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Carbon Nanotube Based Vacuum Diode Characteristics at Elevated Temperatures
(2016-05-18)
Since the discovery of carbon nanotubes twenty years ago, they have been studied heavily. Carbon nanotubes are known to have excellent mechanical, electrical, and thermal conductivity properties as well as for having a ...
Carbon Nanotube Cold Cathodes for Applications under Vacuum to Partial Pressure in Helium and Dryair
(2011-05-10)
Carbon nanotubes are known for their excellent field emission characteristics. This property of carbon nanotubes makes them a good choice for the cold cathode material for many high power applications. In this work carbon ...
Carbon Nanotube Vacuum Tube Diode RFID Tag
(2015-08-19)
Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs) have been studied for the past two decades and their research continues with new commercial and practical purposes. The structure of carbon and the many shapes it can form makes it an extremely ...
Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs) as Electron Emitters for Plasmas Operating in Subatmospheric pressure under DC and Pulsed Fields
(2014-05-05)
Subatmospheric pressure is defined as the pressure from several milliTorr to several hundred Torr. The plasmas operated in subatmospheric pressure have the advantages of easier construction and stable operation. The ...
Channel State Information Fingerprinting Based Indoor Localization: a Deep Learning Approach
(2015-07-28)
With the fast growing demand of location-based services in indoor environments, indoor positioning based on fingerprinting has attracted a lot of interest due to its high accuracy. In this thesis, we present a novel deep ...
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 ...
Circuit Simulator Based Mextram Parameter Extraction of SiGe HBTs
(2016-05-02)
This work implements Mextram 504 parameter extraction using ICCAP and ADS simulator. A 50 GHz SiGe HBT is used. Results show a whole procedure of parameter extraction with temperature scaling.
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 ...