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1. Low Cost Instrumentation and Interface for Neural Recordings

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Author:
Jain, Ankit
Title:
Low Cost Instrumentation and Interface for Neural Recordings
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
low cost
EEG
instrumentation
brain computer interface
biomedical
medical device
ADS1298
MSP430.
File:
Download Thesis2012mJainA04102012.pdf
Committee Members:
Bruce Gluckman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenneth Jenkins, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Julio Urbina, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kultegin Aydin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Insoo Kim, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

3. Wireless Relay Networks with Stochastic Arrivals

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Author:
Ciftcioglu, Ertugrul Necdet
Title:
Wireless Relay Networks with Stochastic Arrivals
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
Relay networks
Cross-layer design
Stochastic Network Optimization
Two-Way Relaying
Quality-of-Information
File:
Download ENCiftcioglu_dissertation_final.pdf
Committee Members:
Aylin Yener, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Aylin Yener, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Member
Thomas F Laporta, Committee Member
Guohong Cao, Committee Member
Randall A Berry, Committee Member
Randall A Berry, Special Member

6. Investigation of Hydrologic Remote Sensing Techniques at Spring Creek, Centre County, Pennsylvania

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Author:
Narayanan, Udit
Title:
Investigation of Hydrologic Remote Sensing Techniques at Spring Creek, Centre County, Pennsylvania
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
Remote Sensing
Hydrology
Spring Creek
Thermal Imaging
Ground penetrating radar
Image processing
thermography.
File:
Download Thesis-UditNarayanan-Final.pdf
Committee Members:
Timothy Joseph Kane, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Julio Urbina, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

7. Synchronization in Communications Systems with Scale Time Offset Robust Modulation

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Author:
Windish, John Joseph
Title:
Synchronization in Communications Systems with Scale Time Offset Robust Modulation
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
timing
signal processing algorithm
maximum likelihood detection
correlation
synchronization
File:
Download Windish_Masters_Thesis_2012_Final.pdf
Committee Members:
Randy Keith Young, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sven G Bilen, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

8. Domain-specific Accelerators on Reconfigurable Platforms

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Author:
Kestur Vyasa Prasanna, Srinidhi
Title:
Domain-specific Accelerators on Reconfigurable Platforms
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
accelerators
NuFFT
FPGA
N-body problem
matrix vector
sparse
saliency
HMAX
attention
recognition
neuromorphic
vision
File:
Download 1-SrinidhiKestur-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Suman Datta, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vishal Monga, Committee Member
M Jeya Chandra, Committee Member
John D Davis, Special Member

9. Signal Processing Applications to Electrophysiology of Continuous Dopaminergic Stimulation Therapy in Preclinical Parkinson's Disease Models

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Open Access
Author:
Gilmour, Timothy
Title:
Signal Processing Applications to Electrophysiology of Continuous Dopaminergic Stimulation Therapy in Preclinical Parkinson's Disease Models
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
Parkinson's Disease
Cell Transplantation
Signal Processing
Transfer Entropy
FVM
RPE
Levodopa
6-OHDA
Bursts
File:
Download TG_thesis_draft10.pdf
Committee Members:
Thyagarajan Subramanian, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
William Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Committee Member
Thomas Wichmann, Special Member
David Carl Swanson, Committee Member
Vishal Monga, Committee Member

10. Energy and Economic Evaluation Analysis of a Residential Home Integrated with Energy Efficient Technologies

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Author:
Yudin, Andrey S
Title:
Energy and Economic Evaluation Analysis of a Residential Home Integrated with Energy Efficient Technologies
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
smart grid
pv
photovoltaic systems
home energy management system
ems
hems
economic evaluation analysis
File:
Download yudin_thesis.pdf
Committee Members:
David R Riley Ii, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

11. Global Registration for Image-guided Bronchoscopy

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Author:
Khare, Rahul Shashikant
Title:
Global Registration for Image-guided Bronchoscopy
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
global registration
image-guided surgery
virtual endoscopy
virtual bronchoscopy
3D imaging
image registration
File:
Download PhD_thesis_Rahul_Khare.pdf
Committee Members:
William Evan Higgins, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
William Evan Higgins, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Member
Vishal Monga, Committee Member
Robert Collins, Committee Member

12. Flapping Wing Mechanisms for Pico Air Vehicles Using Piezoelectric Actuators

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Author:
Mateti, Kiron
Title:
Flapping Wing Mechanisms for Pico Air Vehicles Using Piezoelectric Actuators
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
MEMS
compliant mechanisms
piezoelectric actuators
flapping wing air vehicles
biologically inspired robotics
File:
Download PennStateNAV.wmvDownload LF07_oblique.wmvDownload LF12.wmvDownload LF1203split.wmvDownload 1-KironMateti-FinalDissertation.pdfDownload 1-PennStateNAV.wmvDownload 1-LF07_oblique.wmvDownload 1-LF12.wmvDownload 1-LF1203split.wmv
Committee Members:
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Rahn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member
Qiming Zhang, Committee Member
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member

14. A Patch Correspondence Approach to Recognizing Faces Under Varying Pose Given a Single-view Gallery

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Author:
Ferster, Michael Charles
Title:
A Patch Correspondence Approach to Recognizing Faces Under Varying Pose Given a Single-view Gallery
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
Electrical Engineering
File:
Download ferster_thesis.pdf
Committee Members:
William Evan Higgins, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shashi Phoha, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vishal Monga, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

18. Characterizing Properties of Optical Fibers and Fiber Couplings to Near-Infrared High-Resolution Spectrographs Critical to Precision Radial-Velocity Studies

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Author:
McCoy, Keegan Sean
Title:
Characterizing Properties of Optical Fibers and Fiber Couplings to Near-Infrared High-Resolution Spectrographs Critical to Precision Radial-Velocity Studies
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
exoplanets
M dwarfs
near-infrared
spectrograph
optical fiber
modal noise
File:
Download Keegan_McCoy_-_Masters_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Dr Larry Ramsey, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

20. AMORPHOUS FILM MICROSTRUCTURE AND ITS DEVICE APPLICATIONS: STRAIN SENSOR, MICROBOLOMETER, THIN FILM TRANSISTOR AND SOLAR CELL

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Author:
Shin, Hang-beum
Title:
AMORPHOUS FILM MICROSTRUCTURE AND ITS DEVICE APPLICATIONS: STRAIN SENSOR, MICROBOLOMETER, THIN FILM TRANSISTOR AND SOLAR CELL
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
hydrogenated amorphous silicon
PECVD
autonomous powered circuit
uncooled IR microbolometer
strain sensor array
thin film transistor
flexible substrate
TCAD simulation
high TCR
1/f noise
normalized Hooge parameter
sputtered germanium
ZnO TFT
a-Si:H solar cellcircuit
uncooled IR microbolometer
File:
Download Thesis_HB_20120515.pdf
Committee Members:
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joan Marie Redwing, Committee Member
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Member
Mark William Horn, Committee Member

24. Design Fabrication and Characterization of Antimonide MOS Transistors

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Author:
Aliyaru Kunju, Ashkar Ali
Title:
Design Fabrication and Characterization of Antimonide MOS Transistors
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
MOS
Low Power
Antimonide
MOSFET
High-k Dielectric
Quantum Well
CV
File:
Download PhD_Dissertation_AshkarAli.pdf
Committee Members:
Suman Datta, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Suman Datta, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peter E Schiffer, Committee Member
Theresa Stellwag Mayer, Committee Member
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Suzanne E Mohney, Committee Member

25. Information Theoretic Limits of Multi-user Channels with State

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Author:
Li, Min
Title:
Information Theoretic Limits of Multi-user Channels with State
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
state-dependent channels
strictly causal state
non-causal state
multiple-access channels
relay channels
GP binning
feedback
File:
Download Min_Dissertation_Final.pdf
Committee Members:
Aylin Yener, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Aylin Yener, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Member
David Jonathan Miller, Committee Member
Guohong Cao, Committee Member
Osvaldo Simeone, Special Member

26. Magnetoelectric Flexural Gate Transistors with Nanotesla Sensitivity

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Open Access
Author:
Li, Feng
Title:
Magnetoelectric Flexural Gate Transistors with Nanotesla Sensitivity
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
Magnetoelectric
Magnetic Sensors
Magnetostriction
Thin film Metglas，Magnetic Flux Concentration
Flicker Noise
Readout Circuit
File:
Download PhD_Dissertation_Feng_Li.pdf
Committee Members:
Suman Datta, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Qiming Zhang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Member
Yuan Xie, Special Member

31. Distributed Data Fusion Across Multiple Hard and Soft Mobile Sensor Platforms

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Author:
Sinsley, Gregory
Title:
Distributed Data Fusion Across Multiple Hard and Soft Mobile Sensor Platforms
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
sensor data fusion
information fusion
soft sensor data fusion
random set theory
particle filter
File:
Download SinsleyThesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Lyle Norman Long, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
William Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Miller, Committee Member
David J Hall, Committee Member
John Yen, Committee Member
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

33. Device modeling, analysis and fabrication of In0.53Ga0.47As Field-effect transistors

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Author:
Hwang, Euichul
Title:
Device modeling, analysis and fabrication of In0.53Ga0.47As Field-effect transistors
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
InGaAs FinFET
Ballistic transport
Injection velocity
InGaAs QWFET
Solid phase regrowth
Contact
File:
Download PhD_Thesis_Euichul__final.pdf
Committee Members:
Suman Datta, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Suman Datta, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Suzanne E Mohney, Committee Member
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member
Theresa Stellwag Mayer, Committee Member
Patrick M Lenahan, Special Member

34. Investigations into the Formation of Nanocrystalline Quantum Dot Thin Films by Mist Deposition Process

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Author:
Kshirsagar, Aditya
Title:
Investigations into the Formation of Nanocrystalline Quantum Dot Thin Films by Mist Deposition Process
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
Mist Deposition
Thin Films
Quantum Dots
Cadmium Selenide
Nanotechnology
File:
Download Aditya_Kshirsagar_PhD_dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Suman Datta, Committee Member
Osama O Awadelkarim, Committee Member
Jian Xu, Special Member

35. Multimodal Radar - Concept, Operation, Bandwidth Sharing and Scheduling

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Author:
Bhat, Surendra Shantaram
Title:
Multimodal Radar - Concept, Operation, Bandwidth Sharing and Scheduling
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
Multimodal radar
LFM
HRR
LRR Bandwidth sharing
Bandwidth Optimization
Radar scheduling
File:
Download Multimodal_Radar_-_Concept_Operation_Bandwidth_Sharing_and_Scheduling.pdf
Committee Members:
Ram Mohan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kultegin Aydin, Committee Member
Vishal Monga, Committee Member
Karl Martin Reichard, Committee Member

36. TARGET DETECTION IN ULTRA-WIDEBAND NOISE RADAR SYSTEMS

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Author:
Kwon, Yangsoo
Title:
TARGET DETECTION IN ULTRA-WIDEBAND NOISE RADAR SYSTEMS
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
noise radar
target detection
MIMO radar
File:
Download Dissertation_Yangsoo_Kwon.pdf
Committee Members:
Ram Mohan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ram Mohan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William Evan Higgins, Committee Member
Mark Levi, Committee Member
Vishal Monga, Committee Member

38. High effciciency terahertz generation for standoff detection

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Author:
Gao, Yaohui
Title:
High effciciency terahertz generation for standoff detection
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
terahertz
standoff detection
photoconductive antenna
File:
Download Yaohui_Gaos_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Shizhuo Yin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shizhuo Yin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Victor P Pasko, Committee Member
James Kenneth Breakall, Committee Member
Qi Li, Committee Member

40. Nature-inspired optimization of quasicrystalline arrays and all-dielectric optical filters and metamaterials

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Open Access
Author:
Namin, Frank Azadi
Title:
Nature-inspired optimization of quasicrystalline arrays and all-dielectric optical filters and metamaterials
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
Quasicrystals
generalized Mie scattering
metamaterials
optical filters
genetic algorithms.
File:
Download FrankNamin_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Douglas Henry Werner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Douglas Henry Werner, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Pingjuan Li Werner, Committee Member
Julio Urbina, Committee Member
Brian Lewis Weiner, Committee Member

43. An Investigation of Wavelet Features for Automated Biomedical Image Classification

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Open Access
Author:
Fry, Jonathan Richard
Title:
An Investigation of Wavelet Features for Automated Biomedical Image Classification
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
wavelet
feature space
classification
machine learning
pattern recognition
image analysis
feature selection
File:
Download thesis_format_final.pdf
Committee Members:
Yanxi Liu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vishal Monga, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor