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Nanostructuring Plastic Displays within the Flexible Electronics Paradigm

Andrews M.P., Frechette P., Fong B., Shih I., Plastic Knowledge (formerly Silk Displays), CA

This presentation describes our advances in fabricating a fully functional color, plastic liquid crystal display that uses an all-inorganic thin film transistor array based on a nanocrystalline II-VI semiconductor. The display itself represents an interesting [...]

New Type of High Sensitive Detection of Particles Based on DeFET

Ibrahim M.F., Elsayed F., Ghallab Y.H., Badawy W., University of Calgary, CA

This research work presents a new implementation of the CMOS electric-field sensor, titled as Differential Electric Field Sensitive Field Effect Transistor (DeFET). The DeFET is successfully used in detection of small partials and it is [...]

Design Optimization of Field Emission from a Stacked Carbon Nanotube Array

Roy Mahapatra D., Sinha N., Melnik R., Yeow J.T.W., University of Waterloo, CA

Field emission (FE) from carbon nanotubes (CNTs) grown on a cathode substrate is difficult to characterize using simple formulae or data fitting, which is due to (1) electron-phonon interaction (2) electromechanical force field leading to [...]

Wireless Micro and Nano Sensors for Physiological and Environmental Monitoring

Kaminska B., Simon Fraser University, CA

A wearable physiological/environmental monitoring system and a practical implementation are presented. The technical requirements for wearable electronics and sensors have been specified with an example of ECG, oxygenometer, and wireless network-based bidirectional communication. A presented [...]

Nanostructured perovskite-based oxidation catalysts for improved environmental emission control

Seegopaul P., Bassir M., Alamdari H., Van Neste A., Nanox Inc., CA

The emission control catalyst market is about $11 billion and growing while global concerns over environmental pollution have resulted in increasingly stringent regulations. This business opportunity, however, is complicated by the requirement for higher performance [...]

Fabrication and characterization of Alq3 electrically actuated nanospring arrays

Dice G.D., Brett M.J., University of Alberta, CA

Glancing Angle Deposition (GLAD) is a single step physical vapour deposition (PVD) technique utilizing oblique deposition angles to create porous thin film helical structures. Previous nanospring work has used inorganic materials such as SiO2. Here, [...]

Modeling the electrical characteristics of FET-type sensors for biomedical applications

Deen M.J., Shinwari M.W., McMaster University, CA

Uniquely examining and identifying biological pathogens is of great importance in health care, as it facilitates early detection, isolation and possibly prevention of many diseases. Availability of highly efficient and easily produced sensors could have [...]

Bonding Pad with Reduced Capacity

Mats I., Tarcenco V., Select Techno-Fix Ltd, CA

The technical solutions for the Integrated Circuits (ICs) packaging remains enough conservative during microelectronics development. The ICs with active components having size of micrometers or even nanometers continue to have bonding pads area within hundreds [...]

The Logical Elements “And”/ “Or” are Established on the Elements with Punch-Through and Deformation Space Charge Regions

Mats I., Diatex, Selected Texno-Fix, CA

In this article is proposal a design of logical elements “AND”/”OR” based on punch-through effect with a deformation (element ”AND”) of space charge regions (SCR). I.On the substrate N- type is formed P+ - bodies [...]

A Novel Topology Optimization Scheme for Micro Electro-Thermo-Mechanical Domains

Motiee M., Khajepour A., Mansour R.R., University of Waterloo, CA

Developing a systematic approach to design optimum Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems MEMS, recently has received a numerous attention among researchers. Duo to the lack of a systematic design method, typical MEMS devices design procedures encompass trial and [...]