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Furse, Cynthia M. | Reflectometry for structural health monitoring | Aging wiring and structural cables in buildings, aircraft and transportation systems, consumer products, industrial machinery, etc. are among the most significant potential causes of catastrophic failure and maintenance cost in these structures. Smart wire health monitoring can therefore have a subs... | | 2011-01-01 |
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Furse, Cynthia M. | Stochastic FDTD for analysis of statistical variation in electromagnetic fields | This paper describes a new stochastic finite difference time domain (S-FDTD) method for calculating the variance in the electromagnetic fields caused by variability or uncertainty in the electrical properties of the materials in the model. Details of the 1D derivation using truncated Taylor series a... | | 2012-01-01 |
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Tasdizen, Tolga | Serial section registration of axonal confocal microscopy datasets for long-range neural circuit reconstruction | In the context of long-range digital neural circuit reconstruction, this paper investigates an approach for registering axons across histological serial sections. Tracing distinctly labeled axons over large distances allows neuroscientists to study very explicit relationships between the brain's com... | | 2012-01-01 |
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Rieth, Loren W | Excimer-laser deinsulation of Parylene-C coated Utah electrode array tips | Utah electrode arrays (UEAs) are highly effective to measure or stimulate neural action potentials from the central or peripheral nervous system. The measured signals can be used for applications including control of prosthetics (recording) and stimulation of proprioceptive percepts. The UEAs are co... | | 2012-01-01 |
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Myers, Chris J. | Poster abstract: methods and tools for verification of cyber-physical systems | As chip technology scales, it is becoming possible to integrate multiple cores on a single chip which communicate using a network-on-chip (NoC) paradigm. One CPS application area that can leverage this is in automotive electronic systems which often require more than 50 electronic control units (ECU... | | 2012-01-01 |
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Furse, Cynthia M. | Measurement and modeling of interference for multiple antenna system | This paper provides a detailed signal model based on network theory to predict the multi-antenna capacity in the presence of co- and adjacent channel interference. This model expands on previous channel models by including the simultaneous effects of interference, antenna matching, efficiency, direc... | | 2010-01-01 |
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Khan, Faisal Habib | Interconnection and optimization issues of multijunction solar cells - A new mitigation approach using switching power converters | A multijunction solar cell can extract higher solar energy compared to a single junction solar cell using the spectrum splitting technique. Extensive research on efficiency enhancement of the solar cells to achieve near theoretical limit is in place. However, there are limited research activities to... | | 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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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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Furse, Cynthia M. | Utah's engineers: a statewide initiative for growth | Imagine finding a place where inventors gather to create their inventions. Envision getting a sneak peek at the latest technological innovations in engineering and computer science. Can you see yourself as an inventor? Join us on February 20 for Meet an Inventor Day sponsored by the students of... | | 2010-10-06 |
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Stringfellow, Gerald B. | Simulation of self-assembled compositional core-shell structures in In xGa 1-xN nanowires | We report the simulation of compositional core-shell structure formation in epitaxial InGaN nanowires (NWs) and its dependence on kinetic growth mode and epitaxial relation to substrate, based on atomistic-strain-model Monte Carlo simulations. On a lattice mismatched substrate, the layer-by-layer gr... | | 2012-01-01 |
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Furse, Cynthia M. | Microstrip antennas for dielectric property measurement | The measurement of the dielectric properties of materials is of great interest in a variety of applications including measurement of the moisture, fat, salt, or sugar content of grains and food products, measurement of human tissues or artificial phantom materials used to simulate them, and many oth... | Moisture content; Grain; Measurement | 1999 |
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Stevens, Kenneth | A mathematical approach to a low power FFT architecture | Architecture and circuit design are the two most effective means of reducing power in CMOS VLSI. Mathematical manipulations have been applied to create a power efficient architecture of an FFT. This architecture has been implemented in asynchronous circuit technology that achieves significant powe... | | 1998 |
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Furse, Cynthia M. | Modeling and simulation of branched wiring network | The impact of antenna polarization on channel capacity is explored in multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) systems. An idealized polarization model involving branch power rations (BPR's) and channel cross-coupling is incorporated into channel-specific capacity calculations. Results are compared f... | | 2006-01-01 |
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Mathews, V. John | A baseband residual vector quantization algorithm for voiceband data signals | Abstract-In this paper, we present a new approach to the digitization and compression of a class of voiceband modem signals. Our approach, which we call baseband residual vector quantization (BRVQ), relies heavily upon the simple structure present in a modem signal. After the signal is converted to... | | 1989 |
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Mathews, V. John | Lattice algorithms for recursive least squares adaptive second-order volterra filtering | This paper presents two computationally efficient recursive least-square (RLS) lattice algorithms for adaptive nonlinear filtering based on a truncated second-order Volterra system model. The lattice formulation transforms the nonlinear filtering problem into an equivalent multichannel, linear filte... | | 1994 |
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Harrison, Reid R. | Polymer based thin film coils as a power module of wireless neural interfaces | For the conventional Utah Electrode Array (UEA) to be able to function without transcutaneous wire connections, a kind of power source is needed in an integrated form with the UEA. To develop such wireless neural interfaces, inductive coupling between two coils was used to deliver power to the integ... | Wireless; Neural interfaces; Thin film coils; Utah Electrode Array | 2006 |
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Harrison, Reid R. | Integrating sensorimotor systems in a robot model of cricket behavior | The mechanisms by which animals manage sensorimotor integration and coordination of different behaviors can be investigated in robot models. In previous work the first author has built a robot that localizes sound based on close modeling of the auditory and neural system in the cricket. It is known ... | | 2000 |
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Furse, Cynthia M. | 3D ray-tracing for intra-vehicle environments | In order to develop a wireless communication system that could be used for all types of aircraft sensor networks, the severe multipath channel found inside aircrafts must be well defined. This multipath channel is much more complex than usual outdoor/indoor channels and thus far, research has been l... | | 2009 |
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Mathews, V. John | Fixed-point error analysis of stochastic gradient adaptive lattice filters | Abstract-This paper presents a theoretical analysis of the stochastic gradient adaptive lattice filter used as a linear, one-step predictor, when the effects of finite precision arithmetic are taken into account. Only the fixed-point implementation is considered here. Both the unnormalized and norma... | | 1990 |
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Furse, Cynthia M. | Invisible fray: a critical analysis of the use of reflectometry for fray location | Significant international research and development efforts have been devoted to methods and equipment for locating wiring faults, particularly those on aging aircraft. Several reflectometry methods that send high frequency signals down the line and analyze the returned reflections have risen to the... | Reflectometry; Fray location; Invisible fray; Fault location; Aging wiring; Spread spectrum reflectometry | 2006-06 |
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Harrison, Reid R. | CMOS imager with on-chip temporal filtering for motion pre-processing | Robust motion detection algorithms such as the motion energy model require temporal filtering at the pixel level. We have designed and tested a CMOS imager with integrated, pixel-level temporal filtering necessary for motion detection. This temporal filtering enhances transients and provides a ... | | 2002-01-01 |
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Myers, Chris J. | Timed state space exploration using POSETs | Abstract-This paper presents a new timing analysis algorithm for efficient state space exploration during the synthesis of timed circuits or the verification of timed systems. The source of the computational complexity in the synthesis or verification of a timed system is in finding the reachable ti... | | 2000 |
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Mathews, V. John | Adaptive lattice bilinear filters | Abstract-This paper presents two fast least squares lattice algorithms for adaptive nonlinear filters equipped with bilinear system models. Bilinear models are attractive for adaptive filtering applications because they can approximate a large class of nonlinear systems adequately, and usually with... | | 1993 |
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Stringfellow, Gerald B.; Shurtleff, James Kevin | Heterostructures in GaInP grown using a change in Te doping | In organometallic vapor phase epitaxy, changes in growth conditions can be used to modulate the extent of CuPt ordering and, hence, the band gap energy of GaInP. One method is to add Te during growth. An increase in the band gap energy of 0.1 eV due to a decrease in ordering has been obtained by ... | Heterostructures; Alloys | 2000 |