Investigation of III-V Superlattices and Heterostructures by Convergent-Beam Electron Diffraction

A Study of In-Plane Dynamics of Tires

Numerical simulation of mechanisms and manipulator robots with flexible links and flexible joints

Engineering Flexible and Agile Services: A Reference Architecture for Administrative Processes

To provide up-to-date services towards citizens and businesses, administrative organizations need to make sure their business services and processes and supporting applications are flexible and agile enough to deal with changing situations and ensure legal compliance all the time. The research presented in this dissertation provides a reference...

Conducted EMI in Inverters with SiC Transistors

Conducted EMI in Inverters with SiC Transistors Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) is the main side effect accompanied with the fast voltage and current switching transients in power electronics applications. Compliance of the Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) standard is prescribed for any power electronics product before entering the market....

The Spatial Dimension of House Prices

The economic reform in China, launched in the late 1970s, gradually promotes the free mobility of capital and labour between rural and urban areas, and between cities. The following housing market reform in the late 1990s thoroughly terminates the socialist allocation of housing and introduces market forces into the housing sector. Such...

Effect of Non-Uniform Flow in Fracture Networks on Recovery from Naturally Fractured Reservoirs

A large number of oil and gas reservoirs across the world are naturally <br/>fractured, f r om which a significant amount of hydrocarbons are produced. <br/>Naturally fractured reservoirs, like all reservoirs, are exploited in t w o stages: <br/>primary recovery and secondary recovery (sometimes followed by tertiary <br/>recovery, i.e. enhanced...

Optical field sampling for imaging and optical testing

This dissertation has mainly aimed at developing novel techniques, methodologies for measuring the optical field, specifically both the amplitude and phase distribution. Furthermore, we have attempted to extend their applications in the scope of optical imaging, including lensless/holographic imaging, quantitative phase imaging and the...

Using Social Media to Characterise Crowds in City Events for Crowd Management

Using social media data, such as Twitter and Instagram, I identify relevant information, develop data models, estimate and analyse crowds’ characteristics in city events, including demographic and city-role composition, Spatial-temporal distribution, sentiment estimation, Points of Interest preferences, word use, crowd size and density...

High-Performance Phase-Locked Loops for Quantum Computing Applications

Quantum computers have gained widespread interest from both industry and academia in the last decade as they are very promising for solving problems intractable by classical computers. However, there is a limited number of qubits in current quantum processors, which impedes the practical applications of a quantum computer. To increase the number...