The Mission of the Department of Electrical Engineering is to educate our students, at the bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral levels, to prepare for careers in electrical engineering, or in other professions, in which they make a positive contribution to the growth of society, and to the betterment of the human condition, in the Jesuit tradition. We do this by teaching the concepts and the tools necessary to understand the physical world, particularly with respect to the fundamental laws of electricity and magnetism. Our students apply this knowledge to engineering problems, and they seek to understand the effect that electrical engineering has on society, and the obligations that the electrical engineer has to society. The Department contributes to the vitality of Silicon Valley and beyond through its teaching, practice, and scholarship.
Submissions from 2022
Optimal Power and Frequency Control of Microgrid Cluster with Mixed Loads, Saleh Dinkhah, Johana Salazar Cuellar, and Maryam Khanbaghi
Stochastic Distributed Control for Arbitrarily Connected Microgrid Clusters, Maryam Khanbaghi and Aleksandar Zečević
A Parallelizable Algorithm for Stabilizing Large Sparse Linear Systems With Uncertain Interconnections, Aleksandar Zečević and Maryam Khanbaghi
Submissions from 2020
Jump Linear Quadratic Control for Microgrids with Commercial Loads, Maryam Khanbaghi and Aleksandar Zečević
Carbon Nanotube-on-Graphene Heterostructures, Yu Zheng, Dongmeng Li, Zubair Ahmed, Jeongwon Park, Changjian Zhou, and Cary Y. Yang
Submissions from 2019
Structures, properties, and applications of CNT-graphene heterostructures, Wei Du, Zubair Ahmed, Qi Wang, Cui Yu, Zhihong Feng, Guoyuan Li, Min Zhang, Changjian Zhou, Richard Senegor, and Cary Y. Yang
Submissions from 2018
Conductive contact area estimation for carbon nanotube via interconnects using secondary-electron imaging, Yusuke Abe, Makoto Suzuki, Anshul Vyas, and Cary Y. Yang
A decentralized Stochastic Control Approach, Maryam Khanbaghi
Jump Linear Quadratic Control for Energy Management of a Nanogrid, Nathaniel Tucker and Maryam Khanbaghi
On-Chip Interconnect Conductor Materials for End-of-Roadmap Technology Nodes, Anshul A. Vyas, Changjian Zhou, and Cary Y. Yang
Self-Driven Metal-Semiconductor-Metal Wse2 Photodetector with Asymmetric Contact Geometries, Changjian Zhou, Salahuddin Raju, Bin Li, Mansun Chan, Yang Chai, and Cary Y. Yang
Submissions from 2016
Contact engineering for nanocarbon interconnects, Yusuke Abe, Anshul A. Vyas, Richard Senegor, Patrick Wilhite, and Cary Y. Yang
PMOS contact resistance solution compatible to CMOS integration for 7 nm node and beyond, C-N Ni, Y-C Huang, S Jun, S Sun, Anshul A. Vyas, F Khaja, KV Rao, S Sharma, N. Breil, M. Jin, C. Lazik, A. Mayur, J. Gelatos, H. Chung, R. Hung, M. Chudzik, N. Yoshida, and N. Kim
Optimization of carbon nanotube ultracapacitor for cell design, Antonis Orphanou, Toshishige Yamada, and Cary Y. Yang
Contact resistance and reliability of 40 nm carbon nanotube vias, Anshul A. Vyas, Cary Y. Yang, Phillip Wang, Changjian Zhou, and Yang Chai
Effect of Improved Contact on Reliability of Sub-60 nm Carbon Nanotube Vias, Anshul A. Vyas, Changjian Zhou, Yang Chai, Phillip Wang, and Cary Y. Yang
Electrical properties of carbon nanotube via interconnects for 30 nm linewidth and beyond, Anshul A. Vyas, Changjian Zhou, Patrick Wilhite, Phillip Wang, and Cary Y. Yang
Nanocarbon via interconnects, Anshul A. Vyas, Changjian Zhou, Patrick Wilhite, Phillip Wang, and Cary Y. Yang
Synthesis and interface characterization of CNTs on graphene, Changjian Zhou, Richard Senegor, Zachary Baron, Yihan Chen, Salahuddin Raju, Anshul A. Vyas, Mansun Chan, Yang Chai, and Cary Y. Yang
Submissions from 2015
Diffraction model for thermoreflectance data, S. Kureshi, Drazen Fabris, Shawn Tokairin, Christopher V. Cardenas, and Cary Y. Yang
Electrical and Structural Analysis of CNT-Metal Contacts in Via Interconnects, Patrick Wilhite, Anshul A. Vyas, Jason Tan, Cary Y. Yang, Phillip Wang, Jeongwon Park, Hua Ai, and Murali Narasimhan
Metal-CNT contacts, Patrick Wilhite, Anshul A. Vyas, and Cary Y. Yang
Fabrication and characterization of carbon nanotube interconnect vias for next-generation technology nodes, Changjian Zhou, Anshul A. Vyas, Phillip Wang, Mansun Chan, and Cary Y. Yang
Resistance Determination for Sub-100 nm Carbon Nanotube Vias, Changjian Zhou, Anshul A. Vyas, Patrick Wilhite, Phillip Wang, Mansun Chan, and Cary Y. Yang
Submissions from 2014
A competition-based approach for undergraduate mechatronics education using the arduino platform, Radhika Grover, Shoba Krishnan, Terry Shoup, and Maryam Khanbaghi
Carbon Nanofiber Interconnect RF Characteristics Improvement with Deposited Tungsten Contacts, Anshul A. Vyas, Francisco Madriz, Nobuhiko Kanzaki, Patrick Wilhite, Xuhui Sun, Toshishige Yamada, and Cary Y. Yang
Electron-beam and ion-beam-induced deposited tungsten contacts for carbon nanofiber interconnects, Patrick Wilhite, Hyung Soo Uh, Nobuhiko Kanzaki, Phillip Wang, Anshul A. Vyas, Shusaku Maeda, Toshishige Yamada, and Cary Y. Yang
Metal–nanocarbon contacts, Patrick Wilhite, Anshul A. Vyas, Jason Tan, Jasper Tan, Toshishige Yamada, Phillip Wang, Jeongwon Park, and Cary Y. Yang
Submissions from 2013
High-frequency behavior of one-dimensional nanocarbons, Anshul A. Vyas, Francisco Madriz, Nobuhiko Kanzaki, Patrick Wilhite, Xuhui Sun, and Cary Y. Yang
RF characteristics of one-dimensional nanocarbons, Anshul A. Vyas, Francisco Madriz, Nobuhiko Kanzaki, Patrick Wilhite, Xuhui Sun, and Cary Y. Yang
Temperature-Compensated High-Frequency Surface Acoustic Wave Device, Changjian Zhou, Yi Yang, Hualin Cai, Tian-Ling Ren, Mansun Chan, and Cary Y. Yang
Surface acoustic wave resonators based on (002)AlN/Pt/diamond/silicon layered structure, Changjian Zhou, Yi Yang, Hao Jin, Bin Feng, Shurong Dong, Jikui Luo, Tian-Ling Ren, Mansun Chan, and Cary Y. Yang
Visible-light photoresponse of AlN-based film bulk acoustic wave resonator, Changjian Zhou, Yi Yang, Y. Shu, Hualin Cai, Tian-Ling Ren, Mansun Chan, J. Zhou, Hao Jin, Shurong Dong, and Cary Y. Yang
Submissions from 2012
Thermoreflectance Measurement of Temperature and Thermal Resistance of Thin Film Gold, Christopher Cardenas, Drazen Fabris, Shawn Tokairin, Francisco Madriz, and Cary Y. Yang
Deposition of c-axis orientation aluminum nitride films on flexible polymer substrates by reactive direct-current magnetron sputtering, Hao Jin, J. Zhou, Shurong Dong, B. Feng, Jikui Luo, D. M. Wang, W. I. Milne, and Cary Y. Yang
Modeling of a carbon nanotube ultracapacitor, Antonis Orphanou, Toshishige Yamada, and Cary Y. Yang
Improved RF Characteristics of Carbon Nanotube Interconnects with Deposited Tungsten Contacts, Anshul A. Vyas, Francisco Madriz, Nobuhiko Kanzaki, Patrick Wilhite, Jason Tan, Toshishige Yamada, and Cary Y. Yang
Submissions from 2011
Application of Carbon Nanotubes to Thermal Interface Materials, Drazen Fabris, Michael Rosshirt, Christopher Cardenas, Patrick Wilhite, Toshishige Yamada, and Cary Y. Yang
Breakdown voltage of ultrathin dielectric film subject to electrostatic discharge stress, Hao Jin, Shurong Dong, Meng Miao, Juin Jei Liou, and Cary Y. Yang
E-beam-Deposited Tungsten Contacts for Carbon Nanofiber Interconnect Test Devices, N. Kanzaki, S. Maeda, Patrick Wilhite, Toshishige Yamada, Tsutomu Saito, and Cary Y. Yang
Change in carbon nanofiber resistance from ambient to vacuum, Shusaku Maeda, Patrick Wilhite, Nobuhiko Kanzaki, Toshishige Yamada, and Cary Y. Yang
Submissions from 2010
Extraction of contact resistance in carbon nanofiber via interconnects with varying lengths, Ken Li, Patrick Wilhite, Vinit Khera, Shoba Krishnan, Xuhui Sun, and Cary Y. Yang
Frequency-Independent RC Circuit Model for One- Dimensional Carbon Nanostructures, Francisco R. Madriz, Toshishige Yamada, Xuhui Sun, Josh G. Nickel, and Cary Y. Yang
Tunneling between carbon nanofiber and gold electrodes, Toshishige Yamada, Tsutomu Saito, Makoto Suzuki, Patrick Wilhite, Xuhui Sun, Navid Akhavantafti, Drazen Fabris, and Cary Y. Yang
Temperature dependence of carbon nanofiber resistance, Toshishige Yamada, Hisashi Yabutani, Tsutomu Saito, and Cary Y. Yang
Submissions from 2009
High efficient electrical stimulation of hippocampal slices with vertically aligned carbon nanofiber microbrush array, Edward D. de Asis Jr., T. D. Barbara Nguyen-Vu, Prabhu U. Arumugam, Hua Chen, Alan M. Cassell, Russell J. Andrews, Cary Y. Yang, and Jun Li
Circuit Modeling of High-Frequency Electrical Conduction in Carbon Nanofibers, Francisco R. Madriz, John R. Jameson, Shoba Krishnan, Xuhui Sun, and Cary Y. Yang
The effects of catalysts and underlayer metals on the properties of PECVD-grown carbon nanostructures, Xuhui Sun, Ken Li, Raymond Wu, Patrick Wilhite, Tsutomu Saito, Jing Gao, and Cary Y. Yang
Contact resistance in carbon nanostructure via interconnects, Wen Wu, Shoba Krishnan, Toshishige Yamada, Xuhui Sun, Patrick Wilhite, Raymond Wu, Ke Li, and Cary Y. Yang
Inductance in One-dimensional Nanostructures, Toshishige Yamada, Francisco R. Madriz, and Cary Y. Yang
Electrothermal Analysis of Breakdown in Carbon Nanofiber Interconnects, Toshishige Yamada, Tsutomu Saito, Drazen Fabris, and Cary Y. Yang
Submissions from 2008
Length dependence of current-induced breakdown in carbon nanofiber interconnects, Hirohiko Kitsuki, Toshishige Yamada, Drazen Fabris, John R. Jameson, Patrick Wilhite, Makoto Suzuki, and Cary Y. Yang
Growth of Carbon Nanofibers on Nanoscale Catalyst Strips Fabricated with a Focused Ion Beam, Yusuke Ominami, Makoto Suzuki, Kiyotaka Asakura, and Cary Y. Yang
Improved contact for thermal and electrical transport in carbon nanofiber interconnects, Tsutomu Saito, Toshishige Yamada, Drazen Fabris, Hirohiko Kitsuki, Patrick Wilhite, Makoto Suzuki, and Cary Y. Yang
Secondary electron emission from freely supported nanowires, Makoto Suzuki, Kazuhiro Kumagai, Takashi Sekiguchi, Alan M. Cassell, Tsutomu Saito, and Cary Y. Yang
Secondary electron imaging of embedded defects in carbon nanofiber via interconnects, Makoto Suzuki, Yusuke Ominami, Takashi Sekiguchi, and Cary Y. Yang
Submissions from 2007
Palladium catalyzed formation of carbon nanofibers by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition, Quoc Ngo, Alan M. Cassell, Velimir Radmilovic, Jun Li, Shoba Krishnan, M. Meyyappan, and Cary Y. Yang
Structural and Electrical Characterization of Carbon Nanofibers for Interconnect Via Applications, Quoc Ngo, Toshishige Yamada, Makoto Suzuki, Yusuke Ominami, Alan M. Cassell, Jun Li, M. Meyyappan, and Cary Y. Yang
Image Formation Mechanisms in Scanning Electron Microscopy of Carbon Nanofibers on Substrate, Makoto Suzuki, Hirohiko Kitsuki, Quoc Ngo, Toshishige Yamada, Kristofer Gleason, Yusuke Ominami, B. Roth, M. Betts, Alan M. Cassell, Jun Li, and Cary Y. Yang
Bright-field transmission imaging of carbon nanofibers on bulk substrate using conventional scanning electron microscopy, Makoto Suzuki, Quoc Ngo, Hirohiko Kitsuki, Kristofer Gleason, Yusuke Ominami, and Cary Y. Yang
Current-induced breakdown of carbon nanofibers, Makoto Suzuki, Yusuke Ominami, Quoc Ngo, Cary Y. Yang, Alan M. Cassell, and Jun Li
Monte Carlo simulation of scanning electron microscopy bright contrast images of suspended carbon nanofibers, Makoto Suzuki, Toshishige Yamada, and Cary Y. Yang
Submissions from 2006
Characteristics of Aligned Carbon Nanofibers for Interconnect Via Applications, Quoc Ngo, Alan M. Cassell, Alexander J. Austin, Jun Li, Shoba Krishnan, M. Meyyappan, and Cary Y. Yang
Bottom-up sample preparation technique for interfacial characterization of vertically aligned carbon nanofibers, Yusuke Ominami, Quoc Ngo, Nobuhiko P. Kobayashi, Kevin Mcilwrath, Konrad Jarausch, Alan M. Cassell, Jun Li, and Cary Y. Yang
Interface Characteristics of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanofibers for Interconnect Applications, Yusuke Ominami, Quoc Ngo, Makoto Suzuki, Alexander J. Austin, Cary Y. Yang, Alan M. Cassell, and Jun Li
Bright contrast imaging of carbon nanofiber-substrate interface, Makoto Suzuki, Hirohiko Kitsuki, Quoc Ngo, and Cary Y. Yang
Loop-Based Inductance Extraction and Modeling for Multiconductor On-Chip Interconnects, S. Yu, D. M. Petranovic, Shoba Krishnan, Kwyro Lee, and Cary Y. Yang
Submissions from 2005
Structural Characteristics of Carbon Nanofibers for On-chip Interconnect Applications, Yusuke Ominami, Quoc Ngo, Alexander J. Austin, Hans Yoong, Cary Y. Yang, Alan M. Cassell, Brett A. Cruden, Jun Li, and M. Meyyappan
Study of Metal-Carbon Nanofiber Interfaces for On-chip Interconnect Applications, Yusuke Ominami, Quoc Ngo, Hans Yoong, Alexander J. Austin, Alan M. Cassell, and Cary Y. Yang
Submissions from 2004
Thermal Interface Properties of Cu-filled Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanofiber Arrays, Quoc Ngo, Brett A. Cruden, Alan M. Cassell, Gerard Sims, M. Meyyappan, Jun Li, and Cary Y. Yang
Electron Transport through Metal-Multiwall Carbon Nanotube Interfaces, Quoc Ngo, D. M. Petranovic, Shoba Krishnan, Alan M. Cassell, Qi Ye, Jun Li, M. Meyyappan, and Cary Y. Yang
Submissions from 2003
Modeling and Control of an Industrial Pressure Screen, Maryam Khanbaghi, Bruce Allison, and James Olson
A Unified RLC Model for High-Speed On- Chip Interconnects, Sang-Pil Sim, Shoba Krishnan, D. M. Petranovic, N. D. Arora, Kwyro Lee, and Cary Y. Yang
Submissions from 2002
Optimal white water and broke recirculation policies in paper mills via jump linear quadratic control, Maryam Khanbaghi, Ronald P. Malhame, and Michel Perrier
Modeling Inversion-Layer Carrier Mobilities in All Regions of MOSFET Operation, K Remashan, N. A. Wong, K Chan, Sang-Pil Sim, and Cary Y. Yang
High-Frequency On-Chip Inductance Model, Sang-Pil Sim, Kwyro Lee, and Cary Y. Yang
Submissions from 2001
Spectroscopic ellipsometry and electrical studies of as-grown and rapid thermal oxidized Si1−x−yGexCy films, W. K. Choi, W. Feng, L. K. Bera, Cary Y. Yang, and J. Mi
Optical characterization of as-prepared and rapid thermal oxidized partially strain compensated Si1−x−yGexCy films, W. Feng, W. K. Choi, L. K. Bera, M. Ji, and Cary Y. Yang
MOFSET Modeling Gets Physical, M. Miura-Mattausch, H. J. Mattausch, N. D. Arora, and Cary Y. Yang
Submissions from 2000
Electrical Properties of Rapid Thermal Oxides on Si1−x−yGexCy Films, L. K. Bera, W. K. Choi, W. Feng, Cary Y. Yang, and J. Mi
Structural Characterization of Rapid Thermally Oxidized Silicon-Germanium-Carbon Alloy Films, W. K. Choi, L. K. Bera, J. H. Chen, W. Feng, K. L. Pey, Hans Yoong, J. Mi, Fan Zhang, and Cary Y. Yang
Structural Characterization of Rapid Thermal Oxidized Si1−x−yGexCy Alloy Films Grown by Rapid Thermal Chemical Vapor Deposition, W. K. Choi, J. H. Chen, L. K. Bera, W. Feng, K. L. Pey, J. Mi, Cary Y. Yang, A. Ramam, S. J. Chua, J. S. Pan, A. T.S. Wee, and R Liu
Submissions from 1999
Measurement of Interface States Parameters of Si1-x-yGexCy/TiW Schottky Contacts using Schottky Capacitance Spectroscopy, M. Zamora, G. K. Reeves, G. Gazecki, Jian Mi, and Cary Y. Yang
Submissions from 1998
An Application of First Passage-Time Theory in the Design of Optimal Broke Recirculation Strategies in Paper Mills, Maryam Khanbaghi, Ronald P. Malhame, and Michel Perrier
White water and broke recirculation policies in paper mills via Markovian jump linear quadratic control, Maryam Khanbaghi, Ronald P. Malhame, and Michel Perrier
Beating the Heat – Improving CMOS Hot-Carrier Reliability through Analysis, Modeling, and Simulation, D. S. Sugiharto, Cary Y. Yang, Huy Le, and J. E. Chung
Submissions from 1997
Enhanced Degradation During Static Stressing of a Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor Embedded in a Circuit, Ashawant Gupta, Dewi S. Sugiharto, Cary Y. Yang, Nozomu Matsuzaki, Masataka Minami, Toshiaki Yamanaka, and Takahiro Nagano
Submissions from 1996
Properties of Schottky Contacts of Aluminum on Strained Si1-x-yGexCy Layers, Jian Mi, Ashawant Gupta, and Cary Y. Yang
Submissions from 1995
A Bipolar Load CMOS SRAM Cell for Embedded Applications, A. S. Shubat, R. Kazerounian, R. Irani, A. Roy, G. A. Rezvani, B. Eitan, and Cary Y. Yang
Submissions from 1994
Donor complex formation due to a high-dose Ge implant into Si, Ashawant Gupta, M. Mahmudur Rahman, Jianmin Qiao, and Cary Y. Yang
Reducing Travel Energy Costs for a Subway Train via Fuzzy Logic Controls, Maryam Khanbaghi and Ronald P. Malhame
Determination of Density of Trap States at Y2O3-Stabilized ZrO2/Si Interface of Yba2Cu3O7-δ/Y2O3-Stabilized ZrO2/Si Capacitors, Jianmin Qiao, Kuohsu Wang, and Cary Y. Yang
Fabrication and Electrical Characterization of Superconductor-on- Si Devices, Cary Y. Yang, Jianmin Qiao, Eric M. Ajimine, and Paresh P. Patel
Submissions from 1993
Effects of Bias-Temperature Cycling on Electrical Characteristics of YBCO/YSZ/Si MIS Capacitors, Eric M. Ajimine, Jianmin Qiao, Geoffrey L. Giese, Paresh P. Patel, Marco A. Segovia, Cary Y. Yang, and D. K. Fork
Characterization of Germanium Implanted Si1-xGex Layer, Ashawant Gupta, Carmen Cook, Len Toyoshiba, Jianmin Qiao, Cary Y. Yang, Ken-Ichi Shoji, Akira Fukami, and Takashi Tokuyama
Submissions from 1992
Thermally Activated Reversible Threshold Shifts in Yba2Cu3O7-δ/Yttria-Stabilized Zirconia/Si Capacitors, Jianmin Qiao, Eric M. Ajimine, Paresh P. Patel, Geoffrey L. Giese, and Cary Y. Yang
Improved Crystalline Quality of Si1-xGex Formed by Low-temperature Germanium Ion Implantation, Ken-Ichi Shoji, Akira Fukami, Takahiro Nagano, Takashi Tokuyama, and Cary Y. Yang
Submissions from 1991
Electrical characterization of metal‐insulator‐semiconductor diodes fabricated from laser‐ablated Yba2Cu3O7−δ/yttria‐stabilized zirconia films on Si substrates, Eric M. Ajimine, Felino E. Pagaduan, M. Mahmudur Rahman, and Cary Y. Yang
Graded-bandgap SiGe Bipolar Transistor Fabricated with Germanium Ion Implantation, Akira Fukami, Ken-Ichi Shoji, Takahiro Nagano, Takashi Tokuyama, and Cary Y. Yang
Degradation and Recovery of MOS Devices Stressed with FN Gate Current, Hiroshi Inokawa, Eric M. Ajimine, and Cary Y. Yang
