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Simple plasma assisted atomic layer deposition technique for high substitutional nitrogen doping of TiO2
(AIP Publishing, 2018-03-21)In this work, a plasma assisted atomic layer deposition system was used to deposit nitrogen-doped titanium dioxide. A simple approach was developed that requires only a nitrogen plasma and short plasma exposure times to ... -
Simple Termination Criteria for Stochastic Gradient Descent Algorithm
(University of Waterloo, 2021-04-09)Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) algorithm is widely used in modern mathematical optimization. Because of its scalability and ease of implementation, SGD is usually preferred to other methods including the gradient descent ... -
Simple Yet Effective Pseudo Relevance Feedback with Rocchio’s Technique and Text Classification
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-22)With the continuous growth of the Internet and the availability of large-scale collections, assisting users in locating the information they need becomes a necessity. Generally, an information retrieval system will process ... -
Simple, economical methods for electrical access to nanostructures used for characterizing and welding individual silver nanowires
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-03)Elongated nanostructures have attracted a great deal of interest due to unique optical, electrical and physical properties. In particular, silver nanowires and nanobeams have proven to be top contenders for a variety of ... -
A Simplified Analysis of Radiant Heat Loss Through Projecting Fenestration Products
(American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, 2001)Current window analysis algorithms can deal with many features, including low-e coatings and substitute fill gases. These methods were developed for products with planar glazings. Results can be generated for projecting ... -
Simplified Channel Estimation Techniques for OFDM Systems with Realistic Indoor Fading Channels
(University of Waterloo, 2009-05-22)This dissertation deals with the channel estimation techniques for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems such as in IEEE 802.11. Although there has been a great amount of research in this area, ... -
A Simplified Method For Calculating The Effective Solar Optical Properties Of a Drapery
(2007-06)The use of draperies to control solar gain through windows is common in residential and commercial buildings and their potential for reduction of building peak load and annual energy consumption is recognized to be large. ... -
A Simplified Method for Hedging Jump Diffusions
(University of Waterloo, 2010-12-23)Geometric Brownian Motion (GBM) and has been widely used in the Black Scholes option-pricing framework to model the return of assets. However, many empirical investigations show that market returns have higher peaks and ... -
A Simplified Numerical Method for Assessing the Condensation Resistance of Windows
(American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, 1998)Methods have been established for calculating heat transfer in windows whereby a one-dimensional analysis is used for the center-glass area and a two-dimensional numerical calculation is used to model conduction in the ... -
Simplified Phosphorescent Organic Light-Emitting Devices: A Study of Efficiency and Stability
(University of Waterloo, 2016-06-10)Organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs), compared to their inorganic counterparts, have potentially lower fabrication costs, lighter weight and better mechanical flexibility. Since its invention almost three decades ago, ... -
Simplified Seismic Design for Mid-Rise Buildings with Vertical Combination of Framing Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-11)The mid-rise building with vertical combination of framing systems consists of a structural system in which the seismic-force-resisting-system (SFRS) of the upper structure is commonly a lightweight structural system such ... -
Simplified Solar Optical Calculations For Windows With Venetian Blinds
(2006)Solar gain through a window represents the most variable heat gain imposed on an indoor space. It is also likely to represent the largest heat gain of the indoor space. Shading devices like venetian blinds roller blinds ... -
Simplifying Accelerated Electromigration Testing of Solder using Wire-based DUTs
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-17)A novel and accelerated method for the characterization of Electromigration (EM) in a solder material typically used in electronics packaging is proposed in this report. The method includes a novel approach to prepare EM ... -
Simplifying the Creation of Multi-core Processors: An Interconnection Architecture and Tool Framework
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-25)The contribution of this thesis is two-fold: an on-chip interconnection architecture designed specifically for multi-core processors and a tool framework that simplifies the process of designing a multi-core processor. ... -
Simulated Annealing Reconstruction and Effective Transport Properties of PEM Fuel Cell Catalyst Layers
(University of Waterloo, 2023-11-15)A proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) is an energy-conversion device that can be used in a wide variety of applications and is considered a promising alternative to gas and diesel engines for vehicular purposes. ... -
Simulated electron affinity tuning in metal-insulator-metal (MIM) diodes
(American Institute of Physics, 2017-04-27)Metal-insulator-metal diodes for rectification applications must exhibit high asymmetry, nonlinearity, and responsivity. Traditional methods of improving these figures of merit have consisted of increasing insulator ... -
Simulated Overloading using Generic Functions in Scheme
(University of Waterloo, 1997)This thesis investigates extending the dynamically-typed, functional programming language Scheme, with simulated overloading in order to permit the binding of multiple, distributed defnitions to function names. Overloading ... -
Simulating a Novel Nitrogen Removal Process Using EnviroPro Designer
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-19)Ammonia removal is an important problem that Canadian municipalities are encountering in their wastewater treatment systems due to ammonia’s adverse environmental effects and its increasingly stringent discharge ... -
Simulating and Optimizing Nasopharyngeal Swab Insertion Paths for use in Robotics
(IEEE, 2022-11-03)The nasopharyngeal swab is the standardized method of collecting specimens for diagnosing COVID-19, among numerous other respiratory illnesses. While there has been interest from the robotics community in the design of ... -
Simulating Farmer Adoption of Agricultural Best Management Practices in the Upper Medway Creek Subwatershed
(University of Waterloo, 2018-10-16)In the coupled human-environment system, humans play a central role in creating various environmental problems, and in turn, are impacted by these environmental consequences. In Canada, water quality degradation caused by ...