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Rewards And Challenges In Adopting Agility In An Academic Department, Massood Towhidnejad, Omar Ochoa, James J. Pembridge, Radu Babiceanu, Carlos Castro Oct 2022

Rewards And Challenges In Adopting Agility In An Academic Department, Massood Towhidnejad, Omar Ochoa, James J. Pembridge, Radu Babiceanu, Carlos Castro

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Introducing agility into department processes may be challenging especially when interfacing with a non-agile environment. While frequent meetings can add more time constraints, the team environment emphasizes more communication, transparency, and accountability in completing the products leading to a higher sense of ownership of the completed work.


Secure Mimo Communication System With Frequency Hopping Aided Ofdm-Dcsk Modulation, Wenduo Qiu, Yimu Yang, Yan Feng, Lin Zhang, Zhiqiang Wu Oct 2022

Secure Mimo Communication System With Frequency Hopping Aided Ofdm-Dcsk Modulation, Wenduo Qiu, Yimu Yang, Yan Feng, Lin Zhang, Zhiqiang Wu

Electrical Engineering Faculty Publications

In this paper, a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication system with frequency hopping (FH) aided orthogonal frequency division multiplexing differential chaotic shift keying (OFDM-DCSK) modulation is proposed. Our objective is to improve the security of MIMO communication system which is encoded by space time block coding (STBC). In order to combat the eavesdropping or malicious attacks due to the broadcast characteristics of wireless communication system, we propose to use DCSK and FH modules to encrypt the information, and hide the user data in the chaotic sequences, where the initial value of chaotic sequences and the method of generating FH module are …


Resource Allocation For Mec System With Multi-Users Resource Competition Based On Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach, Bin Qu, Yan Bai, Yul Chu, Li-E Wang, Feng Yu, Xianxian Li Oct 2022

Resource Allocation For Mec System With Multi-Users Resource Competition Based On Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach, Bin Qu, Yan Bai, Yul Chu, Li-E Wang, Feng Yu, Xianxian Li

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is an effective computing paradigm for mobile devices in the 5G era to reduce computing delay and energy consumption. However, in a multi-user resource competition environment, the revenue-driven behavior of edge servers will cause some users to increase delays or fail tasks. Considering this situation, we take the success rate of computation offloading as the trust value of the edge server, and build a system model from the user’s perspective, taking delay and energy consumption as the multi-objective task of joint optimization. In the optimization goal, we consider three factors: offloading delay, energy consumption, and queuing …


Digital Twin For Hvac Load And Energy Storage Based On A Hybrid Ml Model With Cta-2045 Controls Capability, Rosemary E. Alden, Evan S. Jones, Huangjie Gong, Abdullah Al Hadi, Dan Ionel Oct 2022

Digital Twin For Hvac Load And Energy Storage Based On A Hybrid Ml Model With Cta-2045 Controls Capability, Rosemary E. Alden, Evan S. Jones, Huangjie Gong, Abdullah Al Hadi, Dan Ionel

Power and Energy Institute of Kentucky Faculty Publications

Building modeling, specifically heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) load and equivalent energy storage calculations, represent a key focus for decarbonization of buildings and smart grid controls. Widely used white box models, due to their complexity, are too computationally intensive to be employed in high resolution distributed energy resources (DER) platforms without simulation time delays. In this paper, an ultra-fast one-minute resolution Hybrid Machine Learning Model (HMLM) is proposed as part of a novel procedure to replicate white box models as an alternative to widespread experimental big data collection. Synthetic output data from experimentally calibrated EnergyPlus models for three existing …


Fuzzy Logic-Based Charging Strategy For Frequency Control Of An Electric Vehicles-Integrated Weak Grid, Majid Mehrasa, Khaled Hajar, Reza Razi, Antoine Labonne, Ahmad Hably, Seddik Bacha, Daisy Flora Selvaraj, Hossein Salehfar Oct 2022

Fuzzy Logic-Based Charging Strategy For Frequency Control Of An Electric Vehicles-Integrated Weak Grid, Majid Mehrasa, Khaled Hajar, Reza Razi, Antoine Labonne, Ahmad Hably, Seddik Bacha, Daisy Flora Selvaraj, Hossein Salehfar

EERC Publications, Papers, & Presentations

In this paper, a fuzzy logic-based charging strategy is proposed for electric vehicles (EVs) to provide a stable frequency response for a weak grid (WG)-microgrid. Along with the frequency control, another fuzzy charging method is designed for EV to increase the revenue for the EV charging station owner.


Modeling Of Temperature Dependence Of Λ-Graded Ingan Solar Cells For Both Strained And Relaxed Features, Mirsaeid Sarollahi, Mohammad Zamani-Alavijeh, Manal Abdullah Aldawsari, Rohith Allaparthi, Md Helal Uddin Maruf, Malak Refaei, Reem E. Alhelais, Yuriy I. Mazur, Morgan E. Ware Oct 2022

Modeling Of Temperature Dependence Of Λ-Graded Ingan Solar Cells For Both Strained And Relaxed Features, Mirsaeid Sarollahi, Mohammad Zamani-Alavijeh, Manal Abdullah Aldawsari, Rohith Allaparthi, Md Helal Uddin Maruf, Malak Refaei, Reem E. Alhelais, Yuriy I. Mazur, Morgan E. Ware

Electrical Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

The temperature dependence of Λ-graded InGaN solar cells is studied through simulation using nextnano software. Λ-Graded structures have been designed by increasing and then decreasing the indium composition in epitaxial InGaN layers. Due to polarization doping, layers of p-type and n-type doping arise without the need for impurity doping. Different individual structures are designed by varying the indium alloy profile from GaN to maximum indium concentrations, xmax , ranging from 20% to 90% pseudomorphically strained to a GaN substrate and from 20% to 100% for completely strain-relaxed materials and linearly decreases back to GaN. For InxGa1-x …


A Design Flow For Additively Manufactured 3d Metasurface Antennas​, Justin Parkhurst Oct 2022

A Design Flow For Additively Manufactured 3d Metasurface Antennas​, Justin Parkhurst

Doctoral Dissertations and Master's Theses

Metasurface (MTS) antennas are complex arrays consisting of hundreds or thousands of individual elements that each exert their own influence on the performance of the antenna. Due to this, the process of designing and developing a MTS antenna can be intensive in terms of both the time to understand the how these antennas operate and time running calculations that achieve optimal performance. Through the use of automation for geometry creation in ANSYS HFSS, the work involved in making a MTS antenna can be greatly simplified. The overall objective of this thesis is to reduce the burden of constructing a MTS …


Wireless Coupled Feed Structure For Additively Manufactured Conformal Antennas, Blake Roberts Oct 2022

Wireless Coupled Feed Structure For Additively Manufactured Conformal Antennas, Blake Roberts

Doctoral Dissertations and Master's Theses

Due to advancements in additive manufacturing, it is possible to create electromagnetic devices that can be conformally printed directly onto 3D surfaces using conductive inks and dielectric pastes. Instance, the traditional antenna radomes that had the purpose of protecting the antenna on its inside can now become the antenna itself. With the components on the surface of the structure, instead of inside if it, a direct feed line would require cutting through dielectric layers and creating a direct electrical connection, also called vertical interconnect access (VIA). Such interconnects are frequent sources of failures, especially in applications that are subject to …


Study Of Stochastic Market Clearing Problems In Power Systems With High Renewable Integration, Saumya Sakitha Sashrika Ariyarathne Oct 2022

Study Of Stochastic Market Clearing Problems In Power Systems With High Renewable Integration, Saumya Sakitha Sashrika Ariyarathne

Operations Research and Engineering Management Theses and Dissertations

Integrating large-scale renewable energy resources into the power grid poses several operational and economic problems due to their inherently stochastic nature. The lack of predictability of renewable outputs deteriorates the power grid’s reliability. The power system operators have recognized this need to account for uncertainty in making operational decisions and forming electricity pricing. In this regard, this dissertation studies three aspects that aid large-scale renewable integration into power systems. 1. We develop a nonparametric change point-based statistical model to generate scenarios that accurately capture the renewable generation stochastic processes; 2. We design new pricing mechanisms derived from alternative stochastic programming …


Monocular Camera Viewpoint-Invariant Vehicular Traffic Segmentation And Classification Utilizing Small Datasets, Amr Yousef, Jeff Flora, Khan Iftekharuddin Oct 2022

Monocular Camera Viewpoint-Invariant Vehicular Traffic Segmentation And Classification Utilizing Small Datasets, Amr Yousef, Jeff Flora, Khan Iftekharuddin

Electrical & Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

The work presented here develops a computer vision framework that is view angle independent for vehicle segmentation and classification from roadway traffic systems installed by the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT). An automated technique for extracting a region of interest is discussed to speed up the processing. The VDOT traffic videos are analyzed for vehicle segmentation using an improved robust low-rank matrix decomposition technique. It presents a new and effective thresholding method that improves segmentation accuracy and simultaneously speeds up the segmentation processing. Size and shape physical descriptors from morphological properties and textural features from the Histogram of Oriented Gradients …


Applications Of Laser Liftoff Technique For Wide Bandgap Power And Flexible Electronics, Md Didarul Alam Oct 2022

Applications Of Laser Liftoff Technique For Wide Bandgap Power And Flexible Electronics, Md Didarul Alam

Theses and Dissertations

Wide bandgap (WBG) AlGaN/GaN and ultrawide bandgap (UWBG) AlGaN/AlGaN III-nitride high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) have come a long way since their initial demonstration and are desired for a multitude of applications in deep-scaled high-frequency, high-voltage, high-current, and high-temperature power electronics. Although AlGaN/GaN HEMTs have recently become state-of-the-art in consumer electronics chargers and amplifiers, the performance of the devices is limited by severe self-heating which significantly reduce their efficacy in demanding applications that require high-current density. One strategy to reduce this self-heating effect in GaN HEMTs is to use high thermal conductivity SiC or bulk AlN substrates. While this approach …


A Symmetric Matrix-Aided Mimo To Improve Reliability For Maritime Visible Light Communications, You Zhang, Yan Feng, Lin Zhang, Zhiqiang Wu Oct 2022

A Symmetric Matrix-Aided Mimo To Improve Reliability For Maritime Visible Light Communications, You Zhang, Yan Feng, Lin Zhang, Zhiqiang Wu

Electrical Engineering Faculty Publications

Turbulence in natural environments affects the reliability of communication. In this paper, we propose a symmetric matrix-assisted multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) maritime visible light communication (VLC) system to confront turbulence and improve reliability. In our design, by exploiting the repeatability of elements in the symmetric matrix, the matrix can expand the Euclidean distance between signals and effectively restrains the interference between signals, thus improving the reliability of maritime VLC systems. In addition, we derive the theoretical symbol error rate (SER) of the proposed scheme. Then, simulation results are provided to validate the theoretical SER. In addition, the SER performances of the …


Novel Photonic Structures And Materials, Samar Fawzy Oct 2022

Novel Photonic Structures And Materials, Samar Fawzy

Theses and Dissertations

Plasmonic materials provide the ability to confine light in metallic structures in the nanometre scale, enabling their use in a wide range of applications, including metamaterials, energy conversion, biomedical applications, and transformation optics. Conventional plasmonic materials such as Silver and Gold suffer from two problems: very large negative real permittivity (𝜀1), preventing their integration with low-permittivity dielectrics, and large losses associated with conduction electrons such as: electron-electron scattering, electron-phonon scattering or scattering by crystal defects. Therefore, the search for alternative structures and materials that overcome these obstacles is indeed an essential task. Metamaterials, three dimensional (3D) periodic subwavelength metallic/dielectric structures, …


Quality-Of-Service Provisioning For Smart City Applications Using Software-Defined Networking, Basima Kurungadan Oct 2022

Quality-Of-Service Provisioning For Smart City Applications Using Software-Defined Networking, Basima Kurungadan

Theses

In the current world, most cities have WiFi Access Points (AP) in every nook and corner. Hence upraising these cities to the status of a smart city is a more easily achievable task than before. Internet-of-Things (IoT) connections primarily use WiFi standards to form the veins of a smart city. Unfortunately, this vast potential of WiFi technology in the genesis of smart cities is somehow compromised due to its failure in meeting unique Quality-of-Service (QoS) demands of smart city applications. Out of the following QoS factors; transmission link bandwidth, packet transmission delay, jitter, and packet loss rate, not all applications …


Hardware Security For Wireless Communications Systems Using Antenna-Based Radio Frequency Fingerprint Engineering, Noemi Miguelez Gomez Oct 2022

Hardware Security For Wireless Communications Systems Using Antenna-Based Radio Frequency Fingerprint Engineering, Noemi Miguelez Gomez

Doctoral Dissertations and Master's Theses

The design and application of novel physical-layer security techniques have been increasing in the last decades as means to enhance the security that more traditional techniques provide to wireless communications systems. Well-known hardware security techniques, such as radio frequency fingerprinting, use unintended manufacturing process variations and unique hardware structures in the semiconductors for applications such as identification and classification of the source of different transmitted signals, and detection of hardware modifications. The uniqueness of the features that two different modules present, even maintaining the same design, can be used for modules characterization at a lower cost and complexity than other …


Advanced Manufacturing And Dielectric Material Characterization Techniques For High-Temperature Mm-Wave Antennas, Seng Loong Yu Oct 2022

Advanced Manufacturing And Dielectric Material Characterization Techniques For High-Temperature Mm-Wave Antennas, Seng Loong Yu

Doctoral Dissertations and Master's Theses

As traditional monitoring data sensors in high temperature environments such as gas turbine engines and aerospace applications are being replaced by wireless equivalents in recent years, there is a need for low-cost, low-time, and low-infrastructure alternatives to further push the state of the art. In this work, two aspects of high temperature materials in the above context are explored: (a) the development of advanced manufacturing techniques for high temperature materials that is lowcost, low-time, and low-infrastructure, and (b) the development of material characterization techniques that can be integrated with the manufacturing processes of high temperature materials. Additive manufacturing has been …


Pulse Width Modulation-Based Voltage Balancing And Circulating Current Control For Modular Multilevel Converters, Md Multan Biswas Oct 2022

Pulse Width Modulation-Based Voltage Balancing And Circulating Current Control For Modular Multilevel Converters, Md Multan Biswas

Theses and Dissertations

In the last decade, because of some key features and advantages of Modular Multilevel Converter (MMC), it is widely applied for various Medium Voltage (MV) and High Voltage (HV) power electronic interfacing applications. The structure of MMCs varies by application but in general, they are composed of multiple Sub-Modules (SMs) which each contains a floating capacitor. For the operation of MMCs, capacitor voltages are required to remain equally set. This is referred to as the balanced condition and requires a method for SM Capacitor Voltage Balancing (CVB). Connections of SMs for most of the common MMC configurations result in additional …


Decellularization Strategies Of Naturally Derived Biomaterials For Tissue Engineering Applications, Julia Elizabeth Hohn Oct 2022

Decellularization Strategies Of Naturally Derived Biomaterials For Tissue Engineering Applications, Julia Elizabeth Hohn

Theses and Dissertations

In 2017, over 3.5 million peripheral vascular surgeries were performed worldwide with over 400,000 vascular repair or replacement surgeries being performed in the United States each year alone. As the number of vascular repair surgeries, including both coronary and peripheral bypass grafting procedures, continues to increase each year, these statistics indicate an urgent need for more effective and readily available replacement materials. Regenerative medicine and tissue engineering (TE) approaches, including the design, fabrication, and validation of suitable biomaterials in vitro that direct the repair and regeneration of damaged tissues, have been proposed to alleviate this problem. While advanced biomaterials have …


Mimo Antenna Systems For Wireless Handheld Devices, Ahmed H. Abdelgawwad Oct 2022

Mimo Antenna Systems For Wireless Handheld Devices, Ahmed H. Abdelgawwad

Theses and Dissertations

Mobile communications have seen tremendous growths in the last decades in the form of smartphones, watches, wireless enabled Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) and so on. The current and future wireless communication systems require high data-rate capabilities to support high speed needs of users in modern applications. Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna systems have become the most promising candidate to support the increased data demand. Therefore, they have emerged as an integral part of the new 5G wireless standard. One key challenge regarding MIMO systems for the handheld is to be able to successfully accommodate multiple miniature platform integrated antennas within a …


Closed Form Implicitly Integrated Models For Computationally Efficient Simulation Of Power Electronics, Andrew Wunderlich Oct 2022

Closed Form Implicitly Integrated Models For Computationally Efficient Simulation Of Power Electronics, Andrew Wunderlich

Theses and Dissertations

This work describes novel closed-form, implicitly integrated (CF-implicit) models of switched-mode power converters which feature implicit integration but require no iterative numerical solving algorithm for evaluation because they are explicitly solved prior to model execution. The derived models capture the large-signal dynamic behavior of the power converters, so their use and accuracy are not limited to any one set of operating conditions. These models can be implemented in any computational environment, including directly on an existing embedded controller as a digital twin. Since no iterative solver is required, the models are highly computationally efficient and have a very predictable worst-case …


Learning To Automate Follow-Up Question Generation Using Process Knowledge For Depression Triage On Reddit Posts, Shrey Gupta, Anmol Agarwal, Manas Gaur, Kaushik Roy, Vignesh Narayanan, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Amit Sheth Oct 2022

Learning To Automate Follow-Up Question Generation Using Process Knowledge For Depression Triage On Reddit Posts, Shrey Gupta, Anmol Agarwal, Manas Gaur, Kaushik Roy, Vignesh Narayanan, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Amit Sheth

Publications

Conversational Agents (CAs) powered with deep language models (DLMs) have shown tremendous promise in the domain of mental health. Prominently, the CAs have been used to provide informational or therapeutic services (e.g., cognitive behavioral therapy) to patients. However, the utility of CAs to assist in mental health triaging has not been explored in the existing work as it requires a controlled generation of follow-up questions (FQs), which are often initiated and guided by the mental health professionals (MHPs) in clinical settings. In the context of `depression', our experiments show that DLMs coupled with process knowledge in a mental health questionnaire …


Metaversekg: Knowledge Graph For Engineering And Design Application In Industrial Metaverse, Utkarshani Jaimini, Tongtao Zhang, Georgia Olympia Brikis Oct 2022

Metaversekg: Knowledge Graph For Engineering And Design Application In Industrial Metaverse, Utkarshani Jaimini, Tongtao Zhang, Georgia Olympia Brikis

Publications

While the term Metaverse was first coined by the author Neal Stephenson in 1992 in his science fiction novel “Snow Crash”, today the vision of an integrated virtual world is becoming a reality across different sectors. Applications in gaming and consumer products are gaining traction, industrial metaverse applications are, still in their early stages of development with one of the challenges being interoperability across various metaverse development platforms and existing software tools. In this work we propose the use of a knowledge graph based semantic data exchange layer, the Metaverse Knowledge Graph, to enable seamless transfer of information across platforms. …


A Comprehensive Characterization Of Hollow Conductor Additively Manufactured Coils And Thermal Management System For A 250 Kw Spm Machine, Sina Vahid, Salar Koushan, Towhid Islam Chowdhury, Ayman El-Refaie Oct 2022

A Comprehensive Characterization Of Hollow Conductor Additively Manufactured Coils And Thermal Management System For A 250 Kw Spm Machine, Sina Vahid, Salar Koushan, Towhid Islam Chowdhury, Ayman El-Refaie

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research and Publications

This paper provides an extensive and comprehensive analysis on characterization of additively manufactured coils and heat pipe based liquid cooling thermal management system, for a 250 kW and 5,000 rpm machine. AC and DC electrical tests at 140 Arms and 70 ADC are conducted on AlSi10Mg additively manufactured coils to extract their thermal and electrical characteristics. Heat pipes and liquid cooling test setups are described and discussed. The thermal discussion is concluded by experimental results showing the effectiveness of the thermal management system proposed in this paper. FEA are performed on the coils using ANSYS Maxwell to accurately predict the …


A Simple Optical Fiber Spr Sensor With Ultra-High Sensitivity For Dual-Parameter Measurement, Farhan Mumtaz, Muhammad Roman, Bohong Zhang, Lashari Ghulam Abbas, Muhammad Aqueel Ashraf, Muhammad Arshad Fiaz, Yutang Dai, Jie Huang Oct 2022

A Simple Optical Fiber Spr Sensor With Ultra-High Sensitivity For Dual-Parameter Measurement, Farhan Mumtaz, Muhammad Roman, Bohong Zhang, Lashari Ghulam Abbas, Muhammad Aqueel Ashraf, Muhammad Arshad Fiaz, Yutang Dai, Jie Huang

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

This work reports a simple optical fiber Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) sensor with ultra-high sensitivity for simultaneous measurement of the dual-parameter. The sensor is based on a D-shaped fiber with a nanolayer coating of Silver (Ag) and Hematite (α-Fe2O3). The Ag/α-Fe2O3 layer is deposited on the longitudinal surface of residual cladding, and a Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) is inscribed on the single-mode fiber (SMF) for temperature compensation. The α-Fe2O3 layer protects the Ag layer from oxidation and effectively enhances the surface plasmon wave while interacting with free electrons. Finite Element Method (FEM) modeling is employed to investigate the refractive index …


Highly Sensitive Strain Sensor By Utilizing A Tunable Air Reflector And The Vernier Effect, Farhan Mumtaz, Muhammad Roman, Bohong Zhang, Lashari Ghulam Abbas, Muhammad Aqueel Ashraf, Yutang Dai, Jie Huang Oct 2022

Highly Sensitive Strain Sensor By Utilizing A Tunable Air Reflector And The Vernier Effect, Farhan Mumtaz, Muhammad Roman, Bohong Zhang, Lashari Ghulam Abbas, Muhammad Aqueel Ashraf, Yutang Dai, Jie Huang

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

A highly sensitive strain sensor based on tunable cascaded Fabry–Perot interferometers (FPIs) is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. Cascaded FPIs consist of a sensing FPI and a reference FPI, which effectively generate the Vernier effect (VE). The sensing FPI comprises a hollow core fiber (HCF) segment sandwiched between single-mode fibers (SMFs), and the reference FPI consists of a tunable air reflector, which is constituted by a computer-programable fiber holding block to adjust the desired cavity length. The simulation results predict the dispersion characteristics of modes carried by HCF. The sensor's parameters are designed to correspond to a narrow bandwidth range, i.e., …


Backscattering Analysis Utilizing Relaxed Hierarchical Equivalent Source Algorithm (Rhesa) For Scatterers In Vegetation Medium, Syabeela Syahali, Hong Tat Ewe, Gobi Vetharatnam, Li (Lijun) Jun Jiang Oct 2022

Backscattering Analysis Utilizing Relaxed Hierarchical Equivalent Source Algorithm (Rhesa) For Scatterers In Vegetation Medium, Syabeela Syahali, Hong Tat Ewe, Gobi Vetharatnam, Li (Lijun) Jun Jiang

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

The backscattering cross section of cylindrical and elliptical disk-shaped scatterers was investigated in this study, utilising a new numerical solution method called the relaxed hierarchical equivalent source algorithm (RHESA). The results were compared with the backscattering cross section of similar cases, using analytical method validation from literature. The objective of this research was to look into the possibility of replacing analytical methods with the RHESA in volume scattering calculations, and integrating it into modelling the backscattering of layers of dense media for microwave remote sensing in vegetation; as RHESA provides the freedom to model any shape of scatterer, as opposed …


Quantum Algorithm For Variant Maximum Satisfiability, Abdirahman Alasow, Peter Jin, Marek Perkowski Oct 2022

Quantum Algorithm For Variant Maximum Satisfiability, Abdirahman Alasow, Peter Jin, Marek Perkowski

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

In this paper, we proposed a novel quantum algorithm for the maximum satisfiability problem. Satisfiability (SAT) is to find the set of assignment values of input variables for the given Boolean function that evaluates this function as TRUE or prove that such satisfying values do not exist. For a POS SAT problem, we proposed a novel quantum algorithm for the maximum satisfiability (MAX-SAT), which returns the maximum number of OR terms that are satisfied for the SAT-unsatisfiable function, providing us with information on how far the given Boolean function is from the SAT satisfaction. We used Grover’s algorithm with a …


Multi-Tasking Memcapacitive Networks, Dat Tran, Christof Teuscher Oct 2022

Multi-Tasking Memcapacitive Networks, Dat Tran, Christof Teuscher

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

Recent studies have shown that networks of memcapacitive devices provide an ideal computing platform of low power consumption for reservoir computing systems. Random, crossbar, or small-world power-law (SWPL) structures are common topologies for reservoir substrates to compute single tasks. However, neurological studies have shown that the interconnections of cortical brain regions associated with different functions form a rich-club structure. This structure allows human brains to perform multiple activities simultaneously. So far, memcapacitive reservoirs can perform only single tasks. Here, we propose, for the first time, cluster networks functioning as memcapacitive reservoirs to perform multiple tasks simultaneously. Our results illustrate that …


Hydrogel And Graphene Embedded Piezoresistive Microcantilever Sensor For Solvent And Gas Flow Detection, Dipannita Ghosh, Md. Ashiqur Rahman, Ali Ashraf, Nazmul Islam Sep 2022

Hydrogel And Graphene Embedded Piezoresistive Microcantilever Sensor For Solvent And Gas Flow Detection, Dipannita Ghosh, Md. Ashiqur Rahman, Ali Ashraf, Nazmul Islam

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

Piezoresistive microcantilever sensor is widely used in sensing applications including liquid and gas flow detection. Microcantilevers can function as an embedded system if they are coated with polymers or nanomaterials to improve sensing performance. In this paper, we investigated the performance of piezoresistive microcantilevers (PMC) with and without additional coating. We studied the sensitivity of the PMC sensor after coating it with a three-dimensional porous hydrogel and piezoresistive graphene oxide layer. Hydrogel embedded piezoresistive microcantilever (EPM) showed better results than PMC during solvent sensing application. The resistance change for hydrogel embedded PMC was higher compared to bare PMC by 430% …


Preface To Special Issue On Water Electrolysis For Hydrogen Production, Li Li, Jin-Song Hu, Zi-Dong Wei Sep 2022

Preface To Special Issue On Water Electrolysis For Hydrogen Production, Li Li, Jin-Song Hu, Zi-Dong Wei

Journal of Electrochemistry

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