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Design of Variation-Tolerant Circuits for Nanometer CMOS Technology: Circuits and Architecture Co-Design
(University of Waterloo, 2008-11-28)Aggressive scaling of CMOS technology in sub-90nm nodes has created huge challenges. Variations due to fundamental physical limits, such as random dopants fluctuation (RDF) and line edge roughness (LER) are increasing ... -
Design Strategy of 2D Material Field-Effect Transistors: Engineering the Number of Layers in Phosphorene FETs
(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 ... -
Design Techniques for Lithography-Friendly Nanometer CMOS Integrated Circuits
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-24)The Integrated Circuits industry has been a major driver of the outstanding changes and improvements in the modern day technology and life style that we are observing in our day to day life. The continuous scaling of CMOS ... -
Design, Analysis and Optimization of a Cherenkov radiation based sub-mm/THz BWO
(University of Waterloo, 2015-06-15)The Terahertz (THz) radiation –also known as “T-ray and THz gap”– refers to a certain band of the electromagnetic spectrum whose frequency extends between 0.1THz and 10THz. Compared to the microwave band, the THz radiation ... -
Design, Analysis, and Characterization of Indirectly-pumped Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-26)Quantum cascade laser (QCL), as a unipolar semiconductor laser based on intersubband transitions in quantum wells, covers a large portion of the Mid and Far Infrared electromagnetic spectrum. The frequency of the optical ... -
Design, Fabrication and Characterization of a Unipolar Charge Sensing Amorphous Selenium X-ray Detector
(University of Waterloo, 2023-06-19)Amorphous Selenium is a direct conversion photoconductor that has been widely used in X-ray imaging applications. Due to its high spatial resolution A-Se plays an important role in breast cancer screening and diagnostics, ... -
Design, Fabrication and Validation of a CMOS-MEMS Kelvin Probe Force Microscope
(University of Waterloo, 2013-04-25)The Kelvin Probe Force Microscope is a type of scanning probe instrument that is used to discern the different work functions of a sample. A sharp probe at the end of a cantilever is lowered onto a substrate where electrostatic ... -
Design, Modeling, and Analysis for MAC Protocols in Ultra-wideband Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-06)Ultra-wideband (UWB) is an appealing transmission technology for short-range, bandwidth demanded wireless communications. With the data rate of several hundred megabits per second, UWB demonstrates great potential in ... -
Design, Optimization and Fabrication of Amorphous Silicon Tunable RF MEMS Inductors and Transformers
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-19)High performance inductors are playing an increasing role in modern communication systems. Despite the superior performance offered by discrete components, parasitic capacitances from bond pads, board traces and packaging ... -
Design, Simulation and Fabrication of Photonic Crystal Slab Waveguide Based Polarization Processors
(University of Waterloo, 2009-05-22)The Photonic Crystal (PC) is a potential candidate for a compact optical integrated circuit on a solid state platform. The fabrication process of a PC is compatible with CMOS technology; thus, it could be potentially ... -
Designing a Real-Time Grid Simulator for use in Market and A.G.C. Studies
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-03)Market based generation dispatch is becoming the industry norm in advanced electrical jurisdictions. Due to the continuous evolution of markets and their potential impacts on system operation, studies are performed from ... -
Designing an Incentive-compatible Reward Scheme for Algorand
(University of Waterloo, 2022-06-21)Founded in 2017, Algorand is the first carbon-negative blockchain protocol inspired by proof of stake. Algorand uses a Byzantine agreement protocol to add new blocks to the blockchain. The protocol can tolerate malicious ... -
A Detailed Characterization of 60 GHz Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11ad)
(University of Waterloo, 2017-02-22)The emergence of wireless local area network (WLAN) standards and the global system of mobile communication (GSM) in the early 1990s incited tremendous growth in the demand for wireless connectivity. Iterative technological ... -
Detectable Data Structures for Persistent Memory
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-14)Persistent memory is a byte-addressable and durable storage medium that provides both performance benefits of main memory and durability of secondary storage. It is possible for a data structure to recover near-instantly ... -
Detecting Feature-Interaction Symptoms in Automotive Software Using Lightweight Analysis
(IEEE, 2019-02)Modern automotive software systems are large, com- plex, and feature rich; they can contain over 100 million lines of code, comprising hundreds of features distributed across multiple electronic control units (ECUs), all ... -
Detection and Diagnosis of Memory Leaks in Web Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2015-06-15)Memory leaks -- the existence of unused memory on the heap of applications -- result in low performance and may, in the worst case, cause applications to crash. The migration of application logic to the client side of ... -
Detection of Anomalous Behavior of IoT/CPS Devices Using Their Power Signals
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-14)Embedded computing devices, in the Internet of Things (IoT) or Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), are becoming pervasive in many domains around the world. Their wide deployment in simple applications (e.g., smart buildings, ... -
Detection of Anomalous Behavior of Wireless Devices using Power Signal and Changepoint Detection Theory.
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-10)Anomaly detection has been applied in different fields of science and engineering over many years to recognize inconsistent behavior, which can affect the regular operation of devices, machines, and even organisms. The ... -
Detection of Java EE EJB Antipattern Instances using Framework-Specific Models
(University of Waterloo, 2009-04-30)Adding flexibility to a process or technology often comes with a price. This holds true in the case of the amendments made to Java EE platform to upgrade to version 5. Java EE 5 allows Enterprise Java Bean (EJB) developers ... -
Detection of Sub-Millimeter Surface Cracks using Complementary Split-Ring Resonator
(University of Waterloo, 2012-07-25)Many interesting ideas have emerged from research on electromagnetic eld interactions with di erent materials. Analyzing such interactions has extracted some essential proper- ties of the materials. For example, extracting ...