Dissertation Presentations - 2004/2005


Summer 2005

Shailaja P. Rao , For the Ph.D. Degree in Electrical Engineering
July 8th, 2005
"Implant Annealing of Al Dopants in Silicon Carbide Using Silane Overpressure"
Major Professor: Stephen E. Saddow, Ph.D.
Committee: Andrew M. Hoff, Ph.D., Olle Kordina, Ph.D, John T. Wolan, Ph.D. Ryan Toomey, Ph.D.

Anton Belyaev, For the Ph.D. Degree in Electrical Engineering
June 15th, 2005
"Stress Diagnostics and Crack Detection in Full-size Silicon Wafers Using Resonance Ultrasonic Vibrations"
Co-Major Professor: Sergei Ostapenko , Ph.D.
Co-Major Professor: Rudiger Schlaf, Ph.D.
Committee: Ashok Kumar, Ph.D.l, Julie Harmon, Ph.D. John Wolan, Ph.D.

Spring 2005

Alicia Garcia-Lopez For the Ph.D. Degree in Electrical Engineering
March 29, 2005
"Hybrid Model for Characterization of Submicron Particles Using Multiwavelength Spectroscopy"
Major Professor: A. David Snider, Ph.D. Committee: Ken Buckle, Ph.D., Wilfrido Moreno, Ph.D., Stanley Deams, Ph.D., Oscar D. Crisalle, Ph.D.

Sami M. Kadamani For the Ph.D. Degree in Electrical Engineering
March 28, 2005
USFKAD: An Expert System for Partial Differential Equations
Major Professor: A. David Snider, Ph.D
Committee: Ken Buckle, Ph.D., Wilfrido Moreno, Ph.D. Stan Kranc, Ph.D., M. El Hamdadi, Ph.D.

Balaji Lakshminarayanan For the Ph.D. Degree in Electrical Engineering
March 25, 2005
"RF-MEMS PHASE SHIFTERS"
Major Professor: Dr. Tom Weller
Committee: Dr. Lawrence Dunleavy, Dr. Shekhar Bhansali, Dr. Srinivas Katkoori, Dr.Dennis Killinger

James Culver For the Ph.D. Degree in Electrical Engineering
March 24, 2005
"The Analysis of Dielectric Loss in Co-Planar Waveguide Structures Using Generalized Transverse Resonace"
Major Professor: Dr. Thomas Weller
Committee: Dr. Lawrence Dunleavy, Dr. Arthur D. Snider, Dr. Glen Besterfield, Dr. Robert W. Flynn,

Mohammad Sarehraz For the Ph.D. Degree in Electrical Engineering
March 23, 2005
"The Solar Rectenna's Potential and a Novel Design for Harvesting Solar Power"
CO-Major Professors:K. A. Buckle, Ph.D. and E. K Stefanakos, Ph.D. Committee: A. David Snider, Ph.D., James T. Leffew, Ph.D., Dennis K. Killinger, Ph.D., O. Geoffrey Okogbaa, Ph.D.

W. Joel D. Johnson, For the Ph.D. Degree in Electrical Engineering
March 21, 2005
"Rational Fraction Approximations for Passive Network Functions"
Major Professor: A. David Snider, Ph.D.
Committee: Ken Buckle, Ph.D., Stan Kranc, Ph.D., E. Rakmanov, Ph.D., M. Ismail, Ph.D.

Bhaskar Reddy Tetali, for the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering
March 25, 2005
"Stability Studies of CdS/CdTe Thin Film Solar Cells"
Major Professor:Christos Ferekides, Ph.D.
Committee: Don Morel, Ph.D., Yun-Leei Chiou, Ph.D., A. N. V. Rao, Ph.D., Richard Gilbert, Ph.D.

Fall 2004


Sandra Gomulka Johnson, for the Ph.D. Degree in Electrical Engineering
November 16, 2004
"Antenna Array Output Power Minimization Using Steepest Descent Adaptive Algorithm "
S. W. Campbell, Ph.D., Chairperson
Major Professor: Dr. A. David Snider
Committee: Dr. V. Jain, Dr. N. Ranganathan, Dr. M. Ismail, Dr. Paul Flikkema

Nicholas Andrew Mason, for the Ph.D. in Engineering Science
October 11, 2004
"The Generation of a Digital Phantom for Testing of Digital Reconstructed Radiographs "
Co-Major Professors:Stanley R. Deans, Ph.D., Kent Larsen, Ph.D.
Committee: Luis Garcia-Rubio, Ph.D., James Pearlman, M.D. Kenneth A. Buckle, Ph.D.