Journal and Conference Proceedings

  1. Puttananjegowda, K., Thomas, S. “A low-power low-noise multi-stage transimpedance amplifier for amperometric based blood glucose monitoring systems.” Analog Integr Circ Sig Process 102, 659–666 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10470-020-01600-5

  2. K. Puttananjegowda, A. Takshi, S. Thomas, “Electrospun Nanofibrous Membrane based Electrochemical Glucose Sensor”, IEEE Sensors Letters, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8981942 (February, 2020).

  3. K. Puttananjegowda, A. Takshi, S. Thomas, “Electrospun Nanofibrous Structures for Electrochemical Enzymatic Glucose Biosensing: A Perspective”, Journal of Electrochemical Society, Jan 2020. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1149/1945-7111/ab67af/meta (January, 2020).

  4. William Serrano-Garcia, Irene Bonadies, Sylvia Thomas, Vincenzo Guarino, “P3HT loaded piezoelectric electrospun fibers for tunable molecular adsorption”, Materials Letters, Volume 266, 2020, 127458, ISSN 0167-577X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2020.127458 (January, 2020).

  5. Thomas, S. W., Campbell, S. W., Devisetty Subramanyam, M., Ellerbrock, C. R. (2019, June), Contemporary STEM Issues: Engineering Training of Pre-Service Teachers for Middle School STEM Curriculum Development (Evaluation), 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Tampa, Florida. https://peer.asee.org/32545 (June 2019).

  6. Serrano-Garcia, W., Jayathilaka, W.A.D.M., Chinnappan, A., Tran, T.Q., Baskar, C., Thomas, S.W., Ramakrishna, S., “Nanocomposites for electronic applications that can be embedded for textiles and wearables”. Sci China Tech Sci, 2019, 62, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11431-018-9436-6 (May, 2019).

  7. Julien, T. C., Subramanyam, M. D., Katakam, H. C., Lee, S., Thomas, S. and Harmon, J. P. (2019), “Ultrasoft polycarbonate polyurethane nanofibers made by electrospinning: Fabrication and characterization”. Polym Eng Sci, 59: 838-845. doi:10.1002/pen.25021 (January, 2019).

  8. Jayathilaka, W.A.D.M., Qi, K., Qin, Y., Chinnappan, A., Serrano‐García, W., Baskar, C., Wang, H., He, J., Cui, S., Thomas, S. W., Ramakrishna, S., “Significance of nanomaterials in Wearables: A Review on Wearable Actuators and Sensors”, Adv. Mater. 2019, 31, 1805921. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201805921 .

  9. J. Hamilton, A. Ozarowski, E. Archibong, S. Thomas, W. Serrano-Garcia, S. Stoian, C. Weider, N. Mateeva (2018), “Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Polyethylene Oxide-Dinuclear Cu(II) Complex Electrospun Nanofibers”, Materials Letters, Volume 238, 2019, Pages 58-61, ISSN 0167-577X, doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2018.11.149 (2019).

  10. K. Puttananjegowda and S. Thomas, "A CNTFET based Multi-Stage Transimpedance Amplifier for Blood Glucose Monitoring Systems," 2018 IEEE 9th Annual Information Technology, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference (IEMCON), Vancouver, BC, 2018, pp. 383-388, doi: 10.1109/IEMCON.2018.8614830 (November, 2018).

  11. K. Puttananjegowda and S. Thomas, "A Detailed Review on Physical Unclonable Function Circuits for Hardware Security," 2018 IEEE 9th Annual Information Technology, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference (IEMCON), Vancouver, BC, 2018, pp. 609-612. doi: 10.1109/IEMCON.2018.8615074 (November, 2018).

  12. Majdi M Ababneh, Kavyashree Puttananjegowda, Samuel Perez, Yen Kheng Tan, and Sylvia Thomas, “Optimized Power Management Circuit for Implantable Rectenna for In-Body Medical Devices”, IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics and Drive Systems (Dec 2017).

  13. Majdi M Ababneh, Mohammed Jasim, Kavyashree Puttananjegowda, Samuel Perez, Shamima Afroz, and Sylvia Thomas, Yen Kheng Tan, “Design of a SiC Implantable Rectenna for Wireless In-Vivo Biomedical Devices”, IEEE Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics &Mobile Communication Conference (UEMCON) (Oct 2017).

  14. K. Puttananjegowda, M. Ababneh and S. Thomas, "The design of ultra low noise CMOS transimpedance amplifier for biosensing applications," 2017 IEEE 8th Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference (UEMCON), New York, NY, 2017, pp. 16-19, doi: 10.1109/UEMCON.2017.8248971 (Oct 2017).

  15. Ridita Khan, Fahima Chowdhury, Manopriya Devisetty Subramanyam, Sylvia Thomas, “Performance Comparison of Plasmonic Solar Cell Employing Aluminum and Silver Nano Particles”, 17th IEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology Proceedings, IEEE Nano, Pittsburgh (July 2017).

  16. Sylvia Thomas, Manopriya Devisetty Subramanyam, Nirmita Roy, Ridita Khan “Investigations of CoO-ATO Coatings for Silicon Solar Cells”, 17th IEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology Proceedings, IEEE Nano, Pittsburgh (July 2017).

  17. Thomas, S., & Alcantar, N. (2017). System integration of functionalized natural materials. MRS Bulletin, 42(5), 343-349. doi:10.1557/mrs.2017.90.

  18. Majdi M. Ababneh, Samuel Perez, and Sylvia Thomas, “Optimized Power Management Circuit for RF Energy Harvesting System,” Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference (WAMICON), 2017 IEEE 18th Annual (April 2017).

  19. Majdi M. Ababneh, Samuel Perez, and Sylvia Thomas, “Optimized Mini Notched Turbine Energy Harvesting Using Resistor Emulation Approach and Particle Swarm Optimization,” in IEEE Proc. SoutheastCon (March 2017).

  20. Majdi M. Ababneh, Samuel Perez, Henry Cabra, and Sylvia Thomas, “Design of A Novel Mini Notched Turbine With Optimized Power Management Circuit,” The 8th International Renewable Energy Congress (March 2017).

  21. Fei Guo, Daniela M. L. Stebbins, Tunan Peng, Wen Zhao, Rana Falahat, Sylvia Thomas, Ryan Toomey and Norma Alcantar , Evaluation of the Cactus Based-Mucilage As an Alternative Natural Dispersant on Toxicity, Effectiveness, and Surface Tension of Oil-in-Water Emulsion, 2016 Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1097-7) (2016).

  22. Campbell, S. W., Thomas, S. W., & Bhethanabotla, V. R., RET in Functional Materials, 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana. 10.18260/p.26095 (2016, June).

  23. William Serrano-Garcia, Sylvia Thomas, "Electrospinning Technique for Organic Semiconductive Polymer Composites Coaxial Nanofibers for Electronic Devices", APS Conference, New Orleans, LA (March, 2016)

  24. Paul G. Flikkema, Rhonda R. Franklin, Jeff Frolik, Carol Haden, Aaron T. Ohta, Wayne A. Shiroma, Sylvia W. Thomas, and Tom Weller, "ENFUSE: Engaging Fundamentals and Systems Engineering in Introductory Circuits", 2015 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Seattle, Washington, https://peer.asee.org/23938 Internet (July, 2015).

  25. Fei Guo, Tunan Peng, Daniela M. L. Stebbins, Wen Zhao, Rana Falahat, Sylvia Thomas, Ryan Toomey and Norma A. Alcantar , (251d) Cactus Based-Mucilage As an Alternative Natural Dispersant for Oil Spill Clean-up Operations, 2015 Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1094-6) (2015).

  26. Sylvia W. Thomas, Manopriya Devisetty, Hruday Chand Katakam, Samuel Perez, Fei Guo, Daniela Stebbins, Norma Alcantar, Rasudha Muppaneni, “Investigation of Novel Opuntia ficus-indica Mucilage Nanofiber Membrane Filtration for Water Systems”, MRS Proceedings, Volume 1745, Materials Research Society 2015, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1557/opl.2015.582 (2015).

  27. Rosemarie D. Wesson & Sylvia Thomas (2014). DISCOVERY: THE AMAZING POWER OF CACTUS. ASEE Prism, 24(3), 23-23. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/43747070 (November, 2014).

  28. Tom Weller, Carol M. Haden, Jeff Frolik, Paul G. Flikkema, Aaron T. Ohta, Sylvia W. Thomas, Rhonda R. Franklin, and Wayne A. Shiroma, "A Systems-Centric, Foundational Experience in Circuits", 2014 ASEE Annual Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana, https://peer.asee.org/20011 Internet (June, 2014).

  29. Fei Guo, Daniela M. L. Stebbins, Tunan Peng, Rana Falahat, Wen Zhao, Sylvia Thomas, Ryan Toomey and Norma Alcantar, (695b) Effect of a Natural Cactus Based-Mucilage Dispersant on the Surface Tension and Droplet Size of Dispersed Crude Oil, 2014 Annual Meeting (ISBN: 978-0-8169-1086-1).

  30. S. Thomas, B. Bell, N. Alcantar, D. Durham, S. Perez, “(Invited) Framework for Structural, Processing, and Environmental Assessment of Micro to Nano Scaled Integrated Circuit Structures”, ECS Transactions (ECST), 2014 61(6):141-152 (May 2014).

  31. S. E. Saddow, C. Frewin, M. Reyes, J. Register, M. Nezafati, S. Thomas, “(Invited) 3C-SiC on Si: A Biocompatible Material for Advanced Bioelectronic Devices”, ECS Transactions (ECST) 2014 61(7): 101-111 (May, 2014).

  32. C.L Frewin, M. Reyes, J. Register, S. W. Thomas and S. E. Saddow, “3C-SiC on Si: A Versatile Material for Electronic, Biomedical and Clean Energy Applications”, MRS Proceedings, 1693, mrss14-1693-dd05-01 doi:10.1557/opl.2014.567 (April, 2014).

  33. Tete Tevi, Shantonio W. Birch, Sylvia W. Thomas, Arash Takshi, “Effect of a non-anionic surfactant on the double layer capacitance of poly (3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene): poly (styrenesulfonate) (PEDOT: PSS) in organic electrolyte”, Journal of Synthetic Metals, (February, 2014).

  34. M. Ladanov, P. Algarin-Amaris, G. Matthews, M. Ram, S. Thomas, A. Kumar, and J. Wang, “Microfluidic Hydrothermal Growth of ZnO Nanowires Over High Aspect Ratio Microstructures”, Nanotechnology, Volume 24 Number 37 (August, 2013).

  35. Afroz, S., Thomas, S.W., Mumcu, G., Saddow, S.E., "Implantable SiC based RF antenna biosensor for continuous glucose monitoring," Sensors, 2013 IEEE, pp.1-4, 3-6,doi: 10.1109/ICSENS.2013.6688379 (Nov. 2013).

  36. Mikhail Ladanov, Paula Algarin Amaris, Pedro Villalba, Yusuf Emirov, Garrett Matthews, Manoj K. Ram, Sylvia Thomas, Jing Wang, Ashok Kumar, “Effects of the Physical Properties of Atomic Layer Deposition Grown Seeding Layers on the Preparation of ZnO Nanowires, Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, Ms. Ref. No.: PCS-D-13-00179R1 (May, 2013).

  37. Brandon Richard, Norma Alcantar, and Sylvia Thomas, “Cobalt-doped ATO Sol-gels on Carbon-Silicon Layers for Modeling Sol-gel-carbon Fiber Interfaces”, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 51 11PG15 (September, 2012).

  38. S. Afroz, S.W. Thomas, G. Mumcu, and S.E. Saddow, “Performance of a Biocompatible SiC RF Antenna Imbedded in Muscle and Fatty Tissue”, 2012 IEEE EMBS International Conference Proceedings, San Diego, CA, USA (August/September, 2012).

  39. Thomas, Sylvia, “Voices of Impact from the Public (The VIP Report): An Ethical Perspective”, 2012 American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference Proceedings, San Antonio, TX (June, 2012).

  40. Adrien Lavoie , Tete Tevi, Paula Algarin, Sylvia Thomas, Jing Wang, Arash Takshi, “Reduction of Leakage Current in Supercapacitors by Atomic Layer Deposition of a Blocking Layer on the Electrodes”, 2012 AVS/ALD Conference Proc., Dresden, Germany (June 2012).

  41. Brandon Richard, Norma Alcantar, Andrew Hoff and Sylvia Thomas, “Optical Properties of ATO Sol-gel Coated Carbon Fibers”, MRS Proceedings, 1454, pp 221-226. doi:10.1557/opl.2012.1253 (April 2012).

  42. Shamima Afroz, Sylvia W Thomas, Gokhan Mumcu, Christopher W. Locke and Stephen E Saddow, “A Biocompatible SiC RF Antenna for In-Vivo Sensing Applications”, MRS Proceedings, 1433, mrss12-1433-h06-05 doi:10.1557/opl.2012.1150 (April 2012).

  43. Feng Zhang, Ya-chuan Perng, Ju Hyeon Choi, Tao Wu, Tien-Kan Chung, Gregory P. Carman, Christopher Locke, Sylvia Thomas, Stephen E. Saddow, Jane P. Chang, “Atomic layer deposition of Pb(Zr,Ti)Ox on 4H-SiC for metal-ferroelectric-insulator-semiconductor diodes,” J. Appl. Phys.,vol. 109, pp. 124109 (2011).

  44. H. Cabra, S. Thomas, “Design, Simulation, and Prototyping Model of a Miniaturized Bio Energy Generation System”, IASTED International Conference on Modeling and Simulation, Conference Proceedings, Calgary, AB, Canada (July, 2011)

  45. H. Cabra, S. Thomas, “Design, Simulation, and Prototyping of an Impulse Turbine for Biomedical Applications,” Technical Proceedings of TechConnect World 2011 Oral Presentation, Boston, MA (June, 2011).

  46. A.W. Vittetoe, M.U. Niemann, S.S. Srinivasan, K. McGrath, A. Kumar, D.Y. Goswami, E.K. Stefanakos, and S. Thomas, “Destabilization of LiAlH4 by Nanocrystalline MgH2”, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Reference-HE4293 (January, 2009).

  47. M. Carroll, T. Ivanov, S. Kuehne, J. Chu, C. King, M. Frei, M. Mastrapasqua, R. Johnson, K. Ng, S. Moinian, S. Martin, L. Fritzinger, T. Esry, W. Moller, B. Kane, G. Abeln, D. Dennis, E. Harris, S. Thomas, R. Gregor, P. Sana, W. Wu, et. al., “COM2 SiGe Modular BiCMOS Technology for Digital, Mixed Signal, and RF Applications”, IEDM, San Francisco, CA (December, 2000).

  48. W.L. Sarney, L. Salamanca,-Riba, P. Zhou, S. Wilson, M.G. Spencer, K. Jones, "Investigation of Crystalline Quality and Polytype Morphology of AlN Films Grown on Sapphire by MOCVD Using Transmission Electron Microscopy”, MRS, Spring Conf. Proceedings, San Francisco, CA (April, 1999).

  49. S. Wilson, C. Dickens, M.G. Spencer, J. Griffin, “Comparative Growth of AlN on Singular and Off-Axis 6H and 4H-SiC by MOCVD”, MRS Internet J. Nitride Semicond. Res. 4S1, G3.61 (1999).

  50. K. Wongchotigul, S. Wilson, C. Dickens, J. Griffin, X. Tang, M.G. Spencer, “Growth of Aluminum Nitride with Superior Optical and Morphological Properties”, SiC and Related Materials, Materials Science Forum, Vol. 264, p. 1137 (1998).