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Thermophotovoltaics : shaping the flow of thermal radiation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
This thesis explores the modeling, design, and optimization of photonic crystals as spectral control components for high-performance thermophotovoltaic (TPV) power conversion. In particular, we focus on the use of ...
Retrieval of cloud-cleared atmospheric temperature profiles from hyperspectral infrared and microwave observations
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
This thesis addresses the problem of retrieving the temperature profile of the Earth's atmosphere from overhead infrared and microwave observations of spectral radiance in cloudy conditions. The contributions of the thesis ...
Automatic syllable detection for vowel landmarks
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
Geophysical parameter estimation with a passive microwave spectrometer at 54 / 118 / 183 / 425 GHz
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
(cont.) model of a convective cell is presented that provides a physical basis for this relationship.
In vitro models for injurious compression of bovine and human articular cartilage
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)
Patients who have sustained a traumatic joint injury, such as a ligament rupture or cartilage fracture, are known to have an increased risk for the development of osteoarthritis (OA) in that joint. This has motivated the ...
An estimation-theoretic technique for motion-compensated synthetic-aperture array imaging
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
Synthetic-Aperture Radar (SAR) is an imaging technique that achieves high azimuth resolution by using coherent processing to exploit the relative motion between an airborne or spaceborne radar antenna and the imaged target ...
Real-time spatial-phase-locked electron-beam lithography
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
The ability of electron-beam lithography (EBL) to create sub-10-nm features with arbitrary geometry makes it a critical tool in many important applications in nanoscale science and technology. The conventional EBL system ...
Inferring regulatory networks from multiple sources of genomic data
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
(cont.) algorithm to identify the regulatory models from protein-DNA binding and gene expression data. These models to a large extent agree with the knowledge of gene regulation pertaining to the corresponding regulators. ...
On the capacity of relay networks with finite memory relays
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
(cont.) the length of relay memory and the number of relay stages.
Signal processing in biological cells : proteins, networks, and models
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
This thesis introduces systematic engineering principles to model, at different levels of abstraction the information processing in biological cells in order to understand the algorithms implemented by the signaling pathways ...