<p>Very deep sub-micron process technologies are leading to increasing defect rates for integrated circuits (ICs) and multi-chip boards. To ensure the quality of test patterns and more effective defect screening, functional ...
<p>Electrophysiological intracellular recordings from freely behaving animals can provide information and insights, which have been speculated or cannot be reached by traditional recordings from confined animals. Intracellular ...
<p>As research in electromagnetics has expanded, it has given rise to the examination of metamaterials, which possess nontrivial electromagnetic material properties such as engineered permittivity and permeability. Aside ...
<p>The visible wavelength range has proven to be a useful spectral window for observing biophotonic events such as absorption in materials (oxy-hemoglobin and deoxy-hemoglobin), light scattering in biological tissue, and ...
<p>The visible light photon counter (VLPC) is a high quantum efficiency (QE), Si-based, single-photon detector with high gain, low-noise multiplication, low timing jitter, and photon number resolution. While the VLPC has ...
<p>Quantum Dot Infrared Photodetectors (QDIPs) are important alternatives to conventional infrared photodetectors with high potential to provide required detector performance, such as higher temperature operation and ...
<p>Advancements of the semiconductor technology opened a new era in</p>
<p>wireless communications which led manufacturers to produce faster,</p>
<p>more functional devices in much smaller sizes. However, ...
<p>This dissertation examines the use of artificial structured materials -- known as metamaterials -- in two antenna applications in which conventional dielectric materials are otherwise used. In the first application, the ...
<p>A series of fusion techniques are developed and applied to EEG and
pupillary recording analysis in a rapid serial visual presentation
(RSVP) based image triage task, in order to improve the accuracy
of capturing ...
<p>Graphene is a novel carbon material with great promise for a range of applications due to its electronic and mechanical properties. Its two-dimensional nature translates to a high sensitivity to surface chemical ...
<p>Electrical stimulation is capable of restoring function to a damaged or diseased nervous system and can thereby improve the lives of patients in a remarkable way. For example, cochlear and retinal prostheses can help ...
<p>In this study we propose a fast hybrid spectral-element time-domain (SETD) / finite-element time-domain (FETD) method for transient analysis of multiscale electromagnetic problems, where electrically fine structures ...
<p>The problem of learning a latent model for sparse or low-dimensional representation of high-dimensional data has attracted significant attention for many years. This thesis focuses on learning latent models for sparse ...
<p>In the modern sensing environment, large numbers of sensor tasking decisions must be made using an increasingly diverse and powerful suite of sensors in order to best fulfill mission objectives in the presence of ...
<p>Intense developments in optical metamaterials have led to a renaissance in several optics fields. Metamaterials, artificially structured media, provide several additional degrees of freedom that cannot be accessed with ...
<p>It is well established that cochlear implants (CIs) are able to provide many users with excellent speech recognition ability in quiet conditions; however, the ability to correctly identify speech in noisy conditions or ...
<p>This thesis addresses the problem of source localization and time-varying spatial spectrum estimation with maneuverable arrays. Two applications, each having different environmental assumptions and array geometries, are ...
<p>Advances in the miniaturization of microelectromechanical components have led to battery powered and inexpensive sensor nodes, which can be networked in an ad hoc manner to perform distributed sensing and information ...
<p>Digital microfluidics as implemented in electrowetting-on-dielectric (EWD) technology has been widely used as a platform for miniaturizing the biomedical or biochemical laboratory on a chip in recent years. DNA ...