Browsing Graduate Theses by Title
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An N-version electronic voting system
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)The ballot battles of the 2000 US Presidential Election clearly indicate that existing voting technologies and processes are not sufficient to guarantee that every eligible voter is granted their right to vote and implicitly ... -
N=1=NPK=KIMCHI=N
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)N=1=NPK=KIMCHI=N is a mobile, expandable living unit which consists of a urinal, urine processing system, hydroponic napa cabbage garden, seedling growing area, customized bed, and kitchen table. I tested my urine, modified ... -
NAFTA and its environmental parallel agreement : how NGOs are shaping domestic and bilateral environment policy in Mexico
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Nahr Beirut : projections on an infrastructural landscape
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)A century ago, Nahr Beirut was a riparian river which flowed from a mountainous valley to a coastal plain, the Beirut Peninsula, before entering the Julian Beinart Mediterranean Sea. After being for centuries the distant ... -
Nail - a practical tool for parsing and generating data formats
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)Nail is a tool that greatly reduces the programmer effort for safely parsing and generating data formats defined by a grammar. Nail introduces several key ideas to achieve its goal. First, Nail uses a protocol grammar to ... -
Name matching for data quality mediator
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Nano-ChemoMechanical assessment of Rice Husk Ash cement by wavelength dispersive spectroscopy and nanoindentation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)Cement global production stands at 3 Giga tons making concrete the most consumed structural mateial worldwide. This massively produced material comes with a heavy environmental footprint rendering the cement industry ... -
Nano-engineering the boiling surface for optimal heat transfer rate and critical heat flux
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)The effects on pool boiling characteristics such as critical heat flux and the heat transfer coefficient of different surface characteristics such as surface wettability, roughness, morphology, and porosity are not well ... -
Nano-materials for novel magneto-rheological liquids and nano-fluids
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)Introduction: Nanotechnology, in its many forms, has evolved as a forefront of the global scientific and technological frontier. Materials once disregarded as very small dust or particulate impurities twenty years ago, are ... -
Nano-scale metal contacts for future III-V CMOS
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)As modem transistors continue to scale down in size, conventional Si CMOS is reaching its physical limits and alternative technologies are needed to extend Moore's law. Among different candidates, MOSFETs with a III-V ... -
Nano-scale ohmic contacts for III-V MOSFETs
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)As modem silicon CMOS has been scaled down to extremely small dimensions, there is an urgent need for technological innovations of new devices architectures that would allow the continuation of Moore's Law into the future. ... -
Nano-scale scratching in chemical-mechanical polishing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)During the chemical-mechanical polishing (CMP) process, a critical step in the manufacture of ultra-large-scale integrated (ULSI) semiconductor devices, undesirable nano-scale scratches are formed on the surfaces being ... -
A nanochemomechanical investigation of carbonated cement paste
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)Concrete, and in particular its principal component, cement paste, has an interesting relation with carbon dioxide. Concrete is a carbon dioxide generator-- it is estimated that 5-10% of atmospheric CO₂ comes from this ... -
Nanoengineered surfaces for advanced thermal management
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)Thermal management is a critical challenge for a variety of applications including integrated circuits (ICs) and energy conversion devices. As the heat fluxes exceed 100 W/cm2, novel cooling solutions need to be developed. ... -
Nanoengineered surfaces for improvements in energy systems : application to concentrated solar and geothermal power plants
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)The main drawback to renewable energy systems is the higher cost of production compared to competitors such as fossil fuels. Thus, there is a need to increase the efficiency of renewable energy systems in an effort to make ... -
A nanofabricated amplitude-division electron interferometer in a transmission electron microscope
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)Wavefront-division electron interferometry with the electron biprism has enabled many applications such as electron holography, exit-wave reconstruction, and demonstration of the Aharonov-Bohm effect. However, wavefront-division ... -
Nanofabrication of flexible thin-film bioelectronics for long-term stable neural signal recording
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2024-02)Establishing a long-term stable and effective interface for brain is a significant milestone for all neural implants. Recent studies have demonstrated that tissue-level soft and flexible materials and devices can provide ... -
Nanofluid-based receivers for high-temperature, high-flux direct solar collectors
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)Solar power plants with surface receivers have low overall energy conversion efficiencies due to large emissive losses at high temperatures. Alternatively, volumetric receivers promise increased performance because solar ... -
Nanofluidic system for single molecule manipulation and analysis
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)This thesis focuses on characterizing and controlling the translocation of single 48.5 kbp [lambda]-DNA molecules through an artificial nanopore with the objective of enabling multiple measurements on the same molecule. ... -
Nanomaterial-Enabled Out-of-Autoclave and Out-of-Oven Manufacturing of Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023-09)Fiber reinforced polymer composite materials have been a staple of the aerospace industry, integral to creating lightweight flight vehicles due to their high specific material properties. These materials often come in a ...
