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Wang, X. (author)Urban areas face a variety of ecological challenges in their development. To improve urban ecology, strategic use of vegetation, particularly trees, is essential. As the amount of land available in cities decreases, the combination of buildings with vertically planted trees has become a popular way to increase urban greenery. However, this...doctoral thesis 2024
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Li, J. (author)Around 10% of the population will have to go through a catheterization procedure for the treatment of a cardiovascular disease at a certain stage of their lives. During such a procedure, smart catheters will be the "eyes and ears" of the surgeons, significantly improving the diagnosis and treatment. However, there have been very limited...doctoral thesis 2024
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Devia Pinzon, C.A. (author)An interconnected system is composed of multiple well-defined self-contained subsystems that interact among them and that together create collective behaviours. We can find many examples of interconnected systems in real life. Ranging from biological systems, such as the growth and interaction of populations in diverse and spatially distributed...doctoral thesis 2023
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Tao, T. (author)This thesis deals with the adaptive control of interconnected systems and multi-agent systems, where adaptive control is used to deal with the presence of uncertainties. Generally, two types of uncertainties can occur. The first one is parametric uncertainty, which is most commonly addressed in the literature, and for which several design...doctoral thesis 2022
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Kluba, M.M. (author)The progress in the field of neurostimulation is impressive, both from a technical as well as from a therapeutic point of view. Nowadays, the electrical stimulation of the nervous system can be used to induce or suppress muscle responses. Additionally, it can also influence hearing, vision, immune system response, pain perception, and even...doctoral thesis 2022
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Yi, H. (author)The rapid development of semiconductor industry in the past decades has reshaped the world tremendously and greatly changed people's lives. Two-dimensional (2D) down-sizing of semiconductor devices following the “Moore's law” for many years is now reaching its boundary conditions of further exponential growth and three-dimensional (3D)...doctoral thesis 2020
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Joshi, S. (author)Advancements in stretchable electronic systems have changed the way modern electronics interact with their target systems, by their conformability to more complex shapes as compared to conventional rigid or flexible electronics. By utilizing this, limitless applications in the field of healthcare can be realized, such as wearable and implantable...doctoral thesis 2018
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Zhu, Z. (author)Harness 3D routing is one of the most challenging steps in the design of aircraft Electrical Wiring Interconnection System (EWIS), due to the intrinsic complexity of the EWIS, the increasing number of applying design constraints, and its dependency on the design changes of the airframe and installed systems. The current routing process employed...doctoral thesis 2016
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Pham-Quoc Cuong, P. (author)Heterogeneous multicore systems are becoming increasingly important as the need for computation power grows, especially when we are entering into the big data era. As one of the main trends in heterogeneous multicore, hardware accelerator systems provide application specific hardware circuits and are thus more energy efficient and have higher...doctoral thesis 2015
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Thomas, W. (author)The growing energy consumption of lighting as well as rising luminous efficacies and -fluxes of high-power Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) have contributed to the widespread use of LEDs in modern lighting systems. One of the most prominent users of the LED-technology is automotive (exterior) lighting. It benefits from LEDs’ high efficiencies and...doctoral thesis 2014
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Vollebregt, S. (author)Interconnects in integrated circuits (IC) are the major cause of power dissipation and delay. 3D integration has been proposed as a method to reduce these issues. For this 3D integration, fabrication of high aspect ratio reliable vertical interconnects (vias) are required. For this new materials, like carbon nanotubes (CNT), are being considered...doctoral thesis 2014
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Bi, Y. (author)With each new generation of IC process technologies, the impact of manufacturing variability is increasing. As such, design optimality is harder and harder to achieve and effective modeling tools and methods are needed to capture the effects of variability in such a way that it is understandable and useful to IC designers. Our research has been...doctoral thesis 2012
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Sosin, S. (author)Flexible systems can be found in many fields such as automotive electronics, computers and peripherals (hard drives, image scanners, ink-jet print-head cables), aerospace, consumer electronics (mobile phones, cameras etc), medical (hearing aids, pacemakers) and many others. Further reduction in size and new properties such as reversible...doctoral thesis 2011
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Hur, J.Y. (author)This thesis presents our investigations on how to efficiently utilize on-chip wires to improve network performance in reconfigurable hardware. A fieldprogrammable gate array (FPGA), as a key component in a modern reconfigurable platform, accommodates many-millions of wires and the on-demand reconfigurability is realized using this abundance of...doctoral thesis 2011
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Wang, L. (author)Conventional IC packages form a rigid shell around silicon IC dies. Their purpose is to provide environmental protection, electrical interconnect and heat dissipation. Despite the fact that majority of current silicon IC?s are realized in a very thin top layer of the silicon substrate (<10µm), the typical thickness of packaged IC dies generally...doctoral thesis 2010
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Veenstra, H. (author)This thesis presents circuit and interconnect design techniques and design flows that address the most difficult and ill-defined aspects of the design of ICs for high bit-rate applications. Bottlenecks in interconnect design, circuit design and on-chip signal distribution for high bit-rate applications are analysed, and solutions that circumvent...doctoral thesis 2006
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