Thesis (M. A.)--University of Hong Kong, 2007. / Title proper from title frame. Also available in printed format.

Thesis--Catholic University of America. / "Books by Daniel Gregory Mason": p. 35. Bibliography of Mason's compositions: p. 58-69. "A list of the musical and other mss. of Daniel Gregory Mason deposited with public institutions": p. 125-127. Bibliography: p 147-151.

Filters having smallest size, high power handling capability, high Q factor, operating frequency up to several gigahertz’s (GHz) and low cost are the demand of the market to use in front end wireless/radio communication systems. In this regard several filter technologies have been introduced and utilized commercially. The increasing demand of such type of filters has opened a new challenge for filter designers. The purpose of this thesis is to design of a Tunable Bandpass Filter based on Barium Strontium Titanate (BSTO) Ferroelectric Film. A single Film bulk acoustic resonator (FBAR) is measured. MASON and Butterworth Van-Dyke (BVD) model are studied and implemented to reproduce the measurements. Simulations are performed by using the Advance Design System (ADS) by Agilent technologies. Simulations and measured data are used to exactly extract the physical and electrical parameters of a single FBAR. FBAR filter topologies are being studied and implemented. Ladder filter topology is selected to design the bandpass filter. The extracted physical and electrical parameters are used to investigate the performance of the filter. The area and the top electrode thickness of the series and shunt resonators are optimized to achieve the bandpass response with maximum out of band rejection, minimum insertion loss and sharper roll off near the pass band. A 3rd order T-type bandpass filter for 5GHz applications is designed. The insertion loss of -2.925 dB is achieved. The filter exhibits the 3dB bandwidth of 176 MHz and out of band rejection of -10 dB. DC bias of 0-25 V is used to analyze the tuning behavior of the filter.  The electromagnetic co-simulation is also done in momentum to analyze the parasitic effects between the resonators. The results show the good agreement between the schematic and momentum simulation. Layout and masks are also designed on a 10*10 mm wafer that will be used later to fabricate the filter and further investigations.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Florida, 1982. / Description based on print version record. Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 159-164).

Mason, Texas and the surrounding areas have been previously studied and mapped at small scales, showing the large normal faults that cut through the area. Many secondary faults exist close to the large faults, and are not mapped in previous studies because of the small scale of the maps. The large number of faults, when the smaller secondary faults are considered, makes Mason a good place for studying the nature of normal faults in this region and making generalizations about their nature. This thesis examines one of these faults, the McMillan Fault, and the secondary faults in its hanging wall at a large scale, in order to assess the nature of normal faults in the Mason area. The McMillan Ranch in Mason, Texas, was mapped at a scale of 1:7,000 using both traditional and digital mapping methods, to determine the lengths and displacements of each fault, and attempt to determine a length/displacement ratio which can be applied to all normal faults in this area. A single length/displacement ratio was not determined, just as in previous studies. This study determined that the normal faults in the area are planar, high angle normal faults with varying displacement amounts. As a result, observations determined that deformation in the hanging wall of normal faults exceeded the deformation in the footwalls of the same faults. The main fault on the McMillan Ranch is the McMillan Fault, and its shape is determined based upon the orientation of the subsidiary normal faults in its hanging wall. A detailed study of the geology of the McMillan Ranch and the surrounding area, including a geologic history of the area, geologic map and cross section, and stratigraphic descriptions including bed-by-bed descriptions, stratigraphic column, and thin sections of each unit was carried out as a preliminary step to perform analyses of the faults on the ranch. The presence of the McMillan Fault was already known, and the pasture that was chosen for this study was best represented at a scale of 1:7,000. At such a large scale, it was necessary to recognize precisely where in the stratigraphic section the mapper was located, as some subsidiary faults were recognized by beds missing, rather than entire units. The structural data gathered from the field convey the varying natures of faults, even within the same area, and support the conclusion that length alone is not sufficient to predict displacement value on a fault.

The Llano Uplift of central Texas contains the largest exposure of Mesoproterozoic rocks along southern Laurentia and is thus crucial to the understanding of orogenesis and plate reconstructions along a portion of one of the largest orogens in the world. Most of the current understanding of the Mesoproterozoic tectonic evolution of southern Laurentia comes from the southeastern portion of the Llano Uplift. To fully characterize the tectonic evolution Llano Uplift, detailed mapping is necessary in the less-studied western Llano Uplift. The Mesoproterozoic Llano Uplift exposes mid-crustal, poly-deformed and metamorphosed schists and gneisses and abundant pre- to post-tectonic granites through an erosional window of Phanerozoic sedimentary rocks. Three lithologic groups were mapped in the western Llano Uplift, from structural highest to lowest these are the Valley Spring Gneiss (VSG), Lost Creek Gneiss (LCG) and Packsaddle Schist (PS). The VSG consists of pelitic schists and pink quartzofeldspathic schists and gneisses. The LCG is a thick, homogeneous package of medium- to coarse-grained augen granite gneiss, interpreted to be a deformed, coarse-grained, porphyritic pluton. The PS consists of a heterogeneous package of interlayered quartzofeldspathic gneisses, amphibolites and minor marbles. These lithologies are consistent with the PS and VSG domains described in the southeastern Llano Uplift (Mosher, 1998; Reese et al., 2000). The exotic Coal Creek Domain (CCD) of the southeastern Llano Uplift is not observed in the western Llano Uplift. The western Llano Uplift, including the VSG, LCG and PS, records a deformational history that resulted in multiple fold generations (F1-F5) and is characterized by a penetrative axial planar foliation (S1-S5). F2s are isoclinal folds of S0 (primary layering) and S1 that locally fold F1 axial planes and have steeply plunging and generally easterly trending hinge lines. F3 folds are locally developed, nearly colinear and coplanar with F2s, tight to open, and fold all previous structures (F1/F2) and fabrics (S1/S2). F4s are open folds with northeast-trending axial traces that occur on a regional-scale. F5s are open to tight folds of all previous structures, with hinge lines that are primarily southeast trending and steeply plunging. S0 to S3 orientations vary from north to east dipping because of reorientation by younger folds. S4 foliations strike to the northeast and S5 foliations are northwest striking and nearly vertically dipping. Late left-lateral shear zones (D6) with generally an easterly trend and boudinage affects the VSG, LCG and VSG in this study area and is commonly associated with unfoliated granite material. Four generations of intrusive granitic sills and dikes are documented and provide relative and absolute age constraints on deformation. The oldest recognized deformation (D1-D3) is constrained between 1253 +5/-3 Ma and 1126 +5/-4 Ma (Roback, et al., 1999). D4 and D5 deformation are constrained between 1126 +5/-4 Ma and 1076 ± 5 Ma (Roback, et al., 1999). Although a change in metamorphic conditions is documented to have occurred between D2 and D3, metamorphic fabrics and assemblages indicate granulite facies conditions during D1, D2 and D3. Amphibolite facies metamorphism occurred during D4 and presumably D5. Deformation in the eastern Llano Uplift has a similar polyphase deformational history to that recorded here for the western Llano Uplift. Deformation in the eastern Llano Uplift is similarly constrained between ca. 1238 to 1091 Ma. In addition, the youngest fold generation (F5) can be directly correlated in orientation and timing from the western to the eastern Llano Uplift, and is constrained between ca. 1119 and 1091 Ma in the eastern uplift. Both the western and eastern Llano Uplift contain late shear zones and extensional structures. Structural differences between the western and eastern Llano Uplift include differences in style and orientation of all but the latest (D5 and D6) structures. In addition, dip of fabrics and, therefore, structural stacking of lithologic domains is opposite, and no mylonite zones were identified in the west. In conclusion, the lithologic domains appear to correlated across the Llano Uplift based upon gross lithologic similarities and the tectonic evolution is similar to the well-studied eastern Llano Uplift, though the kinematics and orientations differ. These conclusions may require that the kinematics of deformation in the southeastern uplift were controlled by the presence of the exotic island arc terrane (CCD) whereas the kinematics of deformation in the western uplift were controlled by continent-continent collision. / text

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Thesis (M. A.)--University of Hong Kong, 2005. / Title proper from title frame. Also available in printed format.