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Amorphous Silicon Thin Film Transistor Models and Pixel Circuits for AMOLED Displays
(University of Waterloo, 2014-07-08)Hydrogenated amorphous Silicon (a-Si:H) Thin Film Transistor (TFT) has many advantages and is one of the suitable choices to implement Active Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode (AMOLED) displays. However, the aging of ... -
Amorphous Transition-Metal-Oxides for Transparent Flexible Displays: Device Fabrication and Characterization
(University of Waterloo, 2016-05-19)This Ph.D. dissertation presents the development and demonstration of optically transparent back-channel etched flexible InGaZnO (IGZO) thin-film transistors (TFTs) using a conventional TFT process flow implemented at ... -
AMShare: Distributed Frequency Synchronization of Small Cell Base Transceiver Stations Utilizing Commercial AM Wireless Signals
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-31)Exponential growth of connected users in recent years and the increasing demands for ubiquitous coverage of wireless services has pushed the mobile operators to invest in innovative technologies that can support more ... -
Analog Quantum Simulation via Parametric Interactions in Superconducting Circuits
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-19)While universal quantum computers are still years away from being used for simulating complicated quantum systems, analog quantum simulators have become an increasingly attractive approach to studying classically intractable ... -
Analog Signal Processor for Adaptive Antenna Arrays
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-04)An analog circuit for beamforming in a mobile Ku band satellite TV antenna array has been implemented. The circuit performs continuous-time gradient descent using simultaneous perturbation gradient estimation. Simulations ... -
Analysis and Application of Optimization Techniques to Power System Security and Electricity Markets
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-16)Determining the maximum power system loadability, as well as preventing the system from being operated close to the stability limits is very important in power systems planning and operation. The application of optimization ... -
An Analysis and Benchmarking in Autoware.AI and OpenPCDet LiDAR-based 3D Object Detection Models
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-11)Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR) sensors are widely used in applications related to autonomous driving. The ability to scan and visualize the 3D surroundings of the vehicle as a point cloud is a particular strength of ... -
Analysis and Design of Authentication and Encryption Algorithms for Secure Cloud Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-16)Along with the fast growth of networks and mobile devices, cloud computing has become one of the most attractive and effective technologies and business solutions nowadays. Increasing numbers of organizations and customers ... -
Analysis and Design of Clock-glitch Fault Injection within an FPGA
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-27)In modern cryptanalysis, an active attacker may induce errors during the computation of a cryptographic algorithm and exploit the faulty results to extract information about the secret key in embedded systems. This kind ... -
Analysis and Design of Lossless Bi-level Image Coding Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2000)Lossless image coding deals with the problem of representing an image with a minimum number of binary bits from which the original image can be fully recovered without any loss of information. Most lossless image coding ... -
Analysis and Design of Robust Multi-Gb/s Clock and Data Recovery Circuits
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-26)The bandwidth demands of modern computing systems have been continually increasing and the recent focus on parallel processing will only increase the demands placed on data communication circuits. As data rates enter the ... -
Analysis and Mitigation of Asynchronous Interference in Coordinated Multipoint Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2015-12-09)Next generation cellular wireless networks need to achieve both high peak and average data rates. Also, they need to improve the fairness by providing more homogenous quality of service distribution over the entire cell ... -
An Analysis and Reasoning Framework for Project Data Software Repositories
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-27)As the requirements for software systems increase, their size, complexity and functionality consequently increases as well. This has a direct impact on the complexity of numerous artifacts related to the system such as ... -
Analysis of Electrical and Thermal Stresses in the Stress Relief System of Inverter Fed Medium Voltage Induction Motors
(University of Waterloo, 2011-01-24)Pulse width modulation (PWM) voltage source converters (VSC) are one type of motor drives that have become popular because they enable precise control of speed and torque in medium voltage motors. However, these drives are ... -
Analysis of Microcontroller Embedded SRAMs for Applications in Physical Unclonable Functions
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-30)The growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) market has motivated widespread proliferation of microcontroller- (MCU) based embedded systems. Suitable due to their abundance, low cost, low power consumption and small ... -
Analysis of Parameterized Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2008-12-10)In particular, the thesis will focus on parameterized networks of discrete-event systems. These are collections of interacting, isomorphic subsystems, where the number of subsystems is, for practical purposes, arbitrary; ... -
Analysis of Parameterized-Chain Networks: The Dependency Graph and Its Full, Consistent Subgraphs
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-17)This thesis studies algorithmic aspects of deadlock analysis for parameterized networks of discrete-event systems. A parameterized network consists of a finite, but arbitrarily large, number of interacting finite-state ... -
Analysis of Power Transistor Behavioural Modeling Techniques Suitable for Narrow-band Power Amplifier Design
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-26)The design of power amplifiers within a circuit simulator requires a good non-linear model that accurately predicts the electormagnetic behaviour of the power transistor. In recent years, a certain class of large signal ... -
Analysis of the Asymptotic Performance of Turbo Codes
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Battail [1989] shows that an appropriate criterion for the design of long block codes is the closeness of the normalized weight distribution to a Gaussian distribution. A subsequent work shows that iterated product of ... -
Analysis of the Deep Sub-Micron a-Si:H Thin Film Transistors
(University of Waterloo, 2005)The recent developments of high resolution flat panel imagers have prompted interests in fabricating smaller on-pixel transistors to obtain higher fill factor and faster speed. This thesis presents fabrication and modeling ...