Continuous scaling of complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) transistor technology over the past few decades following Moore’s law has led to significant enhancement in the speed and performance of computing architectures. In today’s world...
Zinc-oxide (ZnO) is of great interest due to transparent properties, high breakdown voltages, and low cost. Behavioral modeling is presented in this dissertation to model ZnO thin-film field-effect transistor (FET) drain current versus gate-source...
Photovoltaic is a viable solution towards meeting the energy demand in an ecofriendly environment. To ensure the mass access in photovoltaic electricity, cost effective approach needs to be adapted. This thesis aims towards substrate independent f...
ABSTRACTYU-CHEN HSU. Investigation of abnormal behavior of light induced degradation (LID) in cost-effective industrial aluminum back surface field (Al-BSF) silicon solar cells. (Under the direction of DR. ABASIFREKE EBONG)In this research, the p-...
The Internet of Things (IoT) provides unlimited possibilities for smart city applications. However, energy efficiency and scalability continue to be key considerations for the development of low-cost wireless networks for meeting the needs of the ...
Materials science, Electrical engineering, Power resources
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The objective of this dissertation is to advance the fundamental understanding of the role of crystal defects on thermoelectric (TE) properties of wide band-gap materials in order to enable a new class of TE material for high temperature power gen...
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...
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...
