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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"micro-electronics"”.
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Quantification of performance analysis factors in front crawl swimming using micro electronics: a data rich system for swimming.
The aim of this study is to increase the depth of data available to swimming coaches in order to allow them to make more informed coaching decisions for their athletes in front crawl swimming. A coach’s job is to assist with various factors of an individual athlete to allow them to perform at an …
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Designing plasmonic structures
… (SPs) or more generally the study of light near micro- or nano-fabricated metallic surfaces, play a major role in all structures in this thesis. An effective work-flow in designing "plasmonic" structures is detailed. Various applications are then discussed: (1) Enhanced transmission through …
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A Method for Image Classification Using Low-Precision Analog Computing Arrays
Computing with analog micro electronics can offer several advantages over standard digital technology, most notably: Low space and power consumption and massive parallelization. On the other hand, analog computation lacks the exactness of digital calculations due to inevitable device variations …
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Analysis of an energy efficient permanent magnet brushless universal motor
… in the development of rare earth magnets, power electronics and micro-electronics over the last two decades can claim to be the major driving forces behind the rapid growth of permanent magnet (PM) brushless motor drives. The state of the art in PM motor technology is the PM universal motor, i.e. …
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Investigation of the pool boiling heat transfer enhancement of nano-engineered fluids by means of high-speed infrared thermography
… of heat transfer for applications such as micro-electronics, space heat-transfer systems, and advanced nuclear reactors. This study critically examined the fundamental processes occurring during nucleate boiling, critical heat flux, and rewetting on thin-film heating elements. A significant …
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Process Dependence of Defects and Dopants in Wide Band Gap Semiconductor and Oxides
… applications to next generation opto- and micro-electronics. My research focuses on the process dependence of the defects and dopants in wide band gap semiconductors and oxides of high-k dielectrics, ZnO and MoS<sub>2 </sub>.</p><p>Ultrahigh speed microelectronics demands high mobility …
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Self-Assembled Monolayers of N-Heterocyclic Carbenes on Gold and Silver: Applications in Biosensing
… many surface-based applications, specifically in micro electronics, sensors that use the surface plasmon resonance (SPR) phenomenon, and in catalysis. Unfortunately, the reactivity of silver towards sulfur means that thiol-based monolayers can form sulfide layers at the surface interface in …
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A spectroscopic and electrochemical study of chlorotitanates in molten salt media
… does not produce titanium sufficiently pure for micro-electronics applications so electro refining of the metal in a molten chloride bath at temperatures above 700°C is necessary. The present study focused on the electrorefining of titanium in a bath consisting of the CsCl-NaCl-KCl eutectic as …
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Isomeric olefinic periodic mesoporous organosilicas: an emerging class of versatile nanomaterials
… catalysis, chromatography, ion exchange, micro-electronics, environmental technology, controlled drug release, . . . In the field of porous materials, scientists aim to control the size, shape, uniformity and periodicity of porous space and the atoms and molecules that define it. By …
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DSP centered modular building blocks and object-oriented modeling for power electronic systems
Power electronics has been gaining widespread popularity because of the development that have taken place in areas like power semiconductor devices, micro-electronics, control and power apparatus in the last five decades. Power electronic systems are complex, besides the fact that a number of new …
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Simulations of diffusion driven phase evolution in heterogenous solids
… ever greater operational demands are placed on electronics components at all levels of the device, starting from the transistor level to the level of the package and the solder interconnects. Concurrently, there has been a move to more complicated materials systems in order to meet health and …
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Computer simulation of electromigration in microelectronics interconnect
… semiconductor assembly and packaging industry as electronics components and interconnects get smaller and smaller. According to the assembly and packaging section of the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductor (ITRS) developed in 2007 and 2009 [1] [2], EM was a near term threat for the …
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Application of exact and approximate optimization methods to novel scheduling problems
… a hybrid flow shop inspired to a truly observed micro-electronics manufacturing environment, is illustrated. Overlap between jobs, waiting time limit of jobs within inter-stage buffers as well as machine unavailability time intervals represent just a part of the constraints which characterize the …
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A multidisciplinary framework for mission effectiveness quantification and assessment of micro autonomous systems and technologies
Micro Autonomous Systems and Technologies (MAST) is an Army Research Laboratory (ARL) sponsored project based on a consortium of revolutionary academic and industrial research institutions working together to develop new technologies in the field of microelectronics, autonomy, micromechanics and …
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A Study of a Two-Dimensional Wicki Boiling Model in Porous Media as Applied to the Cooling of Micro-Electronic Equipment
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Optical fibre refractive index, voltage and strain sensors : fabrication and applications
The focus of this thesis is the study of intensity and wavelength-based optical fibre sensors (OFSs) for various applications in three major sensing areas: refractive index (RI), voltage and strain. The thesis aims to provide detailed information on the design and performance of particular …
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Spectrum sharing in cognitive radio networks
Years of growth in wireless communication services and conservative spectrum allocation policies by government regulators have led to spectrum scarcity. On the other hand, spectrum measurement campaigns have indicated that the actual occupancy of most licensed frequency bands is quite low. In …
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Opportunistic resource allocation and relaying methods for quality of service in the downlink of future cellular wireless networks
Wireless communications is on the brink of a major change. New technologies called multiple antenna systems (MIMO) and orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) will be put together in the deployment of the next generation of cellular standards known as 4G. Consumers can expect peak …
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Microscopic and spectral characterisation of optical Fibre Bragg gratings
… Differential Interference Contrast (DIC) microscopy was used in this thesis to investigate the internal refractive index structures of FBGs fabricated using various techniques. By measuring the light transmitted through FBGs at various wavelengths, the information gained from spectral …
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Performance analysis of relay based cooperative MAC protocols
This thesis aims at contributing to the field of cooperative AHNs. The focus of this research is on the relay based MAC layer: design of cooperative MAC protocols, performance modelling, and protocol enhancements. The first contribution of this thesis is dedicated to the modelling of energy …
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