Browsing by Author "Zourntos, Takis"
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A 200-MHz fully-differential CMOS front-end with an on-chip inductor for magnetic resonance imaging Ayala, Julio Enqrique, II (Texas A&M University, 2007-04-25)Recently, there is a growing interest in applying electronic circuit design for biomedical applications, especially in the area of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). NMR has been used for many years as a spectroscopy technique ...
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Yallapragada, Naresh (2009-05-15)Emerging technologies in parallel magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with massive receiver arrays have paved the way for ultra-fast imaging at increasingly high frame rates. With the increase in the number of receiver channels ...
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Feng, Xianyong (2012-07-16)All-electric ship power systems have limited generation capacity and finite rotating inertia compared with large power systems. Moreover, all-electric ship power systems include large portions of nonlinear loads and dynamic ...
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Zhao, Siming (2010-01-14)Lienard Equations serve as the elegant models for oscillating circuits. Motivated by this fact, this thesis addresses the stability property of a class of delayed Lienard equations. It shows the existence of the Hopf ...
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Berber, Feyza (Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)The objective of this thesis is to introduce an alternative temperature sensor in CMOS technology with small area, low power consumption, and high resolution that can be easily interfaced. A novel temperature sensor utilizing ...
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Long, Stephen A. (2010-07-14)This thesis presents the design, theory, and measurement of a linearly polarized microstrip patch antenna with a novel substrate-integrated mechanism that can compensate the detuning effects from a physical deformation. ...
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Cybernetic automata: An approach for the realization of economical cognition for multi-robot systems Mathai, Nebu John (2009-05-15)The multi-agent robotics paradigm has attracted much attention due to the variety of pertinent applications that are well-served by the use of a multiplicity of agents (including space robotics, search and rescue, and ...
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Smith, Richard C. (2010-01-14)The purpose of this thesis is to design hardware and a control strategy for a fuel cell/battery hybrid power supply. Modern fuel cell/battery hybrid power supplies can have 2 DC/DC converters: one converter for the battery ...
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Liu, Xiaoqun (2009-05-15)The increasing demands for improving magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) quality, especially reducing the imaging time have been driving the channel number of parallel magnetic resonance imaging (Parallel MRI) to increase. ...
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Thandri, Bharath Kumar (Texas A&M University, 2007-09-17)Software radio architecture can support multiple standards by performing analogto- digital (A/D) conversion of the radio frequency (RF) signals and running reconfigurable software programs on the backend digital signal ...
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Roy, Gautam (2011-02-22)The genetic algorithm paradigm is a well-known heuristic for solving many problems in science and engineering in which candidate solutions, or “individuals”, are manipulated in ways analogous to biological evolution, to ...
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Ho, Yenpo (2009-05-15)In the past decade, aggressive scaling of transistor feature size has been a primary force driving higher Static Random Access Memory (SRAM) integration density. Due to the scaling, nanometer SRAM designs are getting more ...
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Son, Jong Bum (2009-05-15)Phase-sensitive magnetic resonance (MR) imaging has a number of important clinical applications, such as phase-sensitive inversion recovery (PSIR) and Dixon water/fat imaging. PSIR and Dixon techniques are widely used in ...
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Koteeswaran, Prabhavathi (Texas A&M University, 2005-02-17)This thesis presents an improved method for dynamic force computation applicable to both electrostatic and electromagnetic conductors with complex 3D geometries. During the transient simulation of electrostatic actuated ...
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Park, Joohwan (Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)Phase locked loops (PLL) are used in a variety of RF integrated applications because of their ability to generate precise clock signals. These applications include clock recovery systems, frequency synthesizers and frequency ...
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Liu, Shan; Mashayekh, Salman; Kundur, Deepa; Zourntos, Takis; Butler-Purry, Karen (IEEE, 2014-01-02)Security issues in cyber-physical systems are of paramount importance due to the often safety- critical nature of its associated applications. A rst step in understanding how to protect such systems requires an understanding ...
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Boyd, Bryan 1985- (2012-08-27)Probabilistic Roadmap Methods (PRMs) are one of the most used classes of motion planning methods. These sampling-based methods generate robot configurations (nodes) and then connect them to form a graph (roadmap) containing ...
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Sandberg, Julie (2011-10-21)The need for high resolution, continuously sustained imaging drives the interest in space-borne, distributed aperture, interferometric (amplitude, heterodyne, or intensity correlation) systems. This paper will discuss ...
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Araujo, Roy A. (2010-01-14)Advancements in the semiconductor industry require new materials with improved performance. With the introduction of copper as the interconnect material for integrated circuits, efficient diffusion barriers are required ...
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Funmilayo, Hamed (2010-01-14)Increased Distributed Generation (DG) presence on radial distribution feeders is becoming a common trend. The existing Overcurrent Protection (OCP) scheme on such feeders consists mainly of overcurrent protection devices ...