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- 1Bezuidenhout, Louis Wentzel
- 1Brausen, Henry A
- 1Das, Sanghamitro
- 1Greenlay, Benjamin A
- 1Jones, Thomas R
- 1Backhouse, Chris (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo)
- 1Backhouse, Christopher (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 1Brett, Michael J. (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 1Daneshmand, Mojgan (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 1DeCorby, Ray G. (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 1Elliott, Duncan (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering)
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Molecular separations using nanostructured porous thin films fabricated by glancing angle deposition
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Biomolecular separation techniques are an enabling technology that indirectly influence many aspects of our lives. Advances have led to faster analyses, reduced costs, higher specificity, and new analytical techniques, impacting areas such as health care, environmental monitoring, polymer...
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Miniaturized, Inherently Matched, and Scalable Folded Dipole Antennas with Applications in Narrowband Sensing
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This work presents a novel technique for miniaturizing folded dipole antennas using a simple series reactive loading scheme that enables the input impedance to be engineered, such that the antenna can be matched inherently to either a real or a complex source impedance at a specified level of...
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Miniaturization of Microwave to Millimeter-Wave Integrated Waveguides and their Applications
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The integration of waveguide technology at the planar level has been a crucial development for the successful realization of 5G, the future fifth generation cellular network. The demand for mobile networks with faster speeds, lower latencies, and denser connectivity scenarios continues to drive...
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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 2013
Miniaturization of spectrometers for microfluidic applications is currently an intense area of research. This thesis is devoted to the design, fabrication, and testing of a planar optical microspectrometer. Optical microspectrometers are potentially important candidates for noninvasive detection...
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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 2014
Lab-on-chip systems will be a major component in the future of health care. These technologies enable point-of-care testing by miniaturizing and improving the efficiency of many diagnostic techniques. Possible applications include the detection of various pathogens using genetic amplification...
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Design and Microfabrication of Robust and Highly Integrated Thermal Lab-On-A-Chip Polymeric Systems for Genetic Diagnosis
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The lab-on-chip (LOC) technology could transform and greatly enhance the health care system by making genetic diagnosis tests fast, accurate and readily accessible. However, most LOC systems are not prepared to resist variations of their external environment, as they depend upon many...
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Analysis and Design of A New Class of Miniaturized Circular Waveguides Containing Anisotropic Metamaterial Liners
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This work presents the analysis and design of a new class of miniaturized circular waveguides containing anisotropic metamaterial liners, and reveals in detail intriguing and potentially useful propagation and radiation phenomena. An analytical construction of the liner as a homogeneous,...
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Fall 2017
We present a platform for research into nanomaterial-enhanced gas sensing using magnetomotive MEMS resonators. A microfabrication process fl ow is developed and carried out to create metallized silicon MEMS resonators. In tandem, a test system based around a balanced electronic bridge is...