to analyze the guided resonances in photonic crystal slabs. It introduces the different kinds of photonic crystals and focuses on photonic crystal slabs consisting of a square lattice ... -
Intracranial Pressure Sensor
(2014-05-18)Develop and fabricate a permanently implanted passive pressure sensor to measure intracranial pressure (ICP). At anytime, the hydrocephalic patient, care taker, or physician can hold an external display device over the ... -
Sensitivity Calculation of Different Parameters for Power Plant Collaboration
(2014-05-18)This paper introduces a dynamic simulation method to simulate a WECC 4 bus power plant model and discusses various optimization approaches to better simulate the model by varying some parameter values. -
Benchmark Creation for Multi-Personality and Content-Aware Circuit Partitioning Algorithms
(2014-05-18)This report documents efforts to assemble and modify a set of benchmark circuits for testing a new class of circuit partitioning algorithms designed for heterogeneous FPGAs. Often, computations can be implemented using ... -
A Parallel Algorithm for Multi-view Image Denoising
(2014-05-18)In this paper, we propose to improve the denoising performance by exploiting the redundancy provided by the multiple views. Here, we review the rich literature on image denoising methods. Zhang et. al. in [1] conjecture ... -
HARMONIC-SUPPRESSED MINIATURIZED-ELEMENT FREQUENCY SELECTIVE SURFACES WITH HIGHER-ORDER BANDPASS RESPONSES
(2013-12-22)In this reprot, we introduce a new technique for designing miniaturized-element frequency selective surfaces (MEFSSs) with bandpass responses and no spurious transmission windows over extremely large bandwidths. The ... -
METHODS AND ANALYSIS OF THE HSX TRANSMISSION LINE WITH SMOOTH-WALL AND PERTURBED-WALL LAUNCHERS
(2013-12-22)Gaussian beams are electromagnetic waves with Gaussian distribution amplitudes in the transverse directions and are important for electron cyclotron heating (ECRH) in many plasma fusion experiments. Systems that have the ... -
Surface Emitting Semiconductor Laser Thermal and Radiation Analysis
(2013-12-22)This paper discusses the topic of semiconductor laser, focused on two types of surface emitting laser: Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser and Quantum Cascade Laser. The author analyzes the temperature profile in VCSEL ... -
REALIZATION OF A MULTILEVEL, BIDIRECTIONAL BUCK-DERIVED CONVERTER
(2013-08-25)This thesis centers on the realization of a multilevel, bidirectional buck-derived DC-DC converter whose typology is capable of extremely large transformation ratios. The emphasis of this work is on the mode of operation ... -
DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF A HIGH FREQUENCY RESONANT SEPIC BIDIRECTIONAL CONVERTER AND THE ASSOCIATED BATTERY MODELING FOR BATTERY EQUALIZATION APPLICTATIONS
(2013-08-25)In this thesis, a high frequency resonant SEPIC bidirectional converter is proposed that has applications in battery equalization and charging/discharging. Motivations and applications for battery equalization are explored. ... -
Development of an Imaging Platform for Maize Kernel Morphology
(2013-07-25)The field of computer vision can play a significant role in measuring features that describe the physical appearance of maize kernels. Extending a computer vision system to an almost automatic process can create a high ... -
Device Thermal Control for Three Phase Three Level Neutral Point Clamped Inverters
(2013-08-25)Efficiency, lifetime, and reliability are important factors in the selection of a particular power converter to meet today?s industrial needs. There have been many recent advances in power converter topologies and power ... -
THERMAL MANAGEMENT OF THE HYBRID MEMORY CUBE
(2013-05-19)Main memory performance is becoming an increasingly important factor contributing to overall system performance, especially due to the so-called memory wall. The Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) is a novel 3D heterogenous ...