PhD Defenses

Immersion Scatterometry for Nanoscale Grating Topography Extraction

Power Conversion Circuits for Low Power, Low Voltage and Non-Periodic Vibration Harvester Outputs

Characterization of Nanoscale Junctions in Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene for Novel Device Applications

Vertically Aligned (In)GaN Nanowires Grown by MOCVD

Excited State Interactions and Management in Organic light Emitting Diodes

Efficient Antenna for Terahertz and Optical Frequencies

Verification and Enforcement of Opacity Security Properties in Discrete Event Systems

Efficient Sensor Fault Diagnosis in Wireless Sensor Networks

Towards Very Large Scale Analog (VLSA): Synthesizable Frequency Generation Circuits

Computational Cardiology: Improving Markers and Models to Stratify Patients with Heart Disease

Combining Disparate Information for Machine Learning

Bio-Inspired Optic Flow Sensors for Artificial Compound Eyes

Group, Lattice and Polar Codes for Multi-terminal Communications

Precision and Scalability in Ultrasonic Machining for Microscale Features

Incentivizing Secondary Spectrum Trading: A Profit Perspective

Microfabrication of Microdischarge Based Sensors and Actuators

Detection, Synchronization, Channel Estimation and Capacity in UWB Sensor Network using Compressed Sensing

Model-based X-ray CT image and light field reconstruction using variable splitting method

Discrete Event System Methods for Control Problems Arising in Cyber-­physical Systems

Controlling Electromagnetic Fields with Tensor Transmission Line Metamaterials

MODELING STUDIES OF ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE MICROPLASMAS: PLASMA DYNAMICS, SURFACE INTERACTION AND APPLICATIONS

Grace Tsai Final Defense

Energy-Efficient Decoders of Near-Capacity Channel Codes

Microelectromechanical Systems for Wireless Radio Front-ends and Integrated Frequency References

Control of Electron and Ion Energy Distributions in Inductively Coupled Plasmas Using Pulsed Power and dc Biases For Fabrication of Microelectronics

Small-Molecule Organic Photovoltaic Devices: Applications and Reliability

Qingsi Wang Final Defense

RF Integrated Circuits for Energy Autonomous Sensor Nodes

Gallium Nitride Resonators for Infrared Detector Arrays and Resonant Acoustoelectric Amplifiers

Microelectromechanical Systems for Wireless Radio Front-­ends and Integrated Frequency References

Ultra-Low Power Optical Interface Circuits for Nearly Invisible Wireless Sensor Nodes

Passive Remote Sensing of Lake Ice and Snow using Wideband Autocorrelation Radiometer (WiBAR)

Resistive-RAM for Data Storage

Zhaoshi Meng Final Defense

Comprehensive Single Cell Assay Chips for the Study of Cancer Metastasis and Heterogeneity

Comprehensive Single Cell Assay Chips for the Study of Cancer Metastasis and Heterogeneity

High Power Chirally-Couple-Core (CCC) Fiber Lasers for Coherent Combining Systems

Energy-efficient Digital Signal Processing Hardware Design

Improving statistical image reconstruction for cardiac X-ray computed tomography

Power Management Circuits for Miniature Sensor Systems

Low-Power and Error-Resilient VLSI Circuits and Systems

Ultra-thin intrinsic amorphous silicon (a-Si) hybrid structure with inorganic/organic materials and its applications

III-Nitride Self-Assembled Nanowire Light Emitting Diodes and Lasers on (001) Silicon

Energy and Mobility Management of a Ground Robot to Increase Operational Capacity

Computational Electromagnetic Tools for Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

Carbon Nanoelectronic Heterodyne Sensors for Chemical & Biological Detection

III-Nitride Based Visible Single-Photon Sources

Integration of Utility-Scale Variable Generation into Resistive Networks

Polarizable Particles and their Two-Dimensional Arrays: Advances in Small Antenna and Metasurface Technologies

Robust Circuit Design for Low-Voltage VLSI

Implantable Neural Probes for Electrical Recording and Optical Stimulation of Cellular Level Neural Circuitry in Behaving Animals

Compound Semiconductor-Based Thin-Film and Flexible Optoelectronics

Fast Variance Prediction for Iteratively Reconstructed CT with Applications to Tube Current Modulation

Scalable Machine Learning Methods for Massive Biomedical Data Analysis

Long-Term Simultaneous Localization and Mapping in Dynamic Environments