Research Materials (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
This collection contains materials associated with research that are valuable to share and preserve but are not published through formal channels.
Items in this Collection
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2018-07-22
Kar, Piyush;, Zeng, Sheng;, Zhang, Yun; Vahidzadeh, Ehsan;, Manuel, Ajay P.;, Kisslinger, Ryan;, Alam, Kazi M,;, Thakur, Ujwal K.,, Mahdi, Najia;, Kumar, Pawan;, Shankar, Karthik
The photocatalytic reduction of CO2 into light hydrocarbons using sunlight and water is a challenging reaction involving eight electron transfer steps; nevertheless, it has great potential to address the problem of rising anthropogenic carbon emissions and enable the use of fossil fuels in a...
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2018-08-28
Vahidzadeh, Ehsan; Kalra, Aarat P.; Shankar, Karthik
The successful interfacing of electronics with biology is the next frontier for microelectronics and nanotechnology. Melanin, a naturally occurring conjugated polymer composed of different structural subunits, may be an ideal candidate for such interfacing. In the solid-state, the large broadband...
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Nanophotonic Enhancement and Improved Electron Extraction in Perovskite Solar Cells Using Near-Horizontally Aligned TiO2 Nanorods
Download2018-11-18
Thakur, Ujwal K., Zeng, Sheng, Kumar, Pawan, Patel, Sahil, Kisslinger, Ryan, Zhang, Yun, Kar, Piyush, Goswami, Ankur, Thundat, Thomas, Meldrum, Alkiviathes, Shankar, Karthik
While vertically oriented metal oxide nanowires have been intensely researched for use as electron transport layers (ETLs) in halide perovskite solar cells (HPSCs), horizontal nanowires (oriented roughly parallel to the substrate) have received much less attention despite their higher photonic...
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2018-11-24
Manuel, Ajay P., Kirkey, Aaron, Mahdi, Najia, Shankar, Karthik
The nanoscale confinement and coupling of electromagnetic radiation into plexcitonic modes has drawn immense interest because of the innovative possibilities for their application in light harvesting and light emitting devices (LEDs). Plexcitons arise from the coupling between two types of...
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S.R. Jim Thesis Appendix B - Numerical Analysis Scripts
2014-03-11
This archive collects programming scripts used in the analysis of data presented in the thesis: S.R. Jim, Nanoengineered Glancing Angle Deposition Thin Films for Ultrathin-Layer Chromatography, PhD Thesis, University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada) (2014). The first two unedited scripts were used...
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Short Review on “A high-performance and energy-efficient exhaustive key search approach via GPU on DES-like cryptosystems”
Download2020-05-27
Recently, graphical processing units (GPUs) have found a prominent role in general-purpose applications. Specifically, in parallel processing applications where a considerable number of tasks should be processed while meeting specific design constraints. One of the most interesting subjects in...
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Step-by-Step mixture calculations for each time interval by sampling from joint distribution of wind speed (υ) and Solar radiation (s)
Download2024-02-26
Faridpak, Behdad, Musilek, Petr
Reduction of the calculation burden of probabilistic analyses arising from numerous uncertainties by utilizing a sequence of the inner approximation. A step-by-step approach is developed, defining the Lebesgue measure as the convergence criterion for the mixture of probability distributions