Browsing by Author "Kameoka, Jun"
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A Method to Dramatically Decrease the Required Depletion Power of STED Super-Resolution Microscopy and High Power Operation of NSOM Probes
McBride, Daniel (2017-04-10)A versatile STED microscope using a supercontinuum light source for selecting various excitation and depletion wavelengths needed for different fluorescent dyes was designed and built. Using a 0.9 NA microscope objective ... -
A Plain-text Compression Technique with Fast Lookup Ability
Kumar, Harsh (2016-11-30)Data compression has always been an essential aspect of computing. In recent times, with the increasing popularity of remote and cloud-based computation, compression is becoming more important. Reducing the size of a data ... -
A Study of Ozone as an Oxygen Source for the Growth of High-Κ Dielectric Films for Gate Dielectric on GaN/AlGaN/GaN
Bhattacharya, Shuvodip (2016-09-01)GaN is a promising alternative to silicon technology for the next-generation high-power and high-frequency electronics. The choice stems from the intrinsic properties of GaN of a wide bandgap and consequently high breakdown ... -
Acoustic Bubble Propulsion and Rotation for MEMS Devices
Dincel, Onder (2015-12-09)The goal of this thesis research is to investigate acoustic wave actuated devices’ abilities spatially in different media and with various designs. Self-trapped bubble oscillation generates cavitation at the open end of ... -
Advanced 3D Printing to Fabricate Microfluidic Devices for Cancer and Stem Cells Co-culture Study in Space
Batra, Jaskirat Singh (2015-12-09)Two different type of microfluidic devices were designed, fabricated and tested to capture the microspheres. The passive device seems to be more reliable because of no possibility of damage, whereas the thin film in active ... -
Amperometric Glucose Biosensor by Means of Electrostatic Layer-by-layer Adsorption onto Electrospun Polyaniline Fibers
Shin, Young J. (2010-07-14)An amperometric glucose biosensor was fabricated using electospun polyaniline fibers. Polyaniline was reacted with camphorsulfonic acid to produce a salt, which was then dissolved in chloroform containing polystyrene. Using ... -
Application of Cellular Microencapsulation to Wastewater Nitrogen Removal
Kish, Lazar Laszlo (2013-03-24)Microencapsulation of cells is a technique in which cells are enclosed in microscopic spheroids of a desired substance, with applications in many fields, such as biomedical engineering. In this study, a microfluidic approach ... -
Application of the Smart Material on the Overtopping Type Wave Energy Converter
Chien, Chia-Hung (2017-12-08)This thesis presents a method of applying “Shape Memory Alloy” (SMA) on an overtopping wave energy converter (OWEC). A control system which can fit all sea states is necessary for OWEC to adapt to a mutative wave condition ... -
Au-free Ohmic Contacts to Gallium Nitride and Graphene
Ravikirthi, Pradhyumna (2014-08-10)This work deals with Au-free contact metallization schemes for gallium nitride (GaN) and graphene semiconductors. Graphene and gallium nitride are promising materials that can potentially be integrated together in the near ... -
Biofluid lubrication for artificial joints
Pendelton, Alice Mae (2009-05-15)This research investigated biofluid lubrication related to artificial joints using tribological and rheological approaches. Biofluids studied here represent two categories of fluids, base fluids and nanostructured biofluids. ... -
Cell-Derived Matrices for Bone Tissue Engineering
Sears, Candice Marie (2019-04-15)Extracellular matrix (hMatrix) derived from osteogenically enhanced mesenchymal stem cells (OEhMSCs) can be deposited onto scaffolds in a process referred to as “bioconditioning”. While bioconditioned gelatin scaffolds ... -
Cell-Derived Matrices for Bone Tissue Engineering
Sears, Candice Marie (2019-04-15)Extracellular matrix (hMatrix) derived from osteogenically enhanced mesenchymal stem cells (OEhMSCs) can be deposited onto scaffolds in a process referred to as “bioconditioning”. While bioconditioned gelatin scaffolds ... -
COMETABOLIC BIODEGRADATION OF GROUNDWATER CONTAMINANTS BY ACIDOPHILIC METHANOTROPHS
Shao, Yiru (2019-12-09)Chlorinated solvents have been widely used in various industrial process. The wide applications and improperly disposed has resulted in groundwater and soil contaminated with these compounds. In contaminated groundwater, ... -
Conductance states of molecular junctions for encoding binary information: a computational approach
Agapito, Luis Alberto (2009-06-02)Electronic devices, for logical and memory applications, are constructed based on bistable electronic units that can store binary information. Molecular electronics proposes the use of single molecules—with two distinctive ... -
Creating Collagen 3D Microenvironment by Developing Pneumatic Actuated Soft Micromold (PASMO) for Biological Application
Huang, Po-Jung (2017-11-29)Small volume, high surface area and protective fibulas scaffold of collagen modular microenvironment improves cell viability and proliferation. Therefore, the ability to produce collagen modular microenvironment accurately ... -
Design and characterization of nanowire array as thermal interface material for electronics packaging
Chiang, Juei-Chun (2009-05-15)To allow electronic devices to operate within allowable temperatures, heat sinks and fans are employed to cool down computer chips. However, cooling performance is limited by air gaps between the computer chip and the heat ... -
Design and Fabrication of Nanochannel Devices
Wang, Miao (2010-10-12)Nanochannel devices have been explored over the years with wide applications in bio/chemical analysis. With a dimension comparable to many bio-samples, such as proteins, viruses and DNA, nanochannels can be used as a ... -
Design of a Detachable Acoustically-Actuated Platform for Separation of Whole Blood and Nanoparticles
Wisniowiecki, Anna Marie (2018-08-17)Blood-based diagnostic tests have become a widespread paradigm for clinical disease diagnosis. Such tests are designed to detect small molecules in blood, which are indicative of a particular disease. Current blood-based ... -
Development of a Handheld Scanning Transducer Probe for Ultrasound Imaging
Fazlulla Mohamed, Shakir (2015-08-07)The scanning transducer technique is a simple and cost effective approach to achieve ultrasound imaging. By mechanically scanning a single-element transducer with a motor stage, the time-variant ultrasound field at an array ... -
The Development of a High-throughput Microdroplet Bioreactor Device for Microbial Studies
Guzman, Adrian (2012-10-19)Microdroplet microfluidics has gained much interested in the past decade due to its ability to conduct a wide variety of biological and microfluidic experiments with extremely high repeatability on a mass scale. In particular ...