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Full-Text Articles in Engineering
Study Of Ultra Wide Band Gap Alxga1-Xn Field Effect Transistors For Power Electronic Applications, Sakib Mohammed Muhtadi
Study Of Ultra Wide Band Gap Alxga1-Xn Field Effect Transistors For Power Electronic Applications, Sakib Mohammed Muhtadi
Theses and Dissertations
High Aluminum content AlxGa1-xN (x > 30%) has attracted intense research interest nowadays as “Ultra Wide Band Gap (UWBG)” material due to large band gap (> 3.4 eV). The critical electric field (EC) of UWBG semiconductor AlGaN is significantly higher than GaN. Moreover, electron saturation velocity is also comparable to GaN. These attractive material properties are the needs for getting large breakdown voltage and high thermal stability which are the requirements for next generation power semiconductor devices. Theoretical possibilities show UWBG AlGaN based devices are an emerging class and can outperform conventional GaN based devices even at …
Spatial Variation Analysis For Measured Indoor Massive Mimo Channels, Qi Wang, Bo Ai, David W. Matolak, Ruisi He, Ke Guan, Zhangdui Zhong, Dapeng Li
Spatial Variation Analysis For Measured Indoor Massive Mimo Channels, Qi Wang, Bo Ai, David W. Matolak, Ruisi He, Ke Guan, Zhangdui Zhong, Dapeng Li
Faculty Publications
As one of the most important candidate technologies for the fifth-generation wireless communication systems, massive MIMO technology has been widely studied recently because of the significant improvements it can provide in terms of spectrum efficiency and power efficiency. As the foundation of wireless communication, research on propagation characteristics for massive MIMO channels is of primary importance. This paper investigates the characteristics for massive MIMO channels in an indoor hall scenario at 6-GHz. Channel measurements were conducted with a bandwidth of 200 MHz in both line of sight (LOS) and non-LOS (NLOS) conditions. The statistical parameters in the delay domain were …
Investigation Of Mimo Channel Characteristics In A Twosection Tunnel At 1.4725 Ghz, Rongchen Sun, David W. Matolak, Cheng Tao, Liu Liu, Zhenhui Tan, Tao Zhou
Investigation Of Mimo Channel Characteristics In A Twosection Tunnel At 1.4725 Ghz, Rongchen Sun, David W. Matolak, Cheng Tao, Liu Liu, Zhenhui Tan, Tao Zhou
Faculty Publications
This paper presents results from a wide band single-input–single-output (SISO) and 16 16 virtual multiple-input–multiple-output (MIMO) measurement campaign at a center frequency of 1.4725 GHz in a 100-meter long tunnel laboratory which is terminated by a vertical wall with a metallic door. The path loss, root-mean-square delay spread (RMS-DS) characteristics, and power delay profiles (PDPs) are described. In addition, we provide results for the MIMO channel amplitude matrix, which offers a new perspective in understanding MIMO characteristics in tunnel scenarios. Our measurement results are analyzed and compared to ray tracing simulations. The relationships among the angle spread, channel matrix singular …
Road Accidents Bigdata Mining And Visualization Using Support Vector Machines, Usha Lokala, Srinivas Nowduri, Prabhakar K Sharma
Road Accidents Bigdata Mining And Visualization Using Support Vector Machines, Usha Lokala, Srinivas Nowduri, Prabhakar K Sharma
Publications
Useful information has been extracted from the road accident data in United Kingdom (UK), using data analytics method, for avoiding possible accidents in rural and urban areas. This analysis make use of several methodologies such as data integration, support vector machines (SVM), correlation machines and multinomial goodness. The entire datasets have been imported from the traffic department of UK with due permission. The information extracted from these huge datasets forms a basis for several predictions, which in turn avoid unnecessary memory lapses. Since data is expected to grow continuously over a period of time, this work primarily proposes a new …
Dynamic Model And Control Of Quadrotor In The Presence Of Uncertainties, Courage Agho
Dynamic Model And Control Of Quadrotor In The Presence Of Uncertainties, Courage Agho
Theses and Dissertations
This thesis considers the control of quadrotor using a linear PID control and ℒ1 adaptive control. In a justifiable concept, PID controller can be used to control a quadrotor, but in the presence of uncertainties or disturbance, the quadrotor can’t be automatically adjusted to control the changing dynamics of the quadrotor. To solve the problem associated with uncertainties, various control methodology can be used for controlling the changing dynamic of quadrotor, but in this thesis, ℒ1 adaptive control is used because it allows for fast and robust adaptation for desired transient performance in the presence of matched and unmatched uncertainties. …
Low Bandwidth Communication For Networked Power Hardware-In-The-Loop Simulation, Sean Borgsteede
Low Bandwidth Communication For Networked Power Hardware-In-The-Loop Simulation, Sean Borgsteede
Theses and Dissertations
Power-Hardware-In-the-Loop (PHIL) simulations allow the design and validation of power hardware components in virtual power system schemas with near real-time operation. This technique is increasingly used in the development cycle of many products to reduce design costs and increase design fidelity. The Hardware under Test (HuT) interfaces with a simulation of the user’s choosing through a hardware interface (HI). The digitally simulated system (DSS) runs on the real-time simulator before sending a reference value to the hardware interface to enforce. In this virtual to real interface, closed-loop stability and the simulation accuracy are the two paramount criteria in regards to …
Physical Characterization Of Electrodeposited Pcb Copper Foil Surfaces, Blessing Kolawole Ojo
Physical Characterization Of Electrodeposited Pcb Copper Foil Surfaces, Blessing Kolawole Ojo
Theses and Dissertations
Given that data rates of computers is on the rise and optimization of bus speeds continue to be of importance in improving the system performance, different models for a prediction of the impact of the surface roughness of copper foil have been developed and incorporated into different software’s and applications used by design engineers.
With different models known to have been created for characterization of electrodeposited copper, they have been mostly affected by the need for higher frequencies as they are mostly useful for prediction at frequency of a few GHz. With the introduction of a new model (known as …
Analysis Of An Upper Bound On The Effects Of Large Scale Attenuation On Uplink Transmission Performance For Massive Mimo Systems, Liu Liu, David W. Matolak, Cheng Tao, Yongzhi Li
Analysis Of An Upper Bound On The Effects Of Large Scale Attenuation On Uplink Transmission Performance For Massive Mimo Systems, Liu Liu, David W. Matolak, Cheng Tao, Yongzhi Li
Faculty Publications
Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is a potential candidate key technology for the 5G of wireless communication systems. In research to date, different power loss and shadowing effects on different antenna elements across the large arrays have been neglected. In this paper, based on an idealized propagation model, a new large scale attenuation (LSA) model is proposed, by which the large scale losses (path loss and shadowing effect) over the antenna array can be considered when establishing a massive MIMO channel model. By using this model, the spectral efficiency (in terms of bits/s/Hz sum-rate) of the maximum ratio combining (MRC) detector …
Analysis Of An Upper Bound On The Effects Of Large Scale Attenuation On Uplink Transmission Performance For Massive Mimo Systems, Liu Liu, David W. Matolak, Cheng Tao, Yongzhi Li
Analysis Of An Upper Bound On The Effects Of Large Scale Attenuation On Uplink Transmission Performance For Massive Mimo Systems, Liu Liu, David W. Matolak, Cheng Tao, Yongzhi Li
Faculty Publications
Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is a potential candidate key technology for the 5G of wireless communication systems. In research to date, different power loss and shadowing effects on different antenna elements across the large arrays have been neglected. In this paper, based on an idealized propagation model, a new large scale attenuation (LSA) model is proposed, by which the large scale losses (path loss and shadowing effect) over the antenna array can be considered when establishing a massive MIMO channel model. By using this model, the spectral efficiency (in terms of bits/s/Hz sum-rate) of the maximum ratio combining (MRC) detector …
Wideband Low Side Lobe Aperture Coupled Patch Phased Array Antennas, Dhruva Poduval
Wideband Low Side Lobe Aperture Coupled Patch Phased Array Antennas, Dhruva Poduval
Theses and Dissertations
Low profile printed antenna arrays with wide bandwidth, high gain, and low Side Lobe Level (SLL) are in great demand for current and future commercial and military communication systems and radar. Aperture coupled patch antennas have been proposed to obtain wide impedance bandwidths in the past. Aperture coupling is preferred particularly for phased arrays because of their advantage of integration to other active devices and circuits, e.g. phase shifters, power amplifiers, low noise amplifiers, mixers etc. However, when designing such arrays, the interplay between array performance characteristics, such as gain, side lobe level, back lobe level, mutual coupling etc. must …
A Lebesgue Sampling Based Diagnosis And Prognosis Methodology With Application To Lithium-Ion Batteries, Wuzhao Yan
A Lebesgue Sampling Based Diagnosis And Prognosis Methodology With Application To Lithium-Ion Batteries, Wuzhao Yan
Theses and Dissertations
Fault diagnosis and prognosis (FDP) plays an important role in the modern complex industrial systems to maintain their reliability, safety, and availability. Diagnosis aims to monitor the fault state of the component or the system in real-time. Prognosis refers to the generation of long-term predictions that describe the evolution of a fault and the estimation of the remaining useful life (RUL) of a failing component or subsystem.
Traditional Riemann sampling-based FDP (RS-FDP) takes samples and executes algorithms in periodic time intervals and, in most cases, requires significant computational resources. This makes it difficult or even impossible to implement RS-FDP algorithms …
Growth And Characterization Of Anisotropic Gase Semiconductor For Radiation Detection And Thz Applications, Haseeb Nazir
Growth And Characterization Of Anisotropic Gase Semiconductor For Radiation Detection And Thz Applications, Haseeb Nazir
Theses and Dissertations
Anisotropic wide-bandgap gallium selenide (GaSe) crystals were grown using high purity (7N) Ga and zone refined (ZR) Se precursor materials. The crystal growth was performed using a modified vertical Bridgman method (VBM) with a slow crystallization from the melt and with a pre-determined temperature profile. The structure, surface morphology, and the composition of the grown crystals were characterized using x-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and energy dispersive analysis by x-rays (EDAX), respectively. Optical absorption and transmission properties were characterized and optical bandgap was determined. Electrical resistivity has been determined using current-voltage (I V) measurements using van der Pauw …
Integrating Nano-Patterned Ferromagnetic And Ferroelectric Materials For Smart Tunable Microwave Applications, Tengxing Wang
Integrating Nano-Patterned Ferromagnetic And Ferroelectric Materials For Smart Tunable Microwave Applications, Tengxing Wang
Theses and Dissertations
The wireless communication market has been ever-growing in the recent decades. Radios with high performance and capabilities to support wireless connections are increasingly demanded. Recent developments in wireless communications targeting ubiquitous connections have resulted in ever more complex system structures for supporting multiple frequency bands and standards. Reconfigurable and tunable RF/microwave technologies have the potential to significantly simplify the systems. The main objective of this dissertation is to develop tunable technologies and design concepts, and propose a new design methodology to implement dually electrically tunable microwave components by integrating both selectively patterned ferromagnetic and ferroelectric materials.
The first part of …
Improved N-Type 4h-Sic Epitaxial Layer Radiation Detectors And Noise Analysis Of Front-End Readout Electronics, Khai V. Nguyen
Improved N-Type 4h-Sic Epitaxial Layer Radiation Detectors And Noise Analysis Of Front-End Readout Electronics, Khai V. Nguyen
Theses and Dissertations
Schottky barrier radiation detectors were fabricated on n-type 4H-SiC epitaxial layers (12 – 50 μm) grown by hot wall CVD process on highly nitrogen doped 4H-SiC (0001) substrates with 4-8º off-cut towards the ̅ direction. Ni/4H-SiC Schottky barrier radiation detectors, a very low leakage current of 0.18 nA at 250 V bias, revealing low thermal noise, was observed in current-voltage (I-V) measurements. Using a thermionic emission model, junction properties such as barrier height of ≥1.10 eV and an ideality factor of ≤1.29 were determined. An effective carrier concentration of 1.03×1015 cm-3 was calculated by capacitance-voltage (C-V) measurement. Deep level transient …
Software Modelling For Real World Faults On Ac Transmission Protective Systems Analysis And Effects, Iandale Tualla
Software Modelling For Real World Faults On Ac Transmission Protective Systems Analysis And Effects, Iandale Tualla
Theses and Dissertations
The Electric Power Utilities serves many diverse customers from regular households to major processing plants that develop parts for gasoline vehicles. Those varying customer usages has adverse effects on the Electric Grid in many ways, that requires continuing analysis by the engineers and technical skills specialists who keep the Electric Grid stable. Several papers have been written about harmonics and Non- Sinusoidal waveforms and its effect on the Electric Grid. This thesis will exam a realworld fault event on a transmission line, its effects on the AC Transmission Protection Systems (TPS) that provides electrical energy to a nonlinear load, specifically …
Study Of Mos2 And Graphene-Based Heterojunctions For Electronic And Sensing Applications, Ifat Jahangir
Study Of Mos2 And Graphene-Based Heterojunctions For Electronic And Sensing Applications, Ifat Jahangir
Theses and Dissertations
Since the discovery of graphene, there has been an increase in two-dimensional (2D) materials research for their scalability down to atomic dimensions. Among the analogs of graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are attractive due to their exceptional electronic and optoelectronic properties. MoS2, a TMD, has several advantages over graphene and the industry workhorse Si, and has been reported to demonstrate excellent transistor performances. The key obstacle in the commercialization of MoS2 technology is low carrier mobility over large areas for top-down devices. Although there were several early reports on synthesis of atomically thin MoS2 with moderate mobility, transferring large area …
Cable Health Monitoring System Built Into Power Converter Using Time Domain Reflectometry, Hossein Baninajar
Cable Health Monitoring System Built Into Power Converter Using Time Domain Reflectometry, Hossein Baninajar
Theses and Dissertations
Aging cables are a critical reliability concern for many electrical systems. Cables run over long distances, are often exposed to harsh environments and are intended to work for several decades. Cable faults can be a serious problem because cables are usually hard to repair or replace. Condition based maintenance is a popular approach that provides high reliability and low maintenance cost at the same time. This is a non-destructive method that collects information about the health condition of the cable under test without causing any potential damage.
Nowadays, in several applications power cables are connected to power converters and it …
Fault Protection In Dc Microgrids Based On Autonomous Operation Of All Components, Qiu Deng
Fault Protection In Dc Microgrids Based On Autonomous Operation Of All Components, Qiu Deng
Theses and Dissertations
DC power distribution systems (or so called DC microgrids) are of wide interest for various power applications due to their advantages over traditional AC power distribution systems with respect to power density and power distribution efficiency. On the other hand, short-circuit faults present formidable hazards in these systems. It is difficult to extinguish these arc faults via conventional circuit breakers due to the lack of natural zero-crossing of DC current. Also the DC breakers are usually more bulky and costly. Today, fault protection in these systems – to the extent that it exists – relies on over-current time-out limits in …
An Application Of Dempster-Shafer Fusion Theory To Lithium-Ion Battery Prognostics And Health Management, John Weddington
An Application Of Dempster-Shafer Fusion Theory To Lithium-Ion Battery Prognostics And Health Management, John Weddington
Theses and Dissertations
Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) is the discipline involving diagnostics and prognostics of components or systems, with the primary objective of increasing the overall reliability and safety of these components or systems. PHM systems convert raw sensor data into features, and utilize state observers to estimate the current damage state online. Popular state observers are the traditional Kalman filter, along with its non-linear extensions, and the particle filter. Each technique has differing advantages. This thesis investigates the fusion of results from different techniques in order to achieve a more trustworthy probability of detection (PoD) during diagnosis and a more reliable …
High Quality Low Offcut 4h-Sic Epitaxy And Integrated Growth Of Epitaxial Graphene For Hybrid Graphene/Sic Devices, Anusha Balachandran
High Quality Low Offcut 4h-Sic Epitaxy And Integrated Growth Of Epitaxial Graphene For Hybrid Graphene/Sic Devices, Anusha Balachandran
Theses and Dissertations
Power electronic semiconductor devices are critical components in next-generation power systems such as hybrid electric vehicles and smart grid power controls enabling reduction in system size, weight, and cost. Wide bandgap materials such as SiC, GaN, and diamond have been investigated to replace silicon, due to their superior material properties. Of these, 4H-SiC is considered the most viable candidate beyond 3kV due to its technological maturity, its wide band gap (3.23 eV), high breakdown field (4×106 V/cm), high thermal conductivity (5 W/cm/K) and, more importantly, its indirect bandgap.
The main contribution of my research relates to the development and investigating …
Analysis And Design Of A Highly Compact Ellipse-Shaped Ultra-Wideband Bandpass Filter (Uwb-Bpf) With A Notched Band, Xuetan Liu
Theses and Dissertations
Since the Federal Communications Commission’s endorsement of the frequency band of 3.1 – 10.6 GHz in 2002 to be unlicensed for wireless communication applications, various ultra-wideband bandpass filters (UWB-BPFs) have been proposed and designed. Different UWB-BPF configurations were presented in the past years to meet the very strict UWB-BPF specifications in terms of ultra-band requirement, low return loss, high rejection in notched bands. However, most of the previous works are limited by large dimension size, complex geometry, and high production cost.
The major objective of this work is to design a highly compact, simple geometry, and low-cost UWB-BPF, which passes …
Distributed Optimization Method For Intelligent Control Of Dc Microgrids, Yuanyuan Fan
Distributed Optimization Method For Intelligent Control Of Dc Microgrids, Yuanyuan Fan
Theses and Dissertations
Most of the distributed energy resources, loads and energy storage systems in a DC microgrid are equipped with power electronic converters. With the integration of advanced power electronics devices, a microgrid is able to utilize a broader range of technologies in its design and operation. A key feature of power electronic converter based systems is the ability to direct energy flow within a system with their coordinated operation. A system level control is needed for coordination where converters execute reference points dictated by a system-level control in order to achieve system level goals. System goals can be expressed as a …
Ultra High-Speed Signaling And Return On Technology Investment (Roti) For The Electrical Interconnects Sector, Azniza Abd Aziz
Ultra High-Speed Signaling And Return On Technology Investment (Roti) For The Electrical Interconnects Sector, Azniza Abd Aziz
Theses and Dissertations
Demand for smaller platform sizes with increasing bandwidth has driven crosstalk problems that prevent bus performance to scale with Moore’s Law. Several approaches to reduce crosstalk such as the use of shields, differential links, and equalizers have been rejected due to higher cost and power required to overcome the signal integrity impediments at Gigahertz data rates. Eigen-mode signaling based on modal decomposition techniques is the most recent method to mitigate crosstalk that can potentially satisfy the demand for higher data rates from modern technology industry.
The goal of this research is to allow maximum dense routing between packages on PCBs …
Evaluation Of Multicarrier Air Interfaces In The Presence Of Interference For L-Band And C-Band Air-Ground Communications, Hosseinali Jamal
Evaluation Of Multicarrier Air Interfaces In The Presence Of Interference For L-Band And C-Band Air-Ground Communications, Hosseinali Jamal
Theses and Dissertations
The use of aeronautical vehicles and systems is continuously growing, and this means current aeronautical communication systems, particularly those operating in the very high frequency (VHF) aviation band, will suffer from severe congestion in some regions of the world. For example, it is estimated that air-to-ground (AG) communication traffic density will at least double by 2035 over that in 2012, based on the most-likely growth scenario for Europe. This traffic growth (worldwide) has led civil aviation authorities such as the FAA in the USA, and EuroControl in Europe, to jointly explore development of future communication infrastructures (FCI). According to international …
Three Segment Adaptive Power Electronic Compensator For Non-Periodic Currents, Amin Ghaderi
Three Segment Adaptive Power Electronic Compensator For Non-Periodic Currents, Amin Ghaderi
Theses and Dissertations
In this dissertation, a new technique is proposed for the compensation of nonperiodic load current. The method provides control references for three co-located devices, each corresponding to one moving calculation window and one decomposed part of the compensated current. They are slow compensator with high power rating, large calculation window, and low switching frequency; fast compensator with lower power rating, shorter calculation window, and higher switching frequency; and the reactive compensator which is an ordinary static VAR compensator (SVC). To improve the flexibility of the technique, a fuzzy based adaptive window is proposed for the slow compensator to find the …