Phase change memory (PCM) is a novel nonvolatile memory technology with great potential for scaling beyond the physical limits of Flash, at dimensions of 35 nm and below. Rather than relying on charge storage, PCM functions ...

Solar cells typically produce about 0.6 V at maximum power output. However, many applications require 3.6 V. A conventional solution is to connect several cells in series to achieve the necessary voltage for those applications. ...

This thesis describes the development of an ultrafast computed tomography (CT) reconstruction engine, coupling fast CT reconstruction algorithms with the parallelism and processing power of the NVIDIA GeForce ...

The electron density in the solar atmosphere maybe tomographically reconstructed from a series of remotely sensed observations of the white-light corona measured at distinct points-of-view. Measurement noise and the sparsity ...

Microcavity plasma devices using glass substrates will be discussed. The cavities formed on glass substrate sustain very high operation voltage over 7 kV p-p and provide long lifetime due to its dielectric characteristics. ...

As an important semiconductor, gallium arsenide (GaAs) is widely used to make devices such as microwave frequency integrated circuits (MFICs), infrared light-emitting diodes, laser diodes, and solar cells. This thesis is ...

Active inductors of various configurations were previously designed in an effort to explore a SiGe-based active inductor solution. The design is specified in High-Speed SiGe BiCMOS and InP DHBT Receiver IC’s for Optical ...

This work explores the tradeoffs of the memory system of a new massively parallel multiprocessor in view of the difficulties it presents to programmers. The architecture under consideration groups processing elements ...