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Multiport DC Energy Conversion Systems
(Electrical Engineering, 2014-03-12)
Sustainable energy sources and power electronic systems for utilizing such energy sources are becoming indispensible components of the modern power grid. The ability of multiport converters to mitigate the intermittency ...
A Study Of The Characteristics And Limitations Of Various Platings On Cylindrical Electrical Conductors
(Electrical Engineering, 2014-03-12)
This work explores the impedance characteristics of copper wires plated with tin, silver, or nickel, the most common type of wiring used in the computer, communications, and aerospace industries. The background of plated ...
Wireless Power Transmission Based On Retro-reflective Antenna Array
(Electrical Engineering, 2014-03-12)
In recent years, there is a lot of research on wireless power transmission (WPT) for various applications, such as mobile devices, electric vehicles, implanted medical devices, sensors, RFID, etc. Compared to wired power ...
Sparsity Enhanced Reconstruction Algorithms For Diffuse Optical Tomography
(Electrical Engineering, 2014-03-12)
Conventional reconstruction algorithms for diffuse optical tomography (DOT) is based on Tikhonov regularization method and the simple white Gaussian noise (WGN) assumption. These approaches usually lead to the following ...
Nanostructured Surfaces Using Thermal Nanoimprint Lithography: Applications In Thin Membrane Technology, Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting And Tactile Pressure Sensing
(Electrical Engineering, 2014-03-12)
Nanoimprint lighography (NIL) is emerging as a viable contender for fabrication of large-scale arrays of 5-500 nm features. The work presented in this dissertation aims to leverage the advantages of NIL for realization of ...
Elevated Recharge Of Electrochemical Cells
(Electrical Engineering, 2014-03-12)
Electrochemical cells are energy dense storage devices used to power everything from small portable electronics such as cell phones, to larger systems including electric and hybrid-electric vehicles or even electric utility ...
Transfer-printed Photonic Crystal Nanomembrane Fano Resonance Filters And Modulators
(Electrical Engineering, 2014-03-12)
This dissertation presents the research work on photonic crystal nanomembrane Fano resonance devices based on transfer printing techniques. Ultra-compact high quality (Q) factor optical filters have been design, fabricated, ...
A Low-noise, Low-power CMOS Amperometric Circuit For Glucose Sensing
(Electrical Engineering, 2014-03-12)
Diabetes is disorder associated with an insufficiency of insulin secretion. Large number of people around the world suffers from this disorder which can result into damages to eyes, kidneys, nerves and even death. One of ...
Guided-mode Resonant Solar Cells And Flat-top Reflectors: Analysis, Design, Fabrication And Characterization
(Electrical Engineering, 2014-07-14)
This dissertation addresses the guided-mode resonance (GMR) effect and its applications. In particular, this study presents theoretical analysis and corresponding experiments on two important GMR devices that can be broadly ...
Towards Perfect Light Coupling And Absorption In Nanomembranes With Omni-directional Anti-refelction And Photonic Crystal Structures
(Electrical Engineering, 2014-07-14)
Silicon photonics is realized as a promising platform to meet the requirements of higher bandwidth and low cost high density monolithic integration. More recent demonstrations of a variety of stretchable, foldable and ...