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Incentive-Based Expansion Planning and Reliability Enhancement Models for Smart Distribution Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2018-10-01)Due to the rapid progress toward the implementation of smart grid technologies, electric power distribution systems are undergoing profound structural and operational changes. Climate concerns, a reduction in dependency ... -
Incorporating DFIG-Based Wind Power Generator in Microgird Frequency Stabilization
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-19)Although wind power as a renewable energy is assumed to be an all-round advantageous source of energy, its intermittent nature can cause difficulties, especially in the islanding mode of operation. Conventional synchronous ... -
Incorporating Physical Information into Clustering for FPGAs
(University of Waterloo, 2007-04-03)The traditional approach to FPGA clustering and CLB-level placement has been shown to yield significantly worse overall placement quality than approaches which allow BLEs to move during placement. In practice, however, ... -
Incorporation of 3-Dimensional ZnO Nanowire Arrays in Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-27)Organic solar cells have poor charge transport, with carrier mobilities and lifetimes of 3.9×10−4 cm2/Vs and 10-4 seconds in P3HT:PCBM devices. This poor mobility leads to higher recombination and lower short circuit ... -
Incremental Model Synchronization
(University of Waterloo, 2012-05-02)Changing artifacts is intrinsic to the development and maintenance of software projects. The changes made to one artifact, however, do not come about in isolation. Software models are often vastly entangled. As such, a ... -
Incremental Timing-Driven Placement with Displacement Constraint
(University of Waterloo, 2015-07-10)In the modern deep-submicron Very Large Integrated Circuit(VLSI) design flow intercon- nect delays are becoming major limiting factor for timing closure. Traditional placement algorithms such as routability-driven placement ... -
Indirect conversion amorphous selenium photodetectors for medical imaging applications
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-22)The innovative design of flat panel volume computed tomography (CT) systems has recently led to the emergence of a wide spectrum of new applications for both diagnostic and interventional purposes, such as ultra-high ... -
The Influence of Charge Transport Layer Interfaces on the Performance of Electroluminescent Colloidal Quantum Dot Light-Emitting Devices
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-13)Electroluminescent quantum dot light-emitting devices (QDLEDs) are a relatively new technology for displays that have all of the benefits of emissive displays commonly associated with organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs) ... -
Influence of Interface on the Properties of Silicone Nanocomposites
(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 ... -
The Influence of Morphology and Molecular Orientation on the Efficiency and Lifetime of Organic Solar Cells
(University of Waterloo, 2016-02-10)One of the reasons for the low efficiency of organic solar cells (OSCs) is because the relationship between morphology and molecular orientation of the organic semiconductors and the performance and lifetime of the OSC is ... -
Information Fusion Methodology for Enhancing Situation Awareness in Connected Cars Environment
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-19)This dissertation introduces novel approaches to develop a comprehensive model to address situation awareness in the Internet of Cars, called Attention Assist Framework (AAF). The proposed framework utilizes both Low-Level ... -
Information Fusion of Magnetic Resonance Images and Mammographic Scans for Improved Diagnostic Management of Breast Cancer
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-27)Medical imaging is critical to non-invasive diagnosis and treatment of a wide spectrum of medical conditions. However, different modalities of medical imaging employ/apply di erent contrast mechanisms and, consequently, ... -
Information Theoretic Aspects of Wireless Networks with Coverage Constraint
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-18)A wireless multicast network with a stringent decoding delay constraint and a minimum coverage requirement is characterized when the fading channel state information is available only at the receiver side. In the first ... -
An Information Theoretic Framework for Two-Way Relay Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-25)We propose an information theoretic framework for scheduling the transmissions in a two-way multi-hop network. First we investigate some long standing open problems that were encountered during the course of the research. ... -
An Information Tracking Approach to the Segmentation of Prostates in Ultrasound Imaging
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-20)Outlining of the prostate boundary in ultrasound images is a very useful procedure performed and subsequently used by clinicians. The contribution of the resulting segmentation is twofold. First of all, the segmentation ... -
Informative Path Planning and Sensor Scheduling for Persistent Monitoring Tasks
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-24)In this thesis we consider two combinatorial optimization problems that relate to the field of persistent monitoring. In the first part, we extend the classic problem of finding the maximum weight Hamiltonian cycle in ... -
Innovative Opportunistic Scheduling Algorithms for Networks with Packet-Level Dynamics
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-07)Scheduling in wireless networks plays an important role. The undeterministic nature of the wireless channel is usually considered as an undesirable property. Recently, the idea of opportunistic scheduling is introduced ... -
Inorganic Phosphor Coatings for Ultraviolet Responsive Image Detectors
(University of Waterloo, 2000)Typical CCD digital imaging sensors are insensitive to ultraviolet ( UV ) radiation by virtue of the very shallow ( 2 nm ) penetration depth in silicon. This warrants the use of a post-packaging coating to up-covert the ... -
An Instruction Scratchpad Memory Allocation for the Precision Timed Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2012-12-18)This work presents a static instruction allocation scheme for the precision timed architecture’s (PRET) scratchpad memory. Since PRET provides timing instructions to control the temporal execution of programs, the objective ... -
Integrated Antennas and Active Beamformers Technology for mm-Wave Phased-Array Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-24)In this thesis, based on the indoor channel measurements and ray-tracing modeling for the indoor mm-wave wireless communications, the challenges of the design of the radio in this band is studied. Considering the recently ...