Thermal management of High-Current Bidirectional Isolated DC-DC Converters

Modeling of parasitic elements in high voltage multiplier modules

It is an inevitable trend that the power conversion module will have higher switching frequency and smaller volume in the future. Bandgap devices, such as SiC and GaN devices, accelerate the process. With this process, the parasitic elements in the module will probably have stronger influence on circuit operations than before. In this thesis,...

Aging Assessment and Reliability Aware Computing Platforms

Aggressive CMOS technology feature size scaling has been going on for the past decades, while the supply voltage is not proportionally scaled. Due to the increasing power density and electric field in the gate dielectric, the accelerating factors of failure mechanisms in nanoscale Integrated Circuits (ICs) have become more severe than ever. As a...

Localization and Communication for UWB-based Wireless Sensor Networks

The great demand for location-aware wireless sensor networks (WSNs) motivates the research in this thesis. The unique characteristics of WSNs impose numerous challenges on localization and communication. In this thesis, we handle some key challenges and provide affordable solutions. Impulse radio ultra wideband (IR-UWB) is employed as the...

Networking Technologies for Future Home Networks Using 60 GHz Radio

Networking technologies have been changing the life of people in their private residential space. With the arrival of high definition (HD) multimedia services and broadband communications into the living space, future home networks are expected to support high speed device-to-device connectivity with Quality-of-Service (QoS) provisioning. There...

Robustness of networks

Our society depends more strongly than ever on large networks such as transportation networks, the Internet and power grids. Engineers are confronted with fundamental questions such as “how to evaluate the robustness of networks for a given service?”, “how to design a robust network?”, because networks always affect the functioning of a service....

Noise in sub-micron CMOS image sensors

CMOS image sensors are devices that convert illumination signals (light intensity) into electronic signals. The goal of this thesis has been to analyze dominate noise sources in CMOS imagers and to improve the image quality by reducing the noise generated in the CMOS image sensor pixels.

Relevance models for collaborative filtering

CMOS bandgap references and temperature sensors and their applications

Two main parts have been presented in this thesis: device characterization and circuit. In integrated bandgap references and temperature sensors, the IC(VBE, characteristics of bipolar transistors are used to generate the basic signals with high accuracy. To investigate the possibilities to fabricate high-precision bandgap references and...