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Title: DEFECTED SIGNAL LINE STRUCTURES FOR SINGLE-BAND AND MULTI-BAND BANDSTOP FILTERING IN PLANAR MICROWAVE DEVICES
Author: Yadav, Navneet Kumar
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: As the development of wireless communication increases, the current transceiver architecturesalso needs to be evolving along with it. This results in specifications likehigh linearity, low noise figure, and rejection of spurious signals. As device...

Title: Design of a Closed Loop Wireless Power Transfer System for an Electrocorticography Device to be Implanted in the Brain of a Rat Over an Extended Period
Author: Stuemke, Jeremiah
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Electromagnetism
Description: A biomedical power and communications system is currently under development for the purpose of continuously monitoring neural activity in ratswith epilepsy over a period of nine months. A closed loop system is employed that dynamically adjusts for...

Title: Design of a Microstrip Antenna and PCB for use in an Electrocorticography Biomedical Implant
Author: West, Jakob
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Biomedical engineering, Electromagnetism
Description: An implantable system, that is part of a wireless body area network, is under development for a study monitoring of neural activity in rats with epilepsy. The study will continue over a nine month period to collect data for epilepsy research. This...

Title: Fan Noise Attenuation with an Acoustic Metamaterial
Author: Hill, Ryan
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Sound
Description: In a world continuously increasing in the number of electronic devices, the need for cooling fans increases and so does its contribution to noise pollution. This project explores a solution to this problem by designing an acoustic metamaterial tha...

Title: HUMAN-ROBOT COOPERATION USING EEG SIGNALS WITH SELF-LEARNING
Author: Bellary, Sunny Arokia Swamy
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Robotics
Description: Able-bodied humans express and communicate their needs and ideas with each other through the exchange of verbal and non-verbal information. However, those with neuromuscular disorders, either inherited or acquired by other factors, have high needs...

Title: Improving Dense Real-Time 3D SLAM Using Sparse Geometric Constraints
Author: Papadakis, John-Richard
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Robotics
Description: This thesis explores the extension of a state of the art dense RGBD SLAM system to include detected geometries as elements in the estimated global map. The existing approach leverages an algorithm for dense visual odometry, which is analyzed in de...

Title: Low Power RFID System Design and Implementation
Author: Bowen, Jacob
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: A successful design and implementation of an RFID(Radio Frequency Identification)tag and reader.The RFID reader was implemented using a USRP board and GNU radio. TheRFID system designed here is considered a UHF(ultra high frequency) RFID. Thereade...

Title: Metamaterial Enhanced Broadband Dipole Antenna with Selective Directivity and Enhanced Gain
Author: Naik, Ajay
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electromagnetism
Description: This research is aimed at investigating the interaction between a broadband dipole andmetamaterials. Metamaterials are artificial electromagnetic structures whose electricpermittivity and magnetic permeability can be engineered to have parameter v...

Title: Metamaterial Loading of Electrically Small Patch Antennas to Enable Beam Steering up to the Horizon
Author: Pai Raikar, Vandita Rajiv
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Electromagnetism
Description: This thesis research has been conducted with an aim of investigating the effects ofmetamaterials on microstrip patch antennas. Metamaterials exhibit interesting propertiessuch as single negative or simultaneous double negative values of relative p...

Title: Multi-destination rendezvous in cognitive radio networks
Author: Samak, Tamer
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer science, Computer engineering
Description: The radio spectrum is a limited natural resource and the increase of wireless devices operating in the unlicensed bands of the spectrum has led to its overcrowding resulting in poor performance of those radio devices. Moreover, the static spectrum...

Title: NOVEL IMPLEMENTATIONS OF PLANAR ANTENNAS WITH GOVERNABLE CIRCULAR POLARIZATION
Author: Thakar, Dip
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Communication
Description: This document is an explicit and an exclusive account on two antennas. This literatureis an attempt to solve some of the challenges for planar antennas in the frequencyindependent class and exploit the radiative nature of narrow band patch antenna...

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: 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: 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: 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...