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Title: study of optoelectronic properties of thin film solar cell materials Cu2ZnSn(S,Se)4 using multiple correlative spatially-resolved spectroscopy techniques
Author: Chen, Qiong
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Containing only earth abundant and environmental friendly elements, quaternary compounds Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) and Cu2ZnSnSe4 (CZTSe) are considered as promising absorber materials for thin film solar cells. The best record efficiency for this type of ...

Title: Wireless Power Transfer for Railway Applications
Author: Xu, Xiwen
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: The United States trains have the highest energy demands in rail transport in the world. More than 90% of the trains are powered by diesel, which aggressively impacts climate change. Thus, railway system electrification is a trend to reduce the sp...

Title: Visual sonar: Estimating depth using sound waves and neuromorphic cameras
Author: Bagepalli, Abhijith
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: This thesis proposes a novel method to recover depth of scene objects using an acoustic source and a calibrated neuromorphic camera or event camera sensor. The proposed system is a non-contact, monocular depth estimation method that observes subtl...

Title: Utilizing smart inverter capabilities for management of high penetration renewable distributed generation integration in active distribution networks
Author: Chamana, Manohar
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: With a strong indication of high renewable distributed generation (DG) penetration increase in the near future, distribution system operators (DSOs) are burdened with challenges to manage their operation while also trying to solve the power qualit...

Title: Utilizing Image Segmentation for the Extraction of Heart Rate Variability in the Pursuit of Updating Mental Health Therapeutic Validity Processes
Author: Johnson, Lauren
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Cognitive psychology
Description: Image and signal processing modalities play critical roles in the diagnosis and treatment efficacy of medical complications in people today. However, these tools have not yet been utilized to aid in the clinical diagnosis or treatment of neurocogn...

Title: Using Virtual Fracture Reduction Software To Explore Features For Fracture Severity Prediction.
Author: Tikekar, Rewa
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Diagnostic imaging
Description: Current medical treatment for comminuted bone fractures, i.e., traumatic bone fractures that result in many bone fragments, is based upon fracture severity classifications that physicians determine subjectively. Due to the subjectivity in the inte...

Title: Understanding the influence of tellurium oxide in the front silver paste on the homogenous high sheet resistance emitter
Author: Bezawada, Naga Sai Nirupama
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Renewable energy sources
Description: To reduce the cost of solar electricity requires highly efficient solar cells. However, the manufacturing of high efficiency solar cells does not match up with the cost. The higher the efficiency, the higher the cost. Thus, the high throughput tec...

Title: Understanding the Path to Contact Silicon Solar Cells with 140 Ω/sq High Resistance Emitters
Author: Ren, Keming
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Solar cell electricity can only be attractive if it is cost effective. In order for it to be affordable, the cost of manufacturing the solar cell must be decreased. Both material use and improved efficiency should be addressed in order to realize ...

Title: Understanding and Development of Cost-Effective Industrial Aluminum Back Surface Field (Al-BSF) Silicon Solar Cells
Author: Chen, Nian
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Power resources
Description: For the long-term strategy of gradual decarbonization of the world’s energy supply, high penetration of PV electricity is critical in the future world energy landscape. In order to achieve this, solar electricity with competitive cost to fossil fu...

Title: Ultra-Wideband Contactless Current Sensors for Power Electronics Applications
Author: Parsa Sirat, Ali
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Electromagnetism
Description: Enhanced power density factors can be achieved in the new generation of power electronics by utilizing wide-bandgap semiconductor switching devices with higher switching speeds and lower losses. These characteristics make high-frequency switching ...

Title: Ultra Low Power Techniques for Machine Learning on the Edge
Author: Hasan, Md Munir
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Neurosciences
Description: Deep learning has become an integral part of machine learning. It has radically transformed our lives in healthcare, automotive systems, human computer interaction etc. Although, deep learning requires a tremendous amount of compute power and reso...

Title: UTILIZATION OF WIRELESS SIGNAL STRENGTH FOR MOBILE ROBOT LOCALIZATION IN INDOOR ENVIRONMENTS
Author: Shue, Samuel
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer engineering, Robotics
Description: Localization is a key component of any mobile robot application. For any task a mobile robot might need to perform, precise knowledge of its pose within its environment is critical. Mobile robots employ a multitude of sensors to estimate position,...

Title: USE OF BUS-LEVEL ELECTRICAL SIGNALS FOR IMPROVING POWER PLANT OPERATIONS
Author: Parikh, Prayag
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Power plant owners and operators are leveraging advancements in sensor technology and data science to deploy monitoring systems that can potentially improve reliability, increase flexibility, and reduce maintenance costs. In many cases, however, p...

Title: UNDERSTANDING AND DEVELOPING FIRE-THROUGH DIELECTRIC CONTACTS ON HIGHLY EFFICIENT SILICON SOLAR CELLS
Author: Unsur, Veysel
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Photovoltaic is a quick and efficient way of responding to the scarcity of fossil fuels and increasing environmental pollution. For the last two decades, photovoltaic technology has been the fastest growing industry among the renewable energy sour...

Title: Transient stability enhancement of modern power grid using predictive wide-area monitoring and control
Author: Yousefian, Reza
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Power resources, Artificial intelligence
Description: This dissertation presents a real-time Wide-Area Control (WAC) designed based on artificial intelligence for large scale modern power systems transient stability enhancement. The WAC using the measurements available from Phasor Measurement Units (...

Title: Trajectory tracking control for nonholonomic robots with actuation noise and imperfect communication
Author: Lawless, Frank
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: When executing safety-critical missions, tracking algorithms must be dependable, accurate, and have quantifiable tracking performance in non-ideal environments (e.g., actuation noise, delayed communication, and noisy measurement). Trajectory track...

Title: Timely updating with intermittent energy and data for multiple sources over erasure channels
Author: Daniel, Christopher
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: A status updating system is considered in which multiple data sources generate packets to be delivered to a destination through a shared energy harvesting sensor. Only one source’s data, when available, can be transmitted by the sensor at a time, ...

Title: Thread Mapping Using System-Level Model for Shared Memory Multicores
Author: Mitra, Reshmi
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Computer engineering, Mathematics
Description: Exploring thread-to-core mapping options for a parallel application on a multicore architecture is computationally very expensive. For the same algorithm, the mapping strategy (MS) with the best response time may change with data size and thread c...

Title: The Use of Fractals and Non-Foster Circuits for Wideband Metamaterials and Antennas
Author: Smith, Kathryn
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Implementations of two methods for broadening the performance bandwidth of resonant electromagnetic structures are presented. The first method is the use of non-Foster loading elements, and the second method is the use of fractal geometries. Non-F...

Title: The Development of the Toner Density Sensor for Closed-Loop Feedback Laser Printer Calibration
Author: Thomas, Keisha
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: A new infrared (IR) sensor was developed for application in closed-loop feedback printer calibration as it relates to monochrome (black toner only) laser printers. The toner density IR sensor (TDS) was introduced in the early 1980's; however, due ...