Browsing Auburn University Graduate School by Department "Electrical and Computer Engineering"
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3D Device Simulation of SEU-Induced Charge Collection in 200 GHz SiGe HBTs
(2005-12-15)
This thesis presents three dimensional device simulations of SEU (single-event
upset)-induced charge collection in 200 GHz SiGe HBTs. The device was constructed
and simulated using Davinci.
The charge collected by each ...
An 8-bit 80-MS/s SAR ADC with Proposed S/H and Control Logic
(2017-04-15)
In recent years, state-of-the-art Successive Approximation Register (SAR) ADCs have been operated at hundreds of MHz bandwidth or even GHz bandwidth by time interleaved for communication applications. This thesis proposes ...
An Accurate CMOS Four-Quadrant Analog Multiplier
(2006-05-15)
Analog multipliers are used in communication circuits, neural networks as well as frequency doublers, RMS circuits and phase detectors. High linearity is the prime issue for multipliers in conventional applications like ...
Active Power Damping Control using Renewable Energy Sources
(2023-12-06)
This Ph.D. report navigates the global energy landscape shaped by ambitious carbon reduction goals. Solar photovoltaic (PV) and wind energy, driving the growth of renewable energy sources (RESs), signal a significant ...
Ad-hoc and Multi-hop Wireless Sensor Networks for Activity Capture in Cooperative Robotics
(2006-12-15)
Cooperative robotics has been the focus of attention of various groups in recent years. The idea of using a team of robots instead of a single one to execute a task came from the necessity of accomplishing a task that is ...
Additive Nanomanufacturing of Flexible Hybrid Electronics
(2023-05-04)
There is always great interest in finding new advanced manufacturing techniques to pave the way for realization of future flexible and wearable electronics. Direct printing of functional materials, structures, and devices ...
Additive Nanomanufacturing of Multifunctional and Multimaterial Devices
(2024-12-05)
There is always great interest in finding new advanced manufacturing techniques to pave the way for the realization of future flexible and wearable electronics. Direct printing of functional materials, structures, and ...
Advanced Clustering Methods and Applications for Data Visualization
(2018-04-13)
Categorizing all sorts of data without any label information is one of the most important tasks in preprocessing raw data. To achieve that, an unsupervised learning technique, called clustering, is utilized. Generally, ...
Advances in Electronic Chaotic Oscillators with Applications in Communication Systems and Radar System
(2019-07-18)
Chaos theory is an emerging topic in electronics due to some of the inherent properties that
can be considered advantageous in particular applications. Some of these properties include
topological mixing, continuous power ...
Advances in Electronic Packaging and Integration Processes for Cryogenic and Superconductive Applications
(2024-12-10)
As superconducting electronics continue to mature, the need for more dense electronic packaging is critical for the scalability of cryogenic systems. This requires developments in flip chip processes, wire bond processes, ...
Aging-Induced Long-Term Data Remanence in SRAM Cells
(2023-04-28)
Within the electronics industry, data recovery has been a primary focus of security experts and researches for decades. The vast majority of this research has been performed and realized in the form of hard disk recovery, ...
AI-aided System and Design Technology Co-optimization Methodology Towards Designing Energy-efficient and High-performance AI Accelerators
(2024-11-18)
The rapid growth of artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning (DL) workloads has created an urgent need for more efficient and high-performance AI accelerators, both at the edge and in cloud data centers. The computational ...
Alternative Techniques for Built-In Self-Test of Field Programmable Gate Arrays
(2005-08-15)
In the Built-In Self-Test method of testing the logic and interconnect resources of the Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), configuration time and time to retrieve of the test results dominate the duration of the test. ...
Ambiguous Energy Suppression in Encryption Derived Pseudo-Random BPSK Radar Signals
(2021-12-01)
In this thesis, a pseudo-random binary phase shift keying (BPSK) radar signal is developed using Advanced Encryption Standard (AES-192). The primary objective of this encryption based BPSK (E-BPSK) signal is to provide a ...
Analysis and Correction of Three-Dimensional Proximity Effect in Binary E-Beam Nano-Lithography
(2007-05-15)
One of the fundamental problems in transferring a circuit pattern onto a substrate using electron beam lithography is the proximity effect, which is due to electron scattering in the resist
and results in the ``non-ideal"" ...
Analysis and Optimization of Lithographic Performance on Massively-Parallel Electron-beam Systems
(2023-04-24)
While electron-beam (e-beam) lithography is widely used in transferring fine-feature patterns onto a substrate, its major drawback is the low throughput, especially for large-scale patterns. The massively-parallel electron-beam ...
Analysis of DC Power Systems Containing Induction Motor-Drive Loads
(2006-05-15)
The development of an analytical method used for conducting a power flow analysis on a DC power system containing multiple motor-drive loads is presented. The method is fast, simplistic, easy to implement, and produces ...
Analysis of Flywheel Energy Storage Systems for Frequency Support
(2021-03-02)
Flywheels have been used to store energy in rotation for centuries. However, they were previously not suited for storing electrical energy because of their lower operating speed. However, with AC to DC converters, the ...
Analysis of Simulated Performance of Integrated Vector Tracking and Navigation Loops for GPS
(2005-12-15)
An alternative GPS signal tracking method that uses an extended Kalman-Bucy filter in place of traditional independent, parallel tracking loops is presented in this thesis. Furthermore, this method is extended into a ...
Analytic Derivation and Minimization of Line Edge Roughness in Electron-beam Lithography
(2017-12-01)
Electron-beam (e-beam) lithography is widely employed in a variety of areas such as fabrication of photomasks, imprint lithography molds, and experimental circuit patterns, etc., because of its ability to transfer ultra-fine ...