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Ag Sintering Die and Passive Components Attach for High Temperature Applications 

Yu, Fang (2016-05-09)
With an increasing demand for SiC and GaN high power devices and high temperature electronics operating in extreme environments, traditional solder materials are reaching their limitations in performance. Compatible, high ...

Characterization of Thermally Induced Stress in IC Packages using Piezoresistive Sensors 

John Akkara, Francy (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 

Wang, Yili (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.

Data-driven semiconducting nanomaterials design for energy applications 

Choi, Yeseul (2022-08-04)  ETD File Embargoed
Silicon nitrides and hydrogenated silicon nitrides attract widespread scientific interest across multiple application fields due to their superior combination of optical, mechanical, thermal and optoelectronic properties. ...

Design and Simulation of a High Frequency Exactly Solvable Chaotic Oscillator 

Beal, Aubrey (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 Simulation of Cryogenic Test Circuits 

Owen, Kyle (2016-07-27)
New technologies are being introduced in anticipation of the end of Moore’s Law, such as quantum computing, in hopes that the speed gains from the different topologies will offset the increase in size of the devices. Fast ...

Design, Fabrication, and Characterization of a Short Range, Multi Band Frequency Jammer 

Hughes, George (2015-05-06)
The purpose of this thesis is to show how frequency jamming against wireless communication systems can be achieved in a modular form so multiple bands can be targeted depending on the need. In this thesis, the basic ...

Designs of Substrate Integrated Waveguide (SIW) and Its Transition to Rectangular Waveguide 

Guo, Ya (2015-05-11)
There has been an ever increasing interest in the study of substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) since 1998. Due to its low loss, planar nature, high integration capability and high compactness, SIW has been widely used to ...

Die Attach for High Temperature Applications 

Shen, Zhenzhen (2014-12-17)
The energy sector is seeing dynamic growth with advanced oil and gas recovery methods being deployed. Measure-while-drilling (MWD) and downhole production instrumentation is important to maximize production and safety. ...

Dielectric Permittivity Measurements of Electronics Cooling Fluids 

Pfeiffenberger, Alexander (2013-09-23)
High performance electronics often present heat management challenges which can, in some applications, be mitigated through the use of liquid cooling technologies. In this work, select 3M Novec and 3M Fluorinert dielectric ...

Digital Reverse Time Chaos and Matched Filter Decoding 

Bailey, John, III (2015-05-04)
The use of reverse time chaos allows the realization of hardware chaotic systems that can operate at speeds equivalent to existing state of the art while requiring significantly less complex circuitry. Unlike traditional ...

Effects of Lithographic Parameters and Geometric Exposure Method for Corner Rounding Correction in Massively-Parallel Electron-Beam Systems for the Mask Pattern Development 

Moon, Soomin (2020-07-21)
The ability of electron-beam (e-beam) lithography to transfer fine features onto a substrate is essential in many applications where high-resolution devices need to be fabricated. However, its low throughput has been the ...

Efficient Determination of Copper Electroplating Chemistry Additives using Advanced Neural Network Algorithms 

Ellis, Charles (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 ...

Fabrication and characterization of compliant off-chip double helix and carbon nanotube interconnect 

Xu, Pingye (2014-12-10)
Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) type double helix chip-level electrical interconnect structures are fabricated and characterized in this work. Due to their springlike structure, double helix interconnects have the ...

Fabrication and Characterization of Thin Film Transistors based on Sol-Gel Derived Zinc Oxide Channel Layers 

Mirkhani, Vahid (2018-04-30)
This dissertation aims to explore film and device characteristics of zinc oxide (ZnO) based channel layers fabricated via the sol-gel spin-coating growth technique. ZnO is wide band gap semiconductor with a wide range of ...

Flexible Nonvolatile Cu/CuxO/Ag ReRAM Fabricated Using Ink-Jet Printing Technology 

Zou, Simin (2014-05-01)
The design and fabrication of flexible Cu/CuxO/Ag ReRAM devices is presented in this work. We have investigated Cu/CuxO/Ag capacitor-like structure which exhibits bipolar resistive switching behavior under low-range direct ...

Flexible Superconducting Microwave Interconnects and Connectors 

Zou, Simin (2018-04-29)
One of the major limitations to constructing densely-integrated cryogenic electronic systems is the electrical interconnect technology. Superconducting cables with multiple signals, high signal density, low loss, low thermal ...

Go with the flow: Data Flow Analysis for Binary Differencing 

Denton, Benjamin (2014-07-30)
Differencing in computer science is often used to quickly determine differences between two files. While this works well for plain text files, such as source code, applying differencing to binary executable files is more ...

High-Performance SAR-Assisted Hybrid ADC with Time Domain Signal Processing 

Su, Zhan (2020-02-19)  ETD File Embargoed
This dissertation presents types of basic and advanced ADC architectures and raises a high-performance hybrid ADC solution which achieves comparable performance compared with many state-of-the-art ADC architectures. The ...

Integrated Circuit for Time Domain Mixed Signal Processing 

Wang, Hechen (2018-04-17)
This work explores time to digital conversion techniques, designs and applications for time domain signal processing. Though the time-to-digital conversion devices and integrated circuits (IC) have been invented for decades, ...