Electronic Systems Engineering (ESE)
Recent Submissions
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Characterization of Interconnections in Smart-X Applications
Smart-X applications are realized by interconnecting several objects to achieve real-time capability by improving safety, reliability, and efficiency. These interconnections can be broadly classified as physical connections ... -
High-Level Synthesis of Geant4 Particle Transport Application for FPGA
Geant4 is a software toolkit that simulates particle transport in matter and is widely used in high energy, nuclear, and medical physics applications. The toolkit offers a wide range of physics models and geometry ... -
Investigations on Voltage Control of Stacked DC-link Series Capacitors with a Nine-Level Inverter for an Induction Motor Load
Multilevel Inverters offer several advantages over two-level inverters in applications involving medium voltage and high power levels. A variety of applications are now available for MLI technology, ranging from variable ... -
Design and Development of Implantable Electrode Arrays for Recording Signals from Rat’s Brain
Seizure is a neurological disorder due to abnormal, excessive, and hypersynchronous discharges from an aggregate of central nervous system neurons. Epilepsy describes the clinical phenomena of a condition of recurrent and ... -
Design and Development of an Intubation Catheter Integrated with MEMS-based Sensors for Central Airway Obstruction
Airway pathology leads to alteration in fluid flow, tissue biomechanics, and loss of patency. To address this clinical challenge, we developed an intraoperative tool to locate the site of obstruction, characterize tracheal ... -
Investigations on Generation of Multilevel 24-Sided Polygonal Voltage Space Vector Structures Without Vector Averaging for Variable Speed Drives
Induction motors are mainly powered by two-level inverters in low-voltage, low-power drive applications. For medium and high voltage applications, a conventional two-level inverter needs high voltage rated switches, ... -
Optimal Placement and Traffic Steering of VNFs and Edge Servers using Column Generation in Data Center Networks
Telecom Service Providers (TSPs) were traditionally dependent on physical devices to provide end-to-end communication. The services provided were high quality and stable but low in agility and hardware-dependent. As the ... -
Investigations on Capacitor Size Reduction and PWM Strategy for Multilevel Polygonal Space Vector Structure for Induction Motor Drives
Multilevel voltage source inverter transformed conversion of DC to AC for medium to high power application. With increasing electric power demand, the multilevel converter allows high power density converters for medium ... -
Device-Circuit Reliability Co-Design in High voltage and Power devices
For the last four decades, silicon CMOS technology has captured a significant share in IC, smart power IC, SoC, and the power device market. But there is aggressive research on other materials such as graphene & similar ... -
Atomic-level Investigation and Proposals to Address Technological Roadblocks and Reliability Challenges in 2D Material Based Nanoelectronic Devices
The transistor scaling is witness to many extraordinary inventions during its consecutive miniaturization. The journey began from Dennard’s classical constant field scaling, crossing through the milestones like strain ... -
Scheduling Algorithms for Wireless Networks and Cloud Computing Platforms
This thesis focuses on designing scheduling algorithms for wireless communication networks, FMCW radar networks, and cloud computing platforms. In each case, the algorithms aim at efficient utilization of resources, e.g., ... -
Physics-based Approach For Efficient & Reliable Enhancement-mode AlGaN/GaN High Electron Mobility Transistor (HEMT) Technology
Power semiconductor devices have been the key to growth of power electronics market, and cover application areas ranging from mobile stations (commercial) to missile seekers (military). Continuously increasing demand for ... -
High-Throughput Computational Techniques for Discovery of Application-Specific Two-Dimensional Materials
Two-dimensional (2D) materials have revolutionized the field of materials science since the successful exfoliation of graphene in 2004. Consequently, the advances in computational science have resulted in massive generic ... -
Service scheduling with Service, Waiting and Dissatisfaction costs
Service or job scheduling problems arise in many contexts such as cloud computing, task scheduling in CPUs, traffic routing and scheduling, production scheduling in plants, scheduling charging of electric vehicles (EVs), ... -
Design, Fabrication and Characterization of ZnO based Thin Film Schottky Diodes and Transistors
The thesis focuses on the development of thin film Schottky diodes and thin film transistors (TFTs) based on ZnO. ZnO has been recognized as a promising candidates for the next generation of transparent and flexible ... -
Investigations on Increasing Linear Modulation Range in Hybrid Multilevel Inverter Fed Induction Machine Drives Regardless of Load Power Factor
Nowadays, multilevel inverters (MLIs) have become a promising alternative to the twolevel inverter in medium voltage high-power applications such as motor drives, active power filters, HVDC, electric vehicles, wind, and ... -
Development of Microneedles for Transdermal and Intradermal Drug Delivery
Transdermal drug delivery has an enormous potential for painless therapeutics. Many drugs designed for systemic action are more efficient when delivered through the skin compared to oral administration as their degradation ... -
Hardware-based Device Identification for Systems with Commercially Off-the-shelf Components
The Identity of an electronic device is a fundamental property, that bootstraps several applications such as authentication and traceability. For the purpose of device identification, conventional methods generate a unique ... -
Addressing the Performance and Reliability Bottlenecks in 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenide (TMD) Based Transistor Technology
In this thesis, we presented different contributions towards the development of 2D material technology. Firstly the realization of desired dimensions over singlecrystal high-quality MoS2 material through dry etching ... -
Investigations on Polygonal Voltage Space Vector Structure generation with lower order harmonic suppression using switched capacitive filter throughout modulation range for Drive Applications
Multilevel inverters (MLI) are widely used in a host of industrial applications ranging from renewable energy systems, to electric vehicles, to distributed generation. Due to the switching nature of the output voltage, MLI ...