Georgia Tech Theses and Dissertations
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Active and nonlinear nanophotonics facilitated by hot-carrier dynamics
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-08-27)The ever-increasing demand for bandwidth scalability and high-speed operation is the driving force for the discovery of ultrafast switches. As electronics approaches its intrinsic limitations, pursuing new computational ... -
Characterization and Modeling of Two Dimensional Crack Growth in Gas Turbine Materials
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-11-26)Surface flaws are common in gas turbine components and undergo a complex process of fatigue crack growth under mechanical and thermal loading. This project seeks to bring greater clarity and understanding to the transition ... -
Numerical and Experimental Analyses of Room and High Temperature Dense, Granular Flows Coupled to Flow Property Measurements for Solar Thermal Energy Storage
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-07-27)Solar thermal energy storage using sintered bauxite particles as a storage media is a useful tool for extending the operation and increasing operating temperatures of concentrated solar power systems (CSP). The flow behavior ... -
Understanding and Improving Zinc Anodes for High-Energy Rechargeable Alkaline Batteries
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-10-12)Batteries with aqueous electrolytes generally feature better intrinsic safety, higher ionic conductivity and lower cost compared with flammable organic electrolytes. Metallic zinc as a rechargeable anode material for aqueous ... -
ESTIMATION OF PV LOCATION IN DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS BASED ON VOLTAGE SENSITIVITIES
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-12-07)High penetration of solar photovoltaics can have a significant impact on the power flows and voltages in distribution systems. In order to support distribution grid planning, control and optimization, it is imperative for ... -
Estimating Parameters for a Doyle Fuller Newman Model of a Graphite Half Cell Battery
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-07-27)Electrochemical research involves the modeling of electrochemical systems using various types of models. Models use adjustable parameters to be able to fit experimental data. Parameters of physics-based models are actual ... -
Ecological Community Assembly in the Face of Anthropogenic Environmental Changes
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-11-11)Anthropogenic environmental changes, such as increased nitrogen (N) deposition, changes in precipitation regimes, and habitat loss and fragmentation, are known to affect Earth’s ecosystems. Understanding mechanisms regulating ... -
Characterizing protein-protein and RNA-protein interactions in fixed cells and tissue
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-10-28)The molecular machinery of the cell is governed by interactions between proteins, DNA, and RNA. For example, innate immune system activation is characterized by the formation and disassociation of protein complexes in a ... -
Rechargeable Zn-Based Batteries for Large Scale Energy Storage: Operando Imaging, Material Designing and Device Engineering
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-11-19)Energy storage technologies have the potential to change the energy infrastructure from relying heavily on fossil fuels to mostly using temporally intermittent renewable energy sources. Lithium-ion battery is the dominant ... -
Symbolic Reasoning for Query Verification and Optimization
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-12-10)Structured Query Language (SQL) is the most widely used language for interacting with many database management systems (DBMS). Thus, the problems of optimizing and verifying SQL queries are two of the most studied problems ... -
Evaluating the Costs and Benefits of Implementing a MARTA Youth Fare
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-12-10)Unlike many transit systems in the United States, the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) does not offer a discounted youth fare. Such a fare policy creates a financial disincentive to choosing transit for ... -
Optimization of The Scaled-Up Coaxial-Electrode Copper Ionization Cell for Water Disinfection
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-12-09)Over 800 million people worldwide lack access to clean, uncontaminated drinking water, and over 1.1 million people in America lack a piped water connection. The public health consequences of this issue have been worsened ... -
CHARACTERIZATION OF URBAN MORPHOLOGY AND ITS EFFECT ON WEATHER UNCERTAINTY IN BUILDING ENERGY SIMULATION
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-12-08)The application of building simulation serves to assess the performance of a building throughout its lifetime. But the proper use of these applications relies heavily on the boundary conditions under which the behavior of ... -
The Future of Streets in an Age of Pandemics
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-12-08)There is not a place unaffected by the Covid-19 pandemic. In response to the pandemic, with its recommended public health social distancing guidelines of six feet, city transportation agencies have repurposed street space ... -
MODELING, DESIGN, FABRICATION AND DEMONSTRATION OF ULTRA-THIN, HIGH- PERFORMANCE GLASS PANEL EMBEDDED (GPE) PACKAGES FOR MM-WAVE APPLICATIONS
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-12-08)The objective of the proposed research is to model, design, fabricate and demonstrate ultra-thin, highperformance ultra-thin glass panel embedded package (GPE) for mm-Wave applications. Ultra-thin lowwarpage and low die-shift ... -
Smart Storage for Smart Mobile Devices
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-12-17)Smart mobile devices have largely evolved as primary tools for personal computing needs. There are millions of applications (or apps) for everyday tasks, such as social networking, entertainment, healthcare, and home ... -
Elemental Mass Quantification from Spectral X-ray Radiographs and Fluorescence using Gauss-Newton and Deep Learning Approaches
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-12-14)The goal of this thesis is to explore elemental mass quantification from spectral X-ray radiographs and X-ray fluorescence. This would provide a nondestructive technique to the IAEA for international safeguards. The entire ... -
Compiler-Assisted Resilience Framework for Recovery from Transient Faults
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-12-06)Due to system scaling trends toward smaller transistor size, higher circuit density and the use of near-threshold voltage (NTV) techniques, transient hardware faults introduced by external noises, e.g., heat fluxes and ... -
Discovering Governing Equations from Noisy and Incomplete Data
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-12-07)Partial differential equations (PDEs) provide macroscopic descriptions of systems in many disciplinesthroughout physical science, such as for fluid flows. With increasingly vast amounts of data becoming avail-able ... -
Thin-Film AlN-on-Silicon Resonant Gyroscopes: Design, Fabrication, and Eigenmode Operation
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-12-06)Resonant MEMS gyroscopes have been rapidly adopted in various consumer, industrial, and automotive applications thanks to the significant improvements in their performance over the past decade. The current efforts in ...
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