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- 1Adeyenuwo, Adegboyega P.
- 1Ahmadi Najafabadi, Malihe
- 1Allen, Trevor W.
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- 1Barczyk, Martin
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- 3Glancing angle deposition
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- 3Ardakani, Masoud (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 3Brett, Michael (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 3Tellambura, Chintha (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 2Beaulieu, Norman C. (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 2Chen, Jie (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
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Spring 2012
In order to achieve the best results possible by electron beam lithography (EBL), many aspects of the different stages of EBL have to be carefully optimized. In the exposure stage, dose, energy, aperture size, step size and working distance have to be carefully set. In the development stage, an...
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A Near-Optimal and Efficiently Parallelizable Detector for Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Wireless Systems
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Broadband Wireless Communications and Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) systems have been the focus of much research over the past decade. A variety of MIMO detection algorithms have been proposed for detecting the data signals from the multiple received and demodulated baseband signals....
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A Probabilistic Bottom-up Technique for Modeling and Simulation of Residential Distributed Harmonic Sources
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The proliferation of energy-efficient appliances and modern consumer electronics has resulted in numerous power-electronic-based harmonic sources penetrating into residential households. Due to the huge number and wide adoption of these new harmonic sources, techniques for determining the...
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Fall 2012
Multi-Agent Simulation (MAS) is a widely used paradigm for modeling and simulating real world complex system, ranging from ant colony foraging to online trading. MAS describes a complex system by representing it as a collection of interactive and concurrent objects following a set of predefined...
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Fall 2012
Over the past decade improvements in semiconductor technology have led to faster power electronic switches with higher ratings. These devices have been used to improve the performance of various power converter systems. In particular, the Voltage Source Converter (VSC) has been widely used in...
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Spring 2012
Chip level optical interconnects has gained momentum with recent demonstrations of silicon-on-insulator (SOI) based photonic modules such as lasers, modulators, wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) filters, etc. A fundamental building block that has enabled many of these silicon photonic...
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Air-core microcavities and metal-dielectric filters - building blocks for optofluidic microsystems
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This thesis describes a study on two optical devices intended to be building blocks for the creation of integrated optical/microfluidic lab-on-a-chip systems. First, arrays of curved-mirror dome-shaped microcavities were fabricated by buckling self-assembly of a-Si/SiO2 multilayers. This novel...
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Spring 2012
Medium access in applications of wireless sensor networks is often uncoordinated while sensor nodes communicate bursty flows of data. Therefore random-access packet-based communication schemes are suitable for such networks. Preamble detection is an important task in packet-based communication...
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Fall 2012
Auction algorithms have been applied in various linear network problems, such as assignment, transportation, max-flow and shortest path problem. The inherent parallel characteristics of these algorithms are well suited for Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) hardware implementation. In this...
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Fall 2012
Sampled-data control theory is the mathematical foundation required for the analysis and design of sampled-data systems. An important assumption in the development of conventional sampled-data control theory is that measurement sampling periods are uniform. However, with the widespread use of...