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Expanding the Microfluidic Design Automation Capabilities of Manifold: Electrophoretic Cross and Time-Domain Simulation
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-19)Lab-on-a-chip devices are finding applications in several different fields, from point-of-care diagnostics to genome sequencing. However, lab-on-a-chip is a multidimensional field that makes it difficult for designers to ... -
Experimental Investigation of the Power Amplifiers’ Nonlinearity using a 3.5 GHz 2×2 RF Front-end Prototype
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-16)Next generation communication systems will demand extremely high system capacity. Ap-proaches such as complex digital modulation schemes, widening of the instantaneous band-width and massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) ... -
Experimental Performance Evaluation of Bit-Rate Selection Algorithms in Multi-Vehicular Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2011-01-24)IEEE 802.11 PHY supports multiple transmission rates according to multiple different modulations and coding schemes. Each WiFi station selects its own transmission rate according to its own algorithm; in particular, the ... -
Exploiting Mobile Energy Storages for Overload Mitigation in Smart Grid
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-09)The advancement of battery and electronic technologies pushes forward transportation electrification, accelerating the commercialization and prevalence of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs). The development of PEVs is closely ... -
Exploring Microfluidic Design Automation: Thin-wall Membrane Regulator
(University of Waterloo, 2017-05-19)Microfluidics and lab-on-a-chip are a growing technology, influential in many areas of engineering. This project focuses on the necessity for better computer aided design tools for this area. Specifically, it focuses on ... -
Exploring the Tight Asymptotic Bounds of the Trade-off Between Query Anonymity & Communication Cost in Wireless Sensor Network
(University of Waterloo, 2014-12-18)We address query-anonymity in the context of wireless sensor networks. Query-anonymity is the property that the destination of a client’s query is indistinguishable from other potential destinations. Prior work has established ... -
Exploring the Usage of U-Net-based Deep Learning Networks for Reduction of Brain PET Scan Time in Alzheimer's Disease Patients
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-30)In medical imaging, positron emission tomography (PET) is an imaging technique that uses radiotracers to tag and investigate biological processes. A high-quality PET scan requires a high dosage of such tracers and/or a ... -
Exploring the Use of Assistive Robotics in Play and Education for Children with Disabilities
(University of Waterloo, 2022-12-19)Assistive technologies in general, and assistive robots in particular, are being studied extensively to maintain and increase the capabilities of individuals with disabilities. However, there are aspects in this field that ... -
Expressive and Efficient Memory Representation for Bounded Model Checking of C programs
(University of Waterloo, 2022-12-13)Ensuring memory safety in programs has been an important yet difficult topic of research. Most static analysis approaches rely on the theory of arrays to model memory access. The limitation of the theory of arrays in terms ... -
Extended Bandwidth Doherty Power Amplifier for Carrier Aggregated Signals
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-21)In the conventional classes of power amplifiers the efficiency drops at power back-off, whereas in order to maximize the spectral efficiency and data rate, wireless communication standards employ signals with high peak to ... -
Extensible Architecture for Superconducting Quantum Computing
(University of Waterloo, 2018-07-09)Quantum computing architectures with ten or more quantum bits (qubits) have been implemented using trapped ions and superconducting devices. The next milestone in the quest for a quantum computer is the realization of ... -
Extracting Counterexamples from Transitive-Closure-Based Model Checking
(IEEE, 2019)We address the problem of how to extract counterexamples for the transitive-closure-based model checking (TCMC) technique. TCMC is a representation of the CTLFC (CTL with fairness constraints) model checking problem in ... -
Efficient Hardware Realization of Convolutional Neural Networks using Intra-Kernel Regular Pruning
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-24)Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have proven their success in a wide range of applications. While CNNs boast remarkable performance, they require significant computational and memory resources for operation. As research ... -
Fabrication and Analysis of Bottom Gate Nanocrystalline Silicon Thin Film Transistors
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-25)Thin film transistors (TFTs) have brought prominent growth in both variety and utility of large area electronics market over the past few decades. Nanocrystalline silicon (nc-Si:H) TFTs have attracted attention recently, ... -
The Fabrication and Characterization of a Superconducting Birdcage Resonator
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-08)In this thesis we presents the fabrication and characterization of a superconducting Birdcage style radiofrequency (RF) coil, a commonly used coil design in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometers. The Birdcage was ... -
Fabrication and Characterization of Microcrystalline Silicon Near Infrared Photodiode Detector Pixel Circuit on Glass Substrate For LargeArea Electronics
(University of Waterloo, 2016-12-21)This thesis is focused on development of near infrared (NIR) photodetectors on glass substrate at low temperatures for large area electronics applications. In the first part of this thesis we study the optical properties ... -
Fabrication and Characterization of Nanowires and Quantum Dots for Advanced Solar Cell Architectures
(University of Waterloo, 2012-05-01)The commercially available solar cells suffer from low conversion efficiency due to the thermalization and transmission losses arising from the mismatch between the band gap of the semiconductor materials and the solar ... -
Fabrication and Characterizations of Fe/NaCl/Fe Magnetic Tunnel Junctions
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-23)The tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) of magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJ) was discovered in the middle of the last century, and it has attracted many researchers’ attention and led to a revolution in the field of data storage ... -
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 ...