Colony collapse disorder is killing o the world's honeybees at alarming rates. Since honeybees are the primary pollinators of much of mankind's food supply, we must look to other sources of pollination. There are thousands ...

In recent years, there have been a number of studies done on gallium nitride (GaN) because of its promising electronic and thermal properties. Its characteristic features are a wide bandgap, high electron mobility, and ...

The objective of this thesis research is to analyze the guided resonances in photonic crystal slabs. It introduces the different kinds of photonic crystals and focuses on photonic crystal slabs consisting of a square lattice ...

One of the most important aspect in a power system network is to make a network secure against unanticipated events. In general, a power system network is always made N-1 secure: any single outage will not lead to ...

The performance potential of future architectures, thanks to Moores Law, grows linearly with the number of available devices per integrated circuit. Whether these future devices are ultra-small CMOS transistors, nano-tubes, ...

The work in this thesis is motivated by the need to design an energy marketplace for use in a Dynamic Distribution System. The Dynamic Distribution System is a proposed techno-economic approach to increased penetration of ...

Embankment construction specifications in the State of Wisconsin indicate that compaction lifts cannot be thicker than 20 cm. This specification was established several years ago based on field experience when compactors ...

Heat and particle losses in magnetically confined fusion devices are dominated by anomalous losses that are thought to be driven by micro-turbulence. Micro-turbulence contributes to the inverse cascade of energy from ...

In this thesis, a high frequency resonant SEPIC bidirectional converter is proposed that has applications in battery equalization and charging/discharging. Motivations and applications for battery equalization are explored. ...

This thesis is comprised of three projects that I worked on during the period of my Master of Science degree. All three projects use computer vision and image processing techniques to improve microscopy image analysis ...