Research in the Department of Electrical Engineering can be broadly divided into the two areas: This page provides brief overviews of some of the research efforts currently going on in the department. More detailed information can be found by following links to faculty personal pages or to:EE Research Laboratories.
Electronic Circuits and Systems (ECS)
Approximately half of the faculty have research interests in this area, which includes systems and control, signal and image processing, and communications.Research projects are currently being conducted in the following areas:
- bandwidth efficient coding and modulation--design of efficient coding and modulation schemes for reliable transmission over band-limited channels
- radio architecture and codes for deep space and satellite communications
- multimedia communication--combined source and channel coding and restoration techniques for robust transmission of video/audio
- statistical signal processing--array signal processing (radar, sonar) and applications to wireless communications
- identification and estimation--blind identification, set membership estimation, adaptive equalization, and spectral analysis
- digital filtering--analysis and design of multidimensional filters, floating point realizations, robust stability of discrete-time systems, nonlinear discrete-time systems
- digital image processing--data compression for image sequences, video data processing, tomographic image reconstruction, and image restoration/enhancement
- control systems--investigations of stability, robust control, restructurable control, zero dynamics, modeling, and nonlinear servomechanism design
- autonomous control systems--theoretical developments for realization of control systems with enhanced operational capabilities
- hybrid control
- and large-scale dynamic systems--qualitative properties of large-scale dynamical systems addressing Lyapunov stability, input-output properties, and decomposition problems.
Electronic Materials and Devices (EMD)
Approximately half of the faculty have research interests in this area, which includes solid-state, nanoelectronic and optoelectronic materials and devices. The Electrical Engineering Department is the lead academic unit for the Center for Nano Science and Technology which fosters cross-disciplinary collaborations with a focus on nanoelectronics. Most of the faculty in the EMD area are involved with this Center.Research projects are currently being conducted in the following areas:
- quantum device phenomena--optical properties, localization, universal conductance fluctuations, transport, interference and resonant tunneling
- nanoelectronic systems--novel circuits-and-systems architectures for the nanoelectronic regime
- experimental nanoelectronics--nanofabrication of quantum dots, cryogenic characterization of single-electron effects, and ultra-small resonant tunneling diodes for ultra-high-speed digital ICs
- nanospectroscopy--high spatial, spectral and temporal resolution investigations of quantum dots via atomic force microscopy and near-field scanning optical microscopy
- device degradation--studies of the electromigration behavior of ultrasmall metal interconnects and hot carrier effects in MOS oxide breakdown phenomena
- optoelectronic materials--studies of the optical and material properties of compound semiconductor native oxides
- optoelectronic devices--fabrication and characterization of waveguides and optical components for integrated photonic ICs, semiconductor lasers and optical amplifiers
- and micromachining--fabrication of microelectromechanical devices utilizing Si processing, particularly reactive ion etching.
University of Notre Dame
Department of Electrical Engineering
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Notre Dame, Indiana 46556
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