Sona, Narayanan; Rani, Joseph; Sreekumar, A; Sudha Kartha, C(Cochin University Of Science And Technology, February , 2015)
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The main focus of the present study was to develop ideal low band gap D-A copolymers for photoconducting and non-linear optical applications. This chapter summarizes the overall research work done. Designed copolymers were synthesized via direct arylation or Suzuki coupling reactions. Copolymers were characterized by theoretical and experimental methods. The suitability of these copolymers in photoconducting and optical limiting devices has been investigated.The results suggest that the copolymers investigated in the present study have a good non-linear optical response and are comparable to or even better than the D-A copolymers reported in the literature and hence could be chosen as ideal candidates with potential applications for non-linear optics. The results also show that the structures of the polymers have great impact on NLO properties. Copolymers studied here exhibits good optical limiting property at 532 nm wavelength due to two-photon absorption (TPA) process. The results revealed that the two copolymers, (P(EDOT-BTSe) and P(PH-TZ)) exhibited strong two-photon absorption and superior optical power limiting properties, which are much better than that of others.
Rekha, James K; Poulose Jacob,K; Sreela Sasi(Cochin University of Science and Technology, January , 2010)
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Most of the commercial and financial data are stored in decimal fonn. Recently, support for decimal arithmetic has received increased attention due to the growing importance in financial analysis, banking, tax calculation, currency conversion, insurance, telephone billing and accounting. Performing decimal arithmetic with systems that do not support decimal computations may give a result with representation error, conversion error, and/or rounding error. In this world of precision, such errors are no more tolerable. The errors can be eliminated and better accuracy can be achieved if decimal computations are done using Decimal Floating Point (DFP) units. But the floating-point arithmetic units in today's general-purpose microprocessors are based on the binary number system, and the decimal computations are done using binary arithmetic. Only few common decimal numbers can be exactly represented in Binary Floating Point (BF P). ln many; cases, the law requires that results generated from financial calculations performed on a computer should exactly match with manual calculations. Currently many applications involving fractional decimal data perform decimal computations either in software or with a combination of software and hardware. The performance can be dramatically improved by complete hardware DFP units and this leads to the design of processors that include DF P hardware.VLSI implementations using same modular building blocks can decrease system design and manufacturing cost. A multiplexer realization is a natural choice from the viewpoint of cost and speed.This thesis focuses on the design and synthesis of efficient decimal MAC (Multiply ACeumulate) architecture for high speed decimal processors based on IEEE Standard for Floating-point Arithmetic (IEEE 754-2008). The research goal is to design and synthesize deeimal'MAC architectures to achieve higher performance.Efficient design methods and architectures are developed for a high performance DFP MAC unit as part of this research.
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Department of Computer Science, Cochin University of Science and Technology
Joseph,P M; Dr.Saseendran Pillai,P R(Cochin University of Science & Technology, May , 1992)
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Systems which employ underwater acoustic energy
for observation or communication are called sonar systems. The active and passive sonars are the two
types of systems used for the detection and localisation
of targets in underwater. Active sonar involves the
transmission of an acoustic signal which, when reflected
from a target, provides the sonar receiver with a basis
for the detection and estimation. Passive sonar bases
its detection and estimation on sounds which emanate
from the target itself--Machinery noise, flow noise,
transmission from its own active sonar etc.Electroacoustic transducers are used in sonar
systems for the transmission and detection of acoustic
energy. The transducer which is used for the transmission
of acoustic energy is called projector and the
one used for reception is called hydrophone. Since a
single transducer is not sufficient enough for long
range and directional transmission, a properly distributed
array of transducers are to be used [9-11].The need and requirement for spatial processing
to generate the most favourable directivity patterns for
transducer systems used in underwater applications have
already been analysed by several investigators [12-21].The desired directivity pattern can be either generated
by the use of suitable focussing techniques or by an
array of non-directional sensor elements, whose arrangements,
spacing and the mode of excitation provide the
required radiation pattern or by the combination of
these.While computing
that
the directivity pattern, it is
assumed strength of the elements are
unaffected by
the
the
source
acoustic pressure at each source.
However, in closely packed a r r a y s , the acoustic interaction
effects experienced among the elements will
modify the behaviour of individual elements and in turn
will reduce the acoust ic source leve 1 wi t h respect to
the maximum t heoret i cal va 1ue a s well as degrade the
beam pa t tern. Th i s ef fect shou 1d be reduced in systems
that are intended to generate high acoustic power output
and unperturbed beam patterns [2,22-31].The work herein presented includes an approach
for designing efficient and well behaved underwater
transd~cer arrays, taking into account the acoustic
interaction effect experienced among the closely packed
multielement arrays.Architectural modifications
reducing the interaction effect
different radiating apertures.
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Department of Electronics, Cochin University
of Science and Technology.
Hari, V S; Dr. Jagathy Raj, V P; Dr.Gopikakumari, R(Cochin University of Science And Technology, June , 2013)
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The basic concepts of digital signal processing are taught to the students
in engineering and science. The focus of the course is on linear,
time invariant systems. The question as to what happens when the
system is governed by a quadratic or cubic equation remains unanswered
in the vast majority of literature on signal processing. Light has
been shed on this problem when John V Mathews and Giovanni L Sicuranza
published the book Polynomial Signal Processing. This book
opened up an unseen vista of polynomial systems for signal and image
processing. The book presented the theory and implementations
of both adaptive and non-adaptive FIR and IIR quadratic systems
which offer improved performance than conventional linear systems.
The theory of quadratic systems presents a pristine and virgin area of
research that offers computationally intensive work. Once the area of
research is selected, the next issue is the choice of the software tool to
carry out the work. Conventional languages like C and C++ are easily
eliminated as they are not interpreted and lack good quality plotting
libraries. MATLAB is proved to be very slow and so do SCILAB and
Octave. The search for a language for scientific computing that was
as fast as C, but with a good quality plotting library, ended up in
Python, a distant relative of LISP. It proved to be ideal for scientific
computing. An account of the use of Python, its scientific computing
package scipy and the plotting library pylab is given in the appendix Initially, work is focused on designing predictors that exploit the polynomial
nonlinearities inherent in speech generation mechanisms. Soon,
the work got diverted into medical image processing which offered
more potential to exploit by the use of quadratic methods. The major
focus in this area is on quadratic edge detection methods for retinal
images and fingerprints as well as de-noising raw MRI signals
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School of Engineering
Cochin University of Science and Technology
Zachariah,E J; Vasudevan, K; Pravinkumar,P A; Mohanan, P; K G Nair(Indian Journal of Radio & Space Physics, February , 1984)
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The design, erection and evalution procedures for it microwave anechuic chamber competed at Cochin University for
antenna studies are presented the chamber has an average reflectivity level of - 32 dB on at X-band frequencies, and it i,
comparable to international standards.
Thomas Lee, S; Dr.Nampoori,V P N; Dr. Radhakrishnan, P(Cochin University of Science & Technology, May , 2003)
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Advent of lasers together with the advancement in fiber optics technology has revolutionized the sensor technology. Advancement in the telemetric applications of optical fiber based measurements is an added bonus. The present thesis describes variety of fiber based sensors using techniques like micro bending, long period grating and evanescent waves. Sensors to measure various physical and chemical parameters are described in this thesis.
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International School of Photonics,
Cochin University of Science and Technology
Geetha, K; Radhakrishnan, P(International School of Photonics, June , 2006)
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The rapid developments in fields such as fibre optic communication
engineering and integrated optical electronics have expanded the interest and
have increased the expectations about guided wave optics, in which optical
waveguides and optical fibres play a central role. The technology of guided
wave photonics now plays a role in generating information (guided-wave
sensors) and processing information (spectral analysis, analog-to-digital
conversion and other optical communication schemes) in addition to its
original application of transmitting information (fibre optic communication).
Passive and active polymer devices have generated much research
interest recently because of the versatility of the fabrication techniques and
the potential applications in two important areas – short distant
communication network and special functionality optical devices such as
amplifiers, switches and sensors. Polymer optical waveguides and fibres are
often designed to have large cores with 10-1000 micrometer diameter to
facilitate easy connection and splicing.
Large diameter polymer optical fibres being less fragile and vastly
easier to work with than glass fibres, are attractive in sensing applications.
Sensors using commercial plastic optical fibres are based on ideas already
used in silica glass sensors, but exploiting the flexible and cost effective
nature of the plastic optical fibre for harsh environments and throw-away
sensors.
In the field of Photonics, considerable attention is centering on the
use of polymer waveguides and fibres, as they have a great potential to create
all-optical devices. By attaching organic dyes to the polymer system we can
incorporate a variety of optical functions. Organic dye doped polymer
waveguides and fibres are potential candidates for solid state gain media.
High power and high gain optical amplification in organic dye-doped
polymer waveguide amplifier is possible due to extremely large emission
cross sections of dyes. Also, an extensive choice of organic dye dopants is
possible resulting in amplification covering a wide range in the visible region.
In this paper the design issues of compact genetic microstrip antennas for mobile
applications has been investigated. The antennas designed using Genetic Algorithms
(GA) have an arbitrary shape and occupies less area (compact) compared to the
traditionally designed antenna for the same frequency but with poor performance. An
attempt has been made to improve the performance of the genetic microstrip antenna by
optimizing the ground plane (GP) to have a fish bone like structure. The genetic antenna
with the GP optimized is even better compared to the traditional and the genetic antenna.
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Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 2008. AP-S 2008. IEEE
A compact microstrip multiband antenna on a
modified ground plane which can operate over the bands starting
from 900 MHz to 5.35 GHz which includes the GSM (880-960)
GPS (1568-1592 MHz), DCS (1710-1880 MHz), and PCS (1850-
1990 MHz). UMTS (1920-2170 MHz), IEEE 802.11 b/g (2400-
2484) and WLAN IEEE 802.11a band (5.15-5.35) is reported in
this paper. The overall dimension of the antenna is 33 x 33 mm2
including the top patch with a dimension 22 x 22 mm2. The
experimental results of the antenna are presented in this paper.
The results confirm that the antenna exhibits wide band
characteristics and covers 7 bands of operation
Jayaprakash, P; Dr. Menon, A K(Cochin University of Science And Technology, March 15, 1999)
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A GIS has been designed with limited Functionalities; but with a novel approach in
Aits design. The spatial data model adopted in the design of KBGIS is the unlinked
vector model. Each map entity is encoded separately in vector fonn, without referencing
any of its neighbouring entities. Spatial relations, in other words, are not encoded. This
approach is adequate for routine analysis of geographic data represented on a planar map,
and their display (Pages 105-106). Even though spatial relations are not encoded
explicitly, they can be extracted through the specially designed queries.
This work was undertaken as an experiment to study the feasibility of developing a
GIS using a knowledge base in place of a relational database. The source of input spatial
data was accurate sheet maps that were manually digitised. Each identifiable geographic
primitive was represented as a distinct object, with its spatial properties and attributes
defined. Composite spatial objects, made up of primitive objects, were formulated, based
on production rules defining such compositions. The facts and rules were then organised
into a production system, using OPS5
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Department of Computer Science
School of Computer Science Studies
Cochin University of Science and Technology
Gopikrishna, M; Deepti Das, Krishna; Aanandan,C K; Mohanan, P; Vasudevan, K(Wiley InterScience, April , 2009)
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The design and performance of a stepped slot printed monopole antenna in the ultrawideband is presented in this article. Multiple resonances generated by the stepped slot geometry are matched in the ultrawideband using a modified microstrip feed. The impedance bandwidth (SWR < 2) of the antenna is from 3 to 11 GHz. Radiation patterns are stable and omnidirectional with appreciable gain throughout the band. Performance of the antenna is also analyzed in the time domain, which reveals good pulse handling capabilities. Compact geometry of the antenna allows easy commercial deployment.