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Impedances of a Cubical Quad Antenna
(North Dakota State University, 1965)Rectangular loop antennas and short electric dipoles are two of the oldest antennas in existence. In 1888, twenty years after Maxwell invented his famous Maxwell's equations, Hertz used these two antennas to prove ... -
Implementation of Fourier Repetitive Control in Labview
(North Dakota State University, 2014)This thesis presents position control as well as current (torque) control of a DC servo motor with a periodic input. Position control is achieved by using Fourier repetitive control scheme. Simulation on position control ... -
Implementation of Low Cost, High-Throughput and High Sensitive Biomarker Detection Technique in Serum/Plasma Samples by Integrating Dielectrophoresis and Fluorescence Based Platform
(North Dakota State University, 2019)Low-cost, highly-sensitivity, and minimally invasive tests for the detection and monitoring of life-threatening cancers can reduce the worldwide disease burden. The disease diagnosis community is constantly working to ... -
Individualized Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy: Next Generation Pacemaker Controls
(North Dakota State University, 2015)Cardiac dyssynchrony (CD) causes some heart muscle regions to contract at different times, and current treatments do not help 30 – 50% of patients. In this thesis, multi-site pacing control schemes are created to quantitatively ... -
Intelligent and Efficient Embedded Video Memory Design in the Era of Big Data
(North Dakota State University, 2017)The growing popularity of smart phones, tablets, and other mobile devices has created an exponential demand for video applications in today’s society. Mobile device users want their devices to achieve a long battery lifetime ... -
Intelligent Efficient On-Chip Memory for Mobile Video Streaming
(North Dakota State University, 2017)The growing popularity of powerful mobile devices such as smart phones and tablet devices has resulted in the exponential growth of demand for video applications. User experience and battery life are both crucial topics ... -
Intelligent Energy-Efficient Storage System for Big-Data Applications
(North Dakota State University, 2020)Static Random Access Memory (SRAM) is a critical component in mobile video processing systems. Because of the large video data size, the memory is frequently accessed, which dominates the power consumption and limits battery ... -
The Interaction of Radio Frequency and Lambda DNA
(North Dakota State University, 2016)By exposing an aqueous DNA solution to a spectrum of radio frequency (RF) energy this research identifies frequencies, if any, where DNA interacts with RF energy. Interaction is determined by the amount of RF energy either ... -
Interior Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor Demagnetization Fault Modeling and Analysis by Using Dynamic Phasors Model
(North Dakota State University, 2014)Interior permanent magnet synchronous motor (IPMSM) has been widely used in hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) since the high power density and efficiency. However, the primary drawback of IPMSM is the demagnetization phenomenon ... -
Investigation of the Effects of Radio Frequency Exposure on Mice
(North Dakota State University, 2017)Video summarizing a Ph.D. dissertation for a non-specialist audience. -
Islanding Detection Using Data Mining Techniques
(North Dakota State University, 2015)Connection of the distributed generators (DGs), poses new challenges for operation and management of the distribution system. An important issue is that of islanding, where a part of the system gets disconnected from the ... -
Joint Compression and Encryption
(North Dakota State University, 2010)This research work proposes two techniques of joint compression and encryption using Shanon Fano Elias coding and Arithmetic coding respectively. The first scheme proposed is called Adaptive Shannon-Fano-Elias code where ... -
Lithium Ionic Conductivity and Stability Of Cubic Li7La3Zr2O12 Solid Electrolyte A First-Principles Study
(North Dakota State University, 2020)Garnet structured cubic LLZO crystal (Li56La24Zr16O96) is one of the most promising solid electrolytes for next-generation solid-state lithium-ion batteries. Ab initio molecular dynamics simulations have been employed to ... -
Low-Cost Passive UHF RFID Tags on Paper Substrates
(North Dakota State University, 2014)To reduce the significant cost in the widespread deployment of UHF radio frequency identification (RFID) systems, an UHF RFID tag design is presented on paper substrates. The design is based on meander-line miniaturization ... -
A Metamaterial-Based Multiband Phase Shifter
(North Dakota State University, 2014)A design methodology for a multi-band phase shifter using a metamaterial-based transmission line was developed. This method is different in that the loaded-line phase shifter has a phase shift of 90 degrees at the center ... -
Metamaterial-Inspired Reconfigurable Series-Fed Arrays
(North Dakota State University, 2014)One of the biggest challenges in modern day wireless communication systems is to attain agility and provide more degrees of freedom in parameters such as frequency, radiation pattern and polarization. Existing phased array ... -
Microwave Measurement of Grain and Biomass
(North Dakota State University, 2022)Microwave measurement is a powerful method for mass prediction and grain detection. Existing systems are well adapted for small volume grain measurements, but cannot accommodate materials other than grain (e.g. biomass), ... -
Minimum Entropy Generation in the Cardiovascular System
(North Dakota State University, 2011)This study was performed under the motivation to find a scheme that could describe the complex behavior of cardiovascular homeostasis. This is hypothesized to be manifested in a thermodynamic description of the cardiovascular ... -
Mitigating Nonlinear Effect and Preserving Privacy for Memristor Based On-Chip Neural Network
(North Dakota State University, 2021)Memristors offer advantages as a hardware solution for neuromorphic computing, however, their non-ideal property makes the weight update difficult and reduces the accuracy of a neural network. Also, a large amount of ... -
Multisine Excitation Design to Increase the Efficiency of System Identification Signal Generation and Analysis
(North Dakota State University, 2012)Reducing sample frequencies in measurement systems can save power, but reduction to the point of undersampling results in aliasing and possible signal distortion. Nonlinearities of the system under test can also lead to ...