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Dr. Michael Joham -- October 30, 2009, 3:00PM
Linear Precoding for the MIMO BC Duality and Asymptotic Results

The key for solving the multiple-input multiple output broadcast channel (MIMO BC) capacity...

Dr. Rudolf Rabenstein -- October 26, 2009, 1:30PM
Digital Sound Synthesis by Physical Modeling of Musical Instruments

Computer generated sounds have started out from dedicated digital musical instruments in the...

Dr. Francesco Borrelli -- October 12, 2009, 11:00AM
Real-time Predictive Control for Hybrid Systems

Hybrid systems are heterogeneous systems that exhibit both continuous and discrete dynamics...

Dr. Serdar Yuksel -- October 02, 2009, 3:00PM
Optimal Control with Information Constraints:
Centralized and Decentralized Settings

We first present a new stochastic stability result for Markov Chains and apply this result to...

Dr. Sanjay Shakkottai -- September 25, 2009, 3:00PM
Scheduling Over Wireless Networks With Delayed Network State Information

We study the problem of scheduling/routing over a mobile ad hoc wireless network (MANET)...

Dr. Geir Dullerud -- April 30, 2009, 3:00PM
CONTROL OVER GRAPHS, LIMITED BANDWIDTH, AND SWITCHED SYSTEMS

The future of embedded and robotic systems, as currently envisioned, involves light weight...

Dr. Andreas Heinrich -- April 24, 2009, 2:00PM
Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Studies of Atomic-Scale Computation

The information technology industry has been able to exponentially shrink the size of...

Dr. TIMOTHY SANDS -- April 22, 2009, 2:00PM
Metal/Semiconductor Superlattices:
Thermoelectric Metamaterials for Solid-State Energy Conversion

Thermoelectric (TE) generators have been used in niche applications, such as deep-space probes...

Dr. Jeffrey Bokor -- April 17, 2009, 2:00PM
Nanomagnet-Based Logic Architecture

Interacting ensembles of ferromagnetic nano-islands can perform basic logic operations and...

Dr. Niti Goel -- April 03, 2009, 2:00PM
Advanced Gate Stack Research and Challenges for Integration in NAND Flash Memory and III-V Logic Devices

After three decades of successful scaling of transistors, the trend is reaching fundamental...

Dr. Josef Nossek -- April 02, 2009, 12:30PM
Does Circuit Theory play any role in Communication Theory?

Do communication and information engineers get the physics right in their models? Do the...

Dr. Aaron Franklin -- March 27, 2009, 2:00PM
Carbon Nanotube Transistors: The Future?

Over the past decade, tremendous progress has been made in the fabrication and...

Dr. Paulo Tabuada -- March 23, 2009, 1:30PM
Event-triggered and self-triggred real-time control

Control task have been traditionally treated as periodic for the purposes of real-time...

Dr. Paulo Tabuada -- March 23, 2009, 1:30PM
Event-triggered and self-triggred real-time control

Control task have been traditionally treated as periodic for the purposes of real-time...

Dr. Joanna Mirecki Millunchick -- March 20, 2009, 2:00PM
Directing Self Assembly and Defect Formation in Compound Semiconductors

Dr. Libai Huang -- March 06, 2009, 2:00PM
Ultrafast Dynamics of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

Ultrafast nonlinear optical spectroscopy was employed to study the optical and electronic...

Dr. Guoxin Zheng -- December 10, 2008, 1:30PM
Wireless Communications Applied to Urban Transit Systems

At first, the speaking will present an overview and recent advances in urban transit...

Dr. Weidong Xiang -- December 10, 2008, 2:15PM
Recent Advances in Wireless Access for Vehicular Environments (WAVE) Technology

Wireless access in vehicular environments (WAVE) technology comes into sight as a state-of-the-

Mr. Kerry Bernstein -- November 10, 2008, 1:00PM
New Dimensions in Computing:
Harnessing 3D Integration

Despite generation on generation of scaling, computer chips
have remained essentially 2-dim

Dr. Glenn D. Boreman -- November 06, 2008, 11:00AM
Infrared Antennas

Radiofrequency components such as antennas, transmission lines, phased arrays, frequency-select

Dr. Marian Iordache -- October 20, 2008, 2:00PM
Concurrent Programming and Supervisory Control of DES

The emergence of multi-core microprocessors has stimulated the development of tools that can...

Dr. Wenyi Zhang -- October 14, 2008, 3:00PM
A Spectrum-Shaping Perspective on Cognitive Radio

A new perspective on cognitive radio is presented, where the pre-existent legacy service is...

Vasanthan Raghavan -- August 28, 2008, 3:00PM
Correlated MIMO Channels:
Modeling and Low-Complexity Signaling

It is well-known that the use of multiple antennas at the transmitter and/or the receiver (MIMO

Andrew Thangaraj -- July 15, 2008, 2:30PM
A Simple Algebraic Formulation for the Scalar Linear Network Coding Problem

A network is a collection of nodes connected by links with a given data-carrying capacity...

Dr. Alfred Fettweis -- May 27, 2008, 3:00PM
Fields, Circuits, and Signals, and some Fundamental Issues in Physics

Even more so than the other fields of technology, electrical engineering is strongly...

Dr. John Suehle -- May 21, 2008, 11:00AM
Current Noise as a Tool for the Electrical and Reliability Characterization of Nanoelectronic Materials and Devices

Nanoelectronic devices based upon self-assembled semiconductor nanowires are excellent...

Dr. Pengcheng Jia -- April 25, 2008, 2:00PM
A New Broadband Amplifier Architecture Using Coaxial Waveguide Spatial Power Combining Technology

CAP Wireless, Inc. develops and manufactures a broad range of RF and microwave amplification...

Dr. David Janes -- April 18, 2008, 2:00PM
Nanowire Devices for Thin-Film Electronics and Sensing

Semiconductor nanowires are interesting as channel materials for transistors as well as chem./b

Dr. Josef Nossek -- April 04, 2008, 3:00PM
Feedback or No Feedback, that is the Question

We consider the problem of how to partition the available bandwidth of a class of...

Dr. Yasser Abdelaziez -- April 04, 2008, 3:30PM
Microsystems’ Infrastructure Applications, Design, and Characterization

Over the past two decades, semiconductor miniaturization technologies have advanced rapidly...

Dr. Eric Pop -- April 04, 2008, 2:00PM
Power Dissipation in Nanoscale CMOS and Carbon Nanotubes

High power densities are considered a major roadblock in the evolution of nanoelectronics. At...

Dr. KIMON VALAVANIS -- March 28, 2008, 2:00PM
Unmanned Aerial and Ground Vehicle Systems:
On Controller Design, and Swarm Formation Control

When dealing with teams of heterogeneous unmanned aerial-ground vehicles operating in unison...

Mr. Farbod Shafiei -- March 28, 2008, 2:00PM
Measurement of the Separation Dependence of Resonant Energy Transfer between CdSe/ZnS Nanocrystals

A study of the interaction between different sized Nanocrystalline Quantum Dots (NQD) helps to...

Harold Sneessens -- March 26, 2008, 1:30PM
Turbo-coded Cooperative Shemes Resilient to Relay Errors

Cooperation in wireless systems can achieve spatial diversity
gains,coverage enhancement...

Dr. Roger Whatmore -- March 17, 2008, 2:00PM
FROM ATOMS TO SYSTEMS

The Tyndall National Institute was established in 2004 with the objective of providing Ireland...

Dr. Xinmiao Zhang -- March 12, 2008, 2:00PM
VLSI Architecture Design for Algebraic Soft-decision Reed-Solomon Decoding

Reed-Solomon (RS) codes are among the most extensively used error-correcting codes in digital...

Dr. Steven Weber -- February 22, 2008, 2:00PM
Uncoordinated Ad Hoc Networks:
Transmission Capacity and its Applications

Although extensive attention is given to efficient and optimal resource allocation in ad hoc...

Patrick Fay -- February 22, 2008, 2:00PM
Sb-Heterostructure Backward Tunnel Diodes for Millimeter-Wave Detection and Imaging

Millimeter-wave detection is becoming an increasingly important technology for avionics...

Dr. Masataka Higashiwaki -- February 08, 2008, 2:00PM
GaN heterostructure field-effect transistor technology for millimeter-wave applications

High-frequency and high-power transmitters utilizing solid-state amplifiers are essential for...

Dr. James Cooper -- February 01, 2008, 2:00PM
Graphene Nanoelectronics

: Graphene is a revolutionary "nano-fabric" consisting of a single sheet of carbon atoms in a...

Dr. J. Brad Boos -- January 25, 2008, 2:00PM
Sb-based Transistors and Diodes for High-Speed, Low-Power Applications

There is an expanding need to reduce power consumption in high-speed analog, digital, and...

Mr. Peter Rost -- January 16, 2008, 3:00PM
Relaying for next generation mobile communications systems

The demand for even higher data rates in future mobile communications systems calls for new...

Matthieu Bloch -- December 19, 2007, 12:30PM
Wireless Information-Theoretic Security

The advent and success of the Internet, together with the large-scale deployment of wireless...

Dr. Maja Remskar -- December 07, 2007, 4:00PM
Nanotechnology and Health How do we safely produce and utilize nanoparticles?

Concerns have been raised about exposure to nanoparticles and their potential impact on health...

Scott Howard -- November 19, 2007, 01:00AM
Quantum Cascade Lasers:
High-Performance Semiconductor Lasers for the Mid-Infrared

Quantum cascade (QC) lasers are versatile mid-infrared semiconductor light sources ideal for...

Dr. Kenneth Laberteaux -- September 17, 2007, 3:00PM
Information-Rich Vehicular Safety System

The convergence of control, communications, and computation is profoundly impacting the future...

Mr. Abdellatif Zaidi -- September 13, 2007, 03:30AM
Coding with State Information. Application to Cooperative Communication in Wireless Networks

Multi-user Information Theory is a powerful tool in setting up theoretical
bounds on rate...

Mr. Woohyuk Chang -- August 09, 2007, 2:00PM
Alternating Two-Path Relay Channels

The relay is a fundamental building block to make up communication networks. A first...

Dr. Wenyi Zhang -- May 18, 2007, 2:00PM
Some New Perspectives on Outage:
Broadcast Channels and Wideband Spectral Efficiency

A key challenge for many wireless systems is that the faded signal-to-noise ratio at...

Michael Chertkov -- May 18, 2007, 3:30PM
Loop Calculus for Graphical Models of Statistical Inference

Loop Calculus introduced in [Chertkov, Chernyak '06] constitutes a new theoretical tool that...

Dr. Farhan Rana -- May 17, 2007, 11:00AM
High Speed Integrated Optoelectronic and Terahertz Devices

The talk will present experimental and theoretical results on ultra high speed semiconductor...

Sergio Sevetto -- May 09, 2007, 3:00PM
Bringing the Network Into The Loop

We take the point of view that a network of sensors and actuators is a distributed A/D and D/A...

Dongning Guo -- May 08, 2007, 2:00PM
Random Sparse Linear Systems in Noise:
Information Measures and Statistical Inference

We study both the information theoretic aspect and the statistical inference aspect of random...

Dr. Chanoch Carmeli -- May 01, 2007, 12:30PM
HIGHLY EFFICIENT HYBRID BIO-SEMICONDUCTOR NANO PHOTO SENSORS AND PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES

The electronic coupling between the photoactive proteins and semiconductors or metals is used...

Dr. Trond Ytterdal -- April 27, 2007, 3:00PM
Microsystem Technologies for Medical Imaging Applications

The first part of the talk presents an overview of ongoing research in microsystem...

T.F. Kuech -- April 24, 2007, 12:30PM
The Growth and Characteristics of GaAsSb Based Heterostructures

GaAs-based multiple quantum well heterostructures comprised of metastable alloys, such as...

Dr. Kiyoshi Asakawa -- April 23, 2007, 2:00PM
Photonic Crystals and Quantum Dots for Integrated All-Optical Flip-Flop Device (PC-FF)

Two kinds of nano-photonic technologies, i.e., GaAs-based two dimensional photonic crystal (2DP

Dr. Konrad Walus -- April 23, 2007, 3:00PM
Circuit Design with Quantum Dot Cellular Automata (QCA)

In recent years, design tools have emerged which has enabled research into circuit level...

Dr. Dieter Gruen -- April 17, 2007, 12:30PM
ULTRANANOCRYSTALLINE DIAMOND:
SYNTHESIS, PROPERTIES AND APPLICATIONS

Ultrananocrystalline diamond (UNCD) films are deposited from microwave plasmas typically...

Dr. Rhonda Drayton -- April 10, 2007, 12:30PM
Use of 3D Design Methods for RF Integrated Packaging and Circuits

The information age emerged from the parallel development of computing and RF communication...

Dr. David Cahill -- April 03, 2007, 12:30PM
Thermal conductivity of nanoscale gsuperlattices, multilayers, and disordered layered crystals:
How low can we go?

Abstract: In dielectrics and semiconductors, heat is carried by lattice vibrations, i.e...

Dr. Vijay Gupta -- March 29, 2007, 11:00AM
Countering Communication Channel Effects in Networked Control Systems

Rapid advances in information processing, communication and sensing technologies have enabled...

Dr. Debdeep Jena -- March 27, 2007, 12:30PM
Graphene for Electronics:
Can Dirac rescue Moore's Law?

Graphene is the newest carbon-based material that has generated tremendous interest in the...

Dr. Gurdal Arslan -- March 26, 2007, 11:00AM
Design of Cooperative Systems

We will overview some of the recent developments in the design of cooperative (multi-agent)...

Dr. Grace Huili Xing -- March 23, 2007, 3:00PM
NOVA Program

Come and join us in watching this NOVA program (2 hour long movie and free) and sharing what...

Dr. Tomas Palacios -- March 20, 2007, 12:30PM
Nitride Electronics:
New ideas at the mm-wave frontier

In the short span of 15 years, nitride-based semiconductors have evolved tremendously from...

Dr. Janet Pan -- March 19, 2007, 12:30PM
High-brightness, high-efficiency light-emission from self-assembled nanoscale deep-centers in GaAs for high-speed 1.5µm fiber-optics

Bernard-Duraffourg’s condition for semiconductor laser action requires that emission exceed...

Mr. Nafees Kabir -- March 19, 2007, 2:00PM
Terahertz Time Domain Spectroscopy and Design of Terahertz Detector

There has recently been a surge in interest in exploiting the terahertz (THz) frequency range (

SEMINAR CANCELED -- February 28, 2007, 11:30AM
Approximation Algorithms in Stochastic Control

A wide variety of stochastic control problems, particularly problems involving control of...

Dr. Alan Seabaugh -- February 27, 2007, 12:30PM
Zero-Bias Detectors and Circuits for Energy Harvesting

This talk will consider the requirements for constructing zero-bias detectors and circuits...

Dr. Cengiz Ozkan -- February 26, 2007, 12:30PM
Carbon Nanotube-DNA Nanoarchitectures and Electronic Functionality

Biological molecules such as deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) possess inherent recognition and self-

Dr. Ricardo Sanfelice -- February 21, 2007, 2:00PM
Robust Hybrid Control Systems

Driven by recent technological advances, hybrid dynamical systems have become prevalent when...

Dr. Gary Bernstein -- February 20, 2007, 12:30PM
Quilt Packaging

"Quilt Packaging," (QP) a new superconnect paradigm for interchip communication, is presented...

Dr. Kevin Tang -- February 13, 2007, 10:00AM
Internet Congestion Control:
Equilibrium and Dynamics

Given the important role the Internet plays in our society, a fundamental understanding of how...

Dr. HsuehChia Chang -- February 13, 2007, 12:30PM
Induced Dipoles and Dielectrophoresis of Nano-Colloids

Induced AC electric dipoles of nano-colloids can be used to manipulate and assemble the beads...

Dr. B. Brar -- February 06, 2007, 12:30PM
Antimonide Based Semiconductors for Low Power Millimeterwave Circuits

Antimonide based compound semiconductors (ABCS) have a bandstructure that make them ideal for...

Dr. Gerhard Klimeck -- January 30, 2007, 12:30PM
Electronic Structure of Si/InAs Composite Channels

Although pure InAs, has a lighter effective mass and higher mobility than Si, an ultra-scaled...

Dr. P.W. Bohn -- January 23, 2007, 12:30PM
Chemical and Biochemical Sensing in Porous GaN Produced by Metal-Assisted Electroless Etching

A great deal of the interest displayed in porous semiconductors in recent years is motivated...

Dr. Chris Mack -- December 01, 2006, 3:00PM
The Future of Semiconductor Lithography:
A Discussion of Research Opportunities

Optical lithography has been the mainstay of semiconductor patterning since the early days of...

Dr. Maja Remskar -- November 16, 2006, 3:30PM
The W5O14 nanowires as precursors for WS2 nanotubes

The Magneli phases are homologous series of quite stoichiometric phases of transition metal...

Dr. Grace Huili Xing -- November 10, 2006, 3:30PM
Einstein's Big Idea - The story behind the world's most famous equation, E=mc2

Newton, Faraday, du Chatelet, Madame and Monsieur Lavoisier, Planck, Einstein, Meitner ... how...

Dr. Chris Mack -- November 01, 2006, 10:30AM
Data Analysis and Modeling in the Real World

Standard undergraduate treatments of data analysis and modeling include important basic ideas...

Dr. Behnaan Aazhang -- October 20, 2006, 2:00PM
Cooperative Communication where Network meets the Channel

Within the last ten years, there has been a cultural shift from wired landlocked connectivity...

Dr. Christopher Jones -- October 09, 2006, 2:00PM
Constructing and Evaluating (LDPC) Codes with Relatively Low Error Floors

Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) Codes are good candidates for various power constrained...

Dr. Stephen Bates -- October 09, 2006, 4:00PM
Decoders for LDPC-CCs with Long Memory

Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes are becoming the FEC of choice in many emerging...

Dr. John Bowers -- October 06, 2006, 3:30PM
Silicon Evanescent Photonic Integrated Circuits

Silicon photonics is an exciting research field with the promise of revolutionizing
communi

Dr. Roberto Tempo -- October 05, 2006, 3:00PM
Randomized Algorithms for Systems and Control

he methodology of randomized algorithms is a powerful tool systematically utilized in various...

Dr. Joao Barros -- September 26, 2006, 2:00PM
Coding Strategies for Sensor Networks and Wireless Security

In this two-part talk, we consider first the problem of separate encoding and joint decoding...

Dr. Zoltan Toroczkai -- September 18, 2006, 3:30PM
Gradient Networks: from Queuing to Protein Folding

In this talk I will introduce the notion of gradient networks, which are induced by local...

Dr. Todd Coleman -- September 15, 2006, 2:00PM
Network Information Theory and Computational Neuroscience

This talk discusses two topics. First, we consider a network information theory problem of...

Dr. Ian Blake -- September 08, 2006, 3:30PM
Coding for the Binary Erasure Channel

Recent interest in the iterative decoding of block codes has arisen largely out of three...

Dr. Steven Ringel -- September 08, 2006, 3:00PM
The Science and Application of Metamorphic Semiconductor Heterostructures:
A New Age of Advanced Device Technologies Reaches Puberty

The past few years have been witness to a grudging but dramatic acceptance of the realization...

Dr. Gil Shamir -- June 20, 2006, 2:00PM
Non-Systematic LDPC Codes for Redundant Data

Non-systematic channel encoding can be superior to systematic encoding in the presence of...

Dr. Joerg Appenzeller -- May 30, 2006, 10:15AM
Logic Devices and Circuits on Carbon Nanotubes

Over the last years carbon nanotubes (CNs) have attracted an increasing interest as building...

Dr. Kamal Premaratne -- May 18, 2006, 3:30PM
Handling Data Imperfections in Rule Mining and Classification

The management of imprecision and uncertainty in databases has become increasingly important...

Dr. Christian Fischer -- May 08, 2006, 2:00PM
Load in CDMA cellular systems and its relation to the Perron Root

It is a well known result in CDMA communications theory that the feasibility of the power...

Dr. Daniela Tuninetti -- May 08, 2006, 2:45PM
On optimal intermediate processing in multi-hop relay networks

Communication systems today are organized in large scale packet networks, with Internet the...

Dr. Fred Terry, Jr. -- May 02, 2006, 12:30PM
Micro and Nano Technology at the Michigan Nanofabrication Facility

This seminar will give an overview of micro and nano technologies at the Michigan...

Dr. Aaron Wagner -- April 27, 2006, 2:00PM
Rate Region of the Quadratic Gaussian Two-Encoder Source-Coding Problem

The celebrated theorem of Slepian and Wolf describes the rates needed in order for separate...

Minghao Qi -- April 25, 2006, 12:30PM
Microcavities in Three-Dimensional Phototonic Crystals

A photonic crystal (PhCs) is typically a composite of a high-dielectric-constant material (e.g...

Dr. Danielle Merfeld -- April 19, 2006, 2:00PM
Wide Band Gap Semiconductor Technology at GE-Sensors

Wide band gap (WBG) semiconductors, such as
Silicon Carbide (SiC) and Gallium Nitride (GaN)

Dr. Neil Zimmerman -- April 18, 2006, 12:30PM
A Fundamental Standard of Capacitance:
Counting Electrons One-by-One

Solid-state devices based on the Coulomb blockade give us a remarkable ability: we can move...

Dr. Jasprit Singh -- April 11, 2006, 12:30PM
Disorder versus Coherence:
Reaching into the Terrahertz Regime

The terrahertz regime in the electromagnetic spectrum is still a frequency regime that...

Jasprit Singh -- April 11, 2006, 12:30PM
Disorder versus Coherence:
Reaching into the Terrahertz Regime

The terrahertz regime in the electromagnetic spectrum is still a frequency regime that...

Dr. Alexander Efros -- April 04, 2006, 11:00AM
Semiconductor Nanorod Optical Properties

There is growing interest in nanometer-scale crystalline semiconductor structures of various...

Dr. Giordano Pola -- April 03, 2006, 11:00AM
Structural Properties in Analysis and Control of Hybrid Systems

The ever increasing complexity of large-scale distributed control systems and the necessity to...

Dr. Steven Ringel -- March 28, 2006, 11:00AM
The Science and Application of Metamorphic Semiconductor Heterostructures:
A New Age of Advanced Device Technologies Reaches Puberty

The seminar has been cancelled.
Please check back for rescheduled date.
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Dr. Chris A. Mack -- March 24, 2006, 1:30PM
The New, New Limits of Optical Lithography

The end of optical lithography has been so often predicted (incorrectly) that such predictions...

Mr. Dmitry Sizov -- March 22, 2006, 2:00PM
The Use of InGaN Quantum Dots in the Active Area of Light Emitting Devices

Group III nitrides (AlN, GaN, InN and their solid solutions) cover a region from wide bandgap...

Jacob B. Jacob B. -- March 20, 2006, 4:00PM
Adventures in Phonon Engineering

Scattering on lattice vibrations (phonons) is the most fundamental impairment to the...

Dr. Paul Saunier -- March 20, 2006, 11:30AM
The future of AlGaN/GaN HEMT Technology

Assessing the future of the AlGaN/GaN technology is challenging!

On one hand AlGaN/GaN...

Dr. Douglas Hall -- March 14, 2006, 12:30PM
New Uses for “Rust”:
Recent Developments in Compound Semiconductor Oxidation for Optoelectronic and Electronic Devices

The 1990 discovery of the wet-thermal native oxides of AlGaAs at UIUC has led to significant...

Dr. Igor Beloborodov -- March 07, 2006, 3:00PM
Transport Properties of Granular Metals

Artificial materials composed of metallic nanoparticles or quantum dots have emerged as the...

Dr. Katherine Liu -- March 07, 2006, 12:30PM
Thermal Strategy Update

Advances in microfabrication processes and ever-increasing demand for faster processing of...

Steve Koester -- February 28, 2006, 12:30PM
SiGe Heterostructures:
One-Hit Wonder or the Next Rolling Stones?

The introduction by IBM of a production SiGe HBT technology in 1998 marked a major milestone...

Kambiz Azarian -- February 28, 2006, 3:00PM
Cooperation in Outage-Limited Channels

In this talk, I will present some new cooperation strategies for the relay, cooperative...

Deli Wang -- February 21, 2006, 12:30PM
Semiconductor Nanowires for Nanoelectronics

Ms. Michelle Roberts -- February 14, 2006, 12:30PM
Strain Engineering Using Si/SiGe Nanomembranes

Controlling strain in the Si/SiGe hetero-system provides control over band offsets and carrier...

Dr. Archie L. Holmes Jr. -- February 13, 2006, 3:00PM
Development of Novel Compound Semiconductors for Advanced Avalanche Photodiodes

Over the past decade, photodiodes have been developed for long-haul optical communication...

Dr. Xiangyang Li -- February 07, 2006, 12:30PM
Photodetectors:
introduction, its meteorological application in China, and current nanowire based work at Notre Dame

Photodetectors are critical parts in the information technology. It is the eyes of imaging...

Dr. Peter Ye -- January 31, 2006, 12:30PM
III-V MOSFETs: Opportunities and Challenges

Practical GaAs MOSFET, in particular for large-scale integrated circuits or digital...

Dr. Michael Flynn -- January 24, 2006, 12:30PM
Research in Analog Circuits at the University of Michigan

This presentation begins with an overview of the research of the analog group at the...

Dr. Anish Arora -- January 20, 2006, 1:30PM
On spatial scaling in sensor networks

This talk presents some approaches for spatial scaling of wireless sensor networks that were...

Tom Pratt -- January 19, 2006, 2:00PM
Multiple-Antenna Architectures for Non-LOS Communications

The performance of multiple-antenna architectures in co-channel interference is compared...

S.D. Walck -- January 09, 2006, 09:30AM
THE SMALL ANGLE CLEAVAGE TECHNIQUE FOR XTEM SAMPLE PREPARATION:
AN UPDATE

The Small Angle Cleavage Technique (SACT) is a relatively simple and inexpensive method of...

Dr. Longxia Li -- December 20, 2005, 3:00PM
New Progress in Large-size CdZnTe Single Crystal Growth using a Modified Vertical Bridgeman Technique for Room Temperature Radiation Detectors

Dr. Longxia Li is the president and founder of Yinnel Tech, Incorporated, located in South...

Dror Baron -- December 09, 2005, 3:00PM
Distributed Compressed Sensing

Sensors, signal processing hardware, and algorithms are under increasing pressure to...

Prof. Cary Y. Yang -- December 07, 2005, 3:30PM
Carbon Nanotubes & Nanofibers as On-chip Interconnects

As integrated circuit (IC) technology continues the trend towards sub-50 nanometer feature...

Dr. Ronald Chamblee -- December 02, 2005, 3:00PM
Health Issues in Wireless Communications

SEMINAR CANCELLED

Prof. Robert M. Wallace -- November 29, 2005, 10:00AM
Electronic Materials Integration

The semiconductor industry has embraced research on a variety of materials to enable the...

Mr. Charles S. Leone -- November 18, 2005, 3:00PM
Legal Issues in Wireless Communications

Dr. Robert McGough -- November 17, 2005, 2:00PM
Computer modeling of hybrid RF/US phased array systems designed for local-regional hyperthermia in the intact breast

Simulation studies of hyperthermia as an adjuvant treatment for locally advanced breast cancer...

Dr. Vincent Poor -- November 11, 2005, 3:00PM
Anytime, Anywhere: The Wireless Revolution

H. Vincent Poor -- November 10, 2005, 2:00PM
Edison Lecture :
Signal Processing and Wireless Networks

A major issue in today's wireless world is the dramatic increase in demand for new capacity...

H. John Caulfield -- November 04, 2005, 4:00PM
Generalized Optical Logic Elements - GOLEs

A Generalized Optical Logic Element or GOLE is a device that performs any of the 16 Boolean...

Dr. James Hunt -- November 03, 2005, 3:00PM
The Wireless Revolution -- Changing the Traditional Telcom Business Rules...

Yasamin Mostofi -- November 02, 2005, 2:00PM
Integration of Communication and Control for Delay-Sensitive Wireless Sensor Networks

Abundance of cheap embedded units equipped with sensing, processing, communication & actuation...

Dr. Roger Peterson -- October 28, 2005, 3:00PM
WirelessMAN -- IEEE 802.16, and its Relationship to WiMax

Patrick B. Shea -- October 28, 2005, 3:00PM
Organic Transistors

Organic thin-film field-effect transistors (OFETs) present several technological advantages as...

Lars Samuelson -- October 28, 2005, 10:30AM
Semiconductor Nanowires

In this talk I will discuss growth of semiconductor nanowires based on epitaxial nucleation of...

Dr. Pascal Vontobel -- October 26, 2005, 2:00PM
An Explicit Construction of Universally Decodable Matrices for Space-Time Coding

Consider data transmission over a q-ary erasure channel using a block code of length n' and...

Dr. Keith Chugg -- October 14, 2005, 3:00PM
High-spectral Efficiency with Constant Envelope, Continuous Phase Modulations

Constant envelope, continuous phase (CECP) modulations are of interest because they allow for...

Prof. Andreas Cangellaris -- October 13, 2005, 3:30PM
Comprehensive Models for the Investigation of On-Chip Switching Noise Generation & Coupling

A modeling methodology is presented for the investigation of on-chip noise generation and...

Professor Richard A. Kiehl -- October 07, 2005, 3:30PM
Report from the Nano-Bio (Bio-Nano) Frontier:
An Electrical Engineer's Perspective

The interface between different fields is believed to be fertile ground for breakthrough...

Dr. Derong Liu -- October 06, 2005, 11:00AM
Call Admission Policies for DS-CDMA Cellular Networks Based on Power Control Setpoints

This talk presents call admission control algorithms for SIR-based power-controlled DS-CDMA...

Dr. Ulrich Welp -- September 20, 2005, 3:30PM
Plasmonics:
Sub-wavelength Focusing & Guiding of Electromagnetic Energy

The drive towards highly integrated optical devices and circuits for use in high-speed...

Dr. Lars-Erik Wernerrson -- September 12, 2005, 10:45AM
New Approaches for InAs-Based Devices

High mobility and low specific contact resistance makes InAs attractive for high-speed and low-

Dr. Meyya Meyyappan -- August 09, 2005, 11:00AM
Novel One Dimensional Nanostructures

The combination of remarkable mechanical properties and unique electronic properties of carbon...

Arvydas Matulionis -- August 03, 2005, 2:00PM
High-field transport in nitride channels:
a hot-phonon bottleneck

Non-equilibrium longitudinal optical (LO) phonons (emitted by hot electrons and termed hot...

Dr. Carl-Erik W. Sundberg -- August 02, 2005, 1:00PM
Digital Audio Broadcasting and 4G Cellular Confergence

The move to digital is a natural progression taking place in all aspects of communications and...

Anthony Kuh -- July 07, 2005, 3:00PM
Kernel Methods, Sparsity, and On-line Learning

This talk discusses kernel methods and applications with a focus on the least squares support...

Kamil L. Ekinci -- June 10, 2005, 2:00PM
Recent Experiments in Nanomechanics

Nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) are drawing interest from both technical and scientific...

Massimo Franceschetti -- May 23, 2005, 2:00PM
From Statistical Physics to Information Systems

Statistical physics originally developed to describe the collective behavior of large...

Dr. Andrea Goldsmith -- May 05, 2005, 12:30PM
Cross-layer design of wireless ad-hoc networks:
Is it better to be robust, quick, or responsive?

Wireless ad-hoc networks enable many new and exciting applications, including entertainment...

Edmund Yeh -- April 22, 2005, 2:00PM
Throughput and Delay Optimal Control of Stochastic Wireless Networks

A central problem in multi-user communications is the design of mechanisms for resource...

Stephen Bates -- April 21, 2005, 2:45PM
VLSI Implementations of Low-Density Parity-Check Convolutional Circuits

Low-Density Parity-Check Block Codes (LDPC-BCs) are becoming the Forward Error Correction (FEC)

Dr. Diana Huffaker -- April 14, 2005, 3:00PM
InAs/SaAs Quantum Dot Nanostructures Formed by Self-Assembly

The development of defect-free quantum dot (QD) ensembles using MOCVD has severely lagged that...

Joerg Appenzeller -- April 07, 2005, 3:30PM
Carbon Nanotubes for Field-Effect Transistor Applications

One of the candidates discussed as a future channel material in a field-effect transistor (FET)

Michael Neely -- March 31, 2005, 1:30PM
Stochastic Optimal Networking:
Energy, Delay, Fairness

We consider optimal stochastic control of wireless networks with time varying channels and...

Alex Zaslavsky -- March 29, 2005, 12:30PM
Quantum device opportunities in ultrathin silicon-on-insulator

Silicon-on-insulator (SOI) transistors built in thin fully-depleted Si channels on top of an...

Ilesanmi Adesida -- March 22, 2005, 12:30PM
Processing and Device Issues in GaN and Related Compounds

Over the last decade, significant and rapid advances in the epitaxial growth of gallium...

Andrew Eckford -- March 22, 2005, 2:00PM
LDPC Codes for Source Coding:
A Review and Recent Results

Although the power of LDPC codes in channel coding has been recognized for nearly a decade...

Leonid Rokhinson -- March 01, 2005, 12:30PM
Spin separation in cyclotron motion

The ability to manipulate spin of charge carries in a controllable fashion is central to the...

Xiang Li -- February 22, 2005, 12:30PM
GaAs MOSFET with wet-thermally oxidized InAlP as gate dielectric

Dr. Orlando Auciello -- February 15, 2005, 12:30PM
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF ULTRANANOCRYSTALLINE DIAMOND (UNCD) FILMS FOR BIOMEDICAL DEVICES AND BIOSE

A discussion will be presented on the science and technology of UNCD thin films and...

Francesca Vatta -- February 15, 2005, 03:00AM
Design of Serially Concatenated Codes Using Non-systematic Feedback Convolutional Encoders

In this talk, we address the design of serially concatenated codes using non-systematic...

Marya Lieberman -- February 08, 2005, 01:30AM
Top-down meets bottom-up

Top-down lithography can create patterns down to about 10 nm in size. bottom-up synthesis and...

Dror Baron -- February 04, 2005, 03:00AM
Recent Results in Non-Asymptotic Shannon Theory

The results of Shannon theory are asymptotic and do not reflect the finite codeword lengths...

Qing Zhang -- February 01, 2005, 12:30PM
Tunnel transistors - can they beat the MOSFET subthreshold-swing-limit of 60mV/decade?

In a field-effect transistor, the minimum voltage swing needed to turn a transistor from on to...

Joseph Sifakis -- January 20, 2005, 03:00AM
Modeling Real-time Systems

Modeling real-time systems raises non-trivial problems for the definition of usable modeling...

Randall Feenstra -- January 18, 2005, 12:30PM
Growth and Surface Characterization of Gallium Nitride Films

Over the past decade there has been considerable research in the application of the wide...

Terry Burcham -- January 17, 2005, 01:30AM
Minimizing S-parameter Measurement Uncertainties in RF Probing Systems

Tamás Roska -- January 14, 2005, 01:30AM
Cellular Wave Computing:
Diverse Physical Implementations & Algorithmic Advances

A new type of computer is characterized by their data, as image flows, and by their...

Sergio Servetto -- December 09, 2004, 02:00AM
Network Information Flow with Correlated Sources

What makes a network architecture efficient? And how do we measure efficiency? In this talk...

Ph.D. J. V. Martinez de Pinillos -- November 17, 2004, 01:00AM
Semiconductor Metrology Programs at NIST

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), formerly known as the National...

Randall Berry -- October 07, 2004, 02:00AM
Distributed Techniques for Wireless Resource Allocation

The efficient allocation of resources such as power and bandwidth is critical for providing...

Gerhard Kramer -- October 05, 2004, 02:00AM
Communication Models and Theory for Relay Channels with Transmit and Receive Constraints

A relay network has a source terminal transmitting a message to a destination terminal with...

Vijay Subramanian -- September 23, 2004, 2:00PM
Convergence and Optimality of Opportunistic Scheduling Algorithms

With an abstraction of serving rate-adaptive sources on a broadcast-type wireless channel as a...

Dr. Joerg Kliewer -- July 06, 2004, 11:00AM
Joint Source-Channel Decoding for Reliable Transmission of Multimedia Signals

Joint source-channel coding has recently emerged as a good alternative to the strict...

Dr. Robert Shull -- April 28, 2004, 2:00PM
IBM Lecture Series

Nanocrystalline materials can possess bulk properties quite different from those commonly...

Dr. Joao Hespanha -- April 23, 2004, 2:00PM
Hybrid Systems:
A common modeling framework for communication networks and control

Hybrid systems provide a modeling framework for problems at the interface between control and...

Michael Manfra -- April 20, 2004, 12:30PM
MBE Growth and Quantum Transport of Gate Tunable High Mobility AlGaN/GaN Heterostructures

The study of high power/high frequency electronic devices fabricated from AlGaN/GaN...

Dr. Muriel Medard -- April 17, 2004, 3:00PM
Network Coding:
Is it heading toward a unified view of routing, network management, coding and compressions?

Recent interest in network coding sprang from a desire to establish network connections...

Dr. Jennifer Gerbi -- March 30, 2004, 3:00PM
Modification of Thin-Film Silicon and Diamond Nanostructures

The field of thin-film physics, materials science, and engineering is considerable. However, a...

Dr. Christoforos Hadjicostis -- March 19, 2004, 2:00PM
Coding Approaches to Fault Tolerance in Finite State Dynamic Systems

Fault tolerance has been a long standing necessity in system design and operation. In systems...

Dr. Eli Yablonovitch -- March 17, 2004, 2:00PM
Inverse Design Problems in Electromagnetics and Nano-Photonic

Photonic crystals, 2- and 3-dimensional structures, are the analog for electromagnetics of the...

Dr. Peter Schreier -- March 16, 2004, 3:00PM
Improper Complex Random Processes in Signal Processing and Communications

Complex random signals are a widely used tool in communications, optics, electromagnetics...

Dr. Ashish Tiwari -- February 27, 2004, 2:00PM
Hybrid Modeling and Analysis of Biological Networks

How do living cells compute and control themselves, and communicate with their environment...

Dr. Kevin Warwick -- February 19, 2004, 3:30PM
Cyborg Engineering: Practical Experiments

The speaker has created a stir by his vision of the future that involves robotics, artificial...

Dr. Daniel Liberzon -- February 13, 2004, 02:00AM
Hybrid Control with Limited Information

In this talk we will present recent work on the problem of controlling a dynamical system in...

Dr. Calin Belta -- February 06, 2004, 2:00PM
Reachability Analysis and Control of Rectangular Multi-Affine Hybrid Systems

In this talk, we will present some recent results we have on analysis and control of hybrid...

Dr. Magnus Egerstedt -- January 30, 2004, 2:00PM
Decentralized Control of Locally Interacting Mobile Robots

Due to the limited effective range of every physical sensor, as well as potential bandwidth...

Dr. Joseph J. Nahas -- January 26, 2004, 4:00PM
Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory (MRAM)

Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory (MRAM) is a promising, maturing non-volatile memory...

Dr. Ruediger Urbanke -- October 10, 2003, 03:00AM
Finite-Length Scaling Laws for Iterative Coding

It has been observed (empirically) in the realm of statistical physics that whenever a system...

Dr. Philoppe Fauchet -- October 02, 2003, 10:00AM
The Role of Nanoscale Silicon in Optical Interconnects

The semiconductor industry association roadmap has identified interconnects as a major barrier...

Dr. Elaine Li -- September 22, 2003, 2:00PM
Optically Driven Quantum Gates Based on Single Semiconductor Quantum Dots

In the last half a century, we have enjoyed an exponential growth in computing power and...

Dr. Hongqi Xu -- June 15, 2003, 03:00AM
Three-Terminal Ballistic Junctions:
New Building Blocks For Functional Devices in Nanoelectronics

In this talk, I will review the recent development on a novel type of room-temperature...

Dr. Joachim Hagenauer -- February 24, 2003, 3:00PM
Back to Analog? Soft bit processing in turbo receivers for communication systems

Fifty years after Shannon’s groundbreaking paper, the ultimate limits of information...

Dr. James Massey -- April 11, 2002, 3:30PM
Edison Lecture James L. Massey

The past three decades have witnessed the emergence of cryptography as a field for active...

Dr. Jerry Woodall -- October 19, 2001, 4:00PM
Technology Realization at a University for Fun and Profit

Dr. Bruce Hajek -- April 26, 2001, 3:00PM
An Exploration of Amorphous Communication Networks:
Models and Mechanisms

Dr Karl Hess -- September 27, 1996, 3:30PM
Nanolithography and Transistor Degradation by Hot Electrons