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2. Computational Methods and Applications in Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy

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Author:
Mehta, Nikhil N
Title:
Computational Methods and Applications in Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
Nonlinear optics
spectroscopy
ultrafast optics
two dimensional phase retrieval
coherent Raman spectroscopy
compressive sensing
ultrashort pulse characterization
File:
Download Thesis_NikhilMehta_Comp-Meth-Opt-Imag-Spect.pdf
Committee Members:
Zhiwen Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

3. Top-down and Bottom-up Integration of Engineered Nanostructures for Metamaterials

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Author:
Lin, Lan
Title:
Top-down and Bottom-up Integration of Engineered Nanostructures for Metamaterials
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
Metamaterials
top-down
bottom-up
File:
Download Lan_Lin_PhD_Dissertation_May_2016.pdf
Committee Members:
Theresa Stellwag Mayer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Theresa Stellwag Mayer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Douglas Henry Werner, Committee Member
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member
Lasse Jensen, Committee Member

4. Design And Characterization Of Novel Rf Circuits Based On Emerging Material Systems

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Author:
Madan, Himanshu
Title:
Design And Characterization Of Novel Rf Circuits Based On Emerging Material Systems
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
Scanning Microwave Microscopy
Vanadium di-oxide
Insulator-to-Metal Transition (IMT)
RF switch
Graphene
Ambipolar Mixer
File:
Download Dissertation_HimanshuMadan_Sp16.pdf
Committee Members:
Suman Datta, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Suman Datta, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Member
Julio Urbina, Committee Member
Joshua Alexander Robinson, Special Member

5. Experimental Evaluation of Various Adaptive Signal Processing Techniques for Extracting Fetal Electrocardiograms from Noninvasive Measurements

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Author:
Dong, Yuqing
Title:
Experimental Evaluation of Various Adaptive Signal Processing Techniques for Extracting Fetal Electrocardiograms from Noninvasive Measurements
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
Adaptive signal processing; Adaptive comb filtering; Fetal elect
File:
Download FECG_Dong_yzd5056.pdf
Committee Members:
Kenneth Jenkins, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

6. Broadband lossy impedance matching of antennas

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Author:
Li, Kaiming
Title:
Broadband lossy impedance matching of antennas
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
Broadband antennas
impedance matching
multi-objective optimization
File:
Download Kaiming_Li_Broadband_lossy_impedance_matching_of_antennas.pdf
Committee Members:
James Kenneth Breakall, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Kenneth Breakall, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ram Mohan Narayanan, Committee Member
Shizhuo Yin, Committee Member
Michael T Lanagan, Committee Member

7. Ebus/ct Fusion for Image-guided Bronchoscopy

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Author:
Zang, Xiaonan
Title:
Ebus/ct Fusion for Image-guided Bronchoscopy
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
image segmentation
image registration
ultrasound
File:
Download Zang2015-Dissertation_optimize.pdf
Committee Members:
William Evan Higgins, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
William Evan Higgins, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vishal Monga, Committee Member
Jeffrey Louis Schiano, Committee Member
Robert Collins, Committee Member

8. Radar Signature Analysis of Indoor Clutter and stationary Human Target Classification

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Open Access
Author:
Bufler, Travis Dale
Title:
Radar Signature Analysis of Indoor Clutter and stationary Human Target Classification
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
Radar
SVM
FDTD
RCS
Indoor Clutter
Human Scattering
Target Classification
File:
Download Bufler-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Ram Mohan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kultegin Aydin, Committee Member
Karl Martin Reichard, Committee Member
Randy Young, Committee Member

9. engineering optical materials with metal nanostructures

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Author:
Liu, Liu
Title:
engineering optical materials with metal nanostructures
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
surface-plasmon-polariton waves
solar energy
reconfigurable metamaterials
vanadium dioxide
File:
Download LiuLiu-Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Theresa Stellwag Mayer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Douglas Henry Werner, Committee Member
Theresa Stellwag Mayer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

10. Optical Frequency Selective Surface Design Using a GPU Accelerated Finite Element Boundary Integral Method

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Author:
Ashbach, Jason Andrew
Title:
Optical Frequency Selective Surface Design Using a GPU Accelerated Finite Element Boundary Integral Method
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
Computational Electromagnetics
Finite Element Method
GPGPU
General Purpose Computing
Frequency Selective Surfaces
File:
Download JAA_DIssertation_Final.pdf
Committee Members:
Douglas Henry Werner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
George Kesidis, Committee Member
Timothy Joseph Kane, Committee Member
Lyle Norman Long, Committee Member

11. Developments in the Teaching of Engineering Electromagnetics for Improvement in Student Interest and Understanding

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Author:
Donohoe, Lauren Elizabeth
Title:
Developments in the Teaching of Engineering Electromagnetics for Improvement in Student Interest and Understanding
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
Engineering Education
Engineering Electromagentics
Teaching
Laboratory Activivies
File:
Download DonohoeThesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Julio Urbina, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy Joseph Kane, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

14. Optical Wireless Communications: Theory and Applications

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Author:
Aminikashani, Mohammadreza
Title:
Optical Wireless Communications: Theory and Applications
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
Optical wireless communications
free-space optical communication
visible light communication
OFDM
indoor navigation
File:
Download Aminikashani-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Mohsen Kavehrad, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy Joseph Kane, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Julio Urbina, Committee Member
Jamal Rostami, Committee Member

15. DESIGN AND EVALUATION OF MICROWAVE METHODS FOR MEASURING BLOOD PERFUSION IN TISSUE USING A FLOW MIMICKING PHANTOM SETUP

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Author:
Pardeshi, Jayendrasingh R
Title:
DESIGN AND EVALUATION OF MICROWAVE METHODS FOR MEASURING BLOOD PERFUSION IN TISSUE USING A FLOW MIMICKING PHANTOM SETUP
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
Microwave heating
microwave radiometry
blood perfusion measurement
bioheat transfer
temperature decay
microwave heating
temperature decay curve
microwave flowmetry
perfusion measurement
File:
Download Thesis-15th-July-Jay_Final.pdf
Committee Members:
Mohammad Reza Tofighi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

19. CHARACTERIZATION AND CLASSIFICATION OF HUMAN ACTIVITY IN DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTS USING RADAR MICRO-DOPPLER SIGNATURES

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Author:
Zenaldin, Matthew
Title:
CHARACTERIZATION AND CLASSIFICATION OF HUMAN ACTIVITY IN DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTS USING RADAR MICRO-DOPPLER SIGNATURES
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
micro doppler
human gait
through wall radar
foliage clutter
needle tree
pine tree
svm classification
human activity classification
time frequency analysis
spectrogram
doppler radar
File:
Download Matt_zenaldin_masters_thesis_V9.pdf
Committee Members:
Ram Mohan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

20. Characterization of the High Power Properties of Piezoelectric Ceramics using the Burst Method: Methodology, Analysis, and Experimental Approach

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Author:
Shekhani, Husain Naseem
Title:
Characterization of the High Power Properties of Piezoelectric Ceramics using the Burst Method: Methodology, Analysis, and Experimental Approach
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
piezoelectric
high power
PZT
ceramic
transducer
File:
Download dissertation-shekhani-2016-5-19.pdf
Committee Members:
Kenji Uchino, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

21. NOVEL HIGH-ALTITUDE METEOR OBSERVING STRATEGIES EMPLOYED AT THE JICAMARCA RADIO OBSERVATORY

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Author:
Gao, Boyi
Title:
NOVEL HIGH-ALTITUDE METEOR OBSERVING STRATEGIES EMPLOYED AT THE JICAMARCA RADIO OBSERVATORY
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
High-Altitude Radar Meteors
Alternating Interpulse Period
Multi-Basline Interferometry
File:
Download Boyi_Gao_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
John David Mathews, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John David Mathews, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Julio Urbina, Committee Member
Victor P Pasko, Committee Member
David Bradley Spencer, Outside Member

22. EFFICIENT OPTIMIZATION OF ANTENNA AND ELECTROMAGNETIC DEVICES AT MEDIUM, RADIO, AND OPTICAL FREQUENCIES

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Author:
Brocker, Donovan Edward
Title:
EFFICIENT OPTIMIZATION OF ANTENNA AND ELECTROMAGNETIC DEVICES AT MEDIUM, RADIO, AND OPTICAL FREQUENCIES
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
Antennas
Coal Mine Communications
Electromagnetic Absorbers
Gradient-Index Lenses
Transformation Optics
File:
Download dbrocker_-_Thesis__post-defense_.pdf
Committee Members:
Douglas Henry Werner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Douglas Henry Werner, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ram Mohan Narayanan, Committee Member
Timothy Joseph Kane, Committee Member
Douglas Edward Wolfe, Outside Member

23. Pattern Discovery from Unstructured and Scarcely Labeled Text Corpora

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Author:
Soleimani Bajestani, Hossein
Title:
Pattern Discovery from Unstructured and Scarcely Labeled Text Corpora
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
Machine Learning
Topic Models
Anomaly Detection
Semi-supervised Learning
Text Modeling
Credit Attribution
File:
Download Hossein-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
David J. Miller, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David J. Miller, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
George Kesidis, Committee Member
Vishal Monga, Committee Member
C. Lee Giles, Outside Member
David Russell Hunter, Outside Member

26. indoor localization system based on visible light communication

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Open Access
Author:
Gu, Wenjun
Title:
indoor localization system based on visible light communication
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
VLC
LED
indoor positioning
LBS
RSS
OFDM
File:
Download IndoorLocalizationBasedonVisibleLightCommunication.pdf
Committee Members:
Mohsen Kavehrad, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mohsen Kavehrad, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Timothy Joseph Kane, Committee Member
Julio Urbina, Committee Member
Jian Xu, Outside Member

27. Theory, Design, Analysis, and Implementation of a Spectrally Agile Frequency-Incrementing Reconfigurable (SAFIRE) Foward-Looking Ground Penetrating Radar

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Author:
Phelan, Brian Richard
Title:
Theory, Design, Analysis, and Implementation of a Spectrally Agile Frequency-Incrementing Reconfigurable (SAFIRE) Foward-Looking Ground Penetrating Radar
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
Stepped-Frequency
Frequency-Incrementing
Forward-Looking
Ground-Penetrating
Radar
GPR
Army Research Laboratory
ARL
Mine Detection
Thinned-Spectrum
Crowded Spectrum
FLGPR
IED
UXO
Synthetic-Aperture Radar
SAR
RF
Radio Frequency
Radio Frequency Interference
RFI
Recursive Sidelobe Mnimization
RSM
SAFIRE
Spectrally Agile Frequency Incrementing Reconfigurable
Signal-to-Clutter Ratio
SCR
Signal-to-Noise Ratio
SNR
Ultra-Wideband
UWB
Yuma
Yuma AZ
YPG
File:
Download BRPhelan_PhD_Dissertation_2016.pdf
Committee Members:
Ram M. Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy J. Kane, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael T. Lanagan, Committee Member
Randy K. Young, Committee Member
Michael T. Lanagan, Outside Member

28. Enhancements to the Floquet Method for Analysis and Design of Power Converter Systems

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Open Access
Author:
He, Mu
Title:
Enhancements to the Floquet Method for Analysis and Design of Power Converter Systems
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
Floquet Method
Power Converter Systems
Design Optimization
Genetic Algorithms
File:
Download Dissertation_Mu_He.pdf
Committee Members:
Jeffrey Scott Mayer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeffrey Scott Mayer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Committee Member
Minghui Zhu, Committee Member
Alok Sinha, Outside Member

29. COMPLIMENTARY III-V HETERO-JUNCTION TUNNEL TRANSISTORS FOR ENERGY EFFICIENT NANOELECTRONICS

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Author:
Pandey, Rahul
Title:
COMPLIMENTARY III-V HETERO-JUNCTION TUNNEL TRANSISTORS FOR ENERGY EFFICIENT NANOELECTRONICS
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
Tunnel
Tunnel Transistor
Energy
Power
Efficient
Low-power
Energy efficient
low voltage
TFET
MOSFET
CMOS
Moore's law
Transistor
on-current
steep
subthreshold
switching
sub-thermal
logic
circuits
systems
memory
semiconductors
TunnelFET
complimentary
III-V
compound semiconductors
Germanium
GeSn
Hetero-junctions
tunnel barrier engineering
quantum mechanical tunneling
File:
Download Energy_Efficient_Tunnel_Transistors_by_Rahul_Pandey.pdf
Committee Members:
Suman Datta, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member
Sumeet Gupta, Committee Member
Roman Engel-Herbert, Outside Member

30. APPLICATIONS OF COMPRESSED SENSING TO COHERENT RADAR IMAGING

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Open Access
Author:
Zhu, Qian
Title:
APPLICATIONS OF COMPRESSED SENSING TO COHERENT RADAR IMAGING
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
Compressed Sensing
Coherent Radar Imaging
Meteoroids Fragmentation
Low-altitude Meteors
File:
Download QianZhu_PhD_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
John D. Mathews, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John D. Mathews, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vishal Monga, Committee Member
Julio Urbina, Committee Member
Necdet S Aybat, Outside Member

31. SB-BASED MATERIALS FOR BEYOND SI FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR DEVICES

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Author:
Barth, Michael Judson
Title:
SB-BASED MATERIALS FOR BEYOND SI FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR DEVICES
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
InAsSb
GaSb
InGaSb
Soft Error
Heavy Ion
Atomic Layer Deposition
File:
Download Barth_Dissertation_rev6.pdf
Committee Members:
Suman Datta, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sumeet Kumar Gupta, Committee Member
Suman Datta, Committee Member
Roman Engel-Herbert, Outside Member

32. EVALUATION AND ENHANCEMENT OF NATURE-INSPIRED OPTIMIZATION FOR ANTENNA IMPEDANCE MATCHING

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Author:
Homsup, Nathawut
Title:
EVALUATION AND ENHANCEMENT OF NATURE-INSPIRED OPTIMIZATION FOR ANTENNA IMPEDANCE MATCHING
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
Antenna Design
Impedance Matching
Firefly Algorithm
Nature-Inspired Optimization
Swarm Intelligence Algorithm
Modified Firefly Algorithm
File:
Download Nathawut_Final_Dissertation_October_4th.pdf
Committee Members:
James K. Breakall, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James K. Breakall, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ram Narayanan, Committee Member
John J. Metzner, Committee Member
Kyusun Choi, Outside Member

33. Active Contour Motion Planning in the Inverse Perspective Mapping Frame

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Open Access
Author:
Nedorezov, Adam Jonathan
Title:
Active Contour Motion Planning in the Inverse Perspective Mapping Frame
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
Active Contour
Path Planning
Vanishing Point Estimation
Inverse Perspective Mapping
Motion Planning
Obstacle Detection
File:
Download Nedorezov_Thesis2016.pdf
Committee Members:
David Jonathan Miller, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
William Evan Higgins, Committee Member
David Jonathan Miller, Committee Member

34. Propagation and Clutter Considerations for Long Range Radar Surveillance Using Noise Waveforms

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Open Access
Author:
Allebach, Joshua M
Title:
Propagation and Clutter Considerations for Long Range Radar Surveillance Using Noise Waveforms
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
Radar
Noise Radar
Long Range Radar
Noise Waveform
File:
Download JoshuaAllebachMSThesisFINAL.pdf
Committee Members:
Ram Mohan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Timothy Joseph Kane, Committee Member
Ram Mohan Narayanan, Committee Member

35. Steganographic sonar

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Open Access
Author:
Park, Joonho Daniel
Title:
Steganographic sonar
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
sonar
signal processing
tracking
steganography
information theory
detection
estimation
motion modeling
sound modeling
waveform design
File:
Download Park-Dissertation-Steganographic_Sonar.pdf
Committee Members:
John F. Doherty, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John F. Doherty, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vishal Monga, Committee Member
David M. Jenkins, Committee Member
Lee Culver, Outside Member

36. Two Dimensional Materials: New Oppertunities in Photonics

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Open Access
Author:
Janisch, Corey Thomas
Title:
Two Dimensional Materials: New Oppertunities in Photonics
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
Two Dimensional Materials
Nonlinear Optics
Second Harmonic Generation
Sum Frequency Generation
Microresonators
Raman Sptectroscopy
Optical Resonators
File:
Download Dissertation_Submitted_Final.pdf
Committee Members:
Zhiwen Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Iam-Choon Khoo, Committee Member
Noel Christopher Giebink, Committee Member
Vincent Henry Crespi, Outside Member

38. MATERIAL CHARACTERIZATION AND APPLICATION OF A CARBON-LOADED LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMER FOR INTERCONNECT DESIGN

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Author:
Champion, Bruce Allen
Title:
MATERIAL CHARACTERIZATION AND APPLICATION OF A CARBON-LOADED LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMER FOR INTERCONNECT DESIGN
Graduate Program:
Electrical Engineering
Keywords:
Dielectric Absorber
Input/Output
Insertion Loss
Resonance
Genetic Algorithm
Crosstalk
Material Characterization
File:
Download Thesis_Champion_Fall2016.pdf
Committee Members:
Sedig Salem Agili, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Aldo W Morales, Committee Member
Jeremy Joseph Blum, Committee Member