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- 47Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (GPS), Faculty of /Theses and Dissertations
- 3Mechanical 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)
- 16Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- 14Department of Mechanical Engineering
- 5Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering
- 4Department of Chemistry
- 1Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science
- 1Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology
- 5Moussa, Walied (Mechanical Engineering)
- 2Freeman, Mark (Physics)
- 2Mitra, Sushanta (Mechanical Engineering)
- 2Zemp, Roger (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 1Amirfazli, Alidad (Department of Mechanical Engineering, York University)
- 1Backhouse, Chris (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo)
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Spring 2011
Carbon/molecule/Cu/Au molecular junctions were fabricated on 4-inch silicon wafers using microfabrication techniques common in commercial semiconductor manufacturing. Electron-beam deposited carbon films are introduced as substrates, and the junctions exhibited high yield and excellent...
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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 2011
Several obstacles to widespread use of bacteriocins in food have been identified, including lack of specific, rapid quantitation methods, and little data on their efficacy in food systems. The first objective of this study was to develop a specific, rapid quantitation method for bacteriocins...
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Development of MEMS-based Piezoresistive Three Dimensional Stress/Strain Sensor with Temperature Compensation
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In this research, a developed n-type piezoresistive three dimensional (3D) stress sensor with full temperature compensation is presented. The proposed sensing rosette benefits from the stress insensitivity of the full-circular n-type piezoresistor, oriented over (111) silicon plane, to detect...
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Development of a Multisectorial Electroactive Nanowell Platform for Selective Single-Cell Sorting and Quantification
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The rapid isolation of specific rare target cells is of rising importance in current targeted patient treatment plans. Common cell sorting approaches such as stream-based dielectrophoresis (DEP) based cell sorters are limited by their spatial dimensions as only a number of cell types...
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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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E.coli and bacteriophage T4: Using lytic bacteriophages to prevent tissue culture contamination
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Bacteria are commonly encountered cell culture contaminants. Due to the costly consequences of media contamination and the loss of research production, further research should be devoted to the prevention of contamination so time and money are not wasted. Phage have been demonstrated to prevent...
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Fall 2016
Background: NK cells are a key cellular component of antibody-mediated rejection (ABMR), but their role in ABMR has not been identified. We postulated that NK cells are stimulated through their CD16a antibody receptors by donor-specific anti-HLA antibodies in ABMR. There is currently no direct...
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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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Development of a MEMS 3D Stress Sensor Using Strain Engineering for Out of Plane Stress Applications
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This work aims to enhance the performance of a MEMS-based 3D piezoresistive sensor, which has the capability of extracting the six temperature-compensated stress components. That sensor is made of an n-type piezoresistive element that has low pressure/out-of-plane piezoresistive (PR) coefficient,...