Browsing by Department "Electrical and Computer Engineering"
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Signal Integrity Challenges and Solutions at Cryogenic Temperatures
(2023-08-07)
The field of electronics is rapidly evolving and expanding into new frontiers, including cryogenic environments. Cryogenic temperatures below 10 K have become increasingly important in various applications such as quantum ...
Simulation Based Power Estimation For Digital CMOS Technologies
(2008-12-15)
The estimation of power in digital CMOS circuits has become a significant problem, especially for present day semiconductor technologies. Finding a balance between opposing factors of estimation accuracy and computation ...
Simulation of Quantum Parametric Amplifiers
(2021-05-19)
Parametric amplifiers couple a nonlinear element to an external environment, resulting in frequency mixing of a pump tone and a smaller signal tone. The pump’s energy is coupled into the signal tone and an additional idler ...
Simultaneous Measurement of Perfusion and T2* in Calf Muscle at 7T with Dynamic Exercise using Radial Acquisition.
(2019-05-04)
Impairments in oxygen delivery and consumption can lead to muscle weakness and physical disability. Reduced blood flow, O2 delivery and consumption to the working muscle are likely to cause decline in muscle ability to ...
Smartphone Sensor Fusion For Indoor Localization: A Deep LSTM Approach
(2018-11-05)
With the fast increasing demands of location-based service and the proliferation of smartphones and other mobile devices, accurate indoor localization has attracted great interest. In this thesis, we present DeepML, a deep ...
Soft Error Rate Determination For Nanometer CMOS VLSI Circuits
(2008-05-15)
Nanometer CMOS VLSI circuits are highly sensitive to soft errors due to envi-
ronmental causes such as cosmic radiation and high-energy particles. These errors are
random and not related to permanent hardware faults. ...
Soft Video Delivery by Metadata Reduction over LTE
(2019-12-05)
New methods for media delivery, specifically video, have become increasingly important
over the past decade. Along with increased user need for video streaming, video is now a majority
of the traffic on the internet. In ...
Solutions for Tractor-trailer Path Following at Low Speed
(2017-07-22)
Autonomous tractor-trailer systems have become more and more popular in real life. This dissertation focuses on control and estimation for the path following problem where space-based path is used as reference. The goal ...
Spectrum Awareness Testbed
(2021-12-06)
This thesis presents a flexible and scalable spectrum awareness testbed targeting a wideband frequency range. Due to the static frequency allocation scheme, spectrum scarcity has become a problem in communications. ...
Stability and Performance of Emerging Wireless Networks
(2016-07-20)
In this work, we analysis the application of emerging wireless communications on the stability of computing and transmission queues of mobile devices. Firstly, we present a Lyapunov optimization-based scheme for cloud ...
Statistical Analysis of Time Delays in USB Type Sensor Interfaces on Windows-based Low Cost Controllers
(2008-12-15)
Real-time control systems need sensor data at periodic and predictable time intervals- this is one aspect of what is commonly called ""determinism"". Common forces that present
challenges to determinism in Windows-based ...
Statistical Time-of-Arrival Ranging by Measuring Round-Trip Time at Driver Layer in IEEE 802.11g Networks
(2017-07-22)
Alternative indoor localization methods have long been researched due to the unsuitability of GPS and cellular technology in indoor environments. Indoor localization systems find their applications in many areas such as ...
A Study of Electromagnetic Induction Systems for the Detection of Unexploded Ordnance
(2008-05-15)
This thesis presents a study of a time domain electromagnetic induction (EMI) system used for detection and discrimination of unexploded ordnance. In general, EMI system components include transmitter and receiver coils, ...
A Study of Vibration-Induced Fretting Corrosion for Electrical Connectors
(2007-05-15)
Vibration induced fretting degradation is a widely recognized failure phenomenon. However, the basic mechanisms that control the onset and progression of such fretting behavior are not well understood and are a topic of ...
Superconducting Digital Logic Families Using Quantum Phase-slip Junctions
(2019-04-22)
Superconducting electronics based computing is being actively pursued as an alternative to CMOS-based computing for high performance computing due to their inherent advantages such as low-power and high switching speed. ...
Superconducting Flexible Cables For Cryogenic Applications
(2016-12-09)
In systems for cryogenic electronics experiments and applications containing multiple temperature stages down to the milliKelvin temperature range, such as in quantum computing research performed in dilution refrigerators, ...
Superconducting Resonators on Thin Film Flexible Substrates
(2016-12-09)
In cryogenic electronics applications and experiments, i.e., for cold detectors and low temperature quantum computing, the base temperature is typically below 100 milli-Kelvin. In order to reach this temperature range, a ...
Surface Reconstruction Based on Plenoptic Image with Convolution-Based Iterative Algorithm
(2017-04-30)
Plenoptic imaging is a revolutionary photographic technique which has been brought to public
awareness recently. It makes post-refocusing possible by capturing both spatial and directional
information of light. In order ...
Systematic Characterization and Modeling of Small and Large Signal Performance Of 50 - 200 Ghz SiGe HBTs
(2005-08-15)
Over the last ten years, SiGe BiCMOS technology has become the leading technology in analog circuit design for both wired and wireless telecommunication applications. However, the endless pursuit for high performance is ...
Tag line tracking and Cardiac Motion Modeling from Tagged MRI
(2006-12-15)
Magnetic resonance (MR) tagging magnetically labels specified regions of the myocardium, which appear in the MR images with a spatially encoded pattern of dark stripes called tag lines. The deformation of these tag lines ...