The Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research and Publications Series is comprised of books and articles published by Marquette University's electrical and computer engineering faculty.
Submissions from 2012
Characterizing Metal-Insulator-Transition (MIT) Phase Change Materials (PCM) for RF and DC Micro-switching Elements, Brent L. Danner and Ronald A. Coutu Jr.
Unconventional Uses of Microcantilevers as Chemical Sensors in Gas and Liquid Media, I. Dufour, Fabien Josse, Stephen M. Heinrich, C. Lucat, C. Ayela, F. Ménil, and O. Brand
Multivariate Temporal Patterns Detection Using Reconstructed Phase Space and Gaussian Mixture Model in Dynamic Data System, Xin Feng and Wenjing Zhang
A MEMS Photoacoustic Detector of Terahertz Radiation for Chemical Sensing, Nathan Glauvitz, S. Blazevic, Ronald A. Coutu Jr., Michael Kistler, Ivan R. Medvedev, and Douglas T. Petkie
Etching Silicon Dioxide for CNT Field Emission Device, Nathan Glauvitz, Ronald A. Coutu Jr., Peter J. Collins, and Lavern A. Starman
A Suspended Nanogap Formed by Field-Induced Atomically Sharp Tips, Jun Hyun Han, Kyung Song, Shankar Radhakrishnan, Sang Ho Oh, and Chung Hoon Lee
Information Content per Photon Versus Image Fidelity in Three-Dimensional Photon-Counting Integral Imaging, Majeed M. Hayat, Srikanth R. Narravula, Matthew Pepin, and Bahram Javidi
Multiplication theory for dynamically biased avalanche photodiodes: new limits for gain bandwidth product, Majeed M. Hayat and David A. Ramirez
Continuous time-varying biasing approach for spectrally tunable infrared detectors, Woo-Yong Jang, Majeed M. Hayat, Payman Zarkesh-Ha, and Sanjay Krishna
Tracking Articulator Movements Using Orientation Measurements, An Ji, Michael T. Johnson, and Jeffrey J. Berry
Low-Loss Meta-Atom for Improved Resonance Response, Derrick Langley, Ronald A. Coutu Jr., and Peter J. Collins
Using Inductance as a Tuning Parameter for RF Meta-atoms, Derrick Langley, Ronald A. Coutu Jr., and Peter J. Collins
Analysis of the Detection of Organophosphate Pesticides in Aqueous Solutions Using Hydrogen-Bond Acidic Coating on SH-SAW Devices, Arnold Kweku Mensah-Brown, Darlington Mlambo, Fabien Josse PhD, and Susan C. Schneider PhD
SRRs Embedded with MEMS Cantilevers to Enable Electrostatic Tuning of the Resonant Frequency, E. A. Moore, Derrick Langley, Matthew E. Jussaume, L. A. Rederis, C. A. Lundell, Ronald A. Coutu Jr., Peter J. Collins, and Lavern A. Starman
Fabrication Process Comparison and Dynamics Evaluation of Electrothermal Actuators for a Prototype MEMS Safe and Arming Devices, Scott A. Ostrow II, Robert A. Lake, J. P. Lombardi III, Ronald A. Coutu Jr., and Lavern A. Starman
Analyzing Logistic Map Pseudorandom Number Generators for Periodicity Induced by Finite Precision Floating-Point Representation, Kyle Persohn and Richard J. Povinelli
Performance and Reliability of Non-Markovian Heterogeneous Distributed Computing Systems, Jorge E. Pezoa and Majeed M. Hayat
New Perspective on Passively Quenched Single Photon Avalanche Diodes: Effect of Feedback on Impact Ionization, David A. Ramirez, Majeed M. Hayat, Graham J. Rees, Xudong Jiang, and Mark A. Itzler
Noise Impacts from Professional Dog Grooming Forced-Air Dryers, Peter M. Scheifele, Michael T. Johnson, David C. Byrne, John G. Clark, Ashley Vandlik, Laura W. Kretschmer, and Kristine E. Sonstrom
Ambient Habitat Noise and Vibration at the Georgia Aquarium, Peter M. Scheifele, Michael T. Johnson, Laura W. Kretschmer, John G. Clark, D. Kemper, and G. Potty
Thin 3D Multiplication Regions in Plasmonically Enhanced Nanopillar Avalanche Detectors, Pradeep Senanayake, Chung-Hong Hung, Alan C. Farrell, David A. Ramirez, Joshua Shapiro, Chi-Kang Li, Yuh-Renn Wu, Majeed M. Hayat, and Diana L. Huffaker
Phone Lattice Reconstruction for Embedded Language Recognition in LVCSR, Yuxiang Shan, Yan Deng, Jia Liu, and Michael T. Johnson
Modeling and Parametric Design of Permanent-Magnet AC Machines Using Computationally Efficient Finite-Element Analysis, Gennadi Y. Sizov, Dan M. Ionel, and Nabeel Demerdash
Modeling and Analysis of Effects of Skew on Torque Ripple and Stator Tooth Forces in Permanent Magnet AC Machines, Gennadi Y. Sizov, Peng Zhang, Dan M. Ionel, Nabeel Demerdash, I. P. Brown, and M. G. Solveson
Stress Monitoring of Post-processed MEMS Silicon Microbridge Structures Using Raman Spectroscopy, Lavern A. Starman and Ronald A. Coutu Jr.
Characterizing External Resistive, Inductive and Capacitive Loads for Micro-Switches, Benjamin Toler and Ronald A. Coutu Jr.
Distributed Multichannel Speech Enhancement with Minimum Mean-square Error Short-time Spectral Amplitude, Log-spectral Amplitude, and Spectral Phase Estimation, Marek B. Trawicki and Michael T. Johnson
Improvements of the Beta-Order Minimum Mean-Square Error (MMSE) Spectral Amplitude Estimator using Chi Priors, Marek B. Trawicki and Michael T. Johnson
Multichannel Speech Recognition Using Distributed Microphone Signal Fusion Strategies, Marek B. Trawicki, Michael T. Johnson, An Ji, and Tomasz S. Osiejuk
Wireless Medical Sensor Networks: Design Requirements and Enabling Technologies, Cecilia H. Vallejos de Schatz, Henry P. Medeiros, Fabio K. Schneider, and Paulo J. Abatti
Features for Phoneme Independent Speaker Identification, Jianglin Wang, An Ji, and Michael T. Johnson
Residual Phase Cepstrum Coefficients with Application to Cross-lingual Speaker Verification, Jianglin Wang and Michael T. Johnson
SAR-Based Vibration Estimation Using the Discrete Fractional Fourier Transform, Qi Wang, Matthew Pepin, Ryan J. Beach, Ralf Dunkel, Tom Atwood, Balu Santhanam, Walter Gerstle, Armin W. Doerry, and Majeed M. Hayat
Silicon Carbide High Temperature MEMS Capacitive Strain Sensor, R. P. Weisenberger, Ronald A. Coutu Jr., and Lavern A. Starman
Calculation of Magnet Losses in Concentrated-Winding Permanent-Magnet Synchronous Machines Using a Computationally Efficient Finite-Element Method (conference proceeding), Peng Zhang, Gennadi Y. Sizov, Jiangbiao He, Dan M. Ionel, and Nabeel Demerdash
A New Ensemble Learning Method for Temporal Pattern Identification, Wenjing Zhang and Xin Feng
Bayesian Speaker Adaptation Based on a New Hierarchical Probabilistic Model, Wen-Lin Zhang, Wei-Qiang Zhang, Bi-Cheng Li, Dan Qu, and Michael T. Johnson
Submissions from 2011
Control of Open-Loop PWM Delta-Connected Motor-Drive Systems under One Phase Failure Condition, Ahmed Mohamed Sayed Ahmed and Nabeel Demerdash
A Fault-Tolerant Technique for Delta-Connected Vector-Control AC Motor-Drives, Ahmed Mohamed Sayed Ahmed, Behrooz Mirafzal, and Nabeel Demerdash
Continued Operation of Delta-Connected AC Motor-Drive Systems Under Short-Circuit Fault, Ahmed Mohamed Sayed Ahmed, Behrooz Mirafzal, and Nabeel Demerdash
Fault-Tolerant Technique for Δ-Connected AC-Motor Drives, Ahmed Mohamed Sayed Ahmed, Behrooz Mirafzal, and Nabeel Demerdash
Resonant Microcantilevers for the Determination of the Loss Modulus of Thin Polymer Films, Cedric Ayela, Stephen M. Heinrich, Fabien Josse, and Isabelle Dufour
Micromechanical Structure With Stable Linear Positive And Negative Stiffness, Jeffrey P. Baugher and Ronald A. Coutu Jr.
On the Relative Sensitivity of Mass-sensitive Chemical Microsensors, Luke A. Beardslee, S. Truax, J.-J. Su, Stephen M. Heinrich, Fabien Josse PhD, and O. Brand
Tunneling Atomic Force Microscopy Characterization of Cuprous Oxide Thin Films, Brett Castle, Alex Li, Ronald A. Coutu Jr., Robert Hengehold, and Joseph Van Nostrand
6.4 GHz Acoustic Sensor for In-situ Monitoring of AFM Tip Wear, T.J. Cheng, Jun Hyun Han, Michael Ziwisky, Chung-Hoon Lee, and S.A. Bhave
Reliability Testing of AlGaN/GaN HEMTs Under Multiple Stressors, Bradley D. Christiansen, Ronald A. Coutu Jr., Eric R. Heller, Brian S. Poling, Glen D. Via, Ramakrishna Vetury, and Jeffrey B. Shealy
Electrostatically Tunable Meta-Atoms Integrated With In Situ Fabricated MEMS Cantilever Beam Arrays, Ronald A. Coutu Jr., Peter J. Collins, Elizabeth A. Moore, Derrick Langley, Matthew E. Jussaume, and Lavern A. Starman
Damping and Mass Sensitivity of Laterally Vibrating Resonant Microcantilevers in Viscous Liquid Media, Russell Cox, Jinjin Zhang, Fabien Josse, Stephen M. Heinrich, Isabelle Dufour, Luke A. Beardslee, and Oliver Brand
Characterizing Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotube Synthesis for Field Emission Applications, Benjamin L. Crossley, Nathan Glauvitz, Betty T. Quinton, Ronald A. Coutu Jr., and Peter J. Collins
Robust and Resilient Finite-Time Control of a Class of Discrete-Time Nonlinear Systems, Mohammad N. ElBsat and Edwin E. Yaz
Influence of Non-ideal Clamping in Microcantilever Resonant Frequency Estimation, L. Fadel-Taris, Cedric Ayela, Isabelle Dufour, Fabien Josse, Stephen M. Heinrich, D. Saya, and O. Brand
Effects of SU-8 Cross-linking on Flip-Chip Bond Strength when Assembling and Packaging MEMS, Nathan E. Glavitz, Lavern A. Starman, Ronald A. Coutu Jr., and Richard L. Johnson
Nano-electromechanical Zero-dimensional Freestanding Nanogap Actuator, Jun Hyun Han, Norimasa Yoshimizu, T.J. Cheng, Michael Ziwisky, S.A. Bhave, A. Lal, and Chung-Hoon Lee
A Review of Mitigation Methods for Overvoltage in Long-Cable-fed PWM AC Drives, Jiangbiao He, Gennadi Y. Sizov, Peng Zhang, and Nabeel Demerdash
Space Constants of Auxiliary Waves, Thomas Koryu Ishii
Data Compressive Paradigm for Multispectral Sensing Using Tunable DWELL Mid-infrared Detectors, Woo-Yong Jang, Majeed M. Hayat, Sebastian E. Godoy, Steven C. Bender, Payman Zarkesh-Ha, and Sanjay Krishna
Design of mixed H2-dissipative observers with stochastic resilience for discrete-time nonlinear systems, Chung Seop Jeong, Edwin E. Yaz, and Yvonne I. Yaz
Lyapunov-based design of resilient mixed MSE-dissipative-type state observers for a class of nonlinear systems and general performance criteria, Chung Seop Jeong, Edwin E. Yaz, and Yvonne I. Yaz
Stochastically Resilient Observer Design for a Class of Continuous-Time Nonlinear Systems, Chung Seop Jeong, Edwin E. Yaz, and Yvonne I. Yaz
Characterization of a Variation on AFIT’s Tunable MEMS Cantilever Array Metamaterial, Matthew E. Jussaume, Peter J. Collins, and Ronald A. Coutu Jr.
Design and Modeling of a Reversible 3-Phase to 6-Phase Induction Motor for Improved Survivability, Anushree Kadaba, Shaohua Suo, Gennadi Y. Sizov, Chia-Chou Yeh, Ahmed Mohamed Sayed Ahmed, and Nabeel Demerdash
MEMS Integrated Metamaterials with Variable Resonance Operating at RF Frequencies, Derrick Langley, Elizabeth A. Moore, Ronald A. Coutu Jr., and Peter J. Collins
Investigations Into 1D and 2D Metamaterials at Infrared Wavelengths, Jack P. Lombardi III and Ronald A. Coutu Jr.
FDTD Calculations of the Diffraction Coefficient of Vibrating Wedges, Monica Madrid
Terahertz Metamaterial Structures Fabricated by PolyMUMPs, Elizabeth A. Moore, Derrick Langley, and Ronald A. Coutu Jr.
Sensitivity of High-Speed Lightwave System Receivers Using InAlAs Avalanche Photodiodes, Daniel S.G. Ong, Majeed M. Hayat, John P.R. David, and Jo Shien Ng
Novel Microelectromechanical Systems Image Reversal Fabrication Process Based on Robust SU-8 Masking Layers, Scott A. Ostrow II and Ronald A. Coutu Jr.
Using Positive Photomasks to Pattern SU-8 Masking Layers for Fabricating Inverse MEMS Structures, Scott A. Ostrow II, Jack P. Lombardi III, and Ronald A. Coutu Jr.
Multispectral Classification With Bias-Tunable Quantum Dots-in-a-Well Focal Plane Arrays, Biliana S. Paskaleva, Woo-Yong Jang, Yagya D. Sharma, Sanjay Krishna, and Majeed M. Hayat
Application of Spatial Bandwidth Concepts to MAS Pole Location for Dielectric Cylinders, James Richie
A Fault-Tolerant Technique for Delta-Connected Vector-Control AC Motor-Drives, Ahmed Sayed-Ahmed, Behrooz Mirafzal, and Nabeel Demerdash
A Review of Efficient FE Modeling Techniques with Applications to PM AC Machines, Gennadi Y. Sizov, Dan M. Ionel, and Nabeel Demerdash
Multi-objective Optimization of PM AC Machines using Computationally Efficient - FEA and Differential Evolution, Gennadi Y. Sizov, Dan M. Ionel, and Nabeel Demerdash
Automated Bi-Objective Design Optimization of Multi-MW Direct-Drive PM Machines Using CE-FEA and Differential Evolution, Gennadi Y. Sizov, Peng Zhang, Dan M. Ionel, Nabeel Demerdash, and Marius Rosu
Modeling and Experimental Validation of a Fault Mitigation Method in Induction Motor-Drive Systems Using a Magnetic Equivalent Circuit, Shaohua Suo, Gennadi Y. Sizov, Ahmed Mohamed Sayed Ahmed, and Nabeel Demerdash
Wireless Protocols for Ad-Hoc Medical Sensor Networks, Cecilia H. Vallejos de Schatz, Henry Medeiros, Fabio K. Schneider, and Paulo J. Abatti
Versatile Spectral Imaging With an Algorithm-Based Spectrometer Using Highly Tuneable Quantum Dot Infrared Photodetectors, Peter Vines, Chee Hing Tan, John P.R. David, Ram S. Attaluri, Thomas E. Vanderveldt, Sanjay Krishna, Woo-Yong Jang, and Majeed M. Hayat
Robust and Resilient State Dependent Control of Discrete-Time Nonlinear Systems with General Performance Criteria, Xin Wang, Edwin E. Yaz, and Yvonne I. Yaz
Comparison of Torque Ripple Minimization Control Techniques in Surface-Mounted Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machines, Peng Zhang, Gennadi Y. Sizov, and Nabeel Demerdash
Time–Frequency Cepstral Features and Heteroscedastic Linear Discriminant Analysis for Language Recognition, Wei-Qiang Zhang, Liang He, Yan Deng, Jia Liu, and Michael T. Johnson
Detecting Temporal Patterns using Reconstructed Phase Space and Support Vector Machine in the Dynamic Data System, Wenjing Zhang and Xin Feng
Submissions from 2010
Acoustic Censusing Using Automatic Vocalization Classification and Identity Recognition, Kuntoro Adi, Michael T. Johnson, and Tomasz S. Osiejuk
Geometrical Optimization of Resonant Cantilevers Vibrating in In-Plane Bending Modes, Luke A. Beardslee, Assim M. Addous, Kemal S. Demirci, Oliver Brand, Stephen M. Heinrich, and Fabien Josse
Thermal Excitation and Piezoresistive Detection of Cantilever In-Plane Resonance Modes for Sensing Applications, Luke A. Beardslee, Assim M. Addous, Stephen M. Heinrich, Fabien Josse, Isabelle Dufour, and Oliver Brand
Liquid-Phase Chemical Sensing Using Lateral Mode Resonant Cantilevers, Luke A. Beardslee, Kemal S. Demirci, Y. Luzinova, B. Mizaikoff, Stephen M. Heinrich, Fabien Josse, and Oliver Brand
Detrending Daily Natural Gas Demand Data Using Domain Knowledge, Ronald H. Brown, Yifan Li, Bo Pang, Steven Vitullo, and George F. Corliss
Resonant Microcantilevers Vibrating Laterally in Viscous Liquid Media, Russell Cox, Fabien Josse, Stephen M. Heinrich, Isabelle Dufour, and Oliver Brand
Self-Assembling Nanosphere Lithography Process for Gated Carbon Nanotube Field Emission Arrays, Benjamin L. Crossley, Ronald A. Coutu Jr., Lavern A. Starman, and Peter J. Collins
Effects of Hydrogen Pretreatment on Physical-Vapor-Deposited Nickel Catalyst for Multi-walled Carbon Nanotube Growth, Benjamin L. Crossley, Mauricio Kossler, Ronald A. Coutu Jr., Lavern A. Starman, and Peter J. Collins
Unconventional Uses of Cantilevers for Chemical Sensing in Gas and Liquid Environments, Isabelle Dufour, Fabien Josse, Stephen M. Heinrich, C. Lucat, C. Ayela, F. Ménil, and Oliver Brand
Microswitch Lifecycle Test Fixture for Simultaneously Measuring Contact Resistance (Rc) and Contact Force (Fc) in Controlled Ambient Environment, Thomas A. Edelmann and Ronald A. Coutu Jr.
Novel Test Fixture for Collecting Microswitch Reliability Data, Thomas A. Edelmann, Ronald A. Coutu Jr., and Lavern A. Starman
Shift Estimation Algorithm for Dynamic Sensors With Frame-to-Frame Variation in Their Spectral Response, Todd M. Giles, Majeed M. Hayat, and Sanjay Krishna
An Analytical Model of a Thermally Excited Microcantilever Vibrating Laterally in a Viscous Fluid, Stephen M. Heinrich, Rabin Maharjan, Isabelle Dufour, Fabien Josse, Luke A. Beardslee, and Oliver Brand
Editorial Special Issue on Enhancement Algorithms, Methodologies and Technology for Spectral Sensing, James O. Jensen, Robert J. Trew, Dwight L. Woolard, Neelam Gupta, Jean-Marc Theriault, Majeed M. Hayat, Yanqiu Li, and Patti Gillespie
Investigation into Metamaterial Structures Operating at Terahertz Wavelength, Derrick Langley, Ronald A. Coutu Jr., Lavern A. Starman, and Michael A. Marciniak
Integrated Freestanding Single-Crystal Silicon Nanowires: Conductivity and Surface Treatment, Chung-Hoon Lee, Clark Ritz, Minghuang Huang, Michael Ziwisky, Robert Blise, and Max Lagally
A Parallel Histogram-based Particle Filter for Object Tracking on SIMD-based Smart Cameras, Henry Medeiros, Germán Holguín, Paul J. Shin, and Johnny Park
Information theoretic approach for assessing image fidelity in photon-counting arrays, Srikanth R. Narravula, Majeed M. Hayat, and Bahram Javidi