• High Aspect Ratio Polystyrene Structure and Nano-gap Electrode Fabrication Using Electron Beam Lithography 

  Azibi, Azizah (University of Waterloo, 2017-06-22)

  Nanotechnology has experienced a rapid growth over the past decade, thanks to the development of nanofabrication technologies needed to fabricate nano-devices. The key technique for nanofabrication is nano-lithography. ...

• Concurrent Dual-band Doherty Power Amplifiers for Carrier Aggregation 

  Liu, Mingming (University of Waterloo, 2017-06-21)

  Carrier aggregation is the main feature of the Long Term Evolution advanced (LTE-A) standard to increase the spectral efficiency and communication bandwidth. It calls for wireless transmitters to be multi-band and ...

• Microgrid Enabling Towards the Implementation of Smart Grids 

  Nassar, Mohammed (University of Waterloo, 2017-06-21)

  Smart grids have emerged as dominant platforms for effectively accommodating high penetration of renewable-based distributed generation (DG) and electric vehicles (EVs). These smart paradigms play a pivotal role in the ...

• Molybdenum Disulphide (MoS2) Nanosheet Inks Evaluated for Printed Electronics and Application to Thin-Film Transistors 

  Mintz, Leon (University of Waterloo, 2017-06-20)

  Inkjet printing is a versatile deposition technique that has been used for the fabrication of electronic circuits, from simple conductive tracks to complete 3D logic circuits. The emergence of solution-processable 2D layered ...

• Design Strategy of 2D Material Field-Effect Transistors: Engineering the Number of Layers in Phosphorene FETs 

  Yoon, Youngki; Demin, Yin (AIP Publishing, 2016-06-07)

  Thickness or the number of layers in 2D semiconductors is a key parameter to determine the material’s electronic properties and the overall device performance of 2D material electronics. Here we discuss the engineering ...

• Realization of Non-Volatile Memory in Amorphous Silicon Thin-Film Transistors 

  Sanjeevi, Sunil (University of Waterloo, 2017-05-19)

  The integration of memory circuits in thin-film transistors (TFTs) is essential to extend the functionalities of large-area applications such as flat-panel displays, imagers etc. Intensive research is being conducted with ...

• Exploring Microfluidic Design Automation: Thin-wall Membrane Regulator 

  Zaman, Atulan (University of Waterloo, 2017-05-19)

  Microfluidics and lab-on-a-chip are a growing technology, influential in many areas of engineering. This project focuses on the necessity for better computer aided design tools for this area. Specifically, it focuses on ...

• Energy Efficient Energy Analytics 

  De, Sagnik (University of Waterloo, 2017-05-19)

  Smart meters allow for hourly data collection related to customer's power consumption. However this results in thousands of data points, which hides broader trends in power consumption and makes it difficult for energy ...

• Millimeter-Wave Reconfigurable CMOS-MEMS Integrated Devices 

  Kheirabi, Nazli (University of Waterloo, 2017-05-18)

  The millimeter-wave spectrum has sparked interest recently as a promising alternative to meet bandwidth requirements for wireless local area networks, vehicular radars, short-range multi-Gb/s links, and next-generation ...

• Fault Tolerance of Stochastic Decoders for Error Correcting Codes 

  Hussein, Assem (University of Waterloo, 2017-05-17)

  Low-density Parity-check (LDPC) codes are very powerful linear error-correcting codes, first introduced by Gallager in 1963. They are now used in many communication standards due to their ability to achieve near Shannon-capacity ...

• Aluminum Nitride SAW Resonators 

  Mojdeh, Ali (University of Waterloo, 2017-05-17)

  Numerous devices need filters for capturing signals and then conditioning them in communications and wireless systems. For several decades, microwave filters have been the center of attention for this type of signal ...

• Toward High Performance Broad-band Frequency Comb Operation of Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers 

  Xu, Chao (University of Waterloo, 2017-05-16)

  Recent advances in Terahertz Quantum Cascade Laser (THz QCL) development are pushing this technology ever closer to practical application, particularly within the spectroscopic field. For this reason, optimizing the operation ...

• New Approaches to Composite Reliability Assessment of Smart Power Systems 

  Lami, Badr (University of Waterloo, 2017-05-12)

  Electric power networks are complex systems because of their geographic spread and the consequent need for interconnections and integration of different components such as generators, transformers, lines, reactors, relays, ...

• Development of Tunable RF Integrated Passive Devices 

  Wong, Ka Wai (University of Waterloo, 2017-05-11)

  Radio frequency (RF) lumped elements are crucial building blocks for designing any type of passives circuits for RF front-end applications in mobile devices. In particular, high-quality (Q) factor lumped elements are ...

• Smart Operation of Four-Quadrant Electric Vehicle Chargers in Distribution Grids 

  Restrepo Restrepo, Mauricio (University of Waterloo, 2017-05-10)

  Many policies and programs adopted in the context of climate change mitigation and substitution of fossil fuels are contributing to the continuous development and growth of Electric Vehicles (EVs) in urban mobility systems, ...

• A Real Time Draggable Frame Capture System with Mobile Device 

  Lu, Ching-Chun (University of Waterloo, 2017-05-09)

  In this thesis, a real time draggable frame grabber media system is proposed. The user can simultaneously acquire the snapshot from a live video playing on a display by simply using an intuitive drag hand gesture with their ...

• Data Scratchpad Prefetching for Real-time Systems 

  Soliman, Muhammad R.; Pellizzoni, Rodolfo (2017-05-01)

  In recent years, the real-time community has produced a variety of approaches targeted at managing on- chip memory (scratchpads and caches) in a predictable way. However, to obtain safe Worst-Case Execution Time (WCET) ...

• An RNS variant of fully homomorphic encryption over integers 

  Zawia, Ahmed (University of Waterloo, 2017-05-01)

  In 1978, the concept of privacy homomorphism was introduced by Rivest et al. Since then, homomorphic cryptosystems have gathered researchers' attention. Most of the early schemes were either partially homomorphic or not ...

• Automated Pose Estimation for the Assessment of Dynamic Knee Valgus and Risk of Knee Injury during the Single Leg Squat 

  Kianifar, Rezvan (University of Waterloo, 2017-04-28)

  Many clinical assessment protocols rely on the evaluation of functional movement tests such as the Single Leg Squat (SLS), which are often assessed visually. Visual assessment is subjective and depends on the experience ...

• A General Pluggable Type Inference Framework and its use for Data-flow Analysis 

  Li, Jianchu (University of Waterloo, 2017-04-27)

  Java's pluggable type systems provide valuable compile-time guarantees, but annotating the program with pluggable types can be a significant burden on programmers. Checker Framework Inference, a framework that aims to ...

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