• Nanowire Alignment: Techniques, Quantification, and Applications in Large-Area Devices 

  Dong, Jianjin (University of Waterloo, 2018-09-20)

  Nanowire alignment is essential for their integration into large-area devices, as well as to obtain certain functionality such as the ability to polarize light and increase surface-enhanced Raman scattering. Various nanowire ...

• Influence of Interface on the Properties of Silicone Nanocomposites 

  Aldawsari, Faisal (University of Waterloo, 2018-09-20)

  The increase in voltage levels and electrical stresses of the electrical equipment have resulted in demands for electrical insulations that have high breakdown strength, low losses, high thermal conductivity, and high ...

• An Unsupervised Approach to Relatedness Analysis of Legal Language 

  Wang, Ying (University of Waterloo, 2018-09-20)

  Learning distributed representations of sentences and analyzing semantic similarity between sentences is one of the essential works in the field of Natural Language Processing. In the domain of legal language, the future ...

• Using Random Digit Representation for Elliptic Curve Scalar Multiplication 

  Mostafa, Mohannad (University of Waterloo, 2018-09-20)

  Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) was introduced independently by Miller and Koblitz in 1986. Compared to the integer factorization based Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (RSA) cryptosystem, ECC provides shorter key length with the ...

• New Methods for Channel Allocation Schemes in wireless Cellular Networks 

  Mohajer Hamidi, Shayan (University of Waterloo, 2018-09-19)

  Due to the fast-growing number of cell-phone users, channel allocation scheme for channel assignment plays an important role in cellular networks. Having known that for downlink transmission the base-station aims to ...

• Performance Analysis of Drive-thru Internet Access 

  Xu, Wenchao (University of Waterloo, 2018-09-19)

  Drive-thru Internet is considered to be an important solution to provide Internet access for vehicles. By deploying cost-effective and high bandwidth roadside WiFi networks, a vehicle can upload/download considerable data ...

• Implementation of OFDM Encryption and a New Frequency Hopping System 

  Yi, Yunjie (University of Waterloo, 2018-09-19)

  As the rapid growth of wireless communication, physical layer security becomes important recently. Unlike wired transmissions, the nature of wireless transmissions makes the transmitted signals over the channel easily to ...

• Enhancing the performance of transparent electrodes through the design of new silver nanostructures 

  Madeira, Alexandra (University of Waterloo, 2018-09-07)

  Transparent electrodes are a necessary component in a number of devices such as solar cells, flat panel displays, touch screens and light emitting diodes. The most commonly used transparent conductor, indium tin oxide ...

• Digital Predistortion of Millimeter-Wave Phased Antenna Arrays 

  Ng, Eric (University of Waterloo, 2018-09-07)

  The cost of deployment of reliable, high-throughput, fifth-generation (5G) millimeter-wave (mm-wave) base stations will depend significantly on the maximum equivalent isotropically radiated power (EIRP) that the base ...

• Lattice Engineering with Surface Acoustic Waves 

  Powlowski, Mats Sahlman (University of Waterloo, 2018-09-05)

  Quantum simulators are special purpose quantum computers designed to examine problems that are impossible to test with classical computers. They can be used to simulate problems in atomic physics, condensed matter physics, ...

• Noise Characterization of a CMOS X-Ray Image Sensor 

  Liang, YiJie (University of Waterloo, 2018-09-05)

  The objective of this thesis is to validate the noise performance of a high resolution CMOS X-ray imager. We carry out a detailed noise analysis on a four-quadrant CMOS imager and the external hardware. Careful analysis ...

• A Study of the Power Trace Sampling Frequency Requirements in Non-Intrusive Program Tracing Through Power Consumption Monitoring 

  Singh, Ajay (University of Waterloo, 2018-09-05)

  In embedded systems, anomalies can be detected by monitoring the power consumption of the device. Recent literature has shown the use of this technique for the purpose of safety as well as security. However, on-the-fly ...

• Compensation for Impairments of Frequency Converters in Millimeter Wave Vector Signal Generators 

  Chung, Arthur (University of Waterloo, 2018-09-05)

  The upcoming fifth generation (5G) of wireless communications aims to utilize millimeter wave (mm-wave) frequencies in its infrastructure to alleviate the crowded spectrum problem below 6 GHz. At higher frequencies, ...

• Some Aspects of Static and Dynamic Distribution System State Estimation with Optimal Meter Placement Studies 

  Kandenkavil, Sreedevi Valsan (University of Waterloo, 2018-09-04)

  In a power distribution system, due to the evolution of Active Distribution Networks (ADNs), there is a possibility of violation of the system operational constraints. A state estimator provides an approximate snapshot ...

• Broadband Antireflection Coverglass for CubeSats 

  Liu, Yaoze (University of Waterloo, 2018-08-31)

  A CubeSat is a type of miniaturized and modular satellite designed for space research or technology demonstration. By filling the unused capacity of major launch vehicles, CubeSats significantly lower the cost of entry to ...

• PtSe2 Field-Effect Transistors: New Opportunities for Electronic Devices 

  AlMutairi, AbdulAziz; Yin, Demin; Yoon, Youngki (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2017-11-15)

  PtSe2, a new family of transition metal dichalcogenides, has been explored for electronic device applications using density functional theory (DFT) and non-equilibrium Green’s function (NEGF) within the third nearest ...

• Assessment of Germanane Field-Effect Transistors for CMOS Technology 

  Zhao, Yiju; Almutairi, Abdulaziz; Yoon, Youngki (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2017-10-13)

  Using self-consistent atomistic quantum transport simulations, the device characteristics of n-type and p-type germanane (GeH) field-effect transistors (FETs) are evaluated. While both devices exhibit near-identical off-state ...

• 45-nm SOI CMOS Bluetooth Electrochemical Sensor for Continuous Glucose Monitoring 

  Muthreja, Aman (University of Waterloo, 2018-08-21)

  Due to increasing rates of diabetes, non-invasive glucose monitoring systems will become critical to improving health outcomes for an increasing patient population. Bluetooth integration for such a system has been previously ...

• Nanofabrication and its application in developing high aspect ratio (HAR) and edge Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) probes 

  Zhu, Chenxu (University of Waterloo, 2018-08-20)

  This thesis focuses on nanofabrication and its applications which are related to producing atomic force microscope (AFM) probes. This thesis is divided into four chapters. The first chapter brings a preliminary introduction ...

• Population-level Indicators of Physical Activity, Sedentary Behaviour and Sleep in Canada based on Twitter 

  Nguyen, Olivier (University of Waterloo, 2018-08-17)

  Social media platforms contain large amounts of freely and publicly available data that could be used to measure population characteristics across different geographical regions. Analyzing public data sources such as ...

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