Browsing Engineering (Faculty of) by Supervisor "Cui, Bo"
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Block co-polymer self-assembly
(University of Waterloo, 2017-07-26)Contemporary electronic industry heavily relies on its capability to fabricate electronic devices with small feature size. The race to fabricate higher number of electronic devices per area has faced critical miniaturization ... -
Broadband Antireflection Coverglass for CubeSats
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-31)A CubeSat is a type of miniaturized and modular satellite designed for space research or technology demonstration. By filling the unused capacity of major launch vehicles, CubeSats significantly lower the cost of entry to ... -
Development of Novel Π-conjugated Polymer Semiconductors for Organic Solar Cells
(University of Waterloo, 2018-12-20)Bulk heterojunction polymer solar cell (PSC) is a promising photovoltaic technology for clean and renewable energy sources due to its superior advantages such as mechanical flexibility, light weight, low-cost fabrication, ... -
Fabrication of high aspect ratio (HAR) atomic force microscope (AFM) tips and nano-pillar arrays using pseudo-Bosch and wet etching
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-21)This thesis is mainly focused on the research in the field of nanofabrication and application related to atomic force microscope (AFM) system. AFM tip is the most important part of AFM imaging to obtain the surface information ... -
Fabrication of high aspect ratio (HAR) atomic force microscopy (AFM) probes by one step e-beam lithography and AFM cantilever patterning using grafted monolayer brushes
(University of Waterloo, 2018-11-28)Atomic force microscopy (AFM) allows imaging individual atoms where a very sharp tip touches and feels the substrate. Although a regular AFM tip can achieve atomic resolution, it produces false images on substrates with ... -
Fabrication of High Solid Silicon Microneedles Based on Anisotropic Etching by Potassium Hydroxide
(University of Waterloo, 2023-06-13)This thesis presents the research on the high solid silicon microneedles fabrication based on KOH anisotropic etching, aiming at finding a controllable way to fabricate 500 μm high microneedles with good height uniformity ... -
Fabrication of High-Performance Probes for Atomic Force Microscope (AFM)
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-14)Atomic force microscope (AFM) is widely used for topographical structure characterization. However, one serious issue with AFM imaging is the intrinsic artifact in the AFM image when mapping a none-flat surface (e.g. a ... -
Fabrication of Hollow Silicon Microneedle Arrays for Transdermal Biological Fluid Extraction
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-07)This thesis presents the research in the field of microelectromechanical systems with the specific aim of investigating a microneedle based transdermal skin fluid extraction concept. This work presents an innovative ... -
Fabrication of Silicon In-plane and Out-ofplane Microneedle Arrays for Transdermal Biological Fluid Extraction
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-23)This thesis presents research in the field of microelectromechanical systems and specifically in the area of microneedle-based transdermal skin fluid extraction and drug delivery. The objective of this thesis is to ... -
Fabrication of μ-pH Biosensor for Implantable Medical Devices and Applications in Detecting Post-Operative Complications
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-19)The monitoring of the pH milieu inside the body is critical to the functions associated with implantable medical devices. By monitoring the variation of pH in real-time inside the body, we are capable of identifying the ... -
Grafted polymer monolayer brush as electron beam resist
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-11)This thesis focuses on the nanofabrication process using novel electron beam resists. First, in Chapter 3 and Chapter 4, the nanofabrication process using grafted polymer monolayer brush as e-beam resist was examined. ... -
High Aspect Ratio Polystyrene Structure and Nano-gap Electrode Fabrication Using Electron Beam Lithography
(University of Waterloo, 2017-06-22)Nanotechnology has experienced a rapid growth over the past decade, thanks to the development of nanofabrication technologies needed to fabricate nano-devices. The key technique for nanofabrication is nano-lithography. ... -
Miniaturization of Multiplexed sensor for continuous health monitoring systems
(University of Waterloo, 2022-04-08)Continuous health monitoring systems are an essential part of current and future life. Monitoring biological signals helps us detect health issues in the early stages. Besides the early-stage disease diagnosis, some patients ... -
Nanofabrication and its application in developing high aspect ratio (HAR) and edge Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) probes
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-20)This thesis focuses on nanofabrication and its applications which are related to producing atomic force microscope (AFM) probes. This thesis is divided into four chapters. The first chapter brings a preliminary introduction ... -
Nanolithography on non-planar surfaces and self-assembly of metal salt-polymer nanomaterials
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-29)This thesis is focused on fabrication of high aspect ratio nanostructures on non-planar surfaces using evaporated electron beam resist (Part I), and a novel fabrication methods of high resolutionhigh-resolution surface ... -
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 ... -
Topological Insulator-Superconductor Heterostructures and Devices
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-19)A 3D topological insulator has fully gapped insulating bulk state but a conducting surface. Such conducting “surface” states are formed with helical Dirac fermions, with spin-momentum strictly locked by spin-orbital coupling. ...