Browsing Department of Electrical Engineering by Title
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DESIGN OF A CLC TESTBED TO STUDY HIGH VOLTAGE CAPACITORS
(2019-12-06)Pulsed power systems rely on the interconnection of several unique stages for successful implementation. These stages can include, but are not limited to a prime power source, power conditioning circuit, intermediate energy ... -
Design Of A CMOS VCO And Frequency Divider For 5 GHz Applications
(Electrical Engineering, 2007-08-23)This thesis presents the design of a new CMOS Voltage Controlled Oscillator and a frequency divider, both of which form important blocks in the design of a PLL synthesizer. These components are important because they operate ... -
Design Of A Novel Electrostatic Micro Energy Harvester
(Electrical Engineering, 2011-07-14)The batteries have been a major source of energy for the electronic devices. However, the exhaustible nature of the batteries has encouraged the researchers to exploit the renewable energy sources for powering the electronics. ... -
The Design Of A Precision Current Miror Using A High-gain Current Amplifier
(Electrical Engineering, 2009-09-16)An improved high gain, precision, low sensitivity current mirror is designed around a feedback circuit. This mirror utilizes a buffered Widlar current mirror to drive the constant input reference current, two beta helpers ... -
Design Of A Real Time Reconfigurable Bioreactor
In this thesis we present the design of a reconfigurable continuous culture bioreactor that allows researchers to grow microorganisms in a controlled environment for long periods of time, as long as several months. The ... -
Design Of A Signal Generator Using Current Feedback Operational Amplifiers
(Electrical Engineering, 2008-09-17)Sinusoidal, triangular and rectangular waveforms are generated using current feedback operational amplifiers. A signal generator using a Current Feedback Operational Amplifier (CFOA) was designed, simulated and fabricated. ... -
Design Of An Enhanced Translinear Variable Floating Resistor And Its Application In A VGA
(Electrical Engineering, 2008-08-08)An improved current controlled floating resistor is designed based on translinear loops for application in a Variable Gain Amplifier (VGA). This work compares the use of two different devices and evaluates the difference ... -
Design Of Analog Correlator For 22-29ghz UWB Vehicular Radar Systems In IBM 90nm CMOS Process
(Electrical Engineering, 2008-09-17)In this thesis analog correlator is designed for UWB vehicular radar system. Operating frequency of the correlator is 22-29GHz. IBM 90nm CMOS process is used for the design, Simulation are done in CADENCE Spectre and ... -
The Design Of CMOS Impulse Generators For Ultra-wideband Communication And Radar Systems
(Electrical Engineering, 2011-10-11)Impulse generators play an important role in the ultra-wideband (UWB) systems. Particularly in the transmitter, impulse generator performs an interface between input data and the antenna determining the overall performance ... -
Design Of Embedded NIOS II Processor Based System For Implementing Bridging Algorithm Of Profiling Application
(Electrical Engineering, 2013-03-20)The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) uses multiple instruments for quality assurance of new and existing pavements. These instruments measure the different characteristics of the pavement such as the longitudinal ... -
Design of Embedded Wireless Sensors for Real-Time and In-Situ Strain Sensing of Fiber Reinforced Composites
(DESTech, 2019)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: The increasing demand of early detection of barely visible damage inside fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) composites has led to the development of advanced microsensors ... -
Design Of Microwave Non-redundant Band-pass Filter Using Microstrip And Edge Coupled Sections
(Electrical Engineering, 2010-03-03)Microwave filler design using the non-redundant method relies on using the quarter wave Unit Elements (U.E's) to create a complex pole and hence augment the filter skirt response as against the redundant method wherein the ... -
DESIGN, EVALUATION, AND MODELING OF MEDIUM VOLTAGE DC ENERGY CONVERSION TESTBED WITH EMPHASIS ON ELECTROCHEMICAL ENERGY STORAGE
(2019-05-06)Much work has been done in recent years regarding the emphasis and newfound importance of energy storage and energy conversion within systems that, at one time, functioned off of simple alternating current (AC) busses. ... -
Design, Fabrication And Assembly Of 3-D Microstructures
(Electrical Engineering, 2007-08-23)The primary goal of a micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) is to integrate electronics, sensors and actuators into a tiny system, which can be easily fabricated and packaged. Currently there is no standard process for ... -
Design, Fabrication And Characterization Of Guided-mode Resonance Transmission Filters
(Electrical Engineering, 2014-07-14)This dissertation addresses photonic devices enabled by the guided-mode resonance (GMR) effect. As periodic phototonic structures can become highly reflective or transmissive at resonance, this effect has been utilized to ... -
Design, Microfabrication And Characterization Of A Microheater Platform For Studying DNA-surface Interactions
(Electrical Engineering, 2012-07-25)The past few decades have witnessed significant research towards developing DNA biosensors and gene chips. These devices obtain sequence-specific DNA information in a faster, simpler and cheaper manner compared to traditional ... -
Detection And Opportunistic Spectrum Access In Sensor Networks
(Electrical Engineering, 2007-09-17)This thesis examines target detection problems in Radar Sensor Networks (RSN) and opportunistic spectrum access problem in Cognitive Sensor Networks (CSN). First, studies on the Space-Time Adaptive Processing (STAP) and ... -
Detection and severity classification of rotor imbalance faults in induction machines
(Electrical Engineering, 2010-11-01)As world economy continues to globalize, increased competition has lead to a reduction in profit margins. To remain competitive in such an economy, an industry needs to reduce the downtime of critical components even for ... -
Determination of volume and surface scattering from saline ice using ice sheets with precisely controlled roughness parameters
(IEEE Xplore, 1995-09)Experiments were performed at the U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) in Hanover, NH, to precisely determine the relative contributions of surface and volume scattering from saline ice that ... -
Development And Applications Of Laser Micromachined Inter-digitated Capacitive Strain Sensors
(Electrical Engineering, 2011-10-11)Reliable strain measurement plays a very important role in the damage detection of the mechanical and civil structures. It can also have a significant contribution in assisting the proper functioning of human body and ...