The impacts of climate change will exacerbate humanitarian crises at a global level, and there is an urgent need to eliminate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the power system infrastructure. While deploying clean energy resources in the current grid will help in decarbonizat…
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Programs written in C and C++ are susceptible to a number of memory errors, including buffer overflows and dangling pointers. At best, these errors cause crashes or performance degradation. At worst, they enable security vulnerabilities, allowing denial-of-service or remote code…
Software defects are expensive, costing the US economy 60 billion annually [1]. However, quality control techniques are expensive and are further constrained by the availability of resources. Therefore, a large body of research focuses on efficient quality control activities. De…
The present research focused on the assessment of solder joint fatigue life in microelectronics assemblies. A general concern of any reliability engineer is whether accelerated tests are relevant to field conditions. The risk of this was minimized by developing an approach to re…
Thin film solar cells have advantages over traditional crystalline-based solar cells in the manufacturing process. Thin film solar cells can be flexible, which makes them easier to mass-produce and cheaper to manufacture. One such solar cell is known as copper zinc tin sulfide, …
The continuous demand for high performance applications and simultaneous lowering of power consumption and manufacturing cost is driving the transistor size to sub-50nm regime. Although, aggressive transistor scaling has resulted in increased integration density and improved dev…
Much of today's high performance computing engines and hand-held mobile devices are products of aggressive CMOS scaling. Technology scaling in semiconductor industry is mainly driven by corresponding improvements in optical lithography technology. Photolithography, the art used …
Student performance in college chemistry courses remains a concern for educators seeking to help improve the future STEM workforce. Besides math ability and prior chemistry knowledge, spatial ability and attitude toward chemistry have been considered as important factors influen…
In practice, various ad hoc approaches for designing reliability test programs have been observed. Many of these approaches rely on previously established rules of thumb for which the underlying rationale is indefensible. As a consequence, those who use such approaches are unlik…
Copper (Cu) wire bonding technology is both feasible and challenging. The main driver to pursue copper as a bonding wire is the package assembly cost savings that can be achieved by replacing the Gold (Au) wire. Other advantages of using a copper wire are its physical and electr…
The research presented here examines the assessment of the reliability of a system or product utilizing multiple data sources available throughout the different stages of its development. The assessment of the reliability as it changes throughout the development of a system is t…
This research focuses on the development of a novel approach to the quantification of manufacturing quality. This quantification typically relies on values of the mean and standard deviation--two basic parameters in the determination of quality. When data points are used to appr…
The main focus of this thesis is to introduce new techniques that offer trade-offs between schedulability (ability of the system to accept more tasks) and reliability (ability of the system to tolerate more faults) in real-time systems. Different techniques have been introduced …
This thesis adds to the design of new announcement schemes in vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs). An announcement scheme allows vehicles to broadcast information about their surrounding to other vehicles in their proximity. This enables neighbouring vehicles to be aware of their…
The focus of this thesis is to develop a generic approach for solving reliability design optimisation problems which could be applicable to a diverse range of real engineering systems. The basic problem in optimal reliability design of a system is to explore the means of improvi…
In 1996, a concept was proposed by the UK Ministry of Defence with the intention of making the field of reliability more useful to the end user, particularly within the field of military aerospace. This idea was the Maintenance Free Operating Period (MFOP), a duration of time in…
The scaling trends in CMOS technology and operating conditions give rise to serious degradation mechanisms such as Negative Bias Temperature Instability (NBTI) and Hot Carrier Injection (HCI) in MOSFETs, threatening the circuit and product lifetimes. The aging phenomena, on top …
Financial challenges facing the automotive sector require identification of new opportunities for quality improvement. A new Design-To Life-Cycle-Cost strategy is introduced that applies a unique "Binary Decision Logic Model " that classifies corrective action opportunity into L…
The objective of the research is to model the impact of physical design characteristics on backend dielectric reliability. Backend dielectric breakdown is a concern for a number of reasons. The impact of process on backend dielectric reliability is significant, and well modeled,…