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Showing 1 to 20 of 116 for “"Device Architecture"”.
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Gaussian Splatting Device-Architecture Co-Design for Accelerated Physical AI Inference and Reasoning
… which effectively precludes deployment on edge devices. This thesis addresses these hardware limitations through a novel device-architecture co-design leveraging Gaussian transistors. Unlike conventional silicon devices, the Gaussian transistor exhibits a current-voltage (I-V) characteristic …
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Toward the end of the MOSFET roadmap : investigating fundamental transport limits and device architecture alternatives
… gate lengths for electrostatically sound devices reaching 30 nm or below: near the prospective scaling limits for traditional bulk MOSFETs. This work investigates several key issues for this "end of roadmap" regime. Focus is on understanding the limitations to carrier velocity in MOSFET …
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Design and fabrication of a solar-powered Bluetooth Low Energy device
A device was built within the MIT Photovoltaic Laboratory that obtains power from solar cells, collects temperature data from a sensor, and sends the data to a phone application via Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) wireless technology. BLE is suited for use with solar technology because of its low energy …
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Microfluidic platforms for protein crystallization and in situ X-ray analysis
… operation of an X-ray compatible microfluidic device architecture that allows for on-chip crystallization and in situ X-ray analysis of protein crystals while maintaining the advanced fluid handling capabilities of multilayer microfluidics is reported here. The design uses a traditional thin …
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Studies on the next-generation quantum dots light-emitting diodes for full-colour display and smart lighting application by printing technology
… source candidates, a quantum dot light-emitting device (QD-LED) is strongly recommended for the next-generation display and lighting application. Herein, this thesis touches the studies on the science and technologies of QD-LEDs from the material, the process technology, the device design and …
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A quantum dot heterojunction photodetector
This thesis presents a new device architecture for photodetectors utilizing colloidally grown quantum dots as the principle photo-active component. We implement a thin film of cadmium selenide (CdSe) quantum dot sensitizers, sandwiched between an electron-transporting titanium dioxide (TiO2) layer …
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Impact of uniaxial strain on P-channel 111-V quantum-well field effect transistors
… We applied uniaxial strain to these devices by bending the I-V chips using a mechanical apparatus. Characteristics of these devices were measured while uniaxial strain was externally applied. Significant hole mobility enhancements were observed under uniaxial compressive stress …
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Real-Time Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics For CUDA
… programming problems. NVIDIA's Compute Unifed Device Architecture (CUDA) has enabled developers to harness the massive computational power of the GPU through the CUDA parallel programming model. Smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations are particularly well suited to CUDA …
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Real-Time Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics For CUDA
… programming problems. NVIDIA's Compute Unifed Device Architecture (CUDA) has enabled developers to harness the massive computational power of the GPU through the CUDA parallel programming model. Smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations are particularly well suited to CUDA …
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How to design with the animal: Constructing posthumanist environments
… species is one of the deepest challenges facing architecture today and human development in general. Rather than to preserve, or cater to outside species "How to Design with the Animal" demonstrates that Architecture can actively participate in the life around it. By directing, responding and …
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Hardware Acceleration of a Neighborhood Dependent Component Feature Learning (NDCFL) Super-Resolution Algorithm
… CPU cores, using NVIDIA’s Computer Unified Device Architecture (CUDA), OpenCV and POSIX threads. Given a low resolution input, this method uses image features to adaptively learn the regression kernel based on local covariance to estimate the high resolution image. The accelerated …
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Device management of heterogeneous Bluetooth Low Energy devices
… adoption of smart, peripheral consumer devices, users enter a world where they can monitor their health and every day activities. As such, the advent of smart homes allows for the interconnectedness of all personal devices to be available on a unified platform. The efforts to unite all …
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Combustion Simulations Using Graphic Processing Units
… mechanisms were compiled in the Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) language for NVIDIA GPU architecture. Ignition processes were simulated under constant pressure and constant volume conditions using an explicit 4<sup>th</sup> order Runge-Kutta algorithm for time integration. Sufficiently …
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GPU accelerated Hungarian algorithm for traveling salesman problem
… Hungarian Algorithm that uses Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) enabled NVIDIA Graphics Processing Units (GPU) as the parallel programming architecture. The aim of this thesis is to make use of a modified version of the Dual Ascent-LAP solver to solve the TSP. Though this procedure is …
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Investigating thermal dependence on monolithically-integrated photonic interconnects
… it comes with design challenges from device, architecture and system perspectives. High thermal sensitivity of the essential optical ring resonator imposes constraints on the applicability of optical links in the electro-optical systems. To investigate the thermal dynamics as well as …
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All inorganic colloidal quantum dot LEDs
… the first colloidal quantum dot light emitting devices (QD-LEDs) with metal oxide charge transport layers. Colloidally synthesized quantum dots (QDs) have shown promise as the active material in optoelectronic devices because of their tunable, narrow band emission. To date, the most efficient …
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Surface plasmon polariton mediated energy transfer from external antennas into organic photovoltaic cells
… in the performance of organic photovoltaic devices in recent years, the tradeoff between light absorption and charge separation efficiency remains pervasive; increasing light absorption by increasing the device thickness leads to a decrease in exciton diffusion efficiency and vice versa. In …
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Singlet exciton fission : applications to solar energy harvesting
… 1.26 electrons per incident photon. One device architecture proposed for high power efficiency singlet fission solar cells coats a conventional inorganic semiconducting solar with a singlet fission molecule. This design requires energy transfer from the non-emissive triplet exciton to the …
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High Lundquist Number Simulations of Parker's Model of Coronal Heating: Scaling and Current Sheet Statistics Using Heterogeneous Computing Architectures
… processing units using the Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) and report code performance on several large scale heterogenous machines.</p>
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Correlation of Structure and Electrical Transport Properties of Carbon Nanotubes and Bundles in Field -Effect Transistors
… is proposed and constructed. This unique device architecture allows us not only to investigate the electrical transport properties of the nanotubes, but also to characterize atomic structures of the same nanotubes by transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The results obtained form the …
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