{"id":2414,"date":"2013-08-14T16:31:23","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T16:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mtlsites.mit.edu\/annual_reports\/2013\/?page_id=2414"},"modified":"2013-08-14T16:31:23","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T16:31:23","slug":"theses-awarded-2012-2013","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mtlsites.mit.edu\/annual_reports\/2013\/theses-awarded-2012-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Theses Awarded 2012-2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>SB<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Cela, D. (M. Dresselhaus) &#8220;Studies of bilayer and trilayer graphene&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Tang, S. (M. Dresselhaus) &#8220;Theoretical study on the band structure of Bi1 xSbx thin films&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Hou, S.M.\u00a0 (J. Lang) &#8220;Design and fabrication of a MEMS-array pressure sensor system for passive underwater navigation inspired by the lateral line&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>SM<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Ujwal Radhakrishna (D. Antoniadis) &#8220;A Compact Transport and Charge Model for GaN-Based High Electron Mobility Transistors for RF Applications,\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Nicaise, Sam (K. Berggren) &#8220;Chemical and Physical Methods of the Templated Direction of Block Copolymers\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Chuang, P. (D. Boning &amp; D. Rosenfield) &#8220;Supply Chain Impacts of Shipping Ball-Grid-Array Notebook Processors in Tape and Reel&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Desai, N. (A.P. Chandrakasan) &#8220;A Reconfigurable, Low-Power BAN for Healthcare Applications&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>El-Damak,D. (A.P.Chandrakasan)&#8221;Design of Ultra Low Power Analog-to-Digital Converter for Ambulatory EEG Recording&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Tikekar, M. (A.P. Chandrakasan) \u00a0&#8220;Circuit Implementations for High-Efficiency Video Coding Tools&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Cho, T.S. (A.P. Chandrakasan) &#8220;An Energy Efficient CMOS Interface to Carbon Nanotube Sensor Arrays&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Vitavisiri, S. (A.P. Chandrakasan) &#8220;A Non-Coherent Ultra-Wideband Receiver: Algorithms and Digital Implementation&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Cho, S. (N.X. Fang) &#8220;Investigation of Defects\u00a0 on Acoustic Scattering in Cloak by Molding Process&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Chern, W. (J.L. Hoyt) \u201cCompressively Strained Ge Trigate p-MOSFETs\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Qin, Q. (Q. Hu) &#8220;Development of Tunable Terahertz Quantum Cascade Wire Lasers&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Song, Y. (J.Kong, A. P. Chandrakasan) &#8220;Iron (III) Chloride Doping of Large-Area Chemical Vapor Deposition Graphene&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Niroui, F. (J. Lang) &#8220;Electromechanical modulation of electrical conduction through organic thin films for switching applications&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Woo, M.E. (J. Lang) &#8220;Development of a porous piezoresistive material and its applications to underwater pressure sensors and tactile sensors&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Perez, M. \u00a0(H.S. Lee) \u201cA Hardware Platform to Test Compressed Sensing, Analog-to-Information Conversion and Non-Uniform Sampling,\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Sabino, J. \u00a0(H.S. Lee) \u201cAn Electronically Steered, Wearable Transcranial Doppler Ultrasound System,\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Mysore, O. (L. Daniel) &#8220;Device and Interconnect Modeling using Verilog-A&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Sheth, N (T. Palacios) &#8220;Simplifying Customer Allocations for Products with Unconstrained Supply &#8220;<\/li>\n<li>Zhang, X. (T. Palacios) &#8220;Surface Functionalization of Graphene Devices&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Mailly, B. (T. Palacios) &#8220;Solution-Gated Graphene Transistors for Chemical and Biological Sensing Applications&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Chen, O. (L-S. Peh) &#8220;On-Chip Network Exploration and Synthesis&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Park, S. (A.P. Chandrakasan and L-S. Peh) &#8220;Low-Swing Signaling for Energy Efficient On-Chip Networks&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Gao, J. (L-S. Peh) &#8220;Distributed Mobile Platforms and Applications for Intelligent Transportation Systems&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Delano, M. (C.G. Sodini) &#8220;A Long Term Wearable Electrocardiogram (ECG) Measurement System&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Jayanti, V. (L.F. Vel\u00e1squez-Garc\u00eda) &#8220;Miniaturized Electron-impact-ionization Pumps using Double-gated Isolated Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotube Arrays&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Bagnall, K. (E.N. Wang) &#8220;Device-level Thermal Analysis of GaN-based Electronics&#8221;Chen,<\/li>\n<li>S. (E.N. Wang) &#8220;Bubble Dynamics on Structured Surfaces in Microchannels&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Zhu, Y. (E.N. Wang) &#8220;Magnetic Tunable Microstructured Surfaces for Thermal Management and Microfluidic Applications&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Stein, Itai Y. (B. Wardle) \u201cSynthesis and Characterization of Next-Generation Multifunctional Material Architectures: Aligned Carbon Nanotube Carbon Matrix Nanocomposites\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Handlin, D. (B. Wardle) \u201cThree-Dimensional Constitutive Relations of Aligned Carbon Nanotube Polymer Nanocomposites\u201d, June 2013<\/li>\n<li>Guo, A. (J. A. del Alamo) &#8220;Nano-scale Metal Contacts for Future III-V CMOS&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Zhao, X. (J. A. del Alamo)\u00a0 &#8220;Superlattice-Source Nanowire FET with Steep Subthreshold Characteristics&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Warnock, S. (J. A. del Alamo) \u00a0&#8220;A Ballistic Transport Model for HEMTs and III-V MOSFETs&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Guo, L. (J. A. del Alamo)\u00a0 &#8220;Enhancing p-channel InGaSb Quantum-Well Field-Effect Transistors via process-induced uniaxial strain (tentative title)&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Mandal, A. (J. A. del Alamo)\u00a0 &#8220;Modeling Lifetime Drift in Poly-Silicon Resistors (tentative title)&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>PhD<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Milaninia, K. (M.A. Baldo) \u201cNanomechanical Transistors\u201d August 20009<\/li>\n<li>Heidel, T.D. (M.A. Baldo) \u201cOrganic Solar Cells\u201d January 2010<\/li>\n<li>Fan, W. (D. Boning) &#8220;Advanced Modeling of Planarization Processes for Integrated Circuit Fabrication&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Chang, A. (D. Boning &amp; H.S. Lee) &#8220;Low-Power High-Performance SAR ADC with Redundancy and Digital Background Calibration&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Bandyopadhyay, S. (A.P. Chandrakasan) &#8220;Energy Efficient Control for Power Management Circuits operating from nano-watts to watts&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Chen, F. (V. Stojanovic and A.P. Chandrakasan) &#8220;Energy-efficient Wireless Sensors: Fewer Bits, Moore MEMS&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Lee, K.J. (A.P. Chandrakasan and J. Kong) \u00a0&#8220;Demonstration of Monolithically Integrated Graphene Interconnects for Low-Power CMOS Applications&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Mercier, P. (A.P. Chandrakasan) &#8220;Communication and Energy\u00a0Delivery Architectures for Personal Medical\u00a0Devices&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Sinangil, M. (A.P. Chandrakasan) &#8220;Low-Power and Application-Specific SRAM Design for Energy-Efficient Motion Estimation&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Qazi, M. (A.P. Chandrakasan) &#8220;Circuit Design for Embedded Memory in Low-Power Integrated Circuits&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Wentzloff, D.D. (A.P. Chandrakasan) &#8220;Pulse-Based Ultra-Wideband Transmitters for Digital Communication&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Ma, H. (N.X. Fang) &#8220;Manipulating Light At Subwavelength Scales&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Lee, H. (N.X. Fang) &#8220;Three Dimensional Soft Active Materials for Bio-Inspired Functional Micro Devices&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Yang Pacella, N. (E.A. Fitzgerald) &#8220;III-V\/Si Integration: Engineered Substrates and Si-like Processing of III-V Devices&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Famenini, S. (C. Fonstad) \u201cCoaxial Recess Integration of InGaAs Edge Emitting Laser Diodes with Waveguides on Silicon Substrates: A Complete Solution to Laser Integration on ICs,\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Zorzos, A.\u00a0 (C. Fonstad and E.S. Boyden) \u201c3-D Optical Waveguide Arrays for In-Vivo Opto-genetics:\u00a0 Development and Application,\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Aniruddh S. (J. Han) \u201cA Microfluidic Concentrationi-Enhanced Single Cell Enzyme Activity Assay,\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Li, L. (J. Han) \u201cMicrofluidic Enabling Technologies for Measurement of the Selective Permeability of the Mucus Barrier\u201d December 2012<\/li>\n<li>Chang, S. (J. Lang) &#8220;Harvesting Energy from Non-Ideal Vibrations&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Chang, A.H.T. (H.S. Lee) \u201cLow Power High-Performance SAR ADC with Redundancy and Digital Background Calibration,\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Lu, B. (T. Palacios) &#8220;GaN Power Transistors grown on Si Substrates&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Ye, J. (C.V. Thompson) &#8220;Solid-state Dewetting of Continuous and Patterned Single Crystal Ni Thin Films&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Whitfield, G. (H. Tuller) &#8220;Photo-Assisted Processed at Semiconductor-Gas Interfaces&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Przybyla, L. (J. Voldman) &#8220;The cell-secreted microenvironment: shaping embryonic stem cell self-renewal and differentiation&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Sampattavanich, S. (J. Voldman) &#8220;A general method for studying autocrine signaling and its impact on cancer cell growth&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Xiao, R. (E.N. Wang) &#8220;Wetting and Phase-Change Phenomena on Micro\/Nanostructures for Enhanced Heat Transfer&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Chu, K.-H. (E.N. Wang) &#8220;Micro and Nanostructured Surfaces for Enhanced Phase Change Heat Transfer&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Kariya, H.A (E.N. Wang) &#8220;Development of an Air-Cooled, Loop-Type Heat Pipe with Multiple Condensers&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Miljkovic, N. (E.N. Wang) &#8220;Development and Characterization of Micro\/Nanostructured Surfaces for Enhanced Condensation&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Steiner III, S.A., (B. Wardle) \u201cCarbon Nanotube Growth on Challenging Substrates: Applications for Carbon-Fiber Composites,\u201d Feb. 2012<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>MEng<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Liu, H. (L-S. 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