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Design and Development of High-Power Pulse Transmitters for Underground Environmental Perception
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The objective of this thesis is associated with designing a high-power Gaussian pulse transmitter for high-depth imaging applications. Two types of pulse transmitters are presented in this work. The former configuration is based on Step Recovery Diodes (SRDs), while the latter is based on...
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Design and Discrete Optimization of BIBO Stable FRM Digital Filters Incorporating IIR Digital Interpolation Subfilters
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Digital filters having sharp transition band play a vital role in modern digital signal processing (DSP) applications. Emerging technologies require digital filters to be both computationally efficient in software/hardware realizations. This thesis is concerned with the design and...
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Fall 2015
The compact arithmetic units in stochastic computing can potentially lower the implementation cost with respect to silicon area and power consumption. In addition, stochastic computing provides inherent tolerance of transient errors at the cost of a less efficient signal encoding. Much effort has...
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Design and Evaluation of Stochastic Computing Neural Networks for Machine Learning Applications
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Neural networks (NNs) are effective machine learning models that require significant hardware and energy consumption in the computing process. To implement NNs, stochastic computing (SC) has been considered to seek a trade-off between hardware efficiency and computation performance. However, most...
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Design and Fabrication of Fractal Photoconductive Terahertz Emitters and Antenna Coupled Tunnel Diode Terahertz Detectors
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Improved terahertz (THz) photoconductive antennas that are able to both emit higher THz radiation power and detect lower THz radiation signal levels than the traditional THz photoconductive antennas are presented. Also, different classes of fractals are investigated to realize whether the...
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Design and Fabrication of Micro-electro-mechanical Systems Actuators for Application in External Cavity Tunable Lasers
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The limited availability of rugged and economical infra-red laser sources that can be tuned over a certain wavelength range is still a bottleneck for widespread application of spectroscopic methods to environmental, industrial, and medical trace gas monitoring. Conventional semiconductor lasers...
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Spring 2023
Plasmonic nanostructures have received increasing attention due to their unique ability to mediate the conversion of light into different forms of energy. This opens pathways for numerous applications from ultrasensitive surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) materials characterization to...
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Spring 2010
The speed of fuzzy controllers implemented on dedicated hardware is adequate for control of any physical process, but too slow for today’s high-complexity data networks. Defuzzification has been the bottleneck for fast implementations due to the large number of computationally expensive...