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A reconfigurable electrode array for use in rotational electrical impedance myography
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
This thesis describes the design of a novel handheld electrode probe and measurement system for use in rotational electrical impedance myography (EIM), which is a method for diagnosing neuromuscular disease. The probe can ...
Dielectrometry measurements of moisture diffusion and temperature dynamics in oil impregnated paper insulated electric power cables
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
Paper insulated lead covered (PILC) cables have played an important role in underground power distribution for a hundred years. Replacing aged PILC before failure is critical to managing power distribution. Three prominent ...
A comparator-based switched-capacitor pipelined analog-to-digital converter
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
A new comparator-based switched-capacitor(CBSC) technique is proposed that eliminates the need for high gain op-amps in switched-capacitor circuits. The CBSC technique replaces the op-amp in switched-capacitor circuits ...
Energy scalability of on-chip interconnection networks
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
On-chip interconnection networks (OCN) such as point-to-point networks and buses form the communication backbone in multiprocessor systems-on-a-chip, multicore processors, and tiled processors. OCNs consume significant ...
CAPRI : a common architecture for distributed probabilistic Internet fault diagnosis
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
This thesis presents a new approach to root cause localization and fault diagnosis in the Internet based on a Common Architecture for Probabilistic Reasoning in the Internet (CAPRI) in which distributed, heterogeneous ...
Coördinating human-robot communication
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
As robots begin to emerge from the cloisters of industrial and military applications and enter the realms of coöperative partners for people, one of the most important facets of human-robot interaction (HRI) will be ...
DomeView : community-based digital bulliten boards and mobile phone interaction
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
Our thesis is that a networked public display/kiosk system, that provides information for a local community, functions best when it is decentralized and interactive. We deployed such a system at MIT that has two aspects, ...
Electrical degradation mechanisms of RF power GaAs PHEMTs
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
GaAs Pseudomorphic High-Electron Mobility Transistors (PHEMTs) are widely used in RF power applications. Since these devices typically operate at high power levels and under high voltage biasing, their electrical reliability ...
Engineering the optical properties of subwavelength devices and materials
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
Many applications demand materials with seemingly incompatible optical characteristics. For example, immersion photolithography is a resolution enhancing technique used to fabricate the ever-shrinking nanostructures in ...
ANA : a method for ARM-on-ARM execution
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
This thesis proposes and implements ANA, a new method for the simulation of ARM programs on the ARM platform. ANA is a lightweight ARM instruction interpreter that uses the hardware to do a lot of the work for the ...