Surface acoustic wave (SAW) sensors are versatile devices that can be configured to sense a variety of measurands such as temperature and pressure. The potential use of surface acoustic wave devices for magnetic field detection is explored in this study. Compared to current magnetic field sensors, a sensor based on...
The Amplitude and phase of surface acoustic waves can be characterized using a laser beam and photodiode detector. This paper describes a technigue for charactarizing waves using the double photodiode method. This method is a modification of the knife-edge method, and involves focusing a laser beam to a beam spot...
In recent years, non-coding DNA has received much attention within the scientific
community. This attention has not only illuminated the mystery behind functionally
important regions like the centromere, but has also brought to light additional important
questions regarding centromere mechanisms, inheritance, and cellular recognition by the
kinetochore, a protein complex...
The integration of digital and analog systems on single CMOS integrated circuits will continue to be a major area of research as the consumer market demands low power mobile devices in mass quantity. In prototypical analog integrated systems, calibration is often necessary to achieve the desired performance.
In this thesis,...
Extending rheological characterization methods to very small length scales is of interest. AC susceptometry using magnetic nanoparticle probes has been proposed for measurement of frequency-dependent rheological properties at the nanoscale. As this technique has been primarily used for ideally Newtonian fluids, this research aimed to extend this technique to viscoelastic...
