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- 36Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (GPS), Faculty of /Theses and Dissertations
- 2Mechanical Engineering, Department of
- 2Mechanical Engineering, Department of/Progress in Canadian Mechanical Engineering, Volume 5
- 1Biological Sciences, Department of
- 1Biological Sciences, Department of/Journal Articles (Biological Sciences)
- 12Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- 10Department of Mechanical Engineering
- 4Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering
- 2Department of Chemistry
- 1Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science
- 1Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology
- 3Moussa, Walied (Mechanical Engineering)
- 2Freeman, Mark (Physics)
- 2Zemp, Roger (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 1Backhouse, Christopher (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 1Bhattacharjee, Subir (Mechanical Engineering)
- 1Bressler, David (Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science)
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Spring 2013
Research was undertaken into the organic semiconductors tris(8- hydroxyquinoline)aluminum (Alq3) as well as bis(8-hydroxyquinoline)zinc (Znq2) to the effect of improving achievable morphological control using an inexpensive evaporation based solution synthesis method. By varying experimental...
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Fall 2017
Capacitive micromachined ultrasound transducers (CMUTs) are a promising replacement technology for piezoelectric composite transducers, as they offer a more flexible architecture, wider signal bandwidth, and improved impedance matching between the sensor and the sensing medium. While CMUTs have...
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Spring 2010
The procedure for milling micrometre scale cantilevers of lutetium iron garnet using a focused ion beam microscope was developed. The infrastructure to study these cantilevers using rotational hysteresis loops and ferromagnetic resonance experiments was set up. The cantilevers were shown to...
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Fall 2022
Background: Although pediatric heart transplantation is a life-saving and effective therapy for children with cardiac disease, barriers remain due to a lack of available organs as well as transplant failure due to rejection. This dissertation aimed to increase knowledge related to immune risk...
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Spring 2013
An alternative method of manipulating fragile MEMS devices during fabrication has been developed. A specialized manual or robotic end effector utilizing a gecko inspired adhesive can replace the slow and costly manual tweezers used by the MEMS foundry Micralyne Inc. Improving the adhesive...
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Spring 2016
Organic photovoltaics offer the tantalizing possibility of inexpensive renewable energy generation. However, there are many issues that need to be solved before organic photovoltaics can see widespread use. One main issues that needs to be resolved is the relatively low efficiency of organic...
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Large-Scale Multi-Frequency Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducer (CMUT) Arrays for Ultrasound Medical Imaging and Therapeutic Applications
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Ultrasonic transducers capable of operating over multiple frequency bands could have several interesting medical applications including multi-resolution multi-depth imaging for point-of-care ultrasound, imaging-therapy, super-harmonic contrast agent imaging, super-resolution imaging, image-guided...
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Fall 2009
Islet transplantation has the potential to be an effective treatment for patients with type 1 diabetes. However, a shortage of human donor islets and the need for continuous immunosuppressive therapy currently limit this therapy to patients with brittle type 1 diabetes. Neonatal pigs may...
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Metallic thin films for NEMS/MEMS: from fundamental behaviour to microstructural design and fabrication
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The main focus of this thesis is the study of thin metal films in microelectromechanical/nanoelectromechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS), ranging from application to fundamental behaviour. The use of metallic structural components is desirable since they are electrically conductive, optically reflective...
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Fall 2013
This thesis outlines the development of two platforms for integrating microfabricated sensors with high pressure feedthroughs for application in hostile high temperature high pressure environments. An application in oil well production logging is explored and two sensors were implemented with...