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Experimental evaluation of characteristic temperature with varying duty cycles in 2μm vertical cavity surface emitting lasers due to external optical pumping
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs) are of interest due to their small size, low cost, tunability, and excellent beam quality. Moreover, ...
Simultaneous electrophoretic deposition of copper oxide/aluminum nanothermite films
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This research details simultaneous electrophoretic deposition (EPD) of copper-oxide/aluminum nanothermite films. Deposition parameters such as precursor ...
Design and analysis of miniaturized implantable and wearable microstrip antennas
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] There is an increasing effort by hospitals, doctors and healthcare service providers to cut down the ever increasing cost of health care. One area of ...
Landmine classification using possibilistic K-nearest neighbors with wideband electromagnetic induction data
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] In this thesis, a possibilistic K-nearest neighbor classifier is presented to distinguish between and classify mine and non-mine targets on data ...
Nanocomposites : characterization and applications towards electrical energy storage devices
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
The growing need for energy to be stored in decreasing volumes has resulted in extensive amounts of research into materials chemistry, new fabrication techniques, and the utilization of nano-materials. In this investigation, ...
Design, simulation, and analysis of reconfigurable antennas in GHz regime
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This research focuses on the design and analysis of a reconfigurable antenna where the radiation pattern and its characteristics are altered in each ...
Signal generation for ultra-wideband short-range radar system
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] In this thesis work, an ultra-wideband signal generator circuitry is presented for the Ultra-wideband Short-range Radar Human ID System. Investigation ...
Deep packet inspection on large datasets : algorithmic and parallelization techniques for accelerating regular expression matching on many-core processors
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
Regular expression matching is a central task in several networking (and search) applications and has been accelerated on a variety of parallel architectures, including general purpose multi-core processors, network ...
Hyperspectral unmixing and band weighting for multiple endmember sets
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Imaging spectrometers measure the response from materials across the electromagnetic spectrum. Often, in remote sensing applications, the imaging ...
A detection based sport player trackerA detection based sport player tracker
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Currently, the sliding windows framework dominates the object detection task for its good performance. But the computational cost of this approach is ...
Theory of pulse forming network design for acceleration waveform time domain replicationTheory of pulse forming network design for acceleration waveform time domain replication
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
A Pulse Forming Network (PFN) was built and optimized using an Algorithm based on theory and experimental data. The target load for the PFN was a Helical Electromagnetic Launcher. The target application of the launcher is ...
Object detection for big dataObject detection for big data
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
We have observed significant advances in object detection over the past few decades and gladly seen the related research has began to contribute to the world: Vehicles could automatically stop before hitting any pedestrian; ...
Mechanisms involved in storage of fear in lateral amygdala :a computational study
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
This thesis reports a computational model of a neuronal circuit and the insights it provided about the formation of fear memory in a specific nucleus of the amygdala after Pavlovian fear conditioning. An earlier study from ...
Applications of parallel computing in robotics problems
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
Many typical robotics problems involve search in high-dimensional spaces, where real-time execution is hard to be achieved. This thesis presents two case studies of parallel computation in such robotics problems. More ...
An efficient closed-form solution for wideband source direction-of-arrival estimation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] We propose and develop in this research an efficient closed-form solution to estimate the direction-of-arrivals (DOAs) for a wideband source signal, ...
An image-classification leveraged object detector
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
Surface micromachined MEMS variable capacitor with two-cavity for energy harvesting
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
In this research, a novel MEMS variable capacitor with two capacitive cavities for energy harvesting was developed that use the wasted energy associated with undesirable mechanical vibrations to power microelectronic sensors ...
Simulation and design of GaAs/A1[subscript]xG[superscript 1-][subscript]xAs Multiple-Quantum-Well Fabry-Perot optical modulators
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1993)
A systematic study of the GaAs/A1[subscript]xGa[subscript 1--[subscript]xAs Multiple-Quantum-Well (MQW) normal-incident modulators, including the theoretical calculations of the absorption coefficient and refractive index ...
Geometric image segmentation via transform invariant rank cuts
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
This research propose a novel image segmentation algorithm, named as Transform Invariant Rank Cuts (TIRC). Based on salient 3D geometric information of natural scenes. The segmentation algorithm unities an emerging robust ...
Nanogap embedded TiO2 photonic crystals for enhanced fluorescence and surface dielctrophoreis of DNA
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] One of the most commonly used detection tool in clinical diagnostics, life science research, chemical, and biological sensors is fluorescence. Because ...