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A hybrid prognostic approach for battery health monitoring and remaining-useful-life prediction
(2021)
Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries are commonly used in various industrial and domestic
applications, such as portable communication devices, medical equipment, and electric vehicles.
However, the Li-ion battery performance ...
Design methodology for Class D ultrasound transducer drivers
(2021)
Ultrasound refers to sound waves with frequencies above the upper limit
of human hearing. Due to the high frequency, the energy can be concentrated and used for therapeutic applications, such as ultrasound imaging ...
Adaptive steady-state analysis of circuits using wavelets
(2021)
This thesis presents research into utilizing the sparse representations of waveforms that are possible
in the wavelet domain to increase the computational efficiency of the steady-state analysis of electric
circuits. The ...
Design of a beam-steerable microstrip line based leaky wave antenna using uniaxial field programmable microwave substrate (FPMS)
(2021)
The ever-growing wireless technologies of today are pushing the limits of the state-of-the-art radio
frequency (RF) components design. One special requirement which is widely needed in modern
applications is for the RF ...
Multi-advisor deep reinforcement learning for smart home energy control
(2021)
Effective automated smart home control is essential for smart-grid enabled approaches to demand response, named in the literature as automated demand response. At it’s heart, this is a multi-objective
adaptive control ...
Optimization of the process for sol-gel derived ZnO:Al thin films for transparent conducting oxide applications
(2021)
Transparent and conducting Al-doped ZnO thin films with c-axis-preferred orientation were
prepared on glass substrate via sol-gel route. The physical, optical and electrical properties were
investigated to determine an ...
Ku band rotary traveling-wave voltage controlled oscillator
(2021)
Voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) plays a key role in determination of the link
budget of wireless communication, and consequently the performance of the transceiver.
Lowering the noise contribution from the VCO to the ...
Gallium nitride on low temperature cofired ceramic templates for Schottky junctions
(2021)
In this work aluminum, silicon and zinc oxide were used as intermediate layers for thin
film growth on cofired glass ceramic substrates. The motivation behind this work is a direct
deposition of nitride thin films on the ...
Compact magnetic resonance-guided high-intensity focused ultrasound phased array system
(2021)
Phased array ultrasound transducers (Txs) can induce electronically controllable localized
hyperthermia to tissue deep within the human body. This localized heating can be applied to
tumours as an adjunct therapy in ...
Power loss investigation of series-connected current source inverters
(2021)
Current-source inverters (CSIs) are a type of direct current (DC) to alternating current
(AC) converters that generate a defined AC output current waveform from a DC current
supply. As the counterpart of voltage source ...