High Burnup Fragmentation in Uranium Oxide Fuels for Light Water Reactors

Supervisor: Rushton, M. (Supervisor), Middleburgh, S. (Supervisor) & Atkinson, K. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Masters by Research

Preparation and characterisation of uranium and tungsten borides for applications in the nuclear industry

Supervisor: Spencer, P. (Supervisor) & Middleburgh, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Registration of 3D models to 2D X-ray images using fast X-ray simulation and global optimisation algorithms

Supervisor: Vidal, F. (Supervisor) & Middleburgh, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Nonlinear Dynamics of Discrete Mode Lasers and Applications

Supervisor: Hong, Y. (Supervisor) & Spencer, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Design, Implementation and Analysis of a 5.8 GHz Radar for Insect and Micro-Target Monitoring

Supervisor: Palego, C. (Supervisor) & Cross, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Developing a PPM based named entity recognition system for geo-located searching on the Web

Supervisor: Teahan, W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

High Voltage Nanosecond Pulsed Electric Field (nsPEF) Electroporation Systems

Supervisor: Hancock, C. (Supervisor) & Palego, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Superlens-assisted anti-counterfeiting Laser Dot Code marking

Supervisor: Wang, Z. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Masters by Research

Compositionally Complex Alloys in Accident Tolerant Fuel Coating Systems

Supervisor: Rushton, M. (Supervisor) & Middleburgh, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The Role of Alloying Elements on Grain Boundary Complexions in Nuclear Materials

Supervisor: Middleburgh, S. (Supervisor) & Pierce, I. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Digital Orthogonal Filtering-enabled Flexible Transmission Systems and Network Architectures for Fixed and Wireless Network Convergence

Supervisor: Tang, J. (Supervisor) & Giddings, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Developing coupled Reduced Order Models for Shielding and Reactor Physics applications

Supervisor: Spencer, P. (Supervisor), Pierce, I. (Supervisor), Pain, C. (External person) (Supervisor) & Smith, P. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

High Entropy Alloys and Their Desirability For Novel First Wall Materials In Fusion Applications

Supervisor: Middleburgh, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Masters by Research

An Integrated Low-Cost Agent-Based Environment for Simulating And Validating the Design of Interesting Behaviours for Robots

Supervisor: Teahan, W. (Supervisor) & Ritsos, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Analysis, Design and Implementation of Multiple View Visualisations

Supervisor: Roberts, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Designing and Creating Micro Visualisations

Supervisor: Roberts, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Improved TIPS-Pentacene-Based Organic Thin Film Transistors and Their applications; Memory Transistor and Gas Sensing

Supervisor: Mabrook, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Stability and performance assessment of organic photovoltaics using data analytics and machine learning

Supervisor: Kettle, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Visualisation, optimisation and Machine Learning: Application in PET Reconstruction and Pea segmentation in MRI Images

Supervisor: Vidal, F. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Development of a Continuous Hot Embossing System for Multifunctional Surface Structures

Supervisor: Kettle, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A System for Visualising and Treating Early Stage Cancerous Nodules within the Lungs and Cavities of the Eat, Nose and Throat

Supervisor: Hancock, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Masters by Research

Effect of Chemically Modified Transport Layers on Photovoltaic Behavior of P3HT:IC70BA-Based Organic Solar Cell

Supervisor: Mabrook, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Flexible Microwave and RF Antennae for Soft Tissue Ablation

Supervisor: Hancock, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Modeling and Rendering Three-Dimensional Impossible Objects

Supervisor: Lim, I. S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Development of a power based angle of arrival system for tracking of bee utlilising a miniature vibration energy harvester for a battery-less transmitter

Supervisor: Cross, P. (Supervisor) & Palego, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Categorisation of Arabic Twitter Text

Supervisor: Teahan, W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Shift-Free Wide-Angle Metamaterial Narrowband Filters for Anti-Laser Striking Applications

Supervisor: Wang, Z. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Nanofabrication approaches for Group IV Photonic MEMS devices

Supervisor: Nezhad, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Compression-based Parts-of-Speech Tagger for the Arabic Language

Supervisor: Teahan, W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

DSP-based Real-Time Enabling Technologies for Future Cloud Access Networks

Supervisor: Giddings, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Learning Analytics Integrating Student Attendance Data

Supervisor: Perkins, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Discovering Interesting Behaviours in Complex Systems

Supervisor: Teahan, W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Analysing and Correcting Dyslexic Arabic Texts

Supervisor: Teahan, W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Keyframe Summarisation of Egocentric Video

Supervisor: Kuncheva, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Digital Filter Multiplexing-enabled Advanced Networking Devices and PON Architectures for 5G Network Convergence

Supervisor: Tang, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A Novel Approach to Printed Arabic Optical Character Recognition

Supervisor: Teahan, W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Automatic Emotion Recognition in English and Arabic text

Supervisor: Teahan, W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Optimising Kinematic Systems Using Crowd-Sourcing and Genetic Algorithms

Supervisor: Ap Cenydd, L. (Supervisor) & Teahan, W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Compression-based Methods for the Automatic Cryptanalysis of Classical Ciphers

Supervisor: Teahan, W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Novel Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Devices Delivering Microwave and RF Energy for Smart Surgery

Supervisor: Hancock, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Masters by Research

Optical OFDM with Multiple Information-carrying Dimensions for Elastic Access Networks

Supervisor: Tang, J. (Supervisor) & Giddings, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Photo-effects in Organic MIS Devices and Related Structures

Supervisor: Taylor, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Optical Effects on the Dynamical Properties of Semiconductor Laser Devices and Their Applications

Supervisor: Hong, Y. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Advanced Optical Fibre Grating Sensors for Biochemical Applications

Supervisor: Chen, X. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Development of thin film flexible and transparent electronics

Supervisor: Kettle, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Microwave I.F Signal Processing Strategies For Coherent Optical Communications

Supervisor: O'Reilly, J. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Signal processing for pulse-height spectroscopy

Supervisor: Owens, A. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

DSP-enabled Reconfigurable Optical Network Devices and Architectures for Cloud Access Networks

Supervisor: Giddings, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Degradation and outdoor performance monitoring of next generation solar cells for building integrated appliscation

Supervisor: Kettle, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A novel microwave transmission Line with Impedance matching structures for Haemostasis of upper Gastrointestinal bleeding.

Supervisor: Hancock, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Ab-initio and Experimental NEXAFS Spectroscopy Investigations of Graphene: growth and post-processing effects

Supervisor: Campo, E. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

All-dielectric superlens and applications

Supervisor: Wang, Z. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Electrical Characterisation of Meso-Scale Biological Tissue for a Microwave Based Permittivity Identification Process

Supervisor: Palego, C. (Supervisor) & Hancock, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Masters by Research

Electrical, Environmental and Optical Stress Effects on PS-DNTT OTFTs

Supervisor: Taylor, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Grammar-based preprocessing for PPM compression and classification

Supervisor: Teahan, W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Hybrid Group IV Nanophotonics

Supervisor: Nezhad, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Unsupervised Change Detection in Multivariate Streaming Data

Supervisor: Kuncheva, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A conceptual e-learning system for teaching mathematics

Supervisor: Teahan, W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Analysis and synthesis of critical design-thinking for data visualisation designers and learners

Supervisor: Roberts, J. C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

NEXAFS Spectroscopy Studies of Polymer Nanocomposites

Supervisor: Campo, E. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Outdoor stability studies in Organic Photovoltaics

Supervisor: Kettle, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Study of the Fly Algorithm for 2-D and 3-D Image Reconstruction

Supervisor: Vidal, F. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Use of Microwaves for Skin Lesion Treatment

Supervisor: Hancock, C. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Advanced materials for organic solar cells: influence of generation and pH on PAMAM-Based devices

Supervisor: Mabrook, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Development of a Comprehensive Information Security System for UAE e-Government

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Enhanced Resource Discovery Mechanisms for Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Network Environments

Supervisor: Teahan, W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Evaluating Parallel Corpora and Translation Quality for Chinese and English

Supervisor: Teahan, W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Semiconductor Devices for Generating Terahertz Radiation

Supervisor: Pierce, I. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Simulating Ethical Behaviour in Virtual Characters

Supervisor: Teahan, W. (Supervisor) & Ap Cenydd, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Building and verifying parallel corpora between Arabic and English

Supervisor: Teahan, W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Changes in colour and contrast perception between day and night vision

Supervisor: Mantiuk, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Characterisation and lifetime studies of CPDT- and BT- based photovoltaic cells

Supervisor: Kettle, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Improving the impression of depth perception

Supervisor: Lim, I. S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Integrated sensor suite for indoor building inspection with an unmanned aerial vehicle

Supervisor: Pierce, I. (Supervisor) & Mansoor, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Optical pulse generation using an optically injected Nd:YVO4 laser

Supervisor: Shore, K. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Design and analysis of adaptively modulated optical orthogonal frequency division multiple access multiband passive optical networks

Supervisor: Tang, J. (Supervisor) & Shore, K. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A psychophysiological acquisition device for affective video games

Supervisor: Kuncheva, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Two terminal organic nonvolatile memory devices

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A roll-to-roll compatible vacuum-evaporation route to organic circuit production

Supervisor: Taylor, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Analysis of cylindrical semiconductor metal-clad nano-lasers

Supervisor: Shore, K. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Faithful visualization and dimensionality reduction on graphics processing unit

Supervisor: Lim, I. S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Adaptive models of Arabic text

Supervisor: Teahan, W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An Advanced Virtual Environment for Rugby Skills Training

Supervisor: John, N. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Agent based modelling of Malaria

Supervisor: Teahan, W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Advanced study of pentacene-based organic memory structures

Supervisor: Mabrook, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Investigating the Feasibility of Using Focussed Airborne Ultrasound as Tactile Feedback in Medical Simulators

Supervisor: John, N. W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Explorative coastal oceanographic visual analytics : oceans of data

Supervisor: Roberts, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Optimal operating conditions and security considerations for optical chaos communications

Supervisor: Shore, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Polarisation properties of externally driven vertical cavity surface emitting lasers

Supervisor: Shore, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Organic electronic devices : advanced patterning and fabrication approaches

Supervisor: Mabrook, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Master of Philosophy

Spatially resolved characterisation of CdTe photovoltaic solar cells

Supervisor: Taylor, M. (Supervisor) & Irvine, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The effect of magnetic field on the dielectric properties of DNA

Supervisor: Bone, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Advanced Optical OFDM transceivers for Optical Access Networks

Supervisor: Tang, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Design, Implementation and Analysis of Real-Time Optical OFDM Transceivers

Supervisor: Tang, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An empirical study of stream-based techniques for text categorization

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Intensity modulation of optical OFDM signals using low-cost semiconductor laser devices for next-generation PONs

Supervisor: Tang, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Organic MIS devices based on a high-k dielectric

Supervisor: Taylor, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Image analysis of microscope slides for palynofacies studies

Supervisor: Kuncheva, L. (Supervisor) & Lim, I. S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Theoretical and experimental investigations of optical OFDM for local and access networks

Supervisor: Tang, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Devices and techniques for the dielectrophoretic characterisation and manipulation of cells

Supervisor: Pethig, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Simulation of image guided needle puncture: contribution to real-time ultrasound and fluoroscopic rendering, and volume haptic rendering

Supervisor: John, N. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

risk-e The risk management pathway, an e-learning tool for healthcare professionals.

Supervisor: Roberts, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

From reaction injection moulding to microdevices

Supervisor: Taylor, D. M. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Preparation and characterization of electrografted polymer films for surface functionalization

Supervisor: Taylor, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Business data integration framework for small to medium enterprises (BDIFS) : a service-based framework to support eBusiness data interoperability for small to medium enterprises (SMEs)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Adaptive Models of Chinese Text

Supervisor: Teahan, W. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Visual control of an unmanned aerial vehicle for power line inspection

Supervisor: Jones, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Chaos synchronisation phenomena in semiconductor lasers

Supervisor: Spencer, P. (Supervisor) & Pierce, I. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Application of model based predictive control to a pumped storage hydroelectric plant

Supervisor: Jones, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Mode spectrum of laser diodes subject to optical feedback

Supervisor: Spencer, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Finite element analysis of magnetization reversal in granular thin films

Supervisor: Chantrell, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Availability, continuity, and selection of maritime DGNSS radiobeacons

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Evaluation of PTCa/PEKK composite sensors for acoustic emission detection

Supervisor: Das-Gupta, D. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Mathematical modeling of marine environment contamination using fuzzy set theory

Supervisor: Kuncheva, L. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Rapid determination of parasite viability using AC electrokinetic techniques

Supervisor: Pethig, R. (Supervisor) & Burt, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A study on protein sugar interactions: implications for bioprotection

Supervisor: Bone, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Characterisation and applications of AC impedance biosensors

Supervisor: Bone, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Development of bioprocessor chip technology

Supervisor: Pethig, R. (Supervisor) & Burt, J. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Novel dielectrophoretic techniques for the manipulation of bio-particles

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The relationship between the local and global structure of semigroups

Supervisor: Lawson, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Computational simulations of thermally activated magnetisation dynamics at high frequencies

Supervisor: Chantrell, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

AC electrokinetic bioassays: development of electrorotation assay for detection of viable and non-viable bacteria and macromolecules

Supervisor: Bone, S. (Supervisor) & Pethig, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Theoretical investigation of self-pulsating laser diodes for optical storage applications

Supervisor: Rees, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Analysis and design of organic semiconductor lasers

Supervisor: Shore, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Communicating with chaotic semiconductor lasers

Supervisor: Shore, A. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Graphs of groups: word computations and free crossed resolutions

Supervisor: Brown, R. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Investigations into low band-gap, semiconducting polymers

Supervisor: Taylor, M. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Behaviour and operation of pumped storage hydro plants.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Studies of reversal processes in particulate recording media using pulsed field magnetometry

Supervisor: O´Grady, K. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Interactions, particle size and surface effects in magnetic nanoparticle systems.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A framework of services to provide a persistent data access service for the CORBA environment

Supervisor: Hope, S. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A.C. electrokinetic bioassays development of electrorotation assay for analytes in water.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Intersubband optical processes in semiconductor quantum wells.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Texture and colour for automatic image-based skin lesion analysis.

Supervisor: Duller, A. (Supervisor) & Fish, P. (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Application of DSP methods to sound reproduction.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Electrorotation analysis on artificial particles.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

VLSI implementation of a spectral estimator for use with pulsed ultrasonic blood flow detectors.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Coverage and performance prediction of DGPS systems employing radiobeacon transmissions

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Electrokinetic manipulation of particles : computer aided studies.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Ferroelectric composites for pyro-and piezoelectric applications

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Finite element studies of the modified KdV equation.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Electrical conductance and gating of porin channels in lipid bilayers

Supervisor: Taylor, D. M. (External person) (Supervisor)

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Optical receiver design and optimisation for multi-gigahertz applications

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Performance assessment of subcarrier multiplexed optical systems: implications of laser nonlinearities

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Investigation of real-time spectral analysis techniques for use with pulsed ultrasonic doppler blood flow detectors.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

High capacity optical fibre transmission systems.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

The characterisation of thin insulating films on metal electrodes immersed in aqueous electrolytes using the AC Admittance Technique.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

A study of electro-active properties of polymer/ceramic comosites

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Investigations into the biotechnological applications of dielectrophoresis.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Advanced avalanche photodiode receivers in optical communications.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Computer-aided control system design using optimization methods.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Finite element studies of the Korteweg-de Vries equation.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

An investigation of microstrip antennas and their feeder structures.

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy

Topological groupoids: coverings and universal constructions

Student thesis: Doctor of Philosophy