Multilayer networks capture pairwise relationships between the components of complex systems across multiple modes or scales of interactions. An important meso-scale feature of these networks is measured though their community structure, which defines groups of strongly connected nodes that exist within and across network layers. Because interlayer edges can describe relationships between diffe...

iii Abstract In this project a new modular neural network is proposed The basic building blocks of the architecture are small multilayer feedforward networks trained using the Backpropagation algorithm The structure of the modular system is similar to architectures known from logical neural networks The new network is not fully connected and therefore the number of weight connections is much le...

A new fast and accurate capacitance determination methodology for intricate multilayer VLSI interconnects is presented. Since a multilayer interconnect structure is too complicated to be directly tractable, it is simplified by investigating charge distributions within the system. The quasi-three-dimensional (3-D) capacitances of the structure are then determined by combining a set of solid-grou...

In this thesis, Er doped SiO2/nc-Si multilayer structure a promising material for on-chip silicon light emission devices, is studied in detail. It is demonstrated, for the first time, that infrared Er emission could be enhanced by an Er doped SiO2/nc-Si multilayer structure. It is also determined that energy transfer from nc-Si to nearby Er ions, is responsible for this emission enhancement. Th...

The periodic number dependence of the femtosecond laser-induced crystallization threshold of [Si(5nm)/Sb80Te20(5nm)]x nanocomposite multilayer films has been investigated by coherent phonon spectroscopy. Coherent optical phonon spectra show that femtosecond laser-irradiated crystallization threshold of the multilayer films relies obviously on the periodic number of the multilayer films and decr...

This paper presents a design methodology for realizing broadside-coupled microstrip bandpass filters on multilayer substrates to reduce the size of the filter. The new filter configuration consists of broadside coupled split-ring resonators on two layers backed by a ground plane. With the proposed new method, miniaturization to a greater extent can be achieved compared to the conventional metho...