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Detecting stalled or slow-moving vehicles at night by Optical Sensing - a feasibility study
(2014-12-04)
In developing countries and areas without adequate infrastructure, a system that can work towards automobile accident reduction without heavy infrastructural dependence or in-vehicle installation will have a shorter ...
The PC Sound Card as a Voltage Measurement Platform in Power System Applications
(2014-11-24)
In this thesis document, the feasibility of using a PC sound card to replace traditional data acquisition (DAQ) devices for the measurement of voltage signals in power system applications is discussed. Communication between ...
Detecting and Characterizing Voltage Sags and Swells Using RMS Variation Calculations
(2014-11-24)
Power quality is of increasing interest in the field of power engineering. Analyzing variations in power quality is essential to determining the causes of fluctuations in the power system. Sifting through data to find ...
Photovoltaic effect and quadratic electro-optic modulation in specific iodine-doped nonconjugated conductive polymers
(2014-10-10)
In this thesis, photovoltaic effect and quadratic electro-optic modulation in specific iodine-doped nonconjugated conductive polymers (NCP) have been reported. Exceptionally large quadratic electro-optic effects in specific ...
Single and Multi-Phase Synchronous Buck Converter Voltage Control with Modeling, PID Controller Design, and Digital Implementation
(2014-07-03)
This paper covers the modeling and design of a digital controller for a single and multi-phase synchronous buck converter. First, a general overview of the power switching point-of-load (POL) converters will be presented. ...
Efficient Determination of Copper Electroplating Chemistry Additives using Advanced Neural Network Algorithms
(2015-04-30)
Copper plating is the metallization process of choice for modern semiconductor devices. It has proven to be a relatively inexpensive and simple process and easily adaptable to high volume manufacturing. The development of ...
Pre-bond TSV Test Optimization and Stacking Yield Improvement for 3D ICs
(2014-12-10)
Through silicon via (TSV) based three-dimensional IC (3D IC) exhibits various advantages over traditional two-dimensional IC (2D IC), including heterogeneous integration,reduced delay and power dissipation, compact device ...
Hybrid Learning of Feedforward Neural Networks for Regression Problems
(2014-12-12)
Inspired by the structure and functional aspects of the biological neural networks, the Artificial Neural Network (ANN) is a very popular model in the machine learning fields to
learn complex relationships in the data. ...
Layout and Assembly of a High Efficiency Multi-Phase Buck Converter Utilizing Chip Scale GaN Devices
(2014-07-22)
As the world becomes increasingly immersed in the Information Age, more and more supercomputers and datacenters must be built to keep up with humanity’s demand for electronic information. As the number of these facilities ...
Device Simulation of Density of Interface States of Temperature Dependent Carrier Concentration in 4H-SiC MOSFETs
(2014-07-29)
Interface traps play an important role in the SiO2/4H-SiC interface. They are crucial
issues for the current and trans-conductance in 4H-SiC MOSFET devices. In this thesis,
we present a temperature and bias dependent ...