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- 1Adl, Ahmad H
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- 1Chowdhury, Fatema R
- 1Crozier, Brendan Matthew
- 1Farbod, Behdokht
- 1Farsinezhad, Samira
- 5Brett, Michael (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 2Mitlin, David (Chemical and Materials Engineering)
- 1Backhouse, Christopher (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 1Buriak, Jillian M. (Chemistry)
- 1Cadien, Ken (Chemical and Materials Engineering)
- 1Cadien, Kennth (Chemical and Materials Engineering)
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Spring 2015
The minable oil sands extraction process can be understood on a scale of a single oil sand grain. When the oil sand ore is mixed with warm water, each sand granule is initially covered with bitumen film which ruptures under the composite effect of shear and interfacial forces, while water...
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Fall 2012
Atomic layer deposition (ALD) is a powerful ultra-thin film deposition technique that uses sequential self-limiting surface reactions to provide conformal atomic scale film growth. Deposition of ALD films on many substrate systems has been studied before; however, limited data is available on...
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Metal particle catalyst formation from thin films for the creation of vertically aligned carbon nanotube structures
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This work contains research associated with the metal catalysts used in the formation of vertically aligned carbon nanotube (VACNT) films through catalytic chemical vapour deposition (CCVD). The solid-state dewetting process of thin metal films is studied using Ni. In the dewetting process, grain...
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High Performance Germanium-based Anode Materials for Lithium-ion and Sodium-ion Rechargeable Batteries
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In this thesis the electrochemical performance of germanium nanowires (GeNWs) as anode for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) and tin-germanium-antimony (Sn-Ge-Sb) thin films as anode for sodium-ion batteries (NIBs) have been investigated. Scientific literature shows a substantial study-to-study...
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Morphology control and localized surface plasmon resonance in glancing angle deposited films
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This research investigates an extension of the glancing angle deposition (GLAD) technique and a biosensing application of films produced by GLAD. The extension to GLAD, called phi-sweep (PS), improves column isolation compared to films grown by traditional GLAD (TG) as well as modifies the column...
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Electrodeposition of iron-cobalt alloys from a dibasic ammonium citrate stabilized plating solution
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Iron-cobalt alloys have been extensively studied as potential hard disk drive write head materials due to their potentially high saturation flux densities (~2.4T), low coercivities and ease of deposition. Iron-cobalt plating solutions have, however, been shown to have stability issues,...
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Spring 2011
This thesis investigates technologies directed towards developing photonic crystal display devices. A switching technology based on dye electrophoretic motion within a 1D porous photonic crystal was developed. Dissociated absorbing dye species were moved through the assembled device and...
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Spring 2010
The ability to detect and quantify presence and concentration of unknown gasses is sought for applications ranging from environmental monitoring to medical analysis. Metal oxide based chemical sensing technology currently exists but the ability to provide a compositional gas breakdown reliably...
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Fall 2016
Recently ZnO has drawn a lot of attention in semiconductor industry due to its interesting features. High exciton binding energy, high resistivity against radiation, high breakdown voltage, insensitivity to visible light, and easy wet chemical etching are some of the interesting features of this...
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Fall 2009
The magnetic properties of $Bi2Sr2CaCu2O{8+x}$ (BSCCO) single crystals and thin films have been studied systematically with a contactless Hall probe system. The BSCCO single crystals of $T{c} \simeq$ 92 K were grown using a crucible-free optical floating-zone technique. The thin film disks of...