The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on November 19, 2009). Thesis advisor: Dr. Glenn Washer. Includes bibliographical references.

The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on November 19, 2009). Thesis advisor: Dr. Glenn Washer. Includes bibliographical references.

Report (M.S.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 32-34). Also available via the Internet.

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Made available in DSpace on 2018-07-27T18:26:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2015-11-24. Added 1 bitstream(s) on 2018-07-27T18:30:14Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 000864897.pdf: 2555589 bytes, checksum: c920340f90ea5680312e850c433369e4 (MD5) / Nesta dissertação é apresentada a produção e caracterização de sensores de umidade e amônia totalmente impressos, usando uma impressora jato de tinta comercial. Tintas de PANI e PEDOT:PSS foram preparadas e impressas usando uma impressora HP Deskjet D2460. Filmes do polímero condutor PEDOT:PSS foi impresso sobre substratos de papeis e de plásticos e suas propriedades morfológicas e elétricas foram avaliadas em função da densidade superficial de material impresso e da rugosidade dos substratos a fim de obter filmes impressos correntes elétricas suficientes para atuação como eletrodos. Filmes de PANI, com diferentes número de impressões, foram impressos entre os eletrodos de PEDOT:PSS e caracterizações elétricas para o dispositivo PANI/PEDOT/papel antes e após expor ao vapor de HCI, processo no qual promove a dopagem do dispositivo, usando medidas DC e de espectroscopia de impedância (EI). Mostra-se que os resultados, para o sistema impresso PANI/PEDOT/papel, podem ser modelados por um circuito equivalente contendo um resistor R em paralelo com um capacitador C, ambos em série com outro resistor r. As variações de cada parâmetro foram avaliadas em função da exposição a direrentes percentuais de umidade relativa do ar (%UR) e concentrações de amônia (% e ppm). O resistor r, contido no circuito equivalente demonstrou maior resposta e sensibilidade à exposição tanto de umidade quanto de gás amônia mostrando a viabilidade de aplicação deste sistema impresso como sensor. Uma maior sensibilidade para o sistema PANI/PEDOT/papel (sensores de papel) pode ser obtida realizando um tratamento térmico promovendo a evaporação do excesso de HCI no sistema. Para monitoramentos em baixas concentrações de NH3 dispositivos na configuração PANI/PEDOT/PET (sensores plásticos) apresentaram tanto resposta sensitiva quanto tempo de resposta melhores quando comparados aos sensores de papel tratados termicamente / This work presents the production and characterization of humidity sensors and fully printed ammonia, using an inkjet printer commercial. Inks of PANIN and PEDOT:PSS were prepared and printed using an HP Deskjet D2460 printer. Films of the conducting polymer PEDOT:PSS was printed on paper and plastic substrates and their morphological and electrical properties were evaluated in function of the surface density of printed material and roughness of the substrate in order to obtain printed films with sufficient electrical current to operate as electrodes. Films of PANI, with different number of prints, were printed between the electrodes of PEDOT:PSS AND electrical characterization for the device PANI/PEDOT/paper, before and after exposed to steam HCI, process in which promoting the device doping, were realized using measures DC and impedance spectroscopy (EI). It shows that the results for the printing sytem PANI/PEDOT/paper can be modeled by an equivalent circuit comprising a resistor R in parallel with a capacitor C, both in series with another resistor r. Variations of each parameter were evaluated in function of exposure to different humidity percentage of the air (%RH) and ammonia concentrations (ppm and %). The resistor r contained in the equivalent circuit shown greater response and sensitivity to exposure as much moisture as gas ammonia showing the application feasibility of this system as printed sensor. An increased sensibility to the sytem PANI/PEDOT/paper (paper sensors) can be obtained by performing a heat treatment to promote evaporation of the excess of HCI in the system. For monitoring low concentrations of NH3, devices in PANI configuration PANI/PEDOT/PET (plastic sensors) demonstrated so much an better sensitive response low much an better time response compared to paper sensors treated thermally

M.Eng. (Electrical and Electronic Engineering) / An in-fibre Bragg grating is a period perturbation of the refractive index of the core of an optical fibre, where the length of the grating is much longer than the period of the grating. These gratings reflect light in a narrow band around a certain optical frequency. This narrow band is shifted in wavelength when the element is strained and is an absolute measure of the strain state of the grating. One way to interrogate this type of sensor is by using it as a mirror of an optical fibre laser, therefby forcing the laser emission band to coincide with the resonant frequency of the grating. In this thesis a theoretical model was developed to describe the operation of optically pumped Er+-doped optical fibre lasers. An explicit expression for the ouput power for a Fabry Perot fibre laser, was derived for the first time. The intracavity power propagation was also solved numerically. An optical fibre laser consisting out of an Er+-doped optical fibre optically pumped at 980nm, was built. A multilayer dielectric stack mirror was deposited on the one fibre endpoint of the laser. The other reflector is an in-fibre Bragg grating with a peak reflectance of 94% at 1548.5nm and a bandwith of <O.3nm. The buildup of the output power of the laser during the deposition, showed good correlation with the predicted values. The length of the active fibre was also varied, and again the theory could correctly predict the output power as well as the laser pump threshold. A scanning type of Sagnac interferometer was investigated as a possible wavelength demodulation system for the fibre laser sensor. With some alterations this system shows merit as an inexpensive and effective way to monitor the wavelength shifts in in-fibre Bragg gratings.

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With the rapid growth of wireless data demands and saturation of radio frequency (RF) capacity, visible light communication (VLC) has become a promising candidate to complement conventional RF communication, especially for indoor short range applications. However the performance of the system depends on the propagation and type of system used. An optical Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (O-OFDM) together with multiple input multiple output (MIMO) in different scenario and modulation techniques are studied in the thesis. A novel optical wireless communication (OWC) multi-cell system with narrow field of view (FOV) is studied. In this system the intensity modulated beam from four light sources are used for communication. The system allows beams to be concentrated in specific areas of the room to serve multiple mobile devices with low interference and hence increase system capacity. The performance of asymmetrically clipped optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (ACO-OFDM), direct current biased optical OFDM (DCO-OFDM) and single carrier (SC) modulation are then compared in this system considering single user and multiusers scenarios. The performance of the multi-cell is compared with single cell with wide FOV. It is shown that the capacity for multi-cell system increases with the number of users to 4 times the single user capacity. Also the findings show that multi-cell system with narrow beams can outperform a single wide beam system in terms of coverage area and hence average throughput of about 2.7 times the single wide beam system capacity. One of the impairments in line of sight (LOS) OWC systems is coverage which degrades the performance. A mobile receiver with angular diversity detectors in MIMO channels is studied. The objective is to improve the rank of the channel matrix and hence system throughput. Repetition coding (RC), spatial multiplexing (SMP) and spatial modulation (SM) concepts are used to evaluate throughput across multiple locations in a small room scenario. A novel adaptive spatial modulation (ASM) which is capable of combating channel rank deficiency is devised. Since the receiver is mobile, the channel gains are low in some locations of the room due to the lack of LOS paths between transmitters and receivers. To combat the situation adaptive modulation and per antenna rate control (PARC) is employed to maximise spectral efficiency. The throughputs for fixed transmitters and receivers are compared with the oriented/inclined detectors for different cases. Angular diversity detectors offer a better throughput improvement than the state of the art vertical detectors, for example in ASM angular diversity receiver gives throughput of about 1.6 times that of vertical detectors. Also in SMP the angular detectors offer throughput about 1.4 times that of vertical detectors. SMP gives the best performance compared to RC, SM and ASM, for example SMP gives throughput about 2.5 times that of RC in both vertical detectors and angular diversity receivers. Again SMP gives throughput about 6 times that of SM in both vertical detectors and angular diversity receivers. Also SMP provides throughput about 2 times that of ASM in both vertical detectors and angular diversity receivers. ASM exhibit improvement in throughput about average factor of 3.5 times SM performance in both vertical detectors and angular diversity detectors. As the performance of the system may be jeopardized by obstructions, specular and diffuse reflection models for indoor OWC systems using a mobile receiver with angular diversity detectors in MIMO channels are considered. The target is to improve the MIMO throughput compared to vertically oriented detectors by exploiting reflections from different reflecting surfaces in the room. The throughput across multiple locations in the small room by using RC, SMP and SM approaches is again evaluated. The results for LOS only channels against LOS with specular or diffuse reflection conditions, for both vertical and angular oriented receivers are then compared. The results show that exploiting specular and diffuse reflections provide significant improvements in link performance. For example the reflection coefficient (α) of 0.9 and the antenna separation of 0.6 m, RC diffuse model shows throughput improvement of about 1.8 times that of LOS for both vertical detectors and angular diversity receivers. SM diffuse model shows throughput improvement of about 3 times that of LOS for both vertical detectors and angular diversity receivers. ASM diffuse model shows throughput improvement of about 2 times that of LOS for both vertical detectors and angular diversity receivers. SMP diffuse model shows throughput improvement of about 1.5 times that of LOS for both vertical detectors and angular diversity receiver.

A MOS optical sensor that utilizes avalanche multiplication in silicon is proposed and investigated both theoretically and experimentally. The above-breakdown operating regime is discussed and it is shown how a MOS photosensor may be operated in a photon counting mode by pulsing it into very deep depletion, beyond the point where avalanche "breakdown normally occurs. Avalanche discharges in such a MOS sensor are self-quenching due to the formation of an inversion layer. This self-quenching property suggests that a monolithic self-scanned array of MOS photon counting sensors should be possible. It is described how specially designed charge-coupled arrays (PC-CCD's) could be operated in this new regime. The high response of silicon in the visible and near infrared, compared with the responsive quantum efficiency of the commonly-used photocathode materials, gives the proposed imager a distinct advantage over presently-existing photon counting sensors in these spectral regions. It is shown that a PC-CCD must be fabricated on a p-type silicon substrate and illuminated from the back side in order to obtain a high avalanche initiation probability for the photogenerated carriers. It is also shown that all thermally activated, steady-state dark generation of carriers can be reduced to a negligible level by cooling the sensor to 100 K or less, while the generation due to interband tunneling may be reduced to an acceptable level by ensuring that the peak fields within the depletion region remain below approximately 4.3 x 10⁵ Vcm⁻¹. The dark generation due to band-to-band tunneling via trap states may make it necessary to restrict the peak fields to even lower values. Re-triggering following a breakdown pulse, due to charge trapping or impact ionization of these traps during the avalanche, is also analysed. Optical coupling due to light emission during the avalanche discharges is discussed and two methods for the prevention of this coupling between the image elements in linear arrays are described. MOS gates that break down either at the Si-SiO₂, interface, or in the bulk at a n-p junction created by a buried n-channel, have been fabricated and operated above breakdown. The surface breakdown devices were operated in a charge-injection mode while the bulk breakdown devices were operated in a charge transfer mode similar to that which would occur in a full PC-CCD imager. The surface breakdown devices exhibited excessive dark count rates that were attributed to the high electric fields at the Si-SiO₂ interface. The bulk breakdown detectors were found to be far superior. They had very sharply peaked pulse height distributions and considerably lower dark pulse rates. Operation up to 12 volts above breakdown with a corresponding avalanche initiation probability greater than 0.9 was possible with these devices. Only a very weak temperature dependence of the dark pulse rate was observed, suggesting that a tunneling mechanism of dark carrier generation was limiting the performance of the bulk-breakdown devices. The magnitude of the dark count rate agreed with that expected for band-to-band tunneling through mid-gap states. These states, through a change in their occupancy during breakdown, were also believed to cause the re-triggering of avalanches that was observed when operating at high, above-breakdown voltages. These limitations on performance can be expected to be removed by employing improved processing techniques which would reduce the mid-gap trap levels by one or two orders of magnitude. / Applied Science, Faculty of / Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of / Graduate

Orientador: Neri Alves / Banca: Dante Luis Chanaglia / Banca: Felippe Jose Pavinatto / O Programa de Pós Graduação em Ciência e Tecnologia de Materiais, PosMat, tem caráter institucional e integra as atividades de pesquisa em materiais de diversos campi / Resumo: Nesta dissertação é apresentada a produção e caracterização de sensores de umidade e amônia totalmente impressos, usando uma impressora jato de tinta comercial. "Tintas" de PANI e PEDOT:PSS foram preparadas e impressas usando uma impressora HP Deskjet D2460. Filmes do polímero condutor PEDOT:PSS foi impresso sobre substratos de papeis e de plásticos e suas propriedades morfológicas e elétricas foram avaliadas em função da densidade superficial de material impresso e da rugosidade dos substratos a fim de obter filmes impressos correntes elétricas suficientes para atuação como eletrodos. Filmes de PANI, com diferentes número de impressões, foram impressos entre os eletrodos de PEDOT:PSS e caracterizações elétricas para o dispositivo PANI/PEDOT/papel antes e após expor ao vapor de HCI, processo no qual promove a dopagem do dispositivo, usando medidas DC e de espectroscopia de impedância (EI). Mostra-se que os resultados, para o sistema impresso PANI/PEDOT/papel, podem ser modelados por um circuito equivalente contendo um resistor R em paralelo com um capacitador C, ambos em série com outro resistor r. As variações de cada parâmetro foram avaliadas em função da exposição a direrentes percentuais de umidade relativa do ar (%UR) e concentrações de amônia (% e ppm). O resistor r, contido no circuito equivalente demonstrou maior resposta e sensibilidade à exposição tanto de umidade quanto de gás amônia mostrando a viabilidade de aplicação deste sistema impresso como sensor. Uma maior sensibilidade para o sistema PANI/PEDOT/papel (sensores de papel) pode ser obtida realizando um tratamento térmico promovendo a evaporação do excesso de HCI no sistema. Para monitoramentos em baixas concentrações de NH3 dispositivos na configuração PANI/PEDOT/PET (sensores plásticos) apresentaram tanto resposta sensitiva quanto tempo de resposta melhores quando comparados aos sensores de papel tratados termicamente / Abstract: This work presents the production and characterization of humidity sensors and fully printed ammonia, using an inkjet printer commercial. "Inks" of PANIN and PEDOT:PSS were prepared and printed using an HP Deskjet D2460 printer. Films of the conducting polymer PEDOT:PSS was printed on paper and plastic substrates and their morphological and electrical properties were evaluated in function of the surface density of printed material and roughness of the substrate in order to obtain printed films with sufficient electrical current to operate as electrodes. Films of PANI, with different number of prints, were printed between the electrodes of PEDOT:PSS AND electrical characterization for the device PANI/PEDOT/paper, before and after exposed to steam HCI, process in which promoting the device doping, were realized using measures DC and impedance spectroscopy (EI). It shows that the results for the printing sytem PANI/PEDOT/paper can be modeled by an equivalent circuit comprising a resistor R in parallel with a capacitor C, both in series with another resistor r. Variations of each parameter were evaluated in function of exposure to different humidity percentage of the air (%RH) and ammonia concentrations (ppm and %). The resistor r contained in the equivalent circuit shown greater response and sensitivity to exposure as much moisture as gas ammonia showing the application feasibility of this system as printed sensor. An increased sensibility to the sytem PANI/PEDOT/paper (paper sensors) can be obtained by performing a heat treatment to promote evaporation of the excess of HCI in the system. For monitoring low concentrations of NH3, devices in PANI configuration PANI/PEDOT/PET (plastic sensors) demonstrated so much an better sensitive response low much an better time response compared to paper sensors treated thermally / Mestre