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Hollow core antiresonant fibres for fibre laser applications
(2018-04-19)Hollow core photonic crystal fibres (HC-PCFs) have promising applications in high power beam delivery, chemical sensing and gas-based nonlinear optics. According to the waveguide mechanisms they based on, HC-PCFs are ... -
Analysis and exploitation of dispersive waves for source localization on solids
(2018-04-19)This thesis mainly addresses different classes of algorithms for impact source localization in solids with particular focus on developing a human-computer interface (HCI) through touch impact. The challenge of this research ... -
Occupant-aware thermal comfort control with elevated air speed
(2018-04-19)Compressor-based cooling contributes a large part of energy consumption in buildings, especially in hot and humid climates. In Singapore, electricity comprises the largest percentage of building operating expense, of which ... -
Innovative application and driving of enhancement mode gallium nitride power transistors
(2018-04-19)Wide-bandgap semiconductors like Gallium Nitride (GaN) are enabling higher efficiency and greater power density in power electronics. The objective of this work is to develop novel gate drive methods and applications for ... -
Design of variation-tolerant integrated circuits
(2018-04-17)The semiconductor industry is strategically focusing on automotive markets and significant investment is targeted to address these markets. Run time better-than-worst-case designs like Razor leads to massive timing errors ... -
Compact and fast machine learning accelerator for IoT devices
(2018-04-16)The Internet of things (IoT) is the networked interconnection of every object to provide intelligent service and improve economy benefit. The potential of IoT and its ubiquitous computation reality are staggering, but ... -
Modeling and optimization of vacuumed regeneration process for liquid desiccant dehumidification system
(2018-04-11)Since the last few decades the world has been facing global warming due to the increased percentage of atmospheric CO2. Much attention is therefore devoted to building air conditioning and, mechanical ventilation (ACMV) ... -
Place detection through analysis of descriptor sequences of 3D point clouds
(2018-04-05)Place awareness is a critical component of safe decision-making in autonomous mobile robotics. The significance of place awareness is more appreciable in large-scale outdoor environment in which, safety measures, mission ... -
Development of UWB-IR based low power asset tracking system with precise location information
(2018-04-05)Global Positioning System (GPS) and Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) are currently widely used for measurement of real time location of assets in tracking applications. However, in densely cluttered indoor ... -
Growth and characterization of boron nitride and carbon nitride thin films
(2018-04-05)This thesis focuses on Boron Nitride (BN) and Carbon Nitride (CN) thin film nanostructuring. Inspired by its carbon counterpart, BN and CN nanocrystal orientation can be tailored to align themselves in the vertical direction. ... -
Vision based obstacle detection and mapping for unmanned surface vehicles
(2018-04-02)An unmanned surface vehicle (USV) is a speed boat that comes with a suit of sensors to understand maritime environment and navigational intelligence to know how to navigate itself autonomously. In this thesis, we focus on ... -
Modeling and analysis of post plasmonic effects in optically excited metal nanosystems
(2018-03-27)Plasmonic nanoparticles such as gold (Au) and silver (Ag) with their heterogeneous nanocomposite structures have aggrandized in multitude of applications including biomedical imaging (optical, photoacoustics (PA), dark ... -
Class-E RF power amplifier with a digitally-controlled output matching network for dynamic load modulation
(2018-03-23)This Master of Engineering research project pertains to the analysis, design, and Integrated Circuit (IC) realization of a novel Class-E RF Power Amplifier (PA) capable of generating a variable-envelope output signal for ... -
On shoe attribute prediction and retrieval
(2018-03-22)With the rapid proliferation of the Internet, it has become a great challenge to annotate a large number of objects manually, especially for the fashion domain where a massive collection of new products come up every day. ... -
Miniature flow cytometer and its application in cancer theranostics-based nanoassays
(2018-03-21)Flow cytometry is an indispensable tool for identification, classification, and enumeration of single cells/particles in biomedical applications like pathology, immunology, gene sequencing, chromosome sorting, biodefence, ... -
Development of novel gene delivery system for cancer therapy
(2018-03-20)In this thesis, novel biodegradable charged polyester-based vectors (BCPVs) were designed and synthesized as siRNA carrier for cancer treatment. Under optimized conditions, the BCPV can effectively protect siRNA from ... -
Modeling and optimization for regenerator with heat recovery in liquid desiccant dehumidification system
(2018-03-19)As a broad and complex topic, energy efficiency has drawn an intensive attention in research community. Air Conditioning and Mechanical Ventilation (ACMV) systems in Singapore consume a substantial portion of energy in ... -
Design and monolithic realization of high-speed high-resolution analog-to-digital converters
(2018-03-16)This PhD program pertains to the design and monolithic realization of high-speed high-resolution Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADCs), particularly pipeline-based and Successive Approximation Register (SAR)-based architectures, ... -
Analysis and design of high-speed digital-to-analog converters
(2018-03-09)This Ph.D. thesis pertains to the investigation, design, and monolithic realization of GHz Digital-to-Analog Converters (DACs). State-of-the-art DACs rely heavily on complex digital approaches (calibrations or ... -
Boron nitride carbon foams for various thermal applications
(2018-03-06)Three-dimensional graphene and hexagonal-boron nitride structures (3D-C and 3DBN) have recently attracted attention due to their enhanced mechanical, handling and surface area properties, while maintaining the well-reported ...
