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Theses and Dissertations
This collection contains theses and dissertations of graduate students of the University of Alberta. The collection contains a very large number of theses electronically available that were granted from 1947 to 2009, 90% of theses granted from 2009-2014, and 100% of theses granted from April 2014 to the present (as long as the theses are not under temporary embargo by agreement with the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies). IMPORTANT NOTE: To conduct a comprehensive search of all UofA theses granted and in University of Alberta Libraries collections, search the library catalogue at www.library.ualberta.ca - you may search by Author, Title, Keyword, or search by Department.
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Items in this Collection
- 5Lab-on-a-chip
- 1Air-core optical cavities
- 1Biomedical
- 1Bragg waveguide
- 1Buckling self-assembly
- 1CMOS
- 2Backhouse, Christopher (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 2Elliott, Duncan (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 1DeCorby, Ray (Electrical & Computer Engineering)
- 1DeCorby, Ray (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 1Elliott, Duncan (ECE Department)
- 1Gaudet, Vincent (Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, now at Waterloo)
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Air-core microcavities and metal-dielectric filters - building blocks for optofluidic microsystems
DownloadFall 2012
This thesis describes a study on two optical devices intended to be building blocks for the creation of integrated optical/microfluidic lab-on-a-chip systems. First, arrays of curved-mirror dome-shaped microcavities were fabricated by buckling self-assembly of a-Si/SiO2 multilayers. This novel...
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Spring 2012
One application for lab-on-a-chip (LOC) devices is performing miniaturized laboratory tests. These devices would be ideal for point-of-care medical diagnostic applications; however, many still rely on external bench-top instrumentation. It is logical to shrink this instrumentation as well. In...
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Miniaturized genetic analysis systems based on microelectronic and microfluidic technologies
DownloadFall 2010
Genetic analysis is not widely used for disease diagnostics as it is costly and very labour/infrastructure intensive. We believe that by employing both microelectronic and microfabrication technologies, we are able to integrate multiple functionalities into a single, manufacturable, inexpensive...
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Tapered air-core Bragg waveguide spectrometers for fluorescence detection in lab-on-a-chip devices
DownloadSpring 2014
This thesis describes a study on tapered air-core Bragg waveguides for use as integrated micro-spectrometers in lab-on-a-chip systems. Position-dependent cutoff of the leaky waveguide modes results in spatial dispersion of polychromatic input light. These devices may be viewed...
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Fall 2011
We demonstrate the feasibility of USB-powered portable genetic amplification. One of the central processes within medical or biological genetic methods is polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Through this amplification, more quantities of the specified genetic target can be obtained for analysis and...