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Extensions and enhancements to the iLab heat transfer project site
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
The iLab Heat Transfer Project website started four years ago to enable web access to experiments related to movement of heat through transport processes. This thesis details improvements made to the site which extend and ...
A Lorentz-force actuated controllable needle-free drug delivery system
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
The advantages of delivering injections via needle-free methods are numerous. However, conventional methods for needle-free injection lack sufficient control over depth of penetration and shape of injection. Thus, a ...
Accelerated clustering through locality-sensitive hashing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
We obtain improved running times for two algorithms for clustering data: the expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm and Lloyd's algorithm. The EM algorithm is a heuristic for finding a mixture of k normal distributions ...
Feasibility studies for quantum computation with spectral hole burning media
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998)
In this thesis I consider a scheme for quantum computation in which quantum bits (qubits) are stored in individual spectral holes of an in homogeneously broadened medium, such as a cryogenically cooled crystal of Pr:Y2 SiO ...
A microfabricated solid oxide fuel cell
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
With the ever-increasing ubiquity of mobile consumer electronic devices comes the rising demand for portable electric power. Current battery technology gives a very modest energy return per weight or volume. Hydrocarbons ...
An axial force sensor for a prosthetic knee
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998)
A spread spectrum sonar with noise-locked loop-based entrainment
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
Dynamic line integral convolution for visualizing electromagnetic phenomena
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
Vector field visualization is a useful tool in science and engineering, giving us a powerful way of understanding the structure and evolution of the field. A fairly recent technique called Line Integral Convolution (LIC) ...
Magnetic properties of an isolated quantum dot
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)
Design and fabrication of sharp bend photonic crystal slab waveguides
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
A periodic arrangement of atoms in a crystal presents a periodic potential for electrons. The bragg diffraction of electrons from the atoms may lead to a band gap, which represents a range of frequencies the electrons ...