Todd Freeborn
University of Alabama, AL·Engineering
Ordinary resistors, capacitors and inductors behave according to whole-number-order equations. Fractional-order components follow equations of non-integer order.
- Fields
Engineering
Physics
- Topics
fractional-order circuits
fractional calculus
fractional-order components
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Jul 2028
What they work on
- Model and fabricate fractional-order electronic components, whose behavior follows non-integer-order equations, and validate them experimentally.
- Design new signal-processing circuits built from fractional-order components, using simulation, fabrication and testing.
- Apply fractional-order electrical models to characterize crops and liquids for food-safety analysis.
- Train University of Alabama undergraduates through 12-week research placements at Brno University of Technology in Czechia.
More about the research
This lets them capture behavior that ordinary parts cannot, such as the electrical response of biological tissue and liquids. Learning to model, build and use such components could expand what circuits can do in signal processing and in measurement. This award trains U.S. undergraduates to research these components as the semiconductor and microelectronics industry grows.
Why it matters
The program prepares engineers for the growing U.S. semiconductor and microelectronics workforce. Its research could advance fractional-order components for signal processing. It could also produce electrical measurement models that help assess crops and liquids for food safety.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
Todd Otanicar
Boise State University, ID·Engineering
Support graduate fellows for three years of stipend and education costs as they carry out fundamental research aligned with technology and innovation goals in microelectronics.
Mark Ablowitz
University of Colorado Boulder, CO·Mathematics & Statistics
Extend the Inverse Scattering Transform, which turns nonlinear wave equations into solvable linear scattering problems, to new classes of equations including fractional nonlinear wave equations with non-integer-order derivatives.
Weidong Cao
George Washington University, DC·Engineering
Build AnalogEDA-Hub, an open-source platform with multi-modal datasets, learning-based tools and standard design environments, so researchers can benchmark AI methods for analog circuit design in a reproducible way.
The school
University of Alabama: 22 labs on PI Pages, $221M a year on research, 235 research doctorates a year.
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