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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: 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: THERMOELECTRIC PHENOMENA FOR WASTE HEAT HARVESTING USING WIDE BANDGAP SEMICONDUCTORS
Author: Kucukgok, Bahadir
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Materials science, Electrical engineering, Power resources
Description: 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...

Title: THEORY AND NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF INDEX-ANTIGUIDED WAVEGUIDE LASERS
Author: Wang, Chaofan
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Optics
Description: Index-antiguided (IAG) waveguide is promising for high-power application due to simple step-index structure and the property to introduce higher waveguide loss for higher-order-modes (HOMs). The loss ratio between fundamental mode (FM) and 1st HOM...

Title: SURFACE PLASMON EFFECTS IN NANO-OPTICS: SUPER-RESOLVED OPTICAL READOUT AND COHERENCE CONVERSION
Author: Gan, Choon How
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Optics
Description: Surface plasmon effects in nano-optical systems are investigated through rigorous numerical simulations and analytical modeling. Several strategies to achieve superresolution in plasmon-assisted optical readout systems are proposed, and simulation...

Title: SELECTIVE HEATING OF VASCULAR STRUCTURES TO CREATE CONTRAST IN MEDICAL MID-IR IMAGES
Author: Case, Jason
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Optics, Diagnostic imaging
Description: The goal of this study is to develop an enhanced mid-IR imaging modality for mapping vascular structures. This imaging technique is intended for real-time use by medical professionals during surgical procedures such as tumor removal and vascular m...

Title: RESOLUTION ANALYSIS OF FILMS WITH EMBEDDED SPHERES FOR IMAGING OF NANOPLASMONIC ARRAYS
Author: Farahi, Navid
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Optics, Physics
Description: With the advent of microsphere assisted microscopy in 2011, this technique emerged as a simple and easy way to obtain optical super-resolution. Although the possible mechanisms of imaging by microspheres are debated in the literature, most of the ...

Title: Performance Enhancement of LoRa Networks for Smart City Applications
Author: Aggarwal, Shobhit
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: 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 ...

Title: PREPARATION AND VISUALIZATION OF INDIVIDUAL ACTIN FILAMENTS USING ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY FOR THE STUDY OF ACTIN/DNA HYDROGEL COMPLEXES
Author: Kennedy, Joshua
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Physics, Biophysics, Biomedical engineering
Description: A protocol of sample preparation for the visualization of single actin filaments at the nanoscale using atomic force microscopy for use in studies of engineered actin/DNA conjugated hydrogel complexes was developed. Hydrogels are cross-linked netw...

Title: Noninvasive Laser Vasectomy
Author: Cilip, Christopher
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Optics, Engineering, Biomedical engineering
Description: Development of a noninvasive vasectomy technique may eliminate male fear of complications (incision, bleeding, infection, and scrotal pain) and result in a more popular procedure. These studies build off previous studies that report the ability to...

Title: Infrared Laser Fusion and Bisection of Blood Vessels with Real-Time Optical Diagnostic Feedback
Author: Giglio, Nicholas
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Optics
Description: The conventional method of suture ligation of vascular tissues during surgery is time consuming, skill intensive, and leaves foreign objects in the body. Energy-based radiofrequency(RF) and ultrasonic (US) devices have recently replaced the use of...

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: Improving Thulium Fiber Laser Lithotripsy Efficiency
Author: Hardy, Luke
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Optics
Description: Kidney stone disease affects approximately 10% of the U.S. population. Conventional Holmium:YAG infrared laser lithotripsy is a standard minimally invasive treatment that operates based on a photothermal interaction with the main chromophore in ti...

Title: INVESTIGATION OF ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR OF LIGHT INDUCED DEGRADATION (LID) IN COST-EFFECTIVE INDUSTRIAL ALUMINUM BACK SURFACE FIELD (Al-BSF) SILICON SOLAR CELLS
Author: Hsu, Yu-Chen
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: 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-...

Title: INTERFEROMETRIC TECHNIQUE FOR MICROSTRUCTURE METROLOGY USING AN INDEX MATCHING LIQUID
Author: Purcell, Daryl
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Optics
Description: Non-null interferometry offers a viable alternative to traditional interferometric testing of aspheric micro-lenses since computer generated holograms or null optics whose fabrication and testing are very expensive, are not required. However, due ...

Title: DYNAMIC ROUTING WITH CROSS-LAYER ADAPTATIONS FOR MULTI-HOP WIRELESS NETWORKS
Author: PAL, AMITANGSHU
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Computer engineering
Description: In recent years there has been a proliferation of research on a number of wirelessmulti-hop networks that include mobile ad-hoc networks, wireless mesh networks,and wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Routing protocols in such networks are oftenrequi...

Title: DESIGN, MODELING, FABRICATION & CHARACTERIZATION OF INDUSTRIAL Si SOLAR CELLS
Author: Chowdhury, Ahrar Ahmed
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: 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...

Title: Behavioral Modeling of Zinc-Oxide, Thin-Film, Field-Effect Transistors and the Design of Pixel Driver, Analog Amplifier, and Low-Noise RF Amplifier Circuits
Author: Calder, Leroy
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: 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...

Title: Autonomous Malware Deception and Orchestration
Author: Sajid, Md Sajidul Islam
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Computer engineering
Description: Traditional approaches to cyber defense lack the agility to effectively counter stealthy and undetectable attacks, placing defenders at a disadvantage. In response to this imbalance, Active Cyber Deception (ACD) has emerged as a promising solution...

Title: Automated Classification and Mitigation of Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities
Author: Aghaei, Ehsan
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: With the widespread use of computers and networks today, cybersecurity has emerged as a crucial concern for many businesses as they fight with growing cyber threats by vulnerability exploitation. To identify and mitigate zero-day or unpatched vuln...