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A Compact Cylindrical-Shape Microstrip Structure with Cloaking Properties for Mutual Coupling Reduction in Array Antennas
(North Dakota State University, 2014)A cylindrical-shaped microstrip structure with cloaking properties is presented as a shielding device to reduce the mutual coupling between two patch antennas. The surface comprises of a number of 2-port microstrip (2-PM) ... -
Computer-Aided Microwave Design System (CAMDS): Improvement, Verification, and Device Fabrication
(North Dakota State University, 2012)This paper presents a review of the Computer-Aided Microwave Design System (CAMDS) as originally developed by Divya Bais. Its goal was to deal with microwave design and analysis problems presented in standard textbooks ... -
Conformal Antennas and Arrays with Layers Consisting of Copper and Graphene-based Conductors for Redundancy Properties
(North Dakota State University, 2017)Graphene is a new promising material with unique electrical, mechanical, optical and thermal characteristics. The use of graphene in the design of an antenna and other electromagnetic passive devices would be beneficial ... -
Content Dissemination Schemes for Mobile Clouds: Modeling, Analysis, and Verification
(North Dakota State University, 2014)In this work, we capitalize on our previous work on the Hybrid Scheme for Message Replication (HSM) for opportunistic networks, to develop two content dissemination schemes for mobile clouds, namely, the Forecast and Relay ... -
Contextualization in Large-Scale Social Networks
(North Dakota State University, 2014)Social computing-based applications provide a coherent medium through which people can be interactive and socialize by developing a Web-based communication channel that integrates different Social Networking Services (SNSs) ... -
A Corrective Strategy for Voltage Regulation in Distribution Grids with Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles
(North Dakota State University, 2013)The increasing integration of Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEV) poses unique challenges for voltage and frequency regulation in electric distribution grids. The mobility and variability due to PHEV loads exacerbates ... -
Creation and Implementation of the Innovation-Based Learning Framework: A Learning Analytics Approach
(North Dakota State University, 2022)To meet the national and international call for creative and innovative engineers, many engineering departments and classrooms are striving to create more authentic learning spaces where students are actively engaging with ... -
Damping Interarea Oscillations in Power Systems with DFIG
(North Dakota State University, 2011)With rapid depletion of fossil fuels and increasing environmental concerns, the trend to capture renewable energy, especially through wind energy resources, is increasing. The doubly fed induction generator (DFIG) is the ... -
Dc'sign of Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting and Supercnpacitor Charging Circuits Using Optimized Duty-Cycle of Buck Converter
(North Dakota State University, 2009)Energy harvesting has been proved to be an innovative solution to replace the batteries in remote power supply applications. Unfortunately, the limited capacity aucl low efficiency of power conversion restrict the practical ... -
The Design and Analysis of a Conformal Spiral Antenna Structure for an Ultra-Wide-Band Radar System
(North Dakota State University, 2016)This thesis explores the design, simulation, and analysis of two conformal spiral antenna structures that are used for an ultra-wide-band (UWB) bistatic radar. The radar antenna system operates over a frequency range ... -
The Design and Analysis of a Microstrip Line Which Utilizes Capacitive Gaps and Magnetic Responsive Particles to Vary the Reactance of the Surface Impedance
(North Dakota State University, 2019)This thesis presents the work of using magnetic responsive particles as a method to manipulate the surface impedance reactance of a microstrip line containing uniform capacitive gaps and cavities containing the particles. ... -
Design and Analysis of New Printed Wideband Antennas for Wireless Applications
(North Dakota State University, 2014)In this study a simple method to develop a wideband antenna is proposed. With this new technique a dipole antenna with a 48% frequency bandwidth is transformed to achieve a 120% frequency bandwidth for a voltage standing-wave ... -
Design of a Reconfigurable Pulsed Quad-Cell for Cellular-Automata-Based Conformal Computing
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This paper presents the design of a reconfigurable asynchronous unit, called the pulsed quad-cell (PQ-cell), for conformal computing. The conformal computing vision is to create computational materials that can conform to ... -
Design of an Audio-Visual Display for Cross-Modal Experimentation
(North Dakota State University, 2012)The present paper shows the characteristics of a hardware/software display capable of presenting, at different spatial locations, multiple audio-visual stimuli in real-time. The system has been developed to provide a tool ... -
Design of High Power Density Switched Capacitor DC-DC Converter
(North Dakota State University, 2017)Design and implementation of high power density and high efficiency dc-dc converters has been a primary component for reducing energy cost. Traditionally dc-dc converters are composed with silicon based technology that has ... -
Designing of a Small Wearable Conformal Phased Array Antenna for Wireless Communications
(North Dakota State University, 2012)In this thesis, a unique design of a self-adapting conformal phased-array antenna system for wireless communications is presented. The antenna system is comprised of one microstrip antenna array and a sensor circuit. A 1x4 ... -
Detection and Quantification of Rare Analytes in Biological Samples using Dielectrophoretic Spectroscopy
(North Dakota State University, 2017)Novel techniques for Dielectrophoresis (DEP) crossover frequency calculation, positive dielectrophoretic spectroscopy and negative dielectrophoretic spectroscopy are proposed in this dissertation. A novel automated immunoassay ... -
Development of Performance Optimized Rotation Tolerant Viola-Jones Based Blackbird Detection, a Throughput Optimized Asynchronous Mac Implementation, and Automated Wheat Lodging Estimation
(North Dakota State University, 2020)The research described in this doctoral dissertation focuses on three main topics:1) performance optimization of the Viola-Jones Algorithm (VJA) for red-winged blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus) detection, 2) further increasing ... -
A Dual-Band Antenna Enabled Using a Complimentory Split Ring Resonator (CSRR) Placed in the Ground Plane
(North Dakota State University, 2019)The microstrip patch antenna is regarded as one of the key components for compact, low cost RF communications and wireless power techniques. In some instances, there are requirements that a system communicate on a different ... -
Dummy TSV-Based Timing Optimization for 3D On-Chip Memory
(North Dakota State University, 2016)Design and fabrication of three-dimensional (3D) ICs is one the newest and hottest trends in semiconductor manufacturing industry. In 3D ICs, multiple 2D silicon dies are stacked vertically, and through silicon vias (TSVs) ...