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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Minimum-Time Control of the Damped Harmonic Oscillator via Multi-Mode PWM
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-12-07)This thesis concerns the continuous-time time-optimal control of systems modeled as linear, time-invariant, second-order oscillators. Motivated by applications in hap- tics and ultrasonics, we apply time-optimal control ... -
PLUG-AND-PLAY FOSS ML ACCELERATOR : FROM CONCEPT TO CONCEPTION
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-12-10)ML accelerators are a fairly new research area and it is important that the archi- tecture community is able to iterate quickly on architectural exploration. Although there are a number of commercial Deep Neural Network(DNN) ... -
DESIGN AND DEMONSTRATION OF SIC 3D STACKED POWER MODULE WITH SUPERIOR ELECTRICAL PARASITICS AND THERMAL PERFORMANCES
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-12-08)The objectives of this research were to design and demonstrate a new class of ultra-low parasitics, 3D power module for EV/HEV applications with high dv/dt capability, and enhanced thermal management. In order to address ... -
Deep Learning based Intelligent Wireless Communication System
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-12-10)The objective of the thesis is to exploit the expression power of machine learning to develop, analyze, and test novel physical and medium access control (MAC) layer designs for intelligent wireless communication systems. ... -
Subspace learning by randomized sketching
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-12-06)High dimensional data is often accompanied by inherent low dimensionality that can be leveraged to design scalable machine learning and signal processing algorithms. Developing efficient computational frameworks that take ... -
Non-Invasive Cardiovascular Health Monitoring for Patients with Heart Failure using Seismocardiography
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-12-03)Heart failure (HF) is the leading cause of hospitalization and hospital readmission for patients aged over 65 and older in the United States, with roughly one in five individuals hospitalized with heart failure being ... -
FAST FAULT LOCATION METHOD FOR A DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM WITH HIGH PENETRATION OF PV
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-12-02)Distribution systems with high levels of solar PV may experience notable changes due to external conditions, such as temperature or solar irradiation. Fault detection methods must be developed in order to support these ... -
Design and Demonstration of High-Performance Ultra-Thin Antenna-integrated 3D Glass-Based mm-wave Packages
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-12-02)The fast-growing 5G wireless communications are emerging to transform a range of consumer and industrial sectors. Package integration of mm-wave components with antenna-in-package is one of the key enablers for high-speed ... -
Low-Voltage Soft-Switching Solid-State Transformer (S4T) Enabled by the Synchronous Reverse Blocking Switch
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-12-04)The objective of this research is to demonstrate a high-efficiency, low-voltage Soft-Switching Solid-State Transformer (S4T) enabled by the Synchronous Reverse Blocking (RB) Switch, a patent-pending method to seamlessly ... -
Digital Biomarker Discovery for Non-Invasive Health Monitoring with Acoustic and Vibration Signals
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-11-23)A biomarker is a parameter that can be used to objectively quantify a physiological or pathophysiological process. Biomarkers used in medicine are commonly derived from blood, saliva, urine or other bodily fluids, and in ... -
Machine Learning for Automating Millimeter-Wave Electromagnetic Designs
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-12-01)This dissertation proposes a general class of solution and Machine Learning (ML) techniques to support the designs of several critical Electromagnetic (EM) structures at mm-wave frequency ranges, for which the main ... -
Side-Channel Signal Analysis for Securing Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-11-23)Side-channels cause unintentional information leakage as a side-effect of hardware activity. While attackers have traditionally exploited side-channel analysis for extracting sensitive information from target systems, ... -
Machine Learning based Design and Optimization for High-Performance Semiconductor Packaging and Systems
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-11-23)Semiconductor industry has seen a rapid advancement over the last two decades as the number of transistors in a functional chip increased based on Moore’s Law. When the increased transistor density is combined with techniques ... -
Robot Calligraphy using Pseudospectral Optimal Control in Conjunction with a Novel Dynamic Brush Model
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-12-02)Chinese calligraphy is a unique art form with great artistic value but difficult to master. In this thesis, we formulate the calligraphy writing problem as a trajectory optimization problem, and propose an improved virtual ... -
Thin Lens-Based Geometric Surface Inversion for Multiview Stereo
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-11-19)Current state-of-the-art multiview reconstruction methods are founded on a pinhole camera model that assumes perfectly focused images and thus fail when given defocused image data. To overcome this, a fully generative ... -
Modeling of Integrated Voltage Regulator Power delivery systems
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-12-15)Distributed power delivery poses new power design challenges in modern ICs, requiring circuit level techniques to convert and regulate power at points-of-load (POL), methodological solutions for distributing on-chip power ...
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