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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 Novel Suspended Inductors
(University of Waterloo, 2004)With the rapid growth in the wireless industry there has been increasing demand to make devices with better performance. This means lower power, lower voltage, smaller, and in general more efficient. This has lead ... -
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 ... -
Facial Expression Recognition System
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-23)A key requirement for developing any innovative system in a computing environment is to integrate a sufficiently friendly interface with the average end user. Accurate design of such a user-centered interface, however, ... -
Facilitating Breast Conserving Surgery Using Preoperative MRI
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-21)Breast cancer is currently considered the most widespread malignancy in women, which costs the lives of approximately 400,000 people annually worldwide. While extremely useful for early detection and diagnosis of breast ... -
Factors Affecting Charge Collection and Photo-Stability of Organic Solar Cells
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-07)Organic photovoltaics employ small molecules or polymers as their primary light absorbing materials and thus differ strongly from traditional silicon-based photovoltaics. Their primary technological benefit is a significant ... -
Factors Affecting Human Force Perception and Performance in Haptic-Enabled Virtual Environments
(University of Waterloo, 2009-05-22)Haptic technology enables computer users to touch and/or manipulate virtual objects in virtual environments (VEs). Similar to other human-in-the-loop applications, haptic applications require interactions between humans ... -
Failure Localization Aware Protection in All-Optical Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-26)The recent development of optical signal processing and switching makes the all-optical networks a potential candidate for the underlying transmission system in the near future. However, despite its higher transmission ... -
Fast DC Fault Current Suppression and Fault Ride Through in Full-Bridge MMCs via Regulation of Submodule Capacitor Discharge
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-16)High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) is more cost-effective than High Voltage Alternating Current (HVAC) for transmitting power over long distances, and therefore is ideal for bulk power transfer from wind, solar, hydroelectric, ... -
A Fast Hybrid Method for Analysis and Design of Photonic Structures
(University of Waterloo, 2006)This thesis presents a very efficient hybrid method for analysis and design of optical and passive photonic devices. The main focus is on unbounded wave structures. This class of photonic systems are in general very ... -
Fast Intra-frame Coding Algorithm for HEVC Based on TCM and Machine Learning
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-27)High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) is the latest video coding standard. Compared with the previous standard H.264/AVC, it can reduce the bit-rate by around 50% while maintaining the same perceptual quality. This performance ... -
Fast Methods for Millimeter-wave Dielectric Resonator and Antenna Analysis and Design
(University of Waterloo, 2009-04-02)Ever-increasing interest in millimeter-wave and terahertz spectrum has prompted research and development of novel passive components working at these frequencies. Compared with the conventional planar components, non-planar ... -
Fast Ray Tracing Techniques
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-02)In the past, ray tracing has been used widely in offline rendering applications since it provided the ability to better capture high quality secondary effects such as reflection, refraction and shadows. Such effects are ... -
A Fast Sphere Decoding Algorithm for Rank Deficient MIMO Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-26)The problem of rank deficient multiple input multiple out (MIMO) systems arises when the number of transmit antennas M is greater than number of receive antennas N or when the channel gains are strongly correlated. Most ... -
Fault Current Management in Power Systems using Inverter Based Distributed Generators
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-23)Distributed generator (DG) connection to power systems has attained special attention in recent years because it provides a number of operational and economic benefits for both utilities and customers. On the downside, the ... -
Fault Detection and Restoration for Hybrid HVDC Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-30)As a promising solution for connecting remote, asynchronous, and intermittent renewable energy resources with existing AC grids, high voltage direct current (HVDC) systems are being built in many countries around the world. ... -
Fault Diagnosis in Enterprise Software Systems Using Discrete Monitoring Data
(University of Waterloo, 2012-05-18)Success for many businesses depends on their information software systems. Keeping these systems operational is critical, as failure in these systems is costly. Such systems are in many cases sophisticated, distributed ... -
Fault Driven Supervised Tie Breaking for Test Case Prioritization
(University of Waterloo, 2018-10-26)Regression test suites are an excellent tool to validate the existing functionality of an application during the development process. However, they can be large and time consuming to execute, thus making them inefficient ... -
Fault Tolerance of Stochastic Decoders for Error Correcting Codes
(University of Waterloo, 2017-05-17)Low-density Parity-check (LDPC) codes are very powerful linear error-correcting codes, first introduced by Gallager in 1963. They are now used in many communication standards due to their ability to achieve near Shannon-capacity ...