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Ph.D. Dissertations

  • Minhong Mi, "Analysis, Design, and Optimization of Antennas on CMOS Integrated Circuits for Energy Harvesting Applications," 2003.
  • Joshua Maina, "Complex Pulse Forming Technique using AM Detector Type Circuitry and the Application of CDMA to RFID for the Simultaneous reading of Multiple Tags," 2005.
  • Charles George Greene, "Area of Operation for a Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) Tag in the Far-Field," 2006.
  • Peter J. Hawrylak, "Analysis and Development of a Mathematical Structure to Describe Energy Consumption of Sensor Networks," 2006.
  • Leonid Mats, "An in-situ Approach for Characterization and Modeling of Transponder Packaging Techniques in Radio Frequency Identification Systems," 2007.

Master's Theses

  • Chad Emahiser - An Investigation of a Radio Frequency Energy Detector Using Microstrip Technology
  • Dmitry Gorodetsky - An Investigation of On-Chip Antenna Characteristics Related to Energy Harvesting Applications
  • Matt Volkar - Tuning and Control of An On-Chip Piezoelectric Resonator
  • Charles E. Greene - On-Chip Impedance Transformations for a Standard CMOS Process
  • Carl E. Taylor - Using VCOS as RF Measuring Devices
  • Michael Snyder - An Analysis of Antennas and the Effect of Proximate Elements and Conductors
  • Randy Maruschock - "A System to Analyze Continuous Ink Jet Droplets"
  • Dan Ulinski - Organic Diode and Other Circuit Element Creation Through Variations of Poly (3, 4-ethylenedioxythiophene) Synthesis
  • Daniel Harrist - Wireless Battery Charging Systems using Radio Frequency Energy Harvesting
  • David Sammel - Designing, Fabricating and Testing Concurrently Active Wireless Sensors
  • Doreen Jacob - Electrical Stimulation with Application to Facial Paralysis
  • Tim Carey - Proof of Concept Design for Single Dimension Position Determination Using Passive RFID

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