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
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Spring 2013
The performance of highly anisotropic, nanostructured, thin-film ultrathin-layer chromatography (UTLC) media with porosity and architecture engineered using the glancing-angle deposition (GLAD) process is investigated. Anisotropic structures resembling nanoblades are fabricated on the plates,...
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Spring 2021
Alarm systems are critical assets in process industries to ensure process safety and efficiency. However, the number of alarms has grown exponentially in the past decades due to easy alarm configuration in computerized systems and lack of proper alarm rationalization. As a consequence, the...
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Spring 2010
Thin films are produced from layers of materials ranging from nanometres to micrometres in height. They are increasingly common and are being used in integrated circuit design, optical coatings, protective coatings, and environmental sensing. Thin films can be fabricated using a variety of...
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Advanced methods in Glancing Angle Deposition to control thin film morphology, microstructure and texture
DownloadSpring 2014
Structuring of material on the nanoscale is enabling new functional materials and improving existing technologies. Glancing angle deposition (GLAD) is a physical vapor deposition technique that enables thin film fabrication with engineered columnar structures on the (10 to 100) nm scales. In this...
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Advanced Microstructure Optimization Strategies for High-Temperature CO2 Electrolysis: Infiltration and In-situ Exsolution
DownloadSpring 2020
The solid oxide electrolysis cell (SOEC) has attracted increased attention in recent years due to its capability to reduce CO2 emissions in a highly efficient and environmentally sustainable fashion. Previous work in our group has fabricated an A-site Ce doped La0.7Sr0.3Cr0.5Fe0.5O3- (LSCeCrF)...
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Advanced quantitative techniques to enhance heavy and civil construction information modeling
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Site development in heavy and civil construction need to consider many rules such as ensuring proper drainage, prevention of flood, safety driving, optimizing earthwork, minimizing fleet travel distances, proper fleet matching and achieving high equipment utilization rates. In recent decades,...
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Advanced Selective Harmonic Elimination Pulse Width Modulation for High-Power Medium-Voltage Converters
DownloadSpring 2023
High-power medium-voltage converter play an indispensable role in various industrial applications. In high-power scenarios, there is a strict limitation on the switching frequency of the pulse width modulation (PWM) scheme to avoid excessive switching losses. The minimization of switching...
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Spring 2012
Chip level optical interconnects has gained momentum with recent demonstrations of silicon-on-insulator (SOI) based photonic modules such as lasers, modulators, wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) filters, etc. A fundamental building block that has enabled many of these silicon photonic...