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Dostanic, M. (author)The high death toll of cardiovascular diseases worldwide and the lack of effective treatments for them are the main motivation for developing alternative and more efficient models for cardiac drug development and disease research. The missing link between current laboratory research on static in vitro and animal models and the clinical stage...doctoral thesis 2023
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Poelma, R.H. (author)This thesis describes a series of experiments and fabrication methods on high-aspect-ratio 3D microstructures for wafer level packaging and 3D heterogeneous system integration (3D-HSI) using novel materials such as carbon nanotubes and thick-film photo-resists. Furthermore, theoretical and experimental research efforts are made to understand the...doctoral thesis 2016
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Ngamkham, W. (author)Cochlear Implants (CIs) are prosthetic devices that restore hearing in profoundly deaf patients by bypassing the damaged parts of the inner ear and directly stimulating the remaining auditory nerve fibers in the cochlea with electrical pulses. This thesis describs the electronic circuit design of various modules for application in CIs in order...doctoral thesis 2015
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Xu, Y. (author)This thesis gives an insightful analysis of the pinned photodiode 4T CMOS pixel from three different aspects. Firstly, from the charge accumulated aspect, the PPD full well capacity and related parameters of influence are investigated such as the pinning voltage, and transfer gate potential barrier. Secondly, from the charge transfer aspect, the...doctoral thesis 2015
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Penkin, D. (author)Recently, the concept of a nanonetwork has attracted large attention of researchers as it potentially offers low-cost solutions for a wide spectrum of current applications and enables numerous emerging ones. At present, however, all the sensor networks consist of a relatively small number of macroscale devices with their positions carefully pre...doctoral thesis 2015
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Yang, R. (author)This thesis presents the theory, design and qualification of a precision capacitive sensor system for displacement measurement that require high resolution, high precision and simultaneously, low power consumption. The challenge to achieve the required performance has been taken care at both mechanical domain (sensor head) and electronic domain ...doctoral thesis 2015
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Madadi, I. (author)There are nowadays strong business and technical demands to integrate radio- frequency (RF) receivers (RX) into a complete system-on-chip (SoC) realized in scaled digital processes technology. As a consequence, the RF circuitry has to function well in face of reduced power supply ( V DD ) while the CMOS device threshold voltage ( V th ) stays...doctoral thesis 2015
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Ahmadi Mehr, S.A.R. (author)Cost reduction is one of the main driving forces for integration. As such, advanced CMOS technologies offer excellent digital functionality and high-density integration capabilities. Properties that persuade designers to exploit new digitally assisted approaches rather than following conventional analogue techniques. Using these new concepts,...doctoral thesis 2015
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Kumar, S.S. (author)The sustained increase in computational performance demanded by next-generation applications drives the increasing core counts of modern multiprocessor systems. However, in the dark silicon era, the performance levels and integration density of such systems is limited by thermal constraints of their physical package. These constraints are more...doctoral thesis 2015
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Li, Y. (author)This thesis describes the theory, design and implementation of levelcrossing ADCs and their system integration. The goal of this work is to explore methods at both the circuit level and the system level to improve the energy efficiency of LC-ADCs and integrate LC-ADCs in biomedical readout systems. Two single-bit capacitive LC-ADCs and an ECG...doctoral thesis 2015
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Kwok, K.C. (author)This thesis investigates the system design and circuit implementation of a 24GHz-band short-range radar receiver in CMOS technology. The propagation and penetration properties of EM wave offer the possibility of non-contact based remote sensing and through-the-wall imaging of distance stationary or moving objects. The feasibility of realizing...doctoral thesis 2015
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Golshani, N. (author)Radiation detectors are used in a large variety of fields such as medicine, security, defense, geophysics, industry and physics. They have been developed to detect the energy or position of radiation or charge particles. In Chapter 1 several X-ray detectors were introduced briefly. In gas filled X-ray detectors, incoming photons ionize inert gas...doctoral thesis 2015
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Syed, W.H. (author)Planar printed antenna technologies, due to their light weight, low profile, cost effectiveness and ease of connection with the active devices (e.g., amplifiers etc.), are becoming an attractive solution for the commercial data-hungry applications, such as 60 GHz high-data rate communication. Another commercial application of planar antennas...doctoral thesis 2015
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Khoshfetrat Pakazad, S. (author)A potential serious side effect of drugs is cardiotoxicity which can result in lethal heart arrhythmias. Cardiotoxicity has been the leading cause of drug withdrawals from the market in the past decades, and has been responsible for costly failures in late stage clinical trials. This highlights the unmet need in the pharmaceutical industry for...doctoral thesis 2015
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Blazquez Valles, B. (author)The Terahertz gap is the portion of the spectrum lying between 300 GHz and 3 THz. The initial development of Terahertz technology was driven by Space-based instruments for astrophysics, planetary, cometary and Earth science. However, in recent years, the interest of Terahertz science has been rapidly expanded due to the emergence of new...doctoral thesis 2015