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Silicon dry etching using fluorine-based gas for nanoscale cone and grating structure fabrication
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-27)Dry etching technique is widely used in creating high aspect ratio nanostructures currently. This pattern transfer process has better performance in the profile controlling compared with wet etching technique. For the ... -
Silicon Nanowire Based Photodetectors: Modeling and Fabrication
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-18)This research is focused on investigating the role of silicon nanowires in designing high gain, high sensitivity photodetectors, and is based on both device modeling and fabrication. We demonstrate that the superior ... -
Silicon Nanowire Networks as a Printable Semiconductor
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-18)Printed flexible electronics is gaining in popularity and is used in applications such as flexible displays, wearable medical devices and the internet of things. Compared to traditional silicon device manufacturing ... -
Silicon Nanowires for Integrated Photonics: Bridging Nano and Micro Photonics
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-29)Silicon Nanowires (SiNWs) with ability to confine carriers and photons in two directions while allowing propagation in third dimension offer interesting modified optical properties such as increased material absorption and ... -
Silicon-Based Integration Technology for Terahertz Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-20)Low-loss integration technologies are essential for the design of high-frequency systems and components. Conventional PCB methods, such as metallic transmission lines, become challenging to employ in the Terahertz (THz) ... -
Silicon-based Materials as Negative Electrodes for Li-ion Batteries
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-02)Silicon is a promising negative electrode material for lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries, with volumetric and gravimetric capacities much higher than those in current commercial batteries. Implementation of Si as a negative ... -
Silicon-Integrated Two-Dimensional Phononic Band Gap Quasi-Crystal Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-28)The development and fabrication of silicon-based phononic band gap crystals has been gaining interest since phononic band gap crystals have implications in fundamental science and display the potential for application in ... -
The Silurian Amabel and Guelph formations of the Bruce Peninsula: insights into stratigraphy and diagenesis from petrography and ground-penetrating radar
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Regional study of the Silurian Amabel and Guelph (including the Eramosa Member) formations in the subsurface on the Bruce Peninsula provides petrographic details of these pervasively dolomitized rocks, defines lithofacies ... -
Silver Nanoparticle Monolayers for Plasmonics and Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-01)Silver nanoparticle monolayers are plasmonic surfaces which primarily find use as a highly sensitive substrate for surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS), and are also found in thin film solar cells. This thesis describes ... -
Silver Nanowire Coated Threads for Electrically Conductive Textiles
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-24)The emerging area of e-textiles requires electrically conductive threads. We demonstrate that nylon, polyester, and cotton threads can be made conductive by coating their surfaces with random networks of solution-synthesized ... -
Silver Nanowire Coatings for Electrically Conductive Textiles
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-19)There has been steep growth in wearable devices over the past 5 years and the ability to seamlessly integrate these devices into textiles is an exciting next step. One crucial component of achieving e-textiles is the ability ... -
Silver Nanowire Networks in Electrochromic Devices
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-25)Transparent electrodes are a necessary component of electrochromic devices. These electrodes are most commonly made from indium tin oxide (ITO), but this material is far from ideal. ITO is expensive, brittle and thus ... -
Silver nanowire transparent electrodes for device applications
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-30)Random networks of silver nanowires are a promising option to replace conventional transparent conductive oxides, such as indium tin oxide (ITO), which are expensive, brittle, and require high temperatures and vacuum during ... -
Silver Nanowire Transparent Electrodes: Fabrication, Characterization, and Device Integration
(University of Waterloo, 2013-04-23)Silver nanowire transparent electrodes have recently received much attention as a replacement for indium tin oxide (ITO) for use in various electronic devices such as touch panels, organic solar cells, and displays. The ... -
Silver Nanowire-enhanced Microflake Electrically Conductive Adhesives for Flexible Hybrid Electronics
(University of Waterloo, 2021-10-08)Flexible hybrid electronics combine the power and performance of conventional integrated circuits with the large area, lower cost, and mechanical flexibility of printed, flexible electronics. To mount rigid, discrete ... -
Similarity and Diversity in Information Retrieval
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-30)Inter-document similarity is used for clustering, classification, and other purposes within information retrieval. In this thesis, we investigate several aspects of document similarity. In particular, we investigate the ... -
Simone de Beauvoir and The Problem of The Other's Consciousness: Risk, Responsibility and Recognition
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-23)In an interview with Jessica Benjamin and Margaret Simons in 1979, Simone de Beauvoir identified the problem that had preoccupied her across her lifetime, that is, “her” problem, as the problem of the “the consciousness ... -
Simple and Accurate Calibration of the Flory-Huggins Interaction Parameter
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-01)This work improves on a standard method used to calibrate χ, the Flory-Huggins interaction parameter, in experimental systems. The common method is to fit the order-disorder transition (ODT) of symmetric diblock copolymer ... -
Simple Convolutional Neural Networks with Linguistically-Annotated Input for Answer Selection in Question Answering
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-10)With the advent of deep learning methods, researchers have been increasingly preferring deep learning methods over decades-old feature-engineering-inspired work in Natural Language Processing (NLP). The research community ... -
Simple Drawings of Kn from Rotation Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2021-10-06)A complete rotation system on n vertices is a collection of n cyclic permutations of the elements [n]\{i}, for i∈[n]. If D is a drawing of a labelled graph, then a rotation at vertex v is the cyclic ordering of the edges ...