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MEMS-CMOS Heterogenous Mixed Signal Circuit Design
(2017-08)
Various mixed-signal circuits form an integral part of modern electronic systems, whether portable or bench-top in size. Power converters, data converters and communication circuits are the three major categories of ...
CMOS Implementation of Adaptive Input-Output Linearization Technique for a Boost DC-DC Converter
(2017-08)
Linear control techniques have been widely used to control non-isolated nonlinear DC-DC converters. Type-I, type-II and type-III controllers are some of the most widely used linear control techniques. However, when a linear ...
A 0.1 PS Resolution Coarse-Fine Time-To-Digital Converter with 2.21 PS Single-Shot Precision
(2018-05)
This dissertation proposes a new type of time-to-digital converter based on a resistor-capacitor (RC) delay line that offers low power consumption, high speed and high resolution with error-correction circuitry. The 14-bit, ...
A MEMS-Assisted Dual-Resonator Temperature-to-Digital Converter
(2016-12)
Many applications demand precision oscillators, which are usually generated through employing resonators with high quality factor (Q). Quartz and MicroElectroMechanical systems (MEMS) are the most common precision resonators ...
Background Analog and Digital Calibration Techniques for Pipelined ADC’s
(2017-05)
A digital background calibration technique to treat capacitor mismatch, residue gain error and nonlinearity in a pipelined analog-to-digital converter (ADC) based on the split-ADC architecture (J. McNeill et al., “Split ...
Modeling and Analysis of High Frequency Noise in Bicmos Transistors
(2019-08)
The importance of high frequency noise performance is increasing in advanced bipolar and
complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (BiCMOS) technologies because of the high demands
of radio frequency (RF) and mixed-signal ...
Explicitly Quantum Mechanical Silicon Complementary-Metal-Oxide Semiconductor Devices
(2019-05)
Enormous growth in silicon large scale integrated circuits (IC) has been accelerated by reducing the size of their fundamental elements such as complementary-metal-oxide-semiconductor
(CMOS) transistors over the past fifty ...
Theoretical Study of Quantum Transport in Realistic Semiconductor Devices
(2019-05)
Semiconductor devices have transformed the world through tremendous technological advances in all aspects of life imaginable. An important aspect of the research into improving
these devices is computer-aided simulation ...
Circuit Level Modeling of Spintronic Devices
(2017-12)
It is an exciting time for circuit designers working on beyond-CMOS logic and memory design. Many alternative technologies to conventional Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) technology have been proposed in ...
Compact, Non-Invasive, High Impedance Detectors in CMOS for Mm-Wave Applications
(2018-12)
This dissertation investigates uses of mm-wave detectors in complementary metal-oxidesemiconductor (CMOS) for affordable mm-wave circuit characterization. The scaling of CMOS
technology has brought significant advances ...