DISSERTATIONS AND THESES

Summary: directed 2 postdoc research, 30 Ph.D. Dissertations, 35 Master Theses, 5 Undergraduate Honor Theses, and 6 NSF REU student reports

Currently, 4 Ph.D. students are in progress

· postdoc. research, Dr. Minguo Liu, 9/98-3/99

· postdoc. research, Dirk Nuernbergk, 8/97-12/97

· visiting scholar, Min Wang, 1/12-1/13

· visiting scholar, Dejia Shi, 10/11-9/12

· visiting scholar, Yibing Shi, 3/98-2/99

· visiting scholar, Bowen Zhang, 8/93-7/9

· Ph.D. Dissertation, Milad Salem, “Practical deep learning: Utilization of selective transfer learning for biomedical applications,” May 2022

· Ph.D. Dissertation, Wen Yang, Reliability and failure analysis of GaN-on-Si power devices, August 2021

· Ph.D. Dissertation, Shayan Taheri, Secure and trustworthy hardware and machine learning systems for internet of things, May 2021

· Ph.D. Dissertation, Jie Lin, Ultra-low power circuits and architectures for neuromorphic computing accelerators with emerging TFETs and ReRAMs, May 2020

· Ph.D. Dissertation, Qutaiba Alasad, Provably trustworthy and secure hardware design with low overhead, May 2020

· Ph.D. Dissertation, Andrew Binder, “GaN power devices: Discerning application - Specific challenges and limitations in GaN HEMTs,” May 2019

· Ph.D. Dissertation, Ankush Oberai, “Semiconductor design and manufacturing interplay to achieve higher yields for reduced costs using smart techniques,” December 2018

· Ph.D. Dissertation, Yu Bi, "Enhanced hardware security using charged based emerging device technologies," August 2016

· Ph.D. Dissertation, Ekavut Kritchanchai, "RF circuit design for reliability and process variability resilience," May 2016

· Ph.D. Dissertation, Karthik Padmanabhan, "Study of novel power semiconductor devices for performance and reliability," May 2016

· Ph.D. Dissertation, Shuyu Chen, “RF power amplifier and oscillator design for reliability and variability,” May 2013

· Ph.D. Dissertation, Gabriel Vazquez Ramos, “Wireless power transfer for space applications: System design and electromagnetic compatibility compliance of radiated emissons,” August 2012

· Ph.D. Dissertation, Hongxia Tang, “Study of design for reliability of RF and analog circuits,” May 2012

· Ph.D. Dissertation, Yidong Liu, “CMOS RF circuit variability and reliability resilient design, modeling, and simulation,” May 2011

· Ph.D. Dissertation, Jun Ma, “Study of gate oxide breakdown and hot electron effect on CMOS circuit performances,” December 2009

· Ph.D. Dissertation, Liangjun Jiang, “Study of hot electron effect on LDMOS transistor performance,” May 2007

· Ph.D. Dissertation, Chuanzhao Yu, “Study of nano-scaled CMOS device and circuit reliability”, May 2006

· Ph.D. Dissertation, Yi Liu, “Study of oxide breakdown, hot carrier and NBTI effects on MOS device and circuit reliability,” May 2005

· Ph.D. Dissertation, Anwar Sadat, “Low power CMOS circuit design and reliability analysis for wireless MEMS sensors,” December 2004

· Ph.D. Dissertation, Hong Yang, “CMOS device and circuit reliability analysis,” December 2004

· Ph.D. Dissertation, Jia Di, “Energy aware design and analysis of synchronous and asynchronous circuits,” May 2004

· Ph.D. Dissertation, Weidong Kuang, “Design and analysis of delay-insensitive NCL ring and energy-efficient circuits,” December 2003

· Ph.D. Dissertation, Li Yang, “Analysis and design of digital circuits for low switching noise,” August 2003

· Ph.D Dissertation, Enjun Xiao, “CMOS RF circuit design and reliability for wireless communications,” May 2003

· Ph.D. Dissertation, Wen Wu, “Copper interconnect reliability on integrated circuits,” December 2002

· Ph.D. Dissertation, Qiang Li, “CMOS RF front-end IC design and reliability for portable wireless receiver,” December 2001

· Ph.D. Dissertation, Jinlong Zhang, “Gate oxide integrity for deep submicron CMOS device/circuit reliability,” May 2001

· Ph.D. Dissertation, Jiling Song, “Analysis and modeling of SiGe HBTs,” August 1998

· Ph.D. Dissertation, Yong Dai, “A scalable bipolar transistor model including quasi-saturation and high current effects of bipolar and BiCMOS circuit applications,” August 1996

· Ph.D. Dissertation, Jinghui Ning, “High performance heterojunction bipolar transistor model development,” May 1996

· M.S. Thesis, Nicholas Stoll, “Study of GaN HEMT behavior subjected to TLP and VFTLP ESD measurements,” December 2019

· M.S. Thesis, Aiman Salih, “LDMOS power transistor design and evaluation using 2D and 2D device simulation,” May 2017

· M.S. Thesis, Jhonatan Garcia, "Three-dimensional simulation study of low power (<100 V) superjunction lateral DMOS power transistor," August 2016

· M.S. Thesis, Raul Mendoze Macias, "Design and optimization of superjunction vertical DMOS power transistors using Sentaurus device simulation," August 2016

· M.S. Thesis, Yu-Chun Liu, “RF energy harvesting for implantable ICs with on-chip antenna,” May 2014

· M.S. Thesis, Alan Gibsons, Jr., “Design and simulation of CMOS active RF mixers,” December 2011

· M.S. Thesis, Jason Steighner, “Investigation and trade study on hot carrier reliability of pHEMT for DC and RF performance,” August 2011

· M.S. Thesis, Giji Skaria, “Class F and inverse class F power amplifiers subject to electrical stress effect,” August 2011

· M.S. Thesis, Yiheng Wang, “Design and analysis of 5.8GHz high linearity power amplifier with an on-chip linearizer,” May 2011

· M.S. Thesis, Divya Narasimha Raju, “Study of ESD effects on RF power amplifiers,” May 2011

· M.S. Thesis, Shauna McCartney, “The simulation and control of a grid-connected wind energy conversion system,” December 2010

· M.S. Thesis, Karan Kutty, “Class-E cascode power amplifier analysis and design for long term reliability,” August 2010

· M.S. Thesis, Mark Corey, “Conventional and ZVT synchronous buck converter design, analysis, and measurement,” May 2010

· M.S. Thesis, Smitha Krishnamurthy, “Solar and fuel cell circuit modeling, analysis and integrations with power conversion circuits for distributed generation,” August 2009

· M.S. Thesis, Yidong Liu, “Study of InGaAs LDMOS for power conversion applications,” August 2009

· M.S. Thesis, Yinxin Yu, “Study of negative bias temperature instability and fast charge trapping effect on nanoelectronics reliability”, December 2007

· M.S. Thesis, Lin Shen, Hot electron stress effect on low-noise amplifier RF performances under weak and strong inversions, May 2006

· M.S. Thesis, Rajeev Verma, “Design low voltage, high speed, and high resolution CMOS comparable using 0.18 µm technology,” May 2004

· M.S. Thesis, Ranganath Panchangam, “Analysis of low power digital circuit design,” May 2004

· M.S. Thesis, Akarsh Reddy, Globally-asynchronous, locally-synchronous wrapper configurations for point-to-point and multi-point data communication,” December 2004

· M.S. Thesis, Wade Randall Smith, “Analysis of oxide breakdown effect on class-E power amplifiers,” December 2003

· M.S. Thesis, Fei Liu, “Noise and linearity analysis for RF CMOS mixers,” August 2003

· M.S. Thesis, Hong Yang, “Hot electron effects on circuit reliability,” May 2002

· M.S. Thesis, Ning Weng, “Energy efficient design and analysis for delay-insensitive digital circuits,” December 2000

· M.S. Thesis, Jignesh Soncharatra, “Signal integrity in deep submicron CMOS chip design,” December 2000

· M.S. Thesis, Kongfan Pan, “System design of an ATM over satellite interconnect device,” April 2000

· M.S. Thesis, Aleksandar Hadzibabic, “Testing of delay-insensitive asynchronous circuits,” April 2000

· M.S. Thesis, Mir M. Mahin, “Analysis and modeling of substrate noise coupling in mixed-signal ICs,” April 1998

· MS Thesis, Yuhua Gu, “Hot electron effects on submicron n-MOSFETs including gate oxide thickness dependence,” August 1996

· MS Thesis, Rafik Awadallah, “SOI MOS transistor model including self-heating effects,” August 1996

· MS Thesis, Long Nguyen, “Analog performance of BiCMOS circuits,” December 1994

· MS Thesis, Chandrasekaran Panchapakesan, “Thermal and intermodulation analysis of AlGaAs/GaAs heterojunction bipolar transistor,” April 1994

· MS Thesis, Abhijit Phanse, “BiCMOS switching analysis,” April 1994

· MS Thesis, Cheng-Hao Huang, “Study on scanning delivery system for holmium YAG laser thermalkeratoplasty,” August 1993

· MS Thesis, Hoanh Pham, “BiCMOS analysis including high injection and base pushout effect,” August 1993

· Undergraduate Honor Thesis, Jason Steighner, “Analysis and enhancement of the LDMOSFET for safe operating area and device ruggedness,” May 2010; Outstanding Honor Thesis (1st prize), UCF, 2011

· Undergraduate Honor Thesis, Wade Randall Smith, “A study of the changes in electromagnetic radiation from a microprocessor due to differences in programs and clock cycles,” May 2001

· Undergraduate Honor Thesis, Kelley Davis, “Substrate noise modeling in a complex mixed-signal circuit,” August 1998

· Undergraduate Honor Thesis, Anthony Klee, “Noise analysis for analog amplifiers,” December 1993

· Undergraduate Honor Thesis, Brian Smith, “Theoretical analysis of avalanche breakdown in heterojunction light amplifying optical switches,” August 1993