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Modulation-Level Coding for Wireless Network Coding
(University of Waterloo, 2009-12-17)When intermediate nodes encode messages in wireless network coding, a question arises: Which modulation scheme should be used to broadcast the encoded message? Should it be limited to a receiver with a low modulation-level ... -
Molecular Beam Epitaxial Growth Optimization for Next Generation Optoelectronic Devices Based on III-V Semiconductors
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-01)Molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) has been serving as the best tool for group III-V compound growths due to its capability of depositing epilayers with high single-crystalline quality, high purity and Angstrom-scale thickness ... -
Molybdenum Disulphide (MoS2) Nanosheet Inks Evaluated for Printed Electronics and Application to Thin-Film Transistors
(University of Waterloo, 2017-06-20)Inkjet printing is a versatile deposition technique that has been used for the fabrication of electronic circuits, from simple conductive tracks to complete 3D logic circuits. The emergence of solution-processable 2D layered ... -
Molybdenum Disulphide (MoS₂)-Poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) Hybrid Ink for Printed Thin-Film Transistor Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2020-02-14)Organic Thin-Film Transistors (OTFTs) based on Poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT)-Molybdenum Disulphide (MoS₂) composite films as an active layer were prepared via inkjet printing. There have been many attempts to incorporate ... -
Monolithic Amorphous-Selenium/CMOS Small-Pixel-Effect-Enhanced Single-Photon-Counting Imagers for Dedicated Breast Computed Tomography
(University of Waterloo, 2024-05-02)Breast cancer is the most common cause of cancer-related death in women in the world. However, early and reliable detection of breast cancer can reduce its high fatality rate. Diagnosis hinges on medical X-ray imaging ... -
Monolithic Integrated Reconfigurable RF-MEMS Phase Shifters
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-26)Micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) actuators are a key technology that have been utilized in many real-world applications. This thesis investigates the application of MEMS technology in the design of RF components and ... -
Monolithically Integrated Phase Change Material GeTe-Based RF Components for Millimeter Wave Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-22)RF switches are the fundamental building blocks for realizing reconfigurable front-ends in communication devices. Currently available RF switches are dominated by semiconductor technology which, while performing adequately ... -
Monte Carlo Transport Methods for Semiconductor X-ray Imaging Detectors
(University of Waterloo, 2013-07-17)This thesis describes the development of a novel comprehensive Monte Carlo simulation code, ARTEMIS, for the investigation of electron-hole pair transport mechanisms in a-Se x-ray imaging detectors. ARTEMIS allows for ... -
More Than Error Correction: Cryptography from Codes
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-26)The first code-based cryptosystem, McEliece, was invented in the very early development of public-key cryptography, yet code-based cryptosystems received little attention for decades due to their relatively large key-sizes. ... -
Morphology Control and Ordering of PS-b-PMMA Block Copolymer by The Use of Neutral Monolayer and E-beam Lithography
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-29)As the conventional nanofabrication methods are reaching their limits of miniaturization, new methods are being studied to overcome this miniaturization challenge. Among the new emerging nanofabrication methods, bottom-up ... -
MoS2 Thin Film Transistors using PECVD Dielectrics and Optical Contrast Modeling for Thickness Measurement
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-16)The discovery of graphene has led to considerable interest in the use of two-dimensional materials for use in transistors. Unlike graphene TMDCs such as MoS2 possess a band gap allowing them to obtain sufficient on/off ... -
Motion Planning and Safety for Autonomous Driving
(University of Waterloo, 2019-12-11)This thesis discusses two different problems in motion planning for autonomous driving. The first is the problem of optimizing a lattice planner control set for any particular autonomous driving task, with the goal of ... -
Motor Control For Human Jumping To A Target
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-23)Investigating how humans perform dynamic movements is important for applications such as movement rehabilitation, sports training, humanoid robot design and control, and human-robot interaction. There are several hypotheses ... -
Multi-agent Learning for Cooperative Scheduling of Microsecond-scale Services at Rack Scale
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-25)This work considers the load-balancing problem in dense racks running microsecond-scale services. In such a system, balancing the load among hundreds to thousands of cores requires making millions of scheduling decisions ... -
Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning in Large Complex Environments
(University of Waterloo, 2022-07-15)Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) has seen much success in the past decade. However, these methods are yet to find wide application in large-scale real world problems due to two important reasons. First, MARL ... -
Multi-Agent User-Centric Specialization and Collaboration for Information Retrieval
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-19)The amount of information on the World Wide Web (WWW) is rapidly growing in pace and topic diversity. This has made it increasingly difficult, and often frustrating, for information seekers to retrieve the content they are ... -
Multi-cloud Connectivity Provisioning with Security Attributes
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-21)In this thesis, we detail the following work: (i) the design and development of graph-based cloud management software with multiple microservices, including one that provides easy connectivity provisioning in the multi-cloud ... -
Multi-Dimensional Resource Orchestration in Vehicular Edge Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-26)In the era of autonomous vehicles, the advanced technologies of connected vehicle lead to the development of driving-related applications to meet the stringent safety requirements and the infotainment applications to improve ... -
Multi-Drone-Cell 3D Trajectory Planning and Resource Allocation for Drone-Assisted Radio Access Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-19)Equipped with communication modules, drones can perform as drone-cells (DCs) that provide on-demand communication services to users in various scenarios, such as traffic monitoring, Internet of things (IoT) data collections, ... -
Multi-hop Transmission in Millimeter Wave WPAN with Directional Antenna
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-30)Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications is a promising enabling technology for high rate (Giga-bit) multimedia applications. However, because oxygen absorption peaks at 60 GHz, mmWave signal power degrades significantly ...