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- 36Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (GPS), Faculty of /Theses and Dissertations
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- 12Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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- 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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2022-06-01
Fathy, Jino, Krstic, Aleksa, Hubbard, Ted, Lai, Yongjun
This work demonstrates a novel multi-configurable three-state electrothermally-actuated microgripper. The state of the gripper refers to the electrical configuration of the hot and cold arms as well as the mechanical mode of operation. The gripper has three basic electrical configurations and...
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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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Combination of AC electrothermal and Dielectrophoresis realized by 3D Electrodes to Concentrate Particles
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Fathy, Jino, Wang, Ziying, Lai, Yongjun
In this paper, a particle microconcentrator is designed and simulated that works by combining the AC electrothermal (ACET) and Dielectrophoresis (DEP) forces. The microconcentrator consists of a PMMA channel with copper electrodes on the walls and bottom of the channel. On each side of the...
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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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Fall 2020
This thesis describes the theory, fabrication, and characterization of on-chip, integrated Fabry-Perot microcavities embedded with thin silicon nitride membranes. The approach combines a previously developed process for fabricating self-assembled Si / SiO2 / Ta2O5 curved mirror cavities, with a...
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A Study on Phase Change Materials at Low Thermal Mass with Micro-Electro-Mechanical Resonators
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Micro-electromechanical systems or MEMS is a modern technology used to create tiny, integrated devices or systems that combine mechanical and electrical components. These miniaturized devices can sense, control and actuate on the micro and nano scales, and generate observable effects on the macro...
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Fall 2020
Introduction: ABO-incompatible organ transplants (ABOi-Tx) recipients are at high-risk of rapid rejection mediated by ABO antibodies (ABO Abs). To manage and expand ABOi-Tx, it is necessary to understand the mechanism(s) by which natural and induced ABO Abs develop. Prior studies have used...
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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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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,...
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Spring 2018
As common human computer interfaces(HCIs), touchscreen panels (TSPs) have been ubiquitously adopted in our daily life especially in the consuming electronics, and numerous industrial applications. However, force information has been a missing part in conventional TSPs, drawing limitations in the...