A5021888439- Microfluidic and Capillary Electrophoresis Applications
- Wireless Power Transfer Systems
- Analytical Chemistry and Sensors
- Biosensors and Analytical Detection
- Innovative Energy Harvesting Technologies
- Nanofabrication and Lithography Techniques
- Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks
- Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies
- Mechanical and Optical Resonators
- Neuroscience and Neural Engineering
- 3D IC and TSV technologies
- Iterative Learning Control Systems
- Electrowetting and Microfluidic Technologies
- thermodynamics and calorimetric analyses
- Photonic and Optical Devices
- Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques
University of Alberta
2012-2016
SmileSonica (Canada)
2016
University of Windsor
2007-2008
Reliable microfabrication processes and materials compatible with complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology are required by industry for the mass production of complex highly miniaturized lab-on-a-chip systems. Photopolymers commonly used in industry, suitable integration multilayer structures onto CMOS substrates. This paper describes a novel photopolymer bonding process fabrication three-dimensional monolithic microfluidic devices. The consists formation conformal adsorbate...
The need for precise temperature control at small scales has provided a formidable challenge to the lab-on-chip community. It requires, once, good thermal conductivity high speed operation, isolation low power consumption and ability have (mm-scale) thermally independent regions on same substrate. Most importantly, and, in addition these conflicting requirements, there is accurately measure of active region without device-to-device calibrations. We developed tested design that enables...
Spatial thermal control of localized fluid volumes is a major challenge in the lab-on-chip (LOC) field. Thin-film heaters are commonly used LOC devices to carry out many key functions that require high temperature uniformity, including polymerase chain reaction and melting curve analysis. However, conventional heater design approach iterate from an initial best guess toward optimal design, but without prior knowledge exact power distribution required produce desired profile. Such iterative...
The design of a bio-mechanically driven double stator axial flux MEMS power generator for use in cardiac pacemakers has been presented. In the system, an asymmetrical circular rotor embedded with alternate polarity microfabricated NdFeB permanent magnets oscillates around central shaft due to motion thorax during breathing induce voltage across coils. footprint area 4times4 mm <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sup> and can...
A MEMS-based axial flux power generator has been developed for use in implantable biomedical devices, such as cardiac pacemakers, hearing aid instruments, etc. The microgenerator can provide a greater energy supply per unit volume at much smaller size and weight compared to conventional batteries. device operates on the principle of electromagnetic induction voltage across microfabricated planar copper coil exposed changing magnetic due bio-mechanically driven (NdFeB) semi-circular pendulum....
This paper details the infinite dimensional dynamics of a prototype microfluidic thermal process that is used for genetic analysis purposes. Highly effective dynamics, in addition to collocated sensor and actuator architecture, require development precise control framework meet very tight performance requirements this system, which are not fully attainable through conventional lumped modeling controller design approaches. The general partial differential equations describing system separated...