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Skip to Search Results- 2Arefi, Afshin
- 2Bagheri, Pooya
- 2Banerjee, Bitan
- 2Barczyk, Martin
- 2Barth, Stuart E
- 2Behnam Dehkordi, Mohammad
- 22Machine Learning
- 16Glancing angle deposition
- 15Wireless communication systems.
- 13Deep Learning
- 13Nanotechnology
- 13Optimization
- 21Musilek, Petr (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 21Reformat, Marek (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 21Tellambura, Chintha (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 20Chen, Tongwen (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 20Li, Yunwei (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 19Ardakani, Masoud (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
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Fall 2019
This thesis explores the incorporation of nonreciprocal magneto-optic effects, as well as nonlinear phenomena into integrated nanoplasmonic devices, and encompasses a wide spectrum of theoretical, numerical, fabrication, and characterization methodologies. Incorporating magnetic dielectrics into...
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Fall 2011
This thesis presents the research and development of a novel procedure for creating a 3D image of the back using stereo digital 2D images. The procedure requires minimal user input and is intuitive. The procedure is comprised of 3 stages – image data acquisition, image registration and image...
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Novel 3D Ultrasound Imaging Techniques Using Top-Orthogonal-to-Bottom-Electrode (TOBE) Arrays
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Ultrasound imaging is a safe, affordable and reliable diagnostic tool widely used in medical professions. While 2D ultrasound imaging is used extensively in clinical environments, 3D ultrasound imaging has not yet seen wide clinical acceptance. This is partly due to the practical limitations on...
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Spring 2021
Anodized metal-oxide nanostructures are of interest in a wide variety of applications, such as in solar energy harvesting, sensing, antifouling, and biomedical coatings. Anodization is a solution-processable method and presents a viable route to large-scale manufacturing of ordered nanostructures...
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Spring 2023
In the wake of increasing demand for DC-DC converters with high power density and high efficiency, the design of modern power converters has evolved into a multi-objective optimization problem with multiple uncertainties associated with parameter and component selection. The iterative design...
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NOVEL CONTROL APPROACHES TO IMPROVE SINGLE AND MODULAR DC-DC CONVERTERS DYNAMICS IN DATA CENTERS
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In many modern power electronics applications such as data centers, there are specific requirements such as fast load dynamics and sensitive power, voltage or current sharing. Therefore, power converters need to provide and maintain ultra fast responses to achieve a certain control objective. For...
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Spring 2018
Needle insertion is a minimally invasive intervention for procedures involving drug delivery, biopsy, and radiation therapy. In the prominent radiation therapy procedure prostate brachytherapy, rice grain sized radioactive seeds are introduced into soft tissue via needles in and around the...
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Novel Full Range Soft Switched Single Phase Inverter Design, Optimization and Implementation
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Hazrati Karkaragh,Mohammadreza
Single-phase inverters are widely used as an interface between the load (or utility grid) and DC energy resources such as photovoltaic systems or battery storage systems in low-power residential applications. There has been a trend in the industry to increase the power density of the converters,...
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Fall 2011
Micro and nanocantilever structures have been used as transducers for a plethora of sensor applications. These transducer technologies have similar shapes, but the material properties and geometrical optimizations needed to improve sensitivity are rather different. This is a record of two...