Thesis Presentations by EE Master Students - 1997/98 Academic Year
SUMMER 1998 SEMESTER
Igor Berroteran
"Improved Dual Active Bridge"
July 20, 1998
Major Professor: Samuel J. Garrett, Sc.D.
Committee members: K. A. Buckle, Wilfrido Moreno
Vassilios Palekis
"CDTE Solar Cells Fabricated At Low Temperatures and Heat Treated in CDCL2"
July 23, 1998
Major Professor: Christos Ferekides, Ph.D.
Committee Members: Don Morel, Ph.D., Worth Henley, Ph.D.
Michael Yore
"GaAs Chip Area Reduction Through the Implementation of Stacked Capacitors"
July 17, 1998
Major Professor: Thomas Weller, Ph.D.
Committee Members: Larry Dunleavy, Ph.D. Horace Gordon, M.S.E, P.E.
Ahmed Fayez Abu-Hajar
"Development of a Model to Predict the Capacity of a Nickel Cadmium Battery"
July 1, 1998
Major Professor: E. K. Stefanakos, Ph.D.
Committee Members: Kenneth A. Buckle, Ph.D., Sam Garrett, Sc.D.
Rajasekhar Annamraju
"Evaluation and Comparison of Minority Carrier Lifetimes Using SPV and C-t Techniques in Iron Doped Silicon"
June 10, 1998
Major Professor: Worth B. Henley, Ph.D.
Committee Members: Christos Ferekides, Ph.D.Kenneth A. Buckle, Ph.D.
Nadia Babik: for the MSEE Degree
"A Microwave Oscillator and Frequency Doubler Design Using Nonlinear CAD Techniques"
May 18, 1998
Major Professor: Thomas Weller, Ph.D.
Committee Members: Lawrence Dunleavy, Ph.D. , Horace Gordon, Jr., M.S.E., P.E.
Spring 1998 Semester Graduation
Yan Yang (Bob)
"Bi-Directional Power Factor Correcting Controller"
April 16th, 1998
Major Professor: Keith Klontz, Ph.D., P.E.
Committee Members: E.K. Stefanakos, Ph.D., Kenneth A. Buckle, Ph.D., P.E., Sammuel G. Garrett, Sc.D., P.E.
Harish Sankaranarayanan
"Effective Processing Conditions for Cu(IN,Ga)Se2 Solar Cells Using an Additional Copper Layer"
April 10th, 1998
Major Professor: Don L. Morel, Ph.D.
Committee Member: Christos S. Ferekides, Ph.D.mWorth B. Henley, Ph.D.
Anand Jayapalan
"Characterization of CIGS Solar Cells Using Capacitance - Voltage Technique"
April 10th, 1998
Major Professor: Don Morel, Ph.D.
Committee Members: Christos Ferekides, Ph.D., Y.L. Chiou, Ph.D.
Li Ying
"Coding and Equalization for DS/SS Wireless Communications"
April 17th, 1998
Major Professor: Paul G. Flikkema, Ph.D.
Committee Members: V. K. Jain, Ph.D.., Ravi Sankar, Ph.D.
Fall 1997 Semester Graduation
Shyam B. Ganapathisarma
"System Design of Pre-Paid Cellular Phone with Caller Authentication"
November 25, 1997
Major Professor: Wilfrido A. Moreno, Ph.D
Committee: Kenneth buckle, Ph.D., Paul Flikkema, Ph.D.
Vijay Viswanathan
"RF Sputtered Black Contacts for CdS/CdTe Thin Film Solar Cells"
November 24, 1997
Major Professor: Christos S. Ferekides, Ph.D.
Committee: Don Morel, Ph.D., Worth Henley, Ph.D.
Thomas Vogt
"Dual Active Bridge"
November 19, 1997
Major Professor: Samuel J. Garrett, Sc.D.
Committee Members K. A. Buckle Ph.D., Keith Klontz, Ph.D.
Michael Oldenburg
"Planar Multi-level Transitions and Antennas, Applied to Microwave Position Sensing"
November 10, 1997
Major Professor: Thomas Weller, Ph.D.
Committee Members: Larry Dunleavy, Ph.D., Horace Gordon, MSEE
Alen Fejzuli for the MSEE Degree
"GaAs PIN Diode Modeling for Microwave Applications"
November 10, 1997
Major Professor: Dr. Larry Dunleavy
Committee Members: Drs. Dave Snider and Tom Weller
Udayabhaskar Poosarla for the MSEE Degree
"Effect of SnO2 Films on CdS/CdTe Solar Cells"
November 5, 1997
Major Professor: Christos S. Ferekides, Ph.D.
Members: Don Morel, Ph.D., Worth Henley, Ph.D.