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Description:: MEMS resonators cover a wide range of applications, such as oscillators, gyroscopes, biosensors, temperature sensors, and gas sensors. The novel MEMS resonators in this work were designed in both PZT and CMOS process and fabrication was conducted on both technologies; however, the final design...
Author:: Goktas, Hasan
Keyword:: CMOS, Resonator, MEMS, CMOS MEMS, micro fabrication, and temperature sensor
GW Unit:: Computer Engineering
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Zaghloul, Mona E and Korman, Can E
Committee Member(s):: Ahmed, Hesham, Ahmadi, Shahrokh, and Li, Zhenyu
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Description:: The work described in this dissertation involves the fabrication of an Interdigitated Capacitor (IDC) chemical vapor sensor requiring only a small number of fabrication steps. This was achieved by growing monoclinic gallium oxide (-Ga2O3) nanowires over platinum interdigitated electrodes....
Author:: Arnold, Stephen Paul
Keyword:: Ga2O3, vapor, design, sensor, chemical, and nanowires
GW Unit:: Computer Engineering
Degree:: D.Sc.
Advisor:: Zaghloul, Mona E and Korman, Can E
Committee Member(s):: Nagel, David J, Prokes, Sharka M, and Ahmadi, Shahrokh
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Description:: The motivation behind this work is to build a chemical gas sensor which can be sensitive and selective using optical nano antennas (Optical Nano Antenna (ONA)) or plasmonic nano antennas. ONA are devices that have their resonating frequency in the visible range. The basic principle governing the...
Author:: Mehta, Bhaven Satish
Keyword:: Graphene transfer, Optical Nano Antennas, Graphene, plasmonics, FDTD, and Chemical gas sensor
GW Unit:: Computer Engineering
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Zaghloul, Mona E
Committee Member(s):: Korman, Can, Ahmadi, Sharokh, Semancik, Stephen, and Li, Zhenyu
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Description:: This document proposes a purely MEMS based solution to these issues by using mechanical relays designed for digital computation. Moreover, the document presents the development and verification of a novel lead zirconate titinate (PZT) Piezoelectric MEMS (PiezoMEMS) digital switch architecture...
Author:: Proie Jr., Robert Michael
Keyword:: low power computing, radiation hardened digital logic, Mechanical Logic, Microelectromechanical Systems, and Piezoelectric
GW Unit:: Computer Engineering
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Zaghloul, Mona E
Committee Member(s):: Li, Alex M, Ivanov, Tony, Korman, Can E, and Ahmadi, Shahrokh
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Description:: Recent allocations by the FCC of very high frequencies in the range from 30 GHz to 300 GHz have opened up the door to the next generation of wireless technologies. This frequency range, coined the "millimeter-wave band" presents an opportunity for wireless technologies to expand the ability of a...
Author:: Farmer, Thomas J.
Keyword:: High Voltage High Power, Power Amplifier, HiVP, Silicon Germanium, SiGe, and Millimeter-wave
GW Unit:: Computer Engineering
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Zaghloul, Mona E
Committee Member(s):: Korman, Can, Della Torre, Edward, Viveiros, Edward, and Ahmadi, Shahrokh
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Description:: The work described in this dissertation involved the design, development and testing of a fluorescence-based microfluidics analytical system. Initially, a new and thorough, yet tractable, computational methodology had to be developed for estimating the performance of optical microfluidics...
Author:: Chang, Chia-Pin
Keyword:: point-of-care, microfluidics, bio-chemical analysis, Uric Acid Analysis, and optical fluorescence
GW Unit:: Computer Engineering
Degree:: D.Sc.
Advisor:: Nagel, David J and Zaghloul, Mona E
Committee Member(s):: Korman, Can, Velasquez, Manuel T, Manuccia, Thomas J, and Li, Zhenyu
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Description:: In the last decades, the application of dynamic strain and electric fields of surface acoustic waves (SAWs) has been used as successful tool for industrial applications such as filters, resonators and sensors due to its unique advantage to couple mechanical, electrical, and optical...
Author:: Dong, Boqun
Keyword:: Piezoelectric, Surface acoustic waves, Photoelectric, Gallium Arsenide, and Quantum efficiency
GW Unit:: Computer Engineering
Degree:: Ph.D.
Advisor:: Zaghloul, Mona E
Committee Member(s):: Afanasev, Andrei , Li, Zhenyu , Doroslovacki, Milos , and Ahmadi, Shahrokh
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

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