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.