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- Title
- Cache-Aware Implementation of Compressed Sensing Reconstruction using Walsh-Hadamard Transform on a Multicore Architecture
- Author
- Ramgopal, Aneesh
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- Electrical engineering, Computer engineering
- Description
- The recent development of the compressed sensing (CS) theory has given rise to several algorithms being proposed for signal acquisition and reconstruction. Implementing these algorithms are computationally demanding and pose several challenges for...
- Title
- DYNAMIC ENERGY DISTRIBUTION IN SMART GRIDS ENABLED BY INTERNET OF THINGS SENSORS AND HYBRID TELECOM NETWORKS
- Author
- Bikmetov, Ravil
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Computer science, Power resources, Operations research
- Description
- ABSTRACTRAVIL BIKMETOV. Dynamic Energy Distribution in Smart Grids Enabled by Internet of Things Sensors and Hybrid Telecom Networks. (Under the direction of DR. YASIN RAJA)Ability to manage energy consumption and generation is a major feature of ...
- Title
- EFFECTS OF SUBSTRATE ON 2D MATERIALS, GRAPHENE, MOS2, WS2, AND BLACK PHOSPHORUS, INVESTIGATED BY HIGH TEMPERATURE AND SPATIALLY RESOLVED RAMAN SCATTERING AND PHOTOLUMINESCENCE
- Author
- Su, Liqin
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Materials science
- Description
- The exploration of a group of new 2D materials, such as graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides, has become the hottest research of interest in recent years. With the dependable techniques of producing 2D materials, particularly mechanical e...
- Title
- Exploring exciton and trap state recombination dynamics in cadmium sulfide quantum dots
- Author
- Woodall, Danielle
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Nanoscience, Chemistry, Physical and theoretical
- Description
- Colloidal semiconducting quantum dots (QDs) are ideal candidates for optoelectronic devices such as solar cells and LEDs because of their high photoluminescence (PL) quantum yields and photostability. In order to improve device efficiencies, we mu...
- Title
- From Nonradiating Sources to Directionally Invisible Objects
- Author
- Hurwitz, Elisa
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Optics, Physics
- Description
- The goal of this dissertation is to extend the understanding of invisible objects, in particular nonradiating sources and directional nonscattering scatterers. First, variations of null-field nonradiating sources are derived from Maxwell's equatio...
- Title
- INTEGRATED AND MINIATURIZED ENDOSCOPIC DEVICES FOR USE DURING HIGH POWER INFRARED FIBER LASER SURGERY
- Author
- Wilson, Christopher
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Optics, Physics, Biomedical engineering
- Description
- The Thulium Fiber Laser (TFL) is currently being studied as a potential alternative to the conventional, solid-state Holmium:YAG laser (Ho:YAG) for the treatment of kidney stones. The TFL is an ideal candidate to replace the Ho:YAG for laser litho...
- Title
- Index-antiguided planar waveguide lasers with large mode area
- Author
- Liu, Yuanye
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Optics, Physics
- Description
- The on-going research and application interests with high power large-mode-area (LMA) waveguide lasers, especially in fiber geometry, at the beginning of this century drive the development of many novel waveguide designs. Index antiguiding, propos...
- Title
- Infrared Photocurrent Spectroscopy Of Deep Levels In Mg-Doped GaN And AlxGa1-xN
- Author
- Batoni, Paolo
- Date Created
- 2009
- Subjects--Topical
- Electrical engineering
- Description
- Recently, there is an increasing demand for III-nitride semiconductor based optoelectronic devices, and especially for ultraviolet (UV) and Deep UV sources and sensors; however, the development and the performance of such devices is fundamentally ...
- Title
- LIGHT-MATTER INTERACTIONS IN SEMICONDUCTOR NANOWIRES: LIGHT-EFFECT TRANSISTOR AND LIGHT-INDUCED CHANGES IN ELECTRON-PHONON COUPLING AND ELECTRICAL CHARACTERISTICS
- Author
- Marmon, Jason
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Materials science, Electrical engineering, Optics
- Description
- This dissertation explores three related embodiments of light–matter interactions at the micro– and nano–scales, and is focused towards tangible device applications. The first topic provides a fundamentally different transistor or electronic switc...
- Title
- Microspherical Photonics for Enhancing Resolution of Optical Microscopy and Sensitivity of Focal Plane Arrays
- Author
- Brettin, Aaron
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Optics
- Description
- It is shown that the resolution of virtual images of dye-doped dielectric nanospheres obtained through dielectric microspheres can be increased beyond the classical diffraction limit by decreasing the period of nanoplasmonic array used for localiz...
- Title
- Microspherical photonics: Giant resonant light forces, spectrally resolved optical manipulation, and coupled modes of microcavity arrays
- Author
- Li, Yangcheng
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Optics, Physics
- Description
- Microspherical photonics emerged in recent years in the context of fundamentally new optical properties of structures formed by coupled dielectric microspheres. These include coupling between whispering gallery modes (WGMs), photonic nanojets, nan...
- Title
- OPTICAL PERFORMANCE OF RANDOM ANTIREFLECTION STRUCTURED SURFACES ON NON-VITREOUS SUBSTRATES AND FUSED SILICA MICROLENS ARRAYS
- Author
- Eckart, Abigail
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Optics
- Description
- Random anti-reflection surface structures (rARSS) are randomly spaced, densely packed, sub-wavelength cylindrical or conical features that are fabricated on the surface of optical substrates. As light passes from the superstrate to the substrate m...
- Title
- SPATIAL FIELD CONTROL OF BROAD AREA SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS WITH INTEGRATED GRATING COUPLERS
- Author
- Smolski, Viktor
- Date Created
- 2012
- Subjects--Topical
- Electrical engineering, Optics
- Description
- In this research, a method of designing a grating outcoupler to obtain the desired 2D-intensity profile and improved field distribution of the optical beam emitted by a grating coupled surface emitting laser is presented. The method is based on va...
- Title
- Superlens imaging and light concentration in mesoscale photonics: design and implementation
- Author
- Jin, Boya
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Optics
- Description
- Progress in nanofabrication made possible development of metamaterials and nanoplamonics two decades ago. The area of mesoscale photonics where the characteristic dimensions of spherical, pyramidal or other building blocks are on the order of seve...
- Title
- Vortices in coherent and partially coherent optical beams
- Author
- Stahl, Charlotte
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Optics
- Description
- Vortices in optical beams have been the subject of extensive study since their status as a generic feature of light was established. They have found extensive use in optical trapping systems, astronomy, microscopy and are being investigated for fr...
- Title
- WAVEGUIDE, PHOTODETECTOR, AND IMAGING APPLICATIONS OF MICROSPHERICAL PHOTONICS
- Author
- Allen, Kenneth
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- Optics, Engineering, Physics
- Description
- Dielectric microspheres with diameters (D) on the order of several wavelengths of light have attracted increasing attention from the photonics community due to their ability to produce extraordinarily tightly focused beams termed "photonic nanojet...