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Microgrid Enabling Towards the Implementation of Smart Grids
(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 ... -
Microwave Medical Imaging Using Inverse Radon Transform and Quasi-Static Simulator
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-26)The features of Microwave Imaging (MI) drive its potential to be widely implemented in different fields. Its high penetration depth, comfortable usage, non-ionizing nature, and low-cost operation have attracted researchers ... -
Microwave Near-Field Imaging and Material Characterization
(University of Waterloo, 2020-03-27)In recent years, microwave imaging has attracted many researchers from various fields such as medical imaging, remote sensing, and industrial ones because of its high degree of penetration, non-ionizing and safe nature, ... -
Microwave near-field probes to detect electrically small particles
(University of Waterloo, 2013-10-22)Microwave near-field probes (MNPs) confine evanescent fields to regions that are substantially smaller than the wavelength at the operation frequency. Such probes are able to resolve subwavelength features, thus providing ... -
Microwave Photonic Characterization of High Temperature Superconducting Optoelectronic Devices
(University of Waterloo, 2009-12-22)The increasing demand for high performance communications systems and signal processing is constantly driving researchers to develop novel devices in both the microwave and optical domains. The possibility of using high ... -
Microwave Quantum Optics using Giant Artificial Atoms and Parametrically Coupled Superconducting Cavities
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-28)Artificially engineered atoms, built using superconducting electrical circuits, have had a broad impact on the field of quantum information and quantum computing. Based on the Josephson effect, superconducting qubits have ... -
Migration of Applications across Object-Oriented APIs
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-31)Software developers often encapsulate reusable code as Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). The co-evolution of applications and APIs may motivate an API migration: the replacement of application dependencies to an ... -
Millimeter-wave 39 GHz 4x4 Phased Antenna Array with Embedded Near-field Probing Antenna for Performance Enhancement
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-19)Beamforming arrays are a vital technology for millimeter-wave (mm-wave) wireless communication systems. A large amount of research and an increasing number of phased array prototypes have been developed which provide high ... -
Millimeter-Wave Band Pass Distributed Amplifier for Low-Cost Active Multi-Beam Antennas
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-21)Recently, there have been a great interest in the millimeter-wave (mmW) and terahertz (THz) bands due to the unique features they provide for various applications. For example, the mmW is not significantly affected by the ... -
Millimeter-Wave Reconfigurable CMOS-MEMS Integrated Devices
(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 ... -
Millimetre Wave Series Connected Doherty PA Using 45nm SOI Process
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-10)With the high demand for high data rate communication systems, it is expected that wireless networks will migrate into the unexploited millimeter-wave frequencies. This migration and the utilization of wide-band digitally ... -
Miniature Magnetic Sensors
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-11)Magnetic sensors are widely used in nearly all engineering and industrial sectors, including high-density magnetic recording, navigation, target detection, anti-theft systems, non-destructive testing, magnetic labeling, ... -
Miniature MEMS-Based Adaptive Antennas on Flexible Substrates
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-06)Current trends in technology are moving to increased use of wireless communication with rapidly increasing data transmission rates and higher frequencies. Miniaturization is essential to allow electronics of increasing ... -
Miniaturization of Multiplexed sensor for continuous health monitoring systems
(University of Waterloo, 2022-04-08)Continuous health monitoring systems are an essential part of current and future life. Monitoring biological signals helps us detect health issues in the early stages. Besides the early-stage disease diagnosis, some patients ... -
Miniaturized Phase-Shifters for Ka-Band Phased Array Antennas
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-27)Realizing robust and stable two-way links between the mobile users and the satellite is an extremely challenging RF/Microwave engineering problem. Low cost and low profile phased array is considered as the best solution ... -
Minimizing Robot Digging Times to Retrieve Bins in Robotic-Based Compact Storage and Retrieval Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2023-10-05)In this thesis, we study storage policies for a robotic-based compact storage and retrieval system (RCS/RS), which provides high-density storage in distribution center and warehouse applications. In the system, items are ... -
Minimizing Turns in Single and Multi Robot Coverage Path Planning
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-20)Spurred by declining costs of robotics, automation is becoming a prevalent area of interest for many industries. In some cases, it even makes economic sense to use a team of robots to achieve a goal faster. In this thesis ... -
Mining Event Traces from Real-time Systems for Anomaly Detection
(University of Waterloo, 2019-02-19)Real-time systems are a significant class of applications, poised to grow even further as autonomous vehicles and the Internet of Things (IoT) become a reality. The computation and communication tasks of the underlying ... -
Mining Question and Answer Sites for Automatic Comment Generation
(University of Waterloo, 2014-04-29)Code comments improve software maintainability, programming productivity, and software reliability. To address the comment scarcity issue in many projects and save developers’ time in writing comments, we propose a new, ... -
MIT/PCM-based RF Switches for Tunable Filter Application
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-23)Tunable filters are promising for reducing the size of communication systems by replacing switch filter bank, also they are gaining more attention for satellite applications which will need to change the frequency bands. ...