Browsing Auburn Theses and Dissertations by Department "Electrical Engineering"
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Characterization and Modeling of 28nm RF MOSFETs and SiGe HBTs
(2015-12-10)
Both the second and third order intermodulation linearities (IP3 and IP2) are characterized on 28nm RF MOSFETs. The impacts of biasing, device size, frequency, and gate length on IP3 are discussed. With both DC and RF ...
Characterization of Thermally Induced Stress in IC Packages using Piezoresistive Sensors
(2015-05-05)
This thesis presents the characterization of thermally induced stress in IC packages using CMOS sensor circuits. In various applications, the IC packages are exposed to extreme environments. The knowledge of the thermally ...
Coaxial Probe for High Temperature Dielectric Characterization
(2010-07-06)
Wireless technologies have become an integral part in how we coexist on a daily basis. Specifically, the use of antenna systems plays a huge role in our daily lives. These antenna systems are largely used in some form for ...
Cold Cathode Materials for Pseudospark Switches
(2010-04-14)
In general, for plasma switches, the initiation of the plasma is critical and this is usually achieved by a “trigger” scheme. The seed electrons needed to initiate a breakdown can be generated by several means such as ...
Communication model and Optical Flow to Aid Collaborative Robotics Search Strategy
(2013-07-10)
This thesis provides an analysis of how communication among robots improves search performance in a multi-robot search and rescue scenario. Mobility models have been used to represent the movement patterns in vehicular and ...
Comparison of Chinese and International Harmonic, Interharmonic and Flicker Standards
(2014-09-11)
Power quality is one of the essential problems related to daily life with growing quantities of power electronic equipment invading our homes, offices and factories. Standards for power quality, including harmonics, ...
Comparison of Derivative Free Algorithms in Optimization High Dimension Problems
(2015-12-08)
Gradient free optimization algorithms are often used when gradient information of a function is not available or it is difficult and costly to obtain or estimate. Many kinds of derivative free algorithms are used in the ...
Connectivity analysis of functional MRI data in the latent neuronal space: Applications in science and medicine
(2014-04-25)
Since the inception of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) there has been a steady growth in the number of studies utilizing this non-invasive method to gain insights into the brain function in both healthy and ...
Considerations and Options for High Temperature Die Attach
(2010-07-27)
Development of electronics that can withstand temperatures ranging from 200oC up to 600oC is a growing research area. More electronic aircraft, space exploration and in engine automotive electronics are some examples of ...
Controlled Transition Density Based Power Constrained Scan-BIST with Reduced Test Time
(2012-03-08)
Controlling power dissipation in large circuits during test sessions is one of the major concerns in VLSI testing. The reason behind the high power dissipation during test is because unlike normal mode operation of the ...
Current Sensing Completion Detection for High Speed and Area Efficient Arithmetic
(2010-12-17)
Adders and multipliers are the most widely used computational units in integrated circuits. In many compact low power and high speed designs, more complex arithmetic operations such as multiplication are performed through ...
Data Extraction from Servers by the Internet Robot
(2009-07-15)
Data extraction from internet is a way to download and extract the required data automatically from web servers. In this thesis, we present a method called the Internet Robot to extract the data directly from a web server ...
DC Parametric Test and IDDQ Test Using Advantest T2000 ATE
(2015-07-24)
For purpose of improving quality of devices before shipping to customers, VLSI
testing methods have been developed to detect defective devices effectively by using
automatic test equipment (ATE). To test a chip properly, ...
Design and Construction of Carbon NanoTubes (CNTs) Triggered Pseudospark Switch
(2012-05-07)
Pseudospark switches have been used as fast closing switches in pulsed power systems. Advantages include high hold off voltage of 10s kV, high conduction current of ~104 A, fast current rise time of 1011 A/s, low delay and ...
Design and Implementation of a Dual Excited Planar Circular Array Antenna for Base Stations
(2009-11-13)
Smart antennas present a promising solution to the present day capacity and coverage shortage in mobile wireless communications. These intelligent antennas when used at the base station can avoid a lot of interference by ...
Design and Implementation of Digital Current Mode Control
(2015-05-11)
Presented in this dissertation are three digital control methods of current mode control for switch-mode power supplies. Both the current and voltage loop are implemented on the digital processor. Digital versions of peak ...
Design and Optimization of Free Space Optical Networks
(2010-11-12)
Recent advances in wireless communication technologies and the explosive growth of the number and variety of mobile devices and multimedia applications motivate the development of next generation wireless networks, i.e., ...
Design and Simulation of a High Frequency Exactly Solvable Chaotic Oscillator
(2012-07-27)
It has been shown that the performance of communication systems based on low dimensional chaotic systems with exact analytic solutions containing a single fixed basis function may exhibit performance comparable to that of ...
Design and Testing of an Electronic Load Board for Power Supply Validation and Verification
(2014-05-05)
As the need for high efficiency in power supplies increases, so does the need to test and verify the designs of the supplies. To test the design, efficiency, and reliability of a low-voltage, high-current power supply, an ...
Design of 3.33GHz CML Processor Datapath
(2012-04-17)
Almost a decade processor speed has been stuck at operating frequency 2-3GHz due to excessive power consumption of CMOS logic gate at higher frequency whereas predicted speed at present was 10-15GHz. This leads the idea ...