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Thin-Film Lithium Niobate Integrated Photonics On Silicon For Electro- And Nonlinear-Optic Applications, Amirmahdi Honardoost

Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020-2023

In order to overcome the drawbacks associated with conventional bulk lithium niobate photonic, thin-film lithium-niobate-on-silicon has been pursued recently. This work presents contributions made to electro-, and nonlinear-optic applications of this technology. For electrooptic applications, detailed modeling and design guidelines of optical and radio-frequency parameters of ultracompact modulators are developed and their accuracy in predicting the high-speed performance of such devices have been verified by comparison with experimental results. Novel design techniques and pathways for ultrahigh-speed (sub-terahertz) operation of such modulators, achieving up to 400 GHz modulation bandwidth, are also presented. For optical interconnect applications, novel structures for ultralow-power consumption …

Corrections To ‘‘Glaciernet: A Deep-Learning Approach For Debris-Covered Glacier Mapping’’, Zhiyuan Xie, Umesh K. Haritashya, Vijayan K. Asari, Brennan W. Young, Michael P. Bishop, Jeffrey S. Kargel

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

In the above article [1], Figure 2 was incorrect. Unfortunately, we mixed the color label of "CONV $\to $ BN $\to $ ReLu" and "Unpooling" in the CNN structure section of Figure 2. The color label of "CONV $\to $ BN $\to $ ReLu" should be orange while the color label of "Unpooling" should be green. Also, the word "Decoder" is misspelled. That same figure with the same error is also used for the graphic abstract. The corrected figure is given here. None of the sections in the figure is modified. The only change is in the color label of …

Early Detection Of Asthma Via Enhanced Resolution Of Small Airways Using Ultra-Low Frequency Impulse Oscillometry, Christopher M. Aguilar

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Examination of lung function for diagnosis and monitoring of diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma can be performed with a variety of pulmonary function testing (PFT) techniques. The most commonly prescribed of these procedures are spirometry and whole-body plethysmography. However, these active participation tests depend on forced breathing maneuvers, may be physically exhausting, might not produce enough information, and are susceptible to being subject-dependent. In contrast, passive PFT approaches such as the forced oscillation technique (FOT) and the impulse oscillometry system (IOS) are increasingly being utilized for measuring lung mechanics because they require only minimal participation, …

Development Of The Payload System And Obc Microcontroller Coding For A Cubic Satellite Performing An Additive Self-Repair Experiment In Space, Eduardo Macias-Zugasti

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Additive manufacturing, which is also known as three-dimensional printing, in space is one of the most promising technologies advancing current capabilities for in-orbit space manufacturing and assembly. Additive manufacturing contributes to the reduction of cost per kilogram and number of launches, thus facilitating extraterrestrial colonization and deep-space exploration. The state of the art includes advancing efforts inside the International Space Station (ISS). However, the ISS is a controlled environment and, to the best of our knowledge, no spacecraft or satellite has performed additive manufacturing tasks in the extreme environment of outer space. In this work a 1U CubeSat named Orbital …

Control Of Voltage-Source Converters Considering Virtual Inertia Dynamics, Tri Nguyen

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

Controlling power-electronic converters in power systems has significantly gained more attention due to the rapid penetration of alternative energy sources. This growth in the depth of penetration also poses a threat to the frequency stability of modern power systems. Photovoltaic and wind power systems utilizing power-electronic converters without physical rotating masses, unlike traditional power generations, provide low inertia, resulting in frequency instability. Different research has developed the control aspects of power-electronic converters, offering many control strategies for different operation modes and enhancing the inertia of converter-based systems. The precise control algorithm that can improve the inertial response of converter-based systems …

การวิเคราะห์ค่าสนามไฟฟ้าของระบบสายส่งไฟฟ้ากระเเสสลับเเรงดัน 230 Kv ที่ใช้งานในพื้นที่จำกัด, ภาคภูมิ ขนุนก้อน

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

วิทยานิพนธ์นี้วิเคราะห์ค่าสนามไฟฟ้าในระบบสายส่ง 230 kV ที่ใช้งานในพื้นที่จำกัดโดยใช้วิธีไฟไนต์เอลิเมนต์. วัตถุประสงค์ของวิทยานิพนธ์คือ การคำนวณค่าสนามไฟฟ้าบริเวณขอบเขตเดินระบบโครงข่ายไฟฟ้าแบบ 2 มิติ, เเบบ 3 มิติ, และวิธีเงาประจุ. การคำนวณค่าสนามไฟฟ้าสูงสุด 3 เฟสที่อุปกรณ์ไฟฟ้าแรงสูงได้แก่ วงแหวนเกลี่ยสนามไฟฟ้า, วงแหวนโคนา, และฉนวนพอลิเมอร์. การเปลี่ยนเเปลงค่าพารามิเตอร์ของวงเเหวนเกลี่ยสนามไฟฟ้าได้แก่ รัศมีท่อวงแหวน (r), รัศมีของแหวน (R), และ ระยะห่างจากรอยต่อสามทาง (H) ถูกนำมาใช้ปรับปรุงค่าสนามไฟฟ้าสูงสุด. สนามไฟฟ้าบริเวณขอบเขตเดินระบบโครงข่ายไฟฟ้ามีค่าประมาณ 0.7 kVrms/m ณ ความสูง 1 m จากพื้นดิน. ค่าสนามไฟฟ้าต่ำกว่าเกณฑ์ของ กฟผ. ซึ่งระบุไว้ที่ 2 kVrms/m. ผลการคำนวณค่าสนามไฟฟ้าแสดงให้เห็นว่าสนามไฟฟ้าสูงสุดเกิดขึ้นที่เฟส B. สนามไฟฟ้าสูงสุดที่วงแหวนเกลี่ยสนามไฟฟ้า, วงแหวนโคโรนา, เเละฉนวนมีค่าเท่ากับ 13 kVp/cm 12 kVp/cm, และ 3 kVp/cm ตามลำดับ. สนามไฟฟ้าดังกล่าวมีค่าต่ำกว่าสนามไฟฟ้าวิกฤตในอากาศที่ 21 kVp/cm บนผิวตัวนำไฟฟ้า และ 6.4 kVp/cm บนผิวฉนวน. ผลการหาค่าที่เหมาะสมของพารามิเตอร์ได้ค่า r, R, เเละ H เท่ากับ 35 mm, 180 mm, และ 0.43 m ตามลำดับ. ค่าสนามไฟฟ้าลดลง 40 % เมื่อได้พารามิเตอร์ที่เหมาะสม. อย่างไรก็ตาม วงแหวนเกลี่ยสนามไฟฟ้าถูกวางใกล้กับกราวด์มากขึ้น. ระยะอาร์คระหว่างไฟฟ้าแรงสูงถึงกราวด์จะสั้นลงไปด้วยเมื่อ H ที่เพิ่มขึ้น.

Smart Inverters For Distributed Pv Network Management, Colin Charles Levis

Theses

Securing a sustainable decarbonised economy involves moving towards a decentralised power system with increasing penetration levels of distributed photovoltaics (PVs) within the low voltage distribution network (LVDN). Increasing penetration levels of PV systems pose challenges for maintaining grid voltage and frequency stability. Thus requires studies and simulations to estimate the needs and technical requirements to overcome the challenges and maximise the opportunities. These simulations require time-domain system models with a high dynamic resolution such as electromagnetic transient (EMT) simulations with small-time steps that capture the required performance with large numbers of network elements. However, the small-time step implies a high …

Quadrupoles For Remote Electrostimulation Incorporating Bipolar Cancellation, Shu Xiao, Ryo Yamada, Carol Zhou

Bioelectrics Publications

Introduction: A method that utilizes nanosecond bipolar cancellation (BPC) near a quadrupole electrodes to suppress a biological response but cancels the distal BPC at the quadrupole center, i.e., cancellation of cancellation (CANCAN), may allow for a remote focused stimulation at the quadrupole center.

Objectives: The primary object of this study was to outline the requirement of the CANCAN implementation and select an effective quadrupole configuration.

Results: We have studied three quadrupole electrode configurations, a rod quadrupole, a plate quadrupole (Plate-Q), and a resistor quadrupole. The pulse shapes of electric fields include monophasic pulses, cancellation pulses, and additive pulses. The Plate-Q …

Enhanced Charge Carrier Dynamics And Defects Passivation In Hybrid Perovskite Solar Cell Using A Novel Organic Halide Salt, Md Ashuqur Rahman Laskar

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In the last few years, active research works on hybrid perovskite solar cells (HPSCs) have been going on throughout the world as a part of clean energy revolution. HPSCs have already proved their potentiality as future solar technology through their promising photovoltaic performances and ability for low temperature based solution processing. Nevertheless, still there are remaining challenges of better charge carrier dynamics and defects minimization in HPSCs. Overcoming these challenges are very important to achieve high power conversion efficiency (PCE) practically. Aiming this, a novel organic halide salt called Phenylhydrazinium Iodide (PHAI) is introduced as additive with CH₃NH …

Saperi: Approaching Gender Gap Using Spatial Ability Training Week In High-School Context, Maria Giulia Ballatore, Gavin Duffy, Sheryl Sorby, Anita Tabacco

Articles

Maria Giulia Ballatore, Gavin Duffy, Sheryl Sorby, and Anita Tabacco. 2020. SAperI: approaching gender gap using Spatial Ability training week in high-school context. In Eighth International Conference on Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality (TEEM’20), October 21–23, 2020, Salamanca, Spain. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 7 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3434780.3436577

Color Variation Of The Up-Conversion Luminescence In Er3+-Yb3+Co-Doped Lead Germanate Glasses And Microsphere Integrated Devices, Meng Zhang, Ke Tian, Shunbin Wang, Libo Yuan, Gerald Farrell, Elfed Lewis, Pengfei Wang

Articles

Abstract—Lead germanate glass samples co-doped with different Er3+/Yb3+ concentrations were prepared and the color variation of the up-conversion emissions in these glasses was observed using a 980 nm laser pump. A practical optical integrated device based on Er3+ -Yb3+ co-doped lead germanate glass microsphere and a special fiber structure, consisting of single mode fiber (SMF), multimode fiber (MMF) and a suspended tricore hollow fiber (STCHF) is described. As the pump light is coupled into the microsphere from the cores suspended inside the STCHF, the microsphere fixed in the air hole of the STCHF is excited and the up-conversion emissions are …

An Electrostatic Field Detector For Pulsed Power Safety, Bailey Gregory

Summer Community of Scholars Posters (RCEU and HCR Combined Programs)

No abstract provided.

Statistical Methods To Unravel Cortical Mechanism Of Perception And Response To Auditory Stimuli, Ladan Moheimanian

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

Behavioral responses to auditory stimuli have a critical role in our daily activities. The perception of these stimuli and the generation of appropriate behavioral responses requires the interaction of thousands of neurons in the auditory-motor pathways in the brain. Despite their importance, still many neuroscientific questions about these interactions are remained to be answered. This may result from the limitations of brain recordings as well as statistical methods to analyze brain recordings. In this dissertation, I investigated underlying mechanisms that govern these neural interactions in the auditory-motor pathways using novel statistical techniques applied to the brain recordings from the surface …

Fault Detection And Classification Of A Single Phase Inverter Using Artificial Neural Networks, Ayomikun Samuel Orukotan

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

The detection of switching faults of power converters or the Circuit Under Test (CUT) is real-time important for safe and efficient usage. The CUT is a single-phase inverter. This thesis presents two unique methods that rely on backpropagation principles to solve classification problems with a two-layer network. These mathematical algorithms or proposed networks are able to diagnose single, double, triple, and multiple switching faults over different iterations representing range of frequencies. First, the fault detection and classification problems are formulated as neural network-based classification problems and the neural network design process is clearly described. Then, neural networks are trained over …

Design, Construction, And Characterization Of A Combined Mini-Co₂/Voc Sensor And Gas Chromatograph For Field Research, Rishi Basdeo, Michael Hampton

Digital Repository: Showcase of Undergraduate Research Excellence

No abstract provided.

Recent Developments In The Pyscf Program Package, Qiming Sun, Xing Zhang, Samragni Banerjee, Peng Bao, Marc Barbry, Nick S. Blunt, Nikolay A. Bogdanov, George H. Booth, Jia Chen, Zhi-Hao Cui, Janus J. Eriksen, Yang Gao, Sheng Gun, Jan Hermann, Matthew R. Hermes, Kevin Koh, Peter Koval, Susi Lehtola, Zhendong Li, Junzi Liu, Narbe Mardirossian, James D. Mcclain, Mario Motta, Bastien Mussard, Hung Q. Pham, Artem Pulkin, Wirawan Purwanto, Paul J. Robinson, Enrico Ronca, Elvira R. Sayfutyarova, Maximillian Scheurer, Henry F. Schurkus, James E.T. Smith, Chong Sun, Shi-Ning Sun, Shiv Upadhyay, Lucas K. Wagner, Xiao Wang, Alec White, James Daniel Whitfield, Mark J. Williamson, Sebastian Wouters, Jun Yang, Jason M. Yu, Tianyu Zhu, Timothy C. Berkelbach, Sandeep Sharma, Alexander Yu Sokolov, Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

University Administration Publications

PySCF is a Python-based general-purpose electronic structure platform that supports first-principles simulations of molecules and solids as well as accelerates the development of new methodology and complex computational workflows. This paper explains the design and philosophy behind PySCF that enables it to meet these twin objectives. With several case studies, we show how users can easily implement their own methods using PySCF as a development environment. We then summarize the capabilities of PySCF for molecular and solid-state simulations. Finally, we describe the growing ecosystem of projects that use PySCF across the domains of quantum chemistry, materials science, machine learning, and …

Opendrop Software Development, Jiajun Guan

Electrical Engineering

To be able to transfer and mix solutions more efficiently and accurately during biology experiments, the Electrical Engineering department at Cal Poly University is planning to purchase or engineer the OpenDrop device. The OpenDrop device uses electro-wetting technology to control the movement of small droplets of water on a planar electrode array to transport and mix different solutions. This device is an open-source project and could be purchased online through the GaudiLab. The basic code of the system could be found in GitHub. With this code as a reference, the goal of this senior project is to develop the firmware, …

Developing A Uas-Deployable Methane Sensor Using Low-Cost Modular Open-Source Components, Gavin Demali

Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects

This project aimed to develop a methane sensor for deployment on an unmanned aerial system (UAS), or drone, platform. This design is centered around low cost, commercially available modular hardware components and open source software libraries. Once successfully developed, this system was deployed at the Bath Nature Preserve in Bath Township, Summit County Ohio in order to detect any potential on site fugitive methane emissions in the vicinity of the oil and gas infrastructure present. The deliverables of this project (i.e. the data collected at BNP) will be given to the land managers there to better inform future management and …

Ev Charging Behavior Analysis Using Hybrid Intelligence For 5g Smart Grid, Yi Shen, Wei Fang, Feng Ye, Michel Kadoch

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

With the development of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the widespread use of electric vehicles (EV), vehicle-to-grid (V2G) has sparked considerable discussion as an energy-management technology. Due to the inherently high maneuverability of EVs, V2G systems must provide on-demand service for EVs. Therefore, in this work, we propose a hybrid computing architecture based on fog and cloud with applications in 5G-based V2G networks. This architecture allows the bi-directional flow of power and information between schedulable EVs and smart grids (SGs) to improve the quality of service and cost-effectiveness of energy service providers. However, it is very important to select …

Generation Of Large-Volume High-Pressure Plasma By Spatiotemporal Control Of Space Charge, Shirshak K. Dhali

Electrical & Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

Any attempt to scale pressure and volume of nonthermal plasma usually leads to instabilities due to the formation of localized space charge. The control of the plasma is limited by the discharge geometry, type of excitation, and gas composition. This article explores the possibility of controlling the space charge in a discharge with a spatially and temporally varying electric field. It is shown that a phase-staggered sinusoidal excitation to a set of conformal azimuthal electrodes in a cylindrical geometry leads to a traveling electric field. Simulations show that in space charge dominated transport, the charged species are dispersed both in …

Glaciernet: A Deep-Learning Approach For Debris-Covered Glacier Mapping, Zhiyuan Xie, Umesh K. Haritashya, Vijayan K. Asari, Brennan W. Young, Michael P. Bishop, Jeffrey S. Kargel

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

Rising global temperatures over the past decades is directly affecting glacier dynamics. To understand glacier fluctuations and document regional glacier-state trends, glacier-boundary detection is necessary. Debris-covered glacier (DCG) mapping, however, is notoriously difficult using conventional geospatial technology methods. Therefore, in this research for automated DCG mapping, we evaluate the utility of a convolutional neural network (CNN), which is a deep learning feed-forward neural network. The CNN inputs include Landsat satellite images, an Advanced Land Observation Satellite (ALOS) digital elevation model (DEM) and DEM-derived land-surface parameters. Our CNN based deep-learning approach named GlacierNet was designed by appropriately choosing the type, number …

Mitosisnet: End-To-End Mitotic Cell Detection By Multi-Task Learning, Md Zahangir Alom, Theus Aspiras, Tarek M. Taha, Tj Bowen, Vijayan K. Asari

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

Mitotic cell detection is one of the challenging problems in the field of computational pathology. Currently, mitotic cell detection and counting are one of the strongest prognostic markers for breast cancer diagnosis. The clinical visual inspection on histology slides is tedious, error prone, and time consuming for the pathologist. Thus, automatic mitotic cell detection approaches are highly demanded in clinical practice. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end multi-task learning system for mitosis detection from pathological images which is named"MitosisNet". MitosisNet consist of segmentation, detection, and classification models where the segmentation, and detection models are used for mitosis reference region …

การวางตำแหน่งที่เหมาะที่สุดของตัวขยายแสงเอสโอเอสำหรับการเชื่อมต่อระหว่างศูนย์ข้อมูลอีเทอร์เน็ต 100 กิกะบิต, พิชชากรณ์ สวัสดี

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

วิทยานิพนธ์ฉบับนี้นำเสนอการวางตำแหน่งที่เหมาะสมของตัวขยายแสงเอสโอเอเพื่อขยายระยะทางของการสื่อสารทางแสงในการเชื่อมต่อโครงข่ายศูนย์ข้อมูล 100 กิกะบิต โดยใช้ดับเบิ้ลยูดีเอ็ม 4 ช่องสัญญาณในช่วงความยาวคลื่นในแถบความถี่โอ (1295 nm, 1300 nm, 1305 nm, และ 1310 nm) ด้วยอัตราการส่งข้อมูลช่องสัญญาณละ 25.78125 กิกะบิตต่อวินาทีตามมาตรฐาน 100GBASE-LR4 คุณภาพสัญญาณภายหลังการแทรกตัวขยายแสงเอสโอเอจะได้รับผลกระทบจาก (1) การเสื่อมโอเอสเอ็นอาร์เมื่อกำลังขาเข้าตัวขยายแสงเอสโอเอมีค่าต่ำ, (2) ผลกระทบรูปแบบบิตเมื่อกำลังขาเข้าตัวขยายแสงเอสโอเอมีค่าสูง, และ (3) เอ็กซ์จีเอ็มเมื่อใช้ขยายหลายช่องดับเบิ้ลยูดีเอ็ม เพื่อระบุการวางตำแหน่งที่เหมาะสมของตัวขยายแสงเอสโอเอ วิทยานิพนธ์ฉบับนี้ได้ประเมินคุณภาพสัญญาณจากแผนภาพรูปตาและรูปคลื่นของสัญญาณแสงรวมทั้งกราฟอัตราความผิดพลาดบิตและกราฟช่วงไดนามิก ซึ่งวัดจากการทดลองสองชุดคือ (1) ชุดแรกใช้อุปกรณ์วิจัยเพื่อเปรียบเทียบผลการทดลองกับการคำนวณผ่านโปรแกรม MATLAB ได้ และ (2) ชุดสองใช้อุปกรณ์เชิงพาณิชย์เพื่อบ่งบอกความรุนแรงของผลกระทบทั้งสามในลิงก์ดับเบิ้ลยูดีเอ็มที่ใช้จริง ผลการทดลองชุดแรกสรุปได้ว่า (1) ผลการทดลองใกล้เคียงกับผลการคำนวณอัตราความผิดพลาดบิตภายใต้ผลกระทบหลักของการเสื่อมโอเอสเอ็นอาร์ (2) ผลกระทบรูปแบบบิตไม่สามารถถูกคำนวณได้เนื่องจากเป็นผลกระทบแบบไม่เชิงเส้น โดยขึ้นอยู่กับเวลาฟื้นฟูของตัวขยายแสงเอสโอเอและลำดับไบนารี่การสุ่มแบบเทียมที่ใช้งาน, และ (3) การวางตำแหน่งที่เหมาะของตัวขยายแสงเอสโอเอคือ 40 กิโลเมตรจากภาคส่ง อีกทั้งผลการทดลองชุดสองสรุปได้ดังนี้ผลกระทบทั้งสามก่อให้เกิดโทษกำลังที่ต่างกันในการส่งข้อมูลอย่างไรก็ตามการวางตำแหน่งที่เหมาะสมของตัวขยายแสงเอสโอเอในการทดลองนี้คือระยะทาง 40 กิโลเมตรเช่นเดียวกับการทดลองแรก ท้ายสุดเมื่อส่งข้อมูลทั้งสี่ช่องสัญญาณผ่านเส้นใยแก้วนำแสงระยะทางดังกล่าวและตัวขยายแสงเอสโอเอ พบว่าอัตราความผิดพลาดบิตมีค่าต่ำกว่า 10-12 พิสูจน์การรับส่งข้อมูลตามมาตรฐาน 100GBASE-LR4 ได้

Synthesis Of Graphene Using Plasma Etching And Atmospheric Pressure Annealing: Process And Sensor Development, Andrew Robert Graves

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Having been theorized in 1947, it was not until 2004 that graphene was first isolated. In the years since its isolation, graphene has been the subject of intense, world-wide study due to its incredibly diverse array of useful properties. Even though many billions of dollars have been spent on its development, graphene has yet to break out of the laboratory and penetrate mainstream industrial applications markets. This is because graphene faces a ‘grand challenge.’ Simply put, there is currently no method of manufacturing high-quality graphene on the industrial scale. This grand challenge looms particularly large for electronic applications where the …

Zips Racing Electric Can Communications, Andrew Jordan, Adam Long, Susanah Kowalewski, Rami Nehme

Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects

The CAN protocol has been a standard of electronic communication networks of automotive vehicles since the early 2000s due to its robust reliability in harsh environments. For the 2020 competition year, the Zips Racing Electric design team will be building an entirely new, fully-electric vehicle with CAN communication implemented rather than communicating via pure analog signals. Hardware and software can be utilized to read analog electrical signals from a source, such as accelerator and brake sensors, and encode them into a digital message that meets the CAN 2.0B communication protocol standard. Likewise, software can be used to extract data from …

Kettlebell Ultra, Elissa Peters, Kathryn Wegman, Daniel Basch, Mason Pastorius

Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects

This project will consist of an attachment to an average kettlebell that will track the number of repetitions that the user has performed. The device will send this data over Bluetooth to a smart phone application so the user can track their workout accurately.

Digital, Automated Reactive Target System, Nicholas Haas, Saipranay Vellala, Trandon Ware, Thomas Martin

Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects

In this era, technology is woven into almost every facet of our leisure activities. Although technology has innovated hobbies ranging from chess to soccer, the art of shooting has been neglected. Unnecessary insufficiency such as bullet ricochets off of mechanical steel targets, ineffective progress tracking, and general inaccessibility to outdoor training facilities are all improvable areas of this sport. The Dynamic Automated Reactive Target (D.A.R.T) System aims to fill some of these gaps and help modernize recreational marksmanship. Modeling the system after a dueling tree will optimize the use of the system and allow for different training models to challenge …

Smart Collar, Gretchen T. Woodling, Sean Moran, Justen Bischoff, Jacob Sindelar

Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects

The Smart Collar is a universal pet tracker, designed to be small and exceedingly comfortable for any pet to wear. GPS technology is used to locate the device, allowing the user to track their pet, via a smart phone application. This application can be used to program the device, view maps of their pet’s location and history of travel. Operating primarily on Long Range Wide Area Network (LoRaWAN) for data transfer, the device consumes very little power, allowing for several days of run-time per charge of the battery. Boasting no monthly service fees, The Smart Collar provides pet owner’s an …

Bitbilliards, Grant Reinbolt

Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects

The goal of the project is to create a billiards table capable of keeping track of the score while simultaneously racking the sunk balls under the table. To achieve this, image processing will be utilized to detect and determine which balls are above and below the table. Upon leaving the table, the balls will be held by gates to prevent the cue ball from entering the re-racking track. The balls will then enter the track and form a queue to be placed back into the triangle underneath the table. A gantry system consisting of an x and y axis will …

Rapid Prototyping Of Nanostructures With Electron Beam Induced Processing, Samaneh Esfandiarpour

Theses and Dissertations--Electrical and Computer Engineering

Focused electron beam induced processing (FEBIP) is a nano-scale fabrication technique that allows the direct deposition of functional materials. However, it suffers from significant drawbacks, such as high cost, low speed, unavailable precursors for many materials and low purity of deposits. Liquid-phase focused electron beam induced processes (LP-FEBIP) are being investigated due to the potential benefits over the gas phase technique. In this method, deposition or etching occurs at the interface between a substrate and a bulk liquid. In this work, electron beam induced deposition of copper nanostructures from aqueous solutions of copper sulfate is demonstrated. The addition of sulfuric …