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Tradeoffs and limitations in networked control systems	Adaptive resonant mode control for high frequency tonal noise

Distributed real-time operating system (DRTOS) modeling in SpecC	The Virtual Storm: An exploratory virtual environment of a supercell tornadic thunderstorm for meteorological education

Explicit characterization of bandgap references	A 2.4GHz fast-switching integer-N frequency synthesizer

On-line computation of system operating limits with respect to thermal constraints	The Intrusion Collector and Emulator

Iterative post-SIC processing schemes in V-BLAST wireless MIMO communication systems	Low pressure chemical vapor deposition of a-Si:H from disilane

Low-level estimation at high-levels of abstraction in system-level design	Investment planning applied to power systems using real options analysis

Electromagnetic materials characterization of ferromagnetic composites at microwave frequencies	DECADA: Tool for discrete-event control and diagnosis analyzer

Security and social implications of radio frequency identification	Piezoelectric coupling constant in epitaxial Mg-doped GaN, and, Design of pentacene acoustic charge transfer devices

ISECUBE: A portable ISEAGE	Description of a superconducting transmission line having a weak link Josephson junction architecture

Identification of cascaded generator over-excitation tripping events	Modeling of suppliers' learning behaviors in an electricity market environment

A false injection-resilient scheme to monitor time-variant phenomenon in wireless sensor networks	Nulling-cancelling algorithm with selective maximum-likelihood detection for MIMO communication

Internet scale endpoint masquerading	Coordinated static and dynamic reactive power planning against power system voltage stability related problems

PECVD grown DBR for microcavity OLED sensor	Channel adaptive real-time medium access control protocols for industrial wireless networks

Data delivery in fragmented wireless sensor networks using mobile agents	Defect detection using eddy-currents and Hall effect sensor arrays

A static analysis of maximum wind penetration in Iowa and a dynamic assessment of frequency response in wind turbine types	The effects of low pressure helium ion bombardment on hydrogenated amorphous silicon

CONDENSER: A custom tool for capturing and summarizing network traffic for AVALANCHE and ISEAGE	Novel composites for microwave absorption

Nonlinear device characterization and second harmonic impedance tuning to achieve peak performance for a SiC power MESFET device at 2GHz	Microwave nondestructive evaluation of aircraft radomes

Analysis of transmit beamforming and fair OFDMA scheduling	Measurement of minority carrier lifetimes in nanocrystalline silicon devices using reverse-recovery transient method

Light-trapping enhancement in thin film solar cells with photonic crystals	Noise analysis for switched-capacitor circuitry

High performance password cracking by implementing rainbow tables on nVidia graphics cards (IseCrack)	SnoScan: An iterative functionality service scanner for large scale networks

Analysis of shielded and open microstrip lines of double negative metamaterials using spectral domain approach (SDA)	Architecture and debugging of digital signal processing software in a high frequency MIL-STD-188-110A Single Tone receiver

An efficient and fair reliable multicast protocol for 802.11-based wireless LANs	Two impacts of wind penetration: Transient frequency response and load following requirements

Laser microfabrication and testing of silicon carbide diaphragms for MEMS applications	SiO2 nanosphere textured back reflectors for enhanced light trapping in amorphous and nanocrystalline silicon solar cells

Detection of intrusions at layer one: A preliminary performance analysis of the IEEE 802.3 normal link pulse as a means of host-to-network authentication and a survey of environmental effects	Lightweight mutual authentication, owner transfer, and secure search protocols for RFID systems

Impact of private data mining on personal privacy from agents of government	Voltage security assessment with high penetration levels of utility-scale doubly fed induction generator wind plants

Closed-loop force control for a semi-automatic grinding system	Preventing integrated circuit piracy using reconfigurable logic barriers

A low voltage rail-to-rail operational amplifier with constant operation and improved process robustness	Photonic crystal back-reflectors for light management and enhanced absorption in a-SI:H solar cells

Extension of electrical engineering to bioengineering topics: Magnetic fermentation and microfluidic nematode assays	Optimal area and impedance allocation for maximizing yield and enhancing performance in dual string DACs

Long term power generation planning under uncertainty	Assessment of depth of case-hardening in steel rods by electromagnetic methods

Network coding in wireless networks	Enhancement of minority carrier lifetime in low quality silicon by ion implantation of arsenic and antimony

Fast phase steering in an array antenna using PLL	Dependence of bubble size and peak rarefractional pressure on maximum bubble response during therapeutic ultrasound histotripsy

Methods for online voltage stability monitoring	Obstacle-avoiding rectilinear Steiner minimal tree construction

Minimum cost content distribution using network coding: Replication vs. coding at the source nodes	Utilizing reactive capability of doubly fed induction generators to enhance system voltage performance and withstand wind variability

Silica nanosphere textured back reflectors for increased absorption in thin film amorphous silicon solar cells	Photovoltaic activity in benzobisoxazole based conjugated polymers

Fabrication and modeling of thin-film anodic titania memristors	Using an autothrottle to compare techniques for saving fuel on a regional jet aircraft

Microfluidics engineering: A lab-on-chip bioassay for in vivo nematode tesing	Feasibility of compressed air energy storage to store wind energy on daily and monthly basis

A method to determine the presence of oxygen in organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs)	Static and dynamic nonlinearity compensation techniques for high performance current-steering digital-to-analog converters

Transfer operator-based approach for domain of attraction computation and experimental data analysis	Analysis and testing of a new prototype power transmission structure and an alternative design approach for longitudinal loads

Focused Electric Field Induced Ion Transport: A novel nano-imprinting approach	An ultra-wideband low noise amplifier and spectrum sensing technique for cognitive radio

Greater sustained throughput and contention elimination in IEEE 802.11 with DS-CDMA	Calculation of defect densities in nano-crystalline and amorphous silicon devices using differential capacitance measurements

Multi-threshold transistors cell for low voltage integrated temperature sensing application in digital deep submicron process	An investigation into the paintbrush deposition technique for P3HT:PCBM based organic heterojunction solar cells

Design and evaluation of a delay-based FPGA physically unclonable function	Graphical model and algorithm for detecting DNA structural variation

Design of a Magnetically Tunable Low Noise Amplifier in 0.13microm CMOS Technology	Grain wagon fill detection using ultrasonic sensors

Electrical and capacitive methods for detecting degradation in wire insulation	Stability (over time) of regularized modified CS (noisy) for recursive causal sparse reconstruction

Particle filtered modified compressed sensing and applications in visual tracking	Bayesian max-product expectation maximization algorithm for structured sparse signals reconstruction

Residential air-conditioning system with smart-grid functionality	Model development, system identification, and control of a quadrotor helicopter

Spatial signal processing in wireless sensor networks	An integrated placement and routing approach

MIMO communication systems: Receiver design and diversity-multiplexing tradeoff analysis	Transient eddy current response due to a subsurface crack in a conductive plate

Power system dynamic security analysis via decoupled time domain simulation and trajectory optimization	Nanocrystalline silicon thin film transistors

Integrated network flow model for a reliability assessment of the national electric energy system	Fiber optic networks: Fairness, access controls and prototyping

Design and protection algorithms for path level aggregation of traffic in WDM metro optical networks	Structural and electronic properties of nanocrystalline silicon thin film solar cells fabricated by hot wire and ECR-plasma CVD techniques

High linearity analog and mixed-signal integrated circuit design	Dynamic calibration of current-steering DAC

Planning reactive power control for transmission enhancement	Robust design of high gain amplifiers using dynamical systems and bifurcation theory

The effect of surface roughness parameters on contact and wettability of solid surfaces	Optimal GENCO bidding strategy

Distributed controller synthesis and decision making	Wireless multiuser communication systems: Diversity receiver performance analysis, GSMuD design, and fading channel simulator

Continuum: An architecture for user evolvable collaborative virtual environments	Accurate electromagnetic full-wave modeling for interconnects in semiconductor integrated circuits

Risk based multi-objective security control and congestion management	Electromagnetic waves in double negative metamaterials and study on numerical resonances in the method of moments (MoM)

On-line cascading event tracking and avoidance decision support tool	Systems approach based solution to fundamental limitations in unraveling spatial and temporal regimes in nano-interrogation and nano-positioning

Device quality low temperature gate oxide growth using electron cyclotron resonance plasma oxidation of silicon	Structurally integrated luminescence based oxygen sensors with Organic LED/oxygen sensitive dye and PECVD grown thin film photodetectors

Low power high speed and high accuracy design methodologies for pipeline Analog-to-Digital Converters	Study of left-handed materials

Composite left-handed materials and negative refraction in photonic crystals	Investigation of magneto-optical properties for optical fiber based devices

Beyond the arithmetic constraint: Depth-optimal mapping of logic chains in reconfigurable fabrics	Decision making under uncertainty in power system using Benders decomposition

Design and analysis of anonymous communications for emerging applications	Economic analysis of transmission enhancement through merchant projects

Transport properties in nanocrystalline silicon and silicon germanium	Characterization of defect cavities and channel-drop filters in the three dimensional woodpile photonic crystal

Fully digital-compatible built-in self-test solutions to linearity testing of embedded mixed-signal functions	Effective techniques for detecting and attributing cyber criminals

Design and analysis of MAC protocols for wireless networks	Fault-tolerant supervisory control of discrete-event systems

Reachability and model prediction based system protection schemes for power systems	Information requirements for strategic decision-making: Energy market

Information technology social engineering: An academic definition and study of social engineering - analyzing the human firewall	Directed control of discrete event systems

Validation of remotely-sensed soil moisture observations for bare soil at 1.4 GHz: A quantitative approach through radiative transfer models to characterize abrupt transitions caused by a ponding event in an agricultural field, modifications to the radiative transfer models, and a mobile ground-based system	Phased array system design

Dynamic performance of restructured wholesale power markets with learning generation companies: An agent-based test bed study	Timing speculation and adaptive reliable overclocking techniques for aggressive computer systems

Alternative designs for nanocrystalline silicon solar cells	Modeling discharge and surface processes in capacitively coupled reactors

Surface modes at metallic and photonic crystal interfaces	Security, protection, and control of power systems with large-scale wind power penetration

Energy-efficient coverage with wireless sensors	Rapid optimization of interior permanent magnet (IPM) machines using the response surface method and dimensionless parameters

Integral equation analysis of electromagnetic wave propagation in periodic structure and error analysis of various basis functions in projection of plane waves	Efficient processing of system scenarios in statistical and machine learning studies for power system operational and investment planning

Integrated bioassays for screening chemical and biological species	Particle filtering on large dimensional state spaces and applications in computer vision

Reducing the losses of optical metamterials	A communications system perspective for dynamic mode atomic force microscopy, with applications to high-density storage and nanoimaging

Frequency domain active noise control with ultrasonic tracking	Evaluation of wholesale electric power market rules and financial risk management by agent-based simulations

Optimization and application of ultrasound attenuation estimation algorithms	A plug and play framework for an HVAC air handling unit and temperature sensor auto recognition technique

A multiobjective optimization approach to the operation and investment of the national energy and transportation systems	Interferometric methods of magneto-optic optical switching

Network flow algorithms for wireless networks and design and analysis of rate compatible LDPC codes	Physical layer identification: Methodology, security, and origin of variation

Long-term power system capacity expansion planning considering reliability and economic criteria	Investigation of novel methodologies using reactive power reserves for online voltage stability margin monitoring and control

Algebraic approaches to distributed compression and network error correction	A comprehensive invariant subspace-based framework for power system small-signal stability analysis

Increasing the efficiency of organic solar cells by photonic and electrostatic-field enhancements	Expectation maximization hard thresholding methods for sparse signal reconstruction

New optimization techniques for power system generation scheduling	Control architectures for spur-free operation in switching power regulators

Economic analysis for transmission operation and planning	Distributed averaging over communication networks: Fragility, robustness and opportunities

(aSiGe/ncSi) Superlattice thin film silicon solar cell	Techniques suitable for on chip implementation and ADC Built-in Self-test solutions for low cost and accurate ADC testing

Achievable rates for relay networks using superposition coding	Sparse recovery with partial support and signal value knowledge and applications in dynamic MRI

A new emergency control method and a preventive mechanism against cascaded events to avoid large-scale blackouts	Plasma surface interactions in nanoscale processing: Preservation of low-k integrity and high-k gate-stack etching with Si selectivity

Integrating plug-in electric vehicles into the electric power system	3D global router: A study to optimize congestion, wirelength and via for circuit layout

Polarization-diverse absorption enhancement in thin-film organic photovoltaic devices using long-pitch plasmonic gratings	Optimal networked controllers for networked plants

Microscale platform technologies for biomimetics and biomedical engineering	Autocalibrating vision guided navigation of unmanned air vehicles via tactical monocular cameras in GPS denied environments

Analysis and synthesis methods for uncertain nonlinear network systems	Potential drop and eddy current nondestructive evaluation problems

Non-metallic metamaterials: modelling, design, and fabrication tolerances analysis	Photonic and plasmonic structures for enhancing efficiency of thin film silicon solar cells