Current Research Projects | Electrical Engineering

Ang, Simon S.

• GR-11-01: Feasibility Study of a Grid-Tied Power Electronic Interface for a Hybrid Photovoltaic/Thermoelectric Generator Renewal Energy Source (co-PI Juan C. Balda)
• Arkansas Assett 12-VICTER
• GRAPES Memberships GR-10-01: Power Packaging

Balda, Juan C.

• PTC for NIST/NVLAP Proficiency Testing of Energy Efficient Motors - Complete of Round 2 (co-PI Darin W Nutter)
• NSF GRFP: Integration of Energy Storage Systems to Enhance Power Quality in Diesel Generator Sets Used in Microgrids - Scott Geurin (co-PI Scott Geurin)
• A Nationwide Consortium of Universities to Revitalize Electric Power Engineering Education by State-of-the-Art Laboratories (co-PI Roy McCann)
• Power-Dense Power Electronics Interfaces for Renewable Energy Sources
• US Navy Phase II SBIR: Fault Current Limiter Testing (co-PI Alan Mantooth)
• An Analysis of Potential Applications for SiC Circuit Breakers (co-PI Alan Mantooth)
• Impact on Solid-State Fault Current Limiters in Distribution Systems
• DOE Phase II SBIR - Solid State Fault Current Limiter Research (co-PI Alan Mantooth)

El-Ghazaly, Samir M.

• Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) Assignment
• Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) Assignment
• IPA Assignment -- El-Ghazaly
• High Frequency Devices and Circuits for Nanotubes and Nanowires (co-PI Shui-Qing Yu, Hameed A. Naseem)
• Terahertz Generation and Detection Using Nanostructure-Plasmon Interactions (co-PI Magda O. El-Shenawee)

El-Shenawee, Magda O.

• NSF-GRFP: Graduate Research Fellowship - Doug Woten (Title not Available) (co-PI Douglas A. Woten)
• Nano-Antennas: Investigating the Structural Optimization Using Computer Simulation--Crain
• Optimization Algorithm for Microwave Imaging of Breast Cancer: Analysis and Validation on Scattered Field Data
• 2010 Workshop Advances in Breast Cancer Research (co-PI Carol S. Gattis)
• Terahertz Imaging for the Assessment of Breast Tumor Margins (co-PI Ahmed Hassan)
• Application for Small Grants and Travel Scholarships (co-PI Ahmed Hassan)

Ji, Taeksoo

• UV Photodetectors Using Zinc Oxide Nanorod Arrays
• Graphene and its effect on the Electrical Conductivity and Electron Mobility of a Pre-Existing Model of zinc-Oxide Mano-Devices (Bourland)
• Ultra-sensitive, low-cost nanorod sensors to detect blood serum microRNA biomarkers (co-PI Byung-Whi Kong)

Manasreh, Omar

• Functionalization of Semiconductor Nanomaterials for Optoelectronic Devices and Components
• Arkansas Assett II –VICTER
• DURIP: Optical Profiling System For Patterned Materials & Device Processing

Mantooth, Alan

• Gallium Nitride Optical Isolation for Wide Bandgap Power Electronic Systems
• GOALI: Compact Modeling of Silicon Carbide (SIC) Devices for Advanced Power Applications
• I/UCRC: Center for Grid-Connected Advanced Power Electronic Systems
• Collaborative Research: I/UCRC on Grid-Connected Advanced Power Electronic Systems (GRAPES) (co-PI Juan C. Balda, Simon S. Ang, Shannon G. Davis, Roy McCann)
• MRI: Acquisition of Unique, High-Power Instrumentation for Future Distribution Systems Test and Evaluation (co-PI Juan C. Balda, Simon S. Ang, Roy McCann)
• Collaborative proposal: I/UCRC: Center for Grid-Connected Advanced Power Electronic Systems (GRAPES)
• Collaborative Proposal: I/UCRC: Center for Grid-Connected Advanced Power Electronic Systems (GRAPES)
• Silicon Carbide Applications for Reliable Electric Power Transmission (co-PI Juan C. Balda, Simon S. Ang)
• Silicon Carbide Applications for Reliable Electric Power Transmission
• Silicon Carbide Fault Current Limiter Research (co-PI Juan C. Balda, Simon S. Ang)
• Silicon Carbide Applications for Reliable Electric Power Transmission (co-PI Juan C. Balda, Simon S. Ang)
• GOALI: Compact Modeling of Silicon Carbide (SIC) Devices for Advanced Power Switching Applications
• Collaborative Research: I/UCRC on Grid-Connected Advanced Power Electronic Systems (GRAPES)
• GRAPES Membership
• High Density Power Converters (co-PI Juan C. Balda, Simon S. Ang)
• Tools and Algorithms for Behavioral Model Generation of Analog/Mixed-Signal Circuits
• GRAPES Membership Agreement
• SIC-GaN Optically Triggered Power Device (co-PI Gregory Salamo)
• Silicon Germanium Electronics for Extreme Environment
• Center for Grid-Connected Advanced Power Electronic Systems (VICTER) (co-PI Ryan Z. Tian, Gregory J. Salamo, Juan C. Balda, Ajay Prabhakar Malshe, Min Zou, Simon S. Ang, Omar Manasreh, Roy McCann)
• VICTER Power Box Proposal (co-PI Marta Denise Collier)
• Development and Review of Components of the Arkansas Energy Assurance Plan (co-PI Juan C. Balda)
• Fast Acting Solid State Silicon Carbide (SiC) based Fault Current Limiters for Electrical Distribution Systems
• GR-10-11: Power Module Layout Synthesis Tool
• Smart Green Power Node
• Tools and Algorithms for Behavioral Model Generation of Analog/Mixed-Signal Circuits
• Grapes Membership
• Solar Splash Event 2010/UA Solar Electric Boat
• A Power Distribution Design in Low Temperature Co-fired Ceramic (co-PI Kaoru Porter, Bryan L. Rowden, Michael D. Glover)
• Intelligent Power Modules for Automobile Applications (co-PI Juan C. Balda, Simon S. Ang)
• NCREPT Agreement - Voluntary Center Memberships
• Development of CU/SN Transient Liquid Phase Bonding for Novel High Power Module
• Design of a Low-power, 7-bit DAC for High Efficiency DC-DC Converters
• Fast Acting Solid State Silicon Carbide (SiC) based Fault Current Limiters for Electrical Distribution Systems
• Low-Cost, Highly-Integrated Silicon Carbide (SiC) Multichip Power Modules (MCPMs) for Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) (co-PI Simon S. Ang)

McCann, Roy

• MEMS Based Rotor Flux Sensing for Improved Operation of Electric Motors (co-PI Vijay Varadan)
• Nonlinear Control for Radar DC/DC Converter
• Development of a Model-Predictive Sliding-Mode Control Method for Radar Power Supplies
• Distribution Level Unified Power Flow Controller with Battery DC-Link
• Matrix Converter for a Grid Connected Lead Acid Battery Charge Equalization Management System

Overbey, Randle Lee

• GREEN Mobile- Laboratory on Wheels (co-PI Vasundara V. Varadan)

Smith, Scott C.

• REU Site: Summer Research Experiences in Wireless Sensor Networks - Design and Applications
• Asynchronous and Mixed-Signal Chip Design and CAD for Next Generation Computing and Communication Systems for Use in Medical Space Exploration and Sensor Network Applications (co-PI Jingxian Wu, Jia Di, Alan Mantooth)
• A Register Transfer Level Toolset for Low Power Asynchronous Design using NULL Convention Logic
• Lunar Regolith Excavator Team Proposal: Arkansas Lunabot II
• Collaborative Research: Integrating Asynchronous Digital Design into the Undergraduate Computer Engineering Curriculum throughout the Nation (co-PI Jia Di)

Varadan, Vasundara V.

• International Research Collaboration with the Indian Institute of Science, India, for the Development of Tunable Microwave Metamaterial Devices
• Measurement of the Permittivity of Kapton Thin Films at W-Band
• Generating Renewable Energy with Efficient Nanoplasmonics (GREEN) Solar Cells (co-PI Keith Roper, Shui-Ging Yu, Hameed A. Naseem)
• Electrically Small, Fractal, Plasmonic Resonator Antennas for Vehicle Integrated Antenna Technologies
• Full Spectrum Photovoltaic Cells

Varadan, Vijay

• Testing the Efficiency of Titanium Vertically Aligned Nanowire Implantable Neural Electrodes in the Rattus Norvegicus Hippocampus—Kegley
• Symposium on New Frontier of Nanomedicine & Biomedical Informatics
• ASTA External Advisory Board Meeting & Site Visit
• Arkansas ASSET Initiative - ASTA/ARMF funding
• WINS Center Nanotechnology Healthcare Education & Training Program
• ASME:Journal of Nanotechnology in Engineering and Medicine
• The Journal of Nanotechnology in Engineering & Medicine
• Collaborative Agreement for Research & Technical Services (co-PI Jose K. Abraham)
• Design and development of button cell and thin film batteries and fuel cell (co-PI Aicha Elshabini)
• Development of Carbon Nanotube Based Sensors and Wireless Sensor Network for Physiological Monitoring
• Research and Development of Nano-Bio-Info Technologies and Devices

Wu, Jingxian

• NeTS: Small: Cooperative Detection in Decentralized Wireless Information Networks
• Robust Wireless Networking for Aircraft Anomaly Monitoring
• Channel Encoder and Decoder Software Implementation for a Wireless Transmission Testbed (Hurlburt)
• SCL Cell Library Development (co-PI Jia Di)

Yu, Shui-Qing (Fisher)

• An Innovative Approach to Arrayed ZnO Nanowires on Step Terraces for Advanced NASA Photodetector Applications
• Development of Plasma-Enhanced Ultra-High-Vacuum Chemical-Vapor-Deposition Machine for Novel Sn Based Group-IV Optoelectronic Devices (co-PI Douglas E. Spearot, Hameed A. Naseem, Matthew H. Gordon)
• An Innovative Approach to Arrayed ZnO Nanowires on Step Terraces
• A Nanophotonics Platform for Neuron Stimulation