Browsing Department of Electrical Engineering by Title
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Reliability Of Advanced Dielectrics In Gate Oxide And Device Level Packaging In MEMS
(Electrical Engineering, 2010-03-03)The focus of this work is to study the feasibility, reliability and applicability of advanced dielectrics in both Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor (MOSFET) gate oxide and device level packaging for ... -
Reliability Unit Commitment In ERCOT Nodal Market
(Electrical Engineering, 2013-07-22)The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) is the independent system operator (ISO) that ensures a reliable electric grid and efficient electricity markets in the ERCOT region. ERCOT has successfully transited from ... -
Resonance control of membrane reflectors with effective index engineering
(IEEE, 2009-07-14)We report here broadband membrane reflectors based on Fano resonances in patterned silicon nanomembranes. Resonance control of the reflectors was realized either by partially removing buried oxide layer underneath the ... -
RESOURCE ALLOCATION AND CAPACITY IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKS
(2021-04-29)How to allocate resources in the era of Big Data in telecommunications becomes a new issue. Smartphone data could be a function of personality, as the smartphone supports interpersonal interaction, and the data collected ... -
Reversible Data Hiding using Histogram Shifting
(2016-05-10)With the current state-of-the-art technology, intruders can easily gain access to sensitive information. To avoid this, different methods with improved security to hide information have been developed like, covert channels, ... -
Revisiting Control Establishments For Emerging Energy Hubs
Emerging small-scale energy systems, i.e., microgrids and smartgrids, rely on centralized controllers for voltage regulation, load sharing, and economic dispatch. However, the central controller is a single-point-of-failure ... -
RF MEMS And Integrated Manufacturing For Miniaturized Millimeter-wave Systems
(Electrical Engineering, 2007-08-23)Recently millimeter-wave systems have attracted more attentions in applications owing to their short wavelengths, high resolutions, broad bandwidths and high environmental tolerance. However, the great challenges of high ... -
RF Sputtered SixGe1-x and SixGe1-xOy Thin Films For Uncooled Infrared Detectors
(Electrical Engineering, 2007-08-23)The objective of this work is to find a suitable combination of radio frequency (RF) sputtered SixGe1-x and SixGe1-xOy thin films for uncooled infrared detection. Thus, fabricating and characterizing microbolometers with ... -
ROBUST TRAINING METHODS FOR DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS WITH A VARIETY OF LABEL NOISE
(2021-05-07)Requirement of significant amount of labeled training data is a major drawback in training deep neural networks (DNNs), due to the presence of mislabeled examples in these datasets. This label noise is shown to have an ... -
SCALABLE OPTIMIZATION METHOD FOR GENERATOR SCHEDULING UNDER UNCERTAINTY
(2021-12-16)Scalable optimization methods for power system operation has been subject of research over the last 60 years. State-of-the-art methods in this research area is yet to yield the scalability desired by system operators for ... -
SECOND ORDER ALGORITHM FOR SPARSELY CONNECTED NEURAL NETWORKS
(2016-08-17)A systematic two-step batch approach for constructing a sparse neural network is presented. Unlike other sparse neural networks, the proposed paradigm uses orthogonal least squares (OLS) to train the network. OLS based ... -
Second Order Training Algorithms For Radial Basis Function Neural Networks
(Electrical Engineering, 2012-04-11)A systematic two step batch approach for constructing and training of Radial basis function (RBF) neural networks is presented. Unlike other RBF learning algorithms, the proposed paradigm uses <italic>optimal learning ... -
Self-assembled synthesis and characterization of microchannels in polymeric membranes
(American Institute of Physics,Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington, 2012-07-19)This article describes a novel self-assembly approach to create microchannels in polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) membranes using poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) and polyurethane (PU). The interactions between hydrophilic PEO/PU ... -
Self-assembled Synthesis Of Microfluidic Channels In PDMS
(Electrical Engineering, 2011-10-11)The field of microfluidics is expanding rapidly finding applications in diverse areas ranging from solid state devices and semiconductors to bio- applications in cell culture and DNA assays and micro- arrays. PDMS has been ... -
The Self-heating Effects Of Bipolar Juction Transistors On The Functionality Of A Current Feedback Amplifier
(Electrical Engineering, 2010-11-01)Self-heating effects strongly affect the performance of modern silicon-on-insulator (SOI) bipolar junction transistors. This research work does an extensive analysis of self-heating effects on large-signal behavior, ... -
SELF-INDUCED BACK ACTION ACTUATED NANOPORE ELECTROPHORESIS (SANE) SENSOR FOR MOLECULAR DETECTION AND ANALYSIS
(2019-05-15)We fabricated a novel single molecule nanosensor by integrating a Solid-State Nanopore (SSNP) and a Double Nanohole (DNH) nanoaperture. The nanosensor employs Self-Induced Back-Action (SIBA) for optical trapping and enables ... -
Self-organization And Resource Allocation In Wireless Sensor Networks
(Electrical Engineering, 2007-08-23)In this dissertation, we utilize clustering to organize wireless sensors into an energy-efficient hierarchy. We propose a Medium-Contention Based ClusterHeadship Auction (MCCHA) scheme, through which sensors self-organize ... -
Self-similarity And Modeling Of LTE / LTE-A Data Traffic
The mobile wireless communication system has evolved into its 4th generation with ubiquitous availability assuring higher data rates and reliable communication. To achieve a robust and reliable network, it is necessary to ... -
Sequences Of Bayes Gaussian Classifier
(Electrical Engineering, 2008-04-22)A new method for designing sequences of Bayes Gaussian Classifiers is presented in this thesis. First, a basic Bayes Gaussian Classifier is designed with an assumption of data being Gaussian. Then, we have used the Output ... -
Sequences Of Near-optimal Feedforward Neural Networks
(Electrical Engineering, 2007-09-17)In order to facilitate complexity optimization in feedforward networks, several integrated growing and pruning algorithms are developed. First, a growing scheme is reviewed which iteratively adds new hidden units to ...