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Wireless Power Transfer Using Cavity With Height Discontinuities, Linsheng Zhang
Wireless Power Transfer Using Cavity With Height Discontinuities, Linsheng Zhang
Electrical Engineering Theses and Dissertations
A novel device for efficient wireless power transfer (WPT) system is presented. The proposed WPT system utilizes modified microstrip antennas with height discontinuities (MAHDs) to achieve power transfer. Similar to the conventional WPT system using inductive devices, the power transmission relies on the magnetic field coupling in the near field region. However, the researcher can treat the isolated transmitter or receiver as a modified microstrip antenna, which resembles a capacitive device. Like a capacitive antenna, we can utilize the cavity model, which significantly simplifies field analysis, design and impedance matching process, reduces the overall space requirement, and potentially increases the …
Uav-X Communication: Empirical Characterization And Performance Optimization, Muhammad Hashir Syed
Uav-X Communication: Empirical Characterization And Performance Optimization, Muhammad Hashir Syed
Electrical Engineering Theses and Dissertations
In emerging wireless networks, the scalability of deploying drones presents an opportunity to design extensive aerial networks. These networks could effectively monitor large agricultural fields from the air and soil for food production with efficient resource utilization. On the one hand, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have gained interest in agricultural aerial inspection due to their ubiquity and observation scale. On the other hand, agricultural internet-of-thing devices, including buried soil sensors, have gained interest in improving natural resource efficiency in crop production. In this work, we investigate the natural interaction of these two phenomena, where UAVs can be leveraged as flying …
Design And Fabrication Of A Low Power 7.2 Terabit Transmitter For Exascale Computing, Scott Mcwilliams
Design And Fabrication Of A Low Power 7.2 Terabit Transmitter For Exascale Computing, Scott Mcwilliams
Electrical Engineering Theses and Dissertations
Enhanced Coupled Strength (ECS) gratings fabricated into III-V based devices offer high reflected power per unit length and broad band reflectivity as compared to conventional 1st order gratings, desired qualities for short-haul high speed transmitters that can be implemented without the need for chip-level temperature control, contributing to the low power per transmitted bit. For commercial DBR lasers, the grating reflectivity results in an extremely narrow reflectivity spectrum, which is highly desired for most/many applications, but requires a power hungry thermo-electric cooler to maintain a fixed frequency. The proposed LEAM (laser electro-absorption modulator) requires a broad reflectivity spectrum, which, by …
Series Aperture Coupled Fed Phased Array Antenna, Guang Yang
Series Aperture Coupled Fed Phased Array Antenna, Guang Yang
Electrical Engineering Theses and Dissertations
Phased arrays are employed in a wide range of civil and Military contexts, including RADAR, cellular communications, and satellite communications. However, modern phased-array antennas require complex design and bulky structure at high costs, hindering their implementation in many applications. The critical aspect of a phased array design lies in power splitting with a proper phase to each radiating element. Conventional power splitters such as quarter-wavelength or Wilkinson power splitters suffer problems associated with complex array network and high power dissipation. Furthermore, popular phase shifters such as MEMS switch, ferrite-based or PIN diode have drawbacks of low power-handling capability, expensive packaging, …
Modeling And Compensating Of Noise In Time-Of-Flight Sensors, Bryan Rodriguez
Modeling And Compensating Of Noise In Time-Of-Flight Sensors, Bryan Rodriguez
Electrical Engineering Theses and Dissertations
Three-dimensional (3D) sensors provide the ability to perform contactless measurements of objects and distances that are within their field of view. Unlike traditional two-dimensional (2D) cameras, which only provide RGB data about objects within a scene, 3D sensors are able to directly provide depth information for objects within a scene. Of these 3D sensing technologies, Time-of-Flight (ToF) sensors are becoming more compact which allows them to be more easily integrated with other devices and to find use in more applications. ToF sensors also provide several benefits over other 3D sensing technologies that increase the types of applications where ToF sensors …
Study Of Radiation Effects In Gan-Based Devices, Han Gao
Study Of Radiation Effects In Gan-Based Devices, Han Gao
Electrical Engineering Theses and Dissertations
Radiation tolerance of wide-bandgap Gallium Nitride (GaN) high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMT) has been studied, including X-ray-induced TID effects, heavy-ion-induced single event effects, and neutron-induced single event effects. Threshold voltage shift is observed in X-ray irradiation experiments, which recovers over time, indicating no permanent damage formed inside the device. Heavy-ion radiation effects in GaN HEMTs have been studied as a function of bias voltage, ion LET, radiation flux, and total fluence. A statistically significant amount of heavy-ion-induced gate dielectric degradation was observed, which consisted of hard breakdown and soft breakdown. Specific critical injection level experiments were designed and carried out to explore …
Distribution Network Planning And Operation With Autonomous Agents, Abdulraheem Hassan Alobaidi
Distribution Network Planning And Operation With Autonomous Agents, Abdulraheem Hassan Alobaidi
Electrical Engineering Theses and Dissertations
With the restructured power system, different system operators and private investors are responsible for operating and maintaining the electricity networks. Moreover, with incentives for a clean environment and reducing the reliance on fossil fuel generation, future distribution networks adopt a considerable penetration of renewable energy sources. However, the uncertainty of renewable energy sources poses operational challenges in distribution networks. This thesis addresses the planning and operation of the distribution network with autonomous agents under uncertainty. First, a decentralized energy management system for unbalanced networked microgrids is developed. The energy management schemes in microgrids enhance the utilization of renewable energy resources …
Development And Application Of A Design Flow For Photonic Integrated Circuits, Ifeanyi Achu
Development And Application Of A Design Flow For Photonic Integrated Circuits, Ifeanyi Achu
Electrical Engineering Theses and Dissertations
Silicon photonics allows for the fabrication of many optical elements on a single photonic integrated circuit (PIC). By taking advantage of the established foundry technology used in the CMOS and silicon’s high refractive index, high feature density manufacturing can be achieved in mass quantities. In CMOS fabrication, from conception of an electronic circuit to testing, the process of designing an electronic circuit is dictated by a design flow which has been developed over the course of decades. This flow includes circuit level design and simulation, layout of the circuit, layout and verification of the chip, fabrication, packaging, and testing. Given …
Orbital Angular Momentum Orthogonality-Based Crosstalk Reduction: Theory And Experiment, Unaiza Tariq
Orbital Angular Momentum Orthogonality-Based Crosstalk Reduction: Theory And Experiment, Unaiza Tariq
Electrical Engineering Theses and Dissertations
Full duplex communication systems allow a single channel to be used for simultaneous two-way communication, increasing spectral efficiency. However, full duplex communication systems suffer from the issue of self-interference between local transmitter and receiver antennas. Analog subtraction and signal processing methods have previously been used to reduce this problem. This dissertation proposes the use of waves carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) to mitigate the problem of self-interference by offering a means of additional isolation between local antennas.
Orbital angular momentum has been widely studied both in the photonics and radio domain. The theoretically infinite orthogonal states of an OAM signal …
Distribution Network Operation With Solar Photovoltaic And Energy Storage Technology, Mohammad Ramin Feizi
Distribution Network Operation With Solar Photovoltaic And Energy Storage Technology, Mohammad Ramin Feizi
Electrical Engineering Theses and Dissertations
Among distributed energy resources, solar photovoltaic (PV) generation has the largest penetration in the distribution networks. Serving electric vehicles (EV) with renewable resource generation would further reduce the carbon footprint of the energy supply chain for electric vehicles. However, the integration of solar PV and EVs in the unbalanced distribution network introduces several challenges including voltage fluctuations, voltage imbalances, reverse power flow, and protection devices’ malfunctions. The uncertainties associated with solar PV integration and electric vehicles operation require significant effort to develop accurate optimization methodologies in the unbalanced distribution systems operation. In this thesis, in order to cope with the …
An Efficient Integrated Circuit Simulator And Time Domain Adjoint Sensitivity Analysis, Jiahua Li
An Efficient Integrated Circuit Simulator And Time Domain Adjoint Sensitivity Analysis, Jiahua Li
Electrical Engineering Theses and Dissertations
In this paper, we revisit time-domain adjoint sensitivity with a circuit theoretic approach and an efficient solution is clearly stated in terms of device level. Key is the linearization of the energy storage elements (e.g., capacitance and inductance) and nonlinear memoryless elements (e.g., MOS, BJT DC characteristics) at each time step. Due to the finite precision of computation, numerical errors that accumulate across timesteps can arise in nonlinear elements.
In Band Full Duplex For Wireless Communication, A Medium Access Control Perspective, Yazeed Alkhrijah
In Band Full Duplex For Wireless Communication, A Medium Access Control Perspective, Yazeed Alkhrijah
Electrical Engineering Theses and Dissertations
In-band full duplex (IBFD) for wireless communication is defined as the ability of a node to send and receive data simultaneously by using the same frequency band. IBFD has the potential to double the spectral efficiency of wireless networks. In addition, IBFD improves security by mystifying any eavesdropper with multiple transmitted signals in a single frequency. Also, IBFD reduces the end-to-end transmission delay and solves the hidden terminal and exposed terminal problems. However, IBFD suffers from self-interference. Canceling self-interference (SI) is the main challenge in enabling IBFD. Another challenge for IBFD is to manage access to the network. IEEE802.11 are …
Golightly : A Gpu Implementation Of The Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method, S. David Lively
Golightly : A Gpu Implementation Of The Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method, S. David Lively
Electrical Engineering Theses and Dissertations
Traditionally, optical circuit design is tested and validated using software which implement numerical modeling techniques such as Beam Propagation, Finite Element Analysis and the Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) method. FDTD simulations require significant computational power. Existing installations may distribute the computational requirements across large clusters of high-powered servers. This approach entails significant expense in terms of hardware, staffing and software support which may be prohibitive for some research facilities and private-sector engineering firms. The application of modern programmable GPUs to problems in scientific visualization and computation has facilitated faster development cycles for a variety of industry segments including large dataset visualization, …
Raman Thermometry Of Graphene Based Thermal Materials, Pengcheng Xu
Raman Thermometry Of Graphene Based Thermal Materials, Pengcheng Xu
Electrical Engineering Theses and Dissertations
With the growing demand for high performance computing, we are pushing for higher performance integrated circuits at an ever faster rate. Recent advances in semiconductor production technology sees transistors with a 5 nm process devices being produced for consumer use. This enabled engineers to pack tens of billions of transistors in a package no larger than a fingernail. However, that brings up a problem that we have been long battling against. How can we get rid of the heat produced by these billions of transistors. The current electronic performance is bottle-necked by the ability of the package taking heat away …
Advances In Power System Operation And Optimization, You Lin
Advances In Power System Operation And Optimization, You Lin
Electrical Engineering Theses and Dissertations
The modern power system has witnessed an increasing penetration of distributed energy resources and modern loads with variable frequency drives. The increasing complexity brings great challenges to modern power system operations. Significant efforts have been made to develop more accurate power system operation and optimization methods. The tradeoff between computation and the model structure makes the problem nontrivial to solve and analyze. Enabled by the wide deployment of PMUs and advanced machine learning algorithms, we improve the conventional power system operation and optimization techniques by improving the accuracy of power system measurements, implementing new power system modeling structures, and performing …
Empirical Models Of 3d Air-To-Air Communication Channels, Neil Matson
Empirical Models Of 3d Air-To-Air Communication Channels, Neil Matson
Electrical Engineering Theses and Dissertations
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) often lack the size, weight, and power to support large antenna arrays or a large number of radio chains. Despite such limitations, emerging applications that require the use of swarms, where UAVs form a pattern and coordinate towards a common goal, must have the capability to transmit in any direction in three-dimensional (3D) space from moment to moment. In this work, we design a measurement study to evaluate the role of antenna polarization diversity on UAV systems communicating in arbitrary 3D space. To do so, we construct flight patterns where one transmitting UAV is hovering at …
The Transport Of Acoustic Energy At Two-Dimensional Material Interfaces, Jesus Bolivar
The Transport Of Acoustic Energy At Two-Dimensional Material Interfaces, Jesus Bolivar
Electrical Engineering Theses and Dissertations
The control of vibrational energy within solids is a fundamental engineering challenge with numerous technological applications. While the control of electrons and photons has revolutionized computation and communication, the control of phonons, the quantized particle of vibrational energy, has been far less successful. Acoustic energy is a form of vibrational energy that involves coherent excitations of phonons to form larger elastic waves. It is this coherence that allows it to be a valuable engineering tool for applications in imaging, frequency/time control, and structural monitoring. Traditional methods of reflecting acoustic energy involve interfacing different phases of matter to reflect via an …
Closed-Loop Brain-Computer Interfaces For Memory Restoration Using Deep Brain Stimulation, David Xiaoliang Wang
Closed-Loop Brain-Computer Interfaces For Memory Restoration Using Deep Brain Stimulation, David Xiaoliang Wang
Electrical Engineering Theses and Dissertations
The past two decades have witnessed the rapid growth of therapeutic brain-computer interfaces (BCI) targeting a diversity of brain dysfunctions. Among many neurosurgical procedures, deep brain stimulation (DBS) with neuromodulation technique has emerged as a fruitful treatment for neurodegenerative disorders such as epilepsy, Parkinson's disease, post-traumatic amnesia, and Alzheimer's disease, as well as neuropsychiatric disorders such as depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and schizophrenia. In parallel to the open-loop neuromodulation strategies for neuromotor disorders, recent investigations have demonstrated the superior performance of closed-loop neuromodulation systems for memory-relevant disorders due to the more sophisticated underlying brain circuitry during cognitive processes. Our efforts are …
Enhanced Design For Testability Circuitry For Test, Hui Jiang
Enhanced Design For Testability Circuitry For Test, Hui Jiang
Electrical Engineering Theses and Dissertations
More stringent defect detection requirements have led to the creation of new fault models, such as the cell-aware fault model, that attempts to model defects that might be missed by traditional test sets. Unfortunately, the resulting test sets can be long, and thus we have previously explored a DFT-based (Design for Testability-based) approach to reduce test time by harnessing scan shift cycles for cell-aware defect detection. This approach uses a MISR (Multiple Input Signature Register) structure to capture data on the functional inputs to selected scan flip-flops during the shifting procedure. The final signature in the MISR can then be …
Second-Order Enhanced Coupling Strength Grating Out-Couplers For A Monolithic Laser-Electro-Absorption Modulator, Maryam Dezfuli
Second-Order Enhanced Coupling Strength Grating Out-Couplers For A Monolithic Laser-Electro-Absorption Modulator, Maryam Dezfuli
Electrical Engineering Theses and Dissertations
Conventional grating out-couplers in III-V waveguides typically require lengths of several hundreds of microns to outcouple 50 to 90% of the incident optical power. Enhanced coupling strength (ECS) gratings, which reduce the out-coupler grating length to tens of microns, have a large relative permittivity difference between the materials on either side of the grating boundary along with a high index cover layer. With appropriately chosen permittivity and layer thicknesses, the addition of a cover layer “pulls” the peak of the optical mode towards the grating region, resulting in a significant increase in the grating confinement factor. The resulting ECS out-coupler …
First Order Enhanced Coupling Strength (Ecs) Gratings For Laser-Electro Absorption Modulator (Eam) Transmitters, Freddie Castillo Ii
First Order Enhanced Coupling Strength (Ecs) Gratings For Laser-Electro Absorption Modulator (Eam) Transmitters, Freddie Castillo Ii
Electrical Engineering Theses and Dissertations
Conventional first-order DBR gratings in III-V waveguides often require hundreds of microns to achieve near 100% reflected power and provide narrow spectral reflectivity width for a single wavelength, limiting temperature performance of devices. Narrow reflectivity spectral width is desired for spectroscopy and wavelength division multiplexing applications where device temperature is regulated. However, Enhanced Coupling Strength (ECS) gratings provide in-plane reflectors with significantly higher reflected power per unit length, broad spectral reflectivities, and reduced losses at the waveguide-grating interface in III-V waveguides. These properties of ECS gratings allow integration of optical components such as high-speed modulators with short horizontal cavity lasers …
Characterization Of Uav-Based Wireless Channels With Diverse Antenna Configurations, Mahmoud Badi
Characterization Of Uav-Based Wireless Channels With Diverse Antenna Configurations, Mahmoud Badi
Electrical Engineering Theses and Dissertations
In the next wave of swarm-based applications, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) need to communicate with peer drones in any direction of a three-dimensional (3D) space. On a given drone and across drones, various antenna positions and orientations are possible. We know that, in free space, high levels of signal loss are expected if the transmitting and receiving antennas are cross polarized. However, increasing the reflective and scattering objects in the channel between a transmitter and receiver can cause the received polarization to become completely independent from the transmitted polarization, making the cross-polarization of antennas insignificant. Usually, these effects are studied …
Electricity Market Operations With Massive Renewable Integration: New Designs, Shengfei Yin
Electricity Market Operations With Massive Renewable Integration: New Designs, Shengfei Yin
Electrical Engineering Theses and Dissertations
Electricity market has been transitioning from a conventional and deterministic operation to a stochastic operation under the increasing penetration of renewable energy. Industry-level solutions toward the future electricity market operation ask for both accuracy and efficiency while maintaining model interpretability. Hence, reliable stochastic optimization techniques come to the first place for such a complex and dynamic problem.
This work starts at proposing a solution strategy for the uncertainty-based power system planning problem, which acts as a preliminary and instructs the electricity market operation. Considering 100% renewable penetration in the future, it analyzes the cost-effectiveness of renewable energy from a long-term …
Context-Aware Sensing And Fusion For Structural Health Monitoring And Night Time Traffic Surveillance, Xinxiang Zhang
Context-Aware Sensing And Fusion For Structural Health Monitoring And Night Time Traffic Surveillance, Xinxiang Zhang
Electrical Engineering Theses and Dissertations
Rapid developments in computer vision technologies have been transforming many traditional fields in engineering and science in the last few decades, especially in terms of diagnosing problems from visual images. Leveraging computer vision technologies to inspect, monitor, assess infrastructure conditions, and analyze traffic dynamics, has gained significant increase in both effectiveness and efficiency, compared to the cost of traditional instrumentation arrays to monitor, and manually inspect civil infrastructures and traffic conditions. Therefore, to construct the next-generation intelligent civil and transportation infrastructures, this dissertation develops a comprehensive computer-vision based sensing and fusion framework for structural health monitoring and intelligent transportation systems. …
Three-Dimensional (3d) Memory I/O Interface Design Using Quad-Band Interconnect (Qbi) And Eight-Level Pulse Amplitude Modulation (8-Pam), Xiaoyan Wang
Electrical Engineering Theses and Dissertations
The demand for high bandwidth, low latency, reconfigurable, and small form factor memory I/O interface design has significantly increased with the development of data-intensive applications, such as artificial neural networks and high-performance computing. However, the current memory I/O interface technologies have critical limitations, such as limited bandwidth, limited pin count, long latency, non-reconfigurable data access, and large form factor. Therefore, a novel memory I/O interface design is needed to overcome these limitations.
This dissertation presents two novel memory I/O interface designs using 3D integration, QBI, and 8-PAM technologies to improve bandwidth, latency, reconfigurability, and form factor for future mobile devices. …
On-Chip Nonreciprocal Components For Full-Duplex Communications And Gaussian Regulated Gate Driver For Electromagnetic Interference Reduction, Chang Yang
Electrical Engineering Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation is comprised of two unrelated design endeavors. The first one is about two CMOS nonreciprocal components: 1) an isolator and 2) a circulator. To make the components compact enough for the next generation communication systems with wide bandwidth, both components operate at 100 GHz band for full-duplex transceivers for ultra-high-data-rate millimeter-wave wireless communication. The proposed nonreciprocal structures are based on a time-domain modulation by signals at around 1/6 of the RF frequencies and spatial duplexing over the RF signal paths, demonstrating over 45 dB isolation in a bandwidth of 1.5 GHz over the tuning range of 85-110 GHz. …
Model-Based And Data-Driven Situational Awareness For Distribution System Monitoring And Control, Ying Zhang
Model-Based And Data-Driven Situational Awareness For Distribution System Monitoring And Control, Ying Zhang
Electrical Engineering Theses and Dissertations
Electric power systems are undergoing a dramatic change. The penetration of distributed energy resources (DERs) such as wind turbine generators and photovoltaic panels is turning a traditional power system into the active distribution network. Power system situational awareness, which provides critical information for system monitoring and control, is being challenged by multiple sources of uncertainties such as random meter errors, stochastic power output of DERs, and imprecise network parameters. On the other hand, cyber-physical power system operation is vulnerable to cyberattacks against effective state estimation, such as false data injection attacks (FDIAs). To construct next-generation smart grids, this dissertation develops …
A 2.56 Gbps Serial Wireline Transceiver That Supports An Auxiliary Channel And A Hybrid Line Driver To Compensate Large Channel Loss, Xiaoran Wang
Electrical Engineering Theses and Dissertations
Serial transceiver links are widely used for high-speed point-to-point communications. This dissertation describes two transceiver link designs for two different applications.
In serial wireline communications, security is an increasingly important factor to concern. Securing an information processing system at the application and system software layers is regarded as a necessary but incomplete defense against the cyber security threats. In this dissertation, an asynchronous serial transceiver that is capable of transmitting and receiving an auxiliary data stream concurrently with the primary data stream is described. The transceiver instantiates the auxiliary data stream by modulating the phase of the primary data without …
Learning Deep Architectures For Power Systems Operation And Analysis, Mahdi Khodayar
Learning Deep Architectures For Power Systems Operation And Analysis, Mahdi Khodayar
Electrical Engineering Theses and Dissertations
With the rapid increase in size and computational complexities of power systems, the need for powerful computational models to capture strong patterns from energy datasets is emerged. In this thesis, we provide a comprehensive review on recent advances in deep neural architectures that lead to significant improvements in classification and regression problems in the area of power engineering. Furthermore, we introduce our novel deep learning methodologies proposed for a large variety of applications in this area. First, we present the interval deep probabilistic modeling for wind speed forecasting. Incorporating the Rough Set Theory into deep neural networks, we create an …
Machine Learning Applications In Power Systems, Xinan Wang
Machine Learning Applications In Power Systems, Xinan Wang
Electrical Engineering Theses and Dissertations
Machine learning (ML) applications have seen tremendous adoption in power system research and applications. For instance, supervised/unsupervised learning-based load forecasting and fault detection are classic ML topics that have been well studied. Recently, reinforcement learning-based voltage control, distribution analysis, etc., are also gaining popularity. Compared to conventional mathematical methods, ML methods have the following advantages: (i). better robustness against different system configurations due to its data-driven nature; (ii). better adaption to system uncertainties; (iii). less dependent on the modeling accuracy and validity of assumptions. However, due to the unique physics of the power grid, many problems cannot be directly solved …