Filters: School Or College: "College of Engineering" Collection: "ir_uspace" Year End: 2012 Year Start: 2012
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Blair, Steven | A 3D glass optrode array for optical neural stimulation | This paper presents optical characterization of a first-generation SiO2 optrode array as a set of penetrating waveguides for both optogenetic and infrared (IR) neural stimulation. Fused silica and quartz discs of 3-mm thickness and 50-mm diameter were micromachined to yield 10×10 arrays of up to 2-... | 2012-01-01 | |
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Myers, Chris J. | A compositional minimization approach for large asynchronous design verification | This paper presents a compositional minimization approach with efficient state space reductions for verifying non-trivial asynchronous designs. These reductions can result in a reduced model that contains the exact same set of observably equivalent behavior in the original model, therefore no false ... | 2012-01-01 | |
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Roundy, Shadrach J. | A cost-effective planar electromagnetic energy harvesting transducer | This paper presents a planar multi-pole electromagnetic energy harvesting transducer. We report on the design, manufacture, and performance results of integrated devices based on this transducer. The transducer leverages recent advancements in the manufacture of multi-pole magnets and can be impleme... | 2012-01-01 | |
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Simpson, Jamesina J. | A feasibility study of microjets applied to breast cancer detection | The feasibility of detecting small tumors of diameter 0.5mm inside a human breast is demonstrated using microjets. Microjets are photonic nanojets scaled to microwave frequencies wherein a plane-wave-illuminated dielectric sphere produces a high-intensity, narrow beam of light extending from the sha... | 2012-01-01 | |
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Sutherland, James Clayton | A filter-independent model identification technique for turbulent combustion modeling | In this paper, we address a method to reduce the number of species equations that must be solved via application of Principal Component Analysis (PCA). This technique provides a robust methodology to reduce the number of species equations by identifying correlations in state-space and defining new v... | 2012-01-01 | |
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Khan, Faisal Habib | A high-efficiency modular switched-capacitor converter with continuously variable conversion ratio | The multilevel modular capacitor clamped converter (MMCCC) topology overcomes the difficulties of the multilevel switched capacitor (SC) based dc-to-dc converters in high conversion ratio applications. MMCCC is completely modular and has many other advantageous features. Like most other SC converter... | 2012-01-01 | |
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Mastrangelo, Carlos H. | A high-resolution flexible tactile imager system based on floating comb electrodes | Flexible high-resolution contact force imagers are needed in many applications for robotic grippers and gait analysis, but its intrinsic intimate contact requirement often causes breaking of top metallization layers and failure in a short time. The use of floating electrodes has significantly improv... | 2012-01-01 | |
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Khan, Faisal Habib | A low-cost non-mechanical maximum power point tracking scheme for grid-tied single-phase induction generators | A new configuration of a single-phase induction generator based power generation system with maximum power point tracking capability is proposed in this paper, and this configuration is suitable for small-scale variable speed wind energy conversion system. Using this technique, the synchronous speed... | 2012-01-01 | |
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Blair, Steven | A methodology for physical design automation for integrated optics | Advancements in silicon photonics technology are enabling large scale integration of electro-optical circuits and systems. To fully exploit this potential, automated techniques for design space exploration and physical synthesis for integrated optics must be developed. This paper investigates how co... | 2012-01-01 | |
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Hansen, Charles D. | A practical workflow for making anatomical atlases for biological research | An anatomical atlas provides a detailed map for medical and biological studies of anatomy. These atlases are important for understanding normal anatomy and the development and function of structures, and for determining the etiology of congenital abnormalities. Unfortunately, for biologists, generat... | 2012-01-01 | |
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Whitty, Kevin J. | A pulse-width modulation controlled wire-mesh heater apparatus for investigation of solid fuel pyrolysis | A novel wire mesh heater apparatus has been developed to study the devolatilization of solid fuels under pressurized conditions at well-controlled heating rates on the order of 1000 K/s. The apparatus combines direct current and pulse-width modulation with a fast-acting and high current-capacity re... | 2012-01-01 | |
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Lawton, Evert C. | A review of shear stress sign convention in interpreting Mohrs circle | The pole of planes method is a popular technique for interpreting Mohr's circle to determine the stresses (normal and shear) on planes of differing rotations in 2-D space. A survey of undergraduate textbooks on soil mechanics shows differing viewpoints on the sign convention for interpreting the she... | 2012-01-01 | |
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Cohen, Elaine | A triangulation-invariant method for anisotropic geodesic map computation on surface meshes | This paper addresses the problem of computing the geodesic distance map from a given set of source vertices to all other vertices on a surface mesh using an anisotropic distance metric. Formulating this problem as an equivalent control theoretic problem with Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman partial different... | 2012-01-01 | |
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Khan, Faisal Habib | AC solar cells: An embedded "all in one" PV power system | Power converters constructed from discrete components are difficult to mass produce, and the installation involves a significant labor cost to have the proper interconnection among the panel, inverter and the grid. These facts indicate that the present PV technology may not be able to address the ch... | 2012-01-01 | |
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Mathews, V. John | Adaptive gain processing with offending frequency suppression for digital hearing aids | Digital hearing aids identify acoustic feedback signals and cancel them continuously in a closed loop with an adaptive filter. This scheme facilitates larger hearing aid gain and improves the output sound quality of hearing aids. However, the output sound quality deteriorates as the hearing aid gai... | 2012 | |
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Berzins, Martin | Adaptive high-order discontinuous galerkin solution of elastohydrodynamic lubrication point contact problems | This paper describes an adaptive implementation of a high order Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method for the solution of elastohydrodynamic lubrication (EHL) point contact problems. These problems arise when modelling the thin lubricating film between contacts which are under sufficiently high pressur... | 2012-01-01 | |
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Myers, Chris J. | An improvement in partial order reduction using behavioral analysis | Efficacy of partial order reduction in reducing state space relies on adequate extraction of the independence relation among possible behaviors. However, traditional approaches by statically analyzing system model structures are often not able to reveal enough independence for reduction. To address ... | 2012-01-01 | |
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Liu, Feng | Anisotropic strain enhanced hydrogen solubility in bcc metals: the independence on the sign of strain | When an impurity is doped in a solid, it inevitably induces a local stress, tending to expand or contract the lattice. Consequently, strain can be applied to change the solubility of impurity in a solid. Generally, the solubility responds to strain ‘‘monotonically,'' increasing (decreasing) with... | 2012-01-01 | |
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Jayamohan, Harikrishnan | Applications of microfluidics for molecular diagnostics | Diagnostic assays implemented in microfluidic devices have developed rapidly over the past decade and are expected to become commonplace in the next few years. Hundreds of microfluidics-based approaches towards clinical diagnostics and pathogen detection have been reported with a general theme of ra... | Microfluidics; Micro-total-analysis-systems; Lab-on-a-chip; Point-of-care devices; Sample preparation; MEMS; Rapid prototyping; Biomarker detection; Personalized medicine; Global health care | 2012-11-04 |
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Venkatasubramanian, Suresh | Approximate Bregman near neighbors in sublinear time: beyond the triangle inequality | Bregman divergences are important distance measures that are used extensively in data-driven applications such as computer vision, text mining, and speech processing, and are a key focus of interest in machine learning. Answering nearest neighbor (NN) queries under these measures is very important i... | 2012-01-01 | |
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Johnson, Christopher R. | Biomedical visual computing: case studies and challenges | Advances in computational geometric modeling, imaging, and simulation let researchers build and test models of increasing complexity, generating unprecedented amounts of data. As recent research in biomedical applications illustrates, visualization will be critical in making this vast amount of data... | 2012-01-01 | |
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Furse, Cynthia M. | Challenges with optically transparent patch antennas | In this paper, antennas made out of transparent conducting oxides (TCOs) are explored. The optical transparency of transparent conducting oxides is achieved through thin-film depositions on substrates. However, thin-film depositions create a new set of electrical challenges that require a full under... | 2012-01-01 | |
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Blair, Steven | Characterization of a 3D optrode array for infrared neural stimulation | This paper characterizes the Utah Slant Optrode Array (USOA) as a means to deliver infrared light deep into tissue. An undoped crystalline silicon (100) substrate was used to fabricate 10×10 arrays of optrodes with rows of varying lengths from 0.5mm to 1.5mm on a 400-μm pitch. Light delivery from ... | 2012-01-01 | |
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Khan, Faisal Habib | Characterization of aging process in power converters using spread spectrum time domain reflectometry | This paper aims to find a new technique to predict the state of health of power converters by characterizing the most vulnerable components in the converter without affecting the normal circuit operation. Spread spectrum time domain reflectometry (SSTDR) can detect most of the aged components inside... | 2012-01-01 | |
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Mastrangelo, Carlos H. | Characterization of electrical interferences for ground reaction sensor cluster | This paper presents the characterization of electrical interferences for a high-resolution error-correcting biomechanical ground reaction sensor cluster (GRSC), developed for improving inertial measurement unit (IMU) position sensing accuracy. The GRSC is composed of 13 x 13 sensing nodes, which can... | 2012-01-01 |