Terahertz technologies have been attracting attention over the past few years due to their unique applications in bio-chemical sensing, bio-imaging, spectroscopy, security, and communications. Traditionally, these applications ...

Robotic grasping of unknown objects is recognized to be a challenging problem; this is due to the uncertainty of object shape, caused by the imperfect perception capability of the robot. Vision and depth sensors are ...

This thesis focuses on the description and measurement of the underwater acoustic field, based on vector properties of acoustic particle velocity. The specific goal is to interpret vector sensor measurements in underwater ...

Lead zirconate titanate (PZT) thin-film actuators have been studied intensively for years because of their potential applications in many fields. In this dissertation, a PZT thin-film micro probe device is designed, ...

Four different composite material systems are subjected to nine months of in situ exposure at a potential tidal energy site. These four systems are fiberglass/epoxy, carbon fiber/epoxy, fiberglass/vinylester, and carbon ...

We present a theoretical framework for modeling the transport of any number of globally con- served quantities, in any spatial configuration, and apply it to obtain a model of magnetization transport for spin-systems with ...

This thesis studies the physics of the turbulent round jet. In particular, it focuses on three different problems that have the turbulent round jet as their base flow. The first part of this thesis examines a compressible ...

The alarming increase of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) has become a serious issue, especially with TB affecting nearly a third of the global population and claiming over a million lives each year. Drug resistance ...

The goal of this research is to identify how nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions and flame stability (blowout) are impacted by the use of fuels that are alternatives to typical pipeline natural gas. The research focuses on ...

A tunable fishnet metamaterial (TFMM) was designed and fabricated to prove its potential in controlling terahertz radiation (0.1 THz~10THz). A model to retrieve refractive index of single layer fishnet metamaterial (SLFM) ...