Program
MNRC 2008 is held in conjunction with the CMC Microsystems Annual Symposium. To view the complete program for the 2008 Annual Symposium please click here.
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| Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Microsystems and Nanoelectronics Research Conference (MNRC 2008) |
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| Registration |
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7:30-8:30am |
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International Ballroom Foyer |
| 7:30am |
Registration & Continental Breakfast |
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| Welcome and Opening Remarks |
8:30-8:45am |
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InternaInternatioinal Ballroom A |
| 8:30am |
Welcome and Opening Remarks |
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| Session 1: RF, Analog, Digital and Test |
8:30-10:15am |
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International Ballroom A |
| 8:45am |
Metamaterial Artificial Transmission Line Structures in CMOS for Tunable Insertion Phase at 30 GHz
Symon K. Podilchak †, Brian M. Frank , Al P. Freundorfer and Yahia M. M. Antar†
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada
† Electrical and Computer Engineering, Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Canada |
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Fully-Integrated CMOS Bidirectional Distributed Amplifier as Tunable Active Duplexer for Wireless Transceiver Applications
Ziad El-Khatib, Leonard MacEachern, Samy A. Mahmoud
Department of Electronics and CPFR, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada |
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| 9:15am |
Design and Analysis of Very Low Voltage Charge Pumps for RFID Tags
Saber Amini, Calvin Plett
Department of Electronics, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada |
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| 9:30am |
Single-Event-Transient Tolerant Comparators Using Auto-Zeroing Techniques
Tao Wang, Li Chen, Anh Dinh
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada |
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| 9:45am |
5 Gb/s Burst-Mode Clock Phase Aligner with (64, 57) Hamming Codes for GPON Applications
Ming Zeng, Bhavin J. Shastri, Nicholas Zicha, Michael Vander Schueren, David V. Plant
Photonic Systems Group, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Canada |
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| 10:00am |
Oscillation-Based Test ing OTA-C Filters: A Case Study
Pablo Petrashin, Gabriela Peretti†, Eduardo Romero†
Microelectronics Laboratory, Universidad Católica de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina
†Quality on Mechatronics Research Group Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Facultad Regional Villa María, Villa María, Argentina |
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| Refreshment Break |
10:15-10:30am |
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International Ballroom Foyer |
| 10:15am |
Refreshment Break |
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| Session 2: Data and Signal Processing, Simulation and Modeling, and System-Level Design |
10:30-11:45am |
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International Ballroom A |
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Improving Resource Utilization in a Multiple Asynchronous ALU DSP Architecture
José-Philippe Tremblay, Yvon Savaria, Claude Thibeault†, Maria Mbaye
Department of Electrical Engineering, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
†Department of Electrical Engineering, École de Technologie Supérieure, Montréal, Canada |
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| 10:45am |
PERG: A Scalable Pattern-Matching Accelerator
Johnny Tsung Lin Ho, Guy Lemieux
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada |
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A Flexible Network-on-Chip Simulator for Early Design Space Exploration
Cristian Grecu, André Ivanov, Resve Saleh, Claudia Rusu†, Lorena Anghel†, Partha P. Pande††
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
†TIMA Laboratories, Grenoble, France
††School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Washington State University, Pullman, USA |
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| 11:15am |
A Comparison of Two Multistage Ring Architectures for NoC Using High-Level Simulation Models
Stephan Bourduas, Zeljko Zilic
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
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| 11:30am |
A Spatial Computing Architecture for Implementing Computational Circuits
David Grant, Guy Lemieux
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada |
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| Lunch |
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12:00-1:00pm |
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International Ballroom Foyer |
| 12:00pm |
Lunch |
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| TEXPO & MNRC Research Exhibition |
12:00-2:00pm |
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International Ballroom B&C |
| 12:00pm |
TEXPO & MNRC Research Exhibition: TEXPO Research Demonstrations and MNRC Poster Exhibition |
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Graduate student demonstrations and poster presentations of current microsystems research activity. Includes competitions for:
MNRC 2008 Awards:
• Top 10% will receive the GOLD LEAF Certificate ($1000)
• 10-20% will receive the SILVER LEAF Certificate ($600)
• 20-30% will receive the BRONZE LEAF Certificate ($400)
TEXPO Research Competition Awards:
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| Session 3: Microfluidics |
2:00-2:45pm |
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International Ballroom A
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Real-time Continuous Dielectrophoretic Separation of Malignant Cells
Anas Alazzam, Dacian Roman, Vahé Nerguizian†, Ion Stiharu, Rama Bhat, Amber Yasmeen††, Ala-Eddin Al Moustafa††
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
†Department of Electrical Engineering, École de Technologie Supérieure, Montréal, Canada
††Department of Oncology, Human Genetics and Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Canada |
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Hybrid Integrated CMOS-Microfluidic Device for the Detection and Characterization of Particles
Yahya Hosseini, Lee F. Hartley, Karan V.I.S. Kaler
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada |
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Fabrication of Polymer Microfluidic Devices with 3D Microfeatures that have Near Optical Surface Quality
Pun Pang Shiu, George K. Knopf, Mile Ostojic†, Suwas Nikumb†
Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
†Industrial Materials Institute, National Research Council Canada, London, Canada |
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| Refreshment Break |
2:45-3:00pm |
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International Ballroom Foyer
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Refreshment Break |
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| Session 4: Photonics and Nanoelectronics |
3:00-4:00pm |
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International Ballroom A
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Microwave Arbitrary Waveform Generation Based on Optical Spectral Shaping and Wavelength-to-Time
Mapping Using a Chirped Fiber Bragg Grating
Chao Wang, Jianping Yao
Microwave Photonics Research Laboratory, School of Information Technology and Engineering,
University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada |
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Optimal Cavity Lengths and Duty Cycles for Second-Order Laterally-Coupled Distributed Feedback Lasers
Ronald Millett, Karin Hinzer, Trevor Hall, Henry Schriemer
Centre for Research in Photonics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada |
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Copper and Nickel Nanoparticles: Synthesis by Electrochemical Discharges
Anis Allagui, Rolf Wüthrich, Elena A. Baranova†
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
†Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada |
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Electrostatic Energy Characterization for an Atomic Force Microscope Probe
Liton Ghosh, Sazzadur Chowdhury
Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Windsor, Windsor, Canada |
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| Session 5: Sensors, MEMS, and Biomedical Devices |
4:00-5:00pm |
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International Ballroom A |
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αRAM: An α Particle Detecting MOS IC for Radon Monitoring
Ryan H. Griffin, H. Le, D.T. Jack, N.G. Tarr
Department of Electronics, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada |
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A CMOS-MEMS Scanning Probe Microscope with Integrated Position Sensors
Niladri Sarkar, Raafat Mansour
Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada |
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A MEMS Capacitive, Passively Powered Heart Rate Monitor: Design and Analysis
Elena Bassiachvili, Robert Stewart, Mohammad Shavezipur, Patricia Nieva
Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada |
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Transient Response of a 3-TFT Hybrid Active-Passive Pixel with Correlated Double Sampling
CMOS Readout Circuit for Real-Time Medical X-ray Imaging
Nader Safavian, D. Wu, K. Karim, Arokia Nathan†
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
†London Center for Nanotechnology, University College, London, UK |
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| Celebrating and Recognizing Excellence |
5:30-8:30pm |
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| Cocktail Reception |
5:30-6:30pm |
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International Ballroom Foyer
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Cocktail Reception |
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| Banquet and Awards Presentations |
6:30-8:30pm |
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International Ballroom A&B |
6:30pm
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Annual Awards Banquet: Collocated with the ITAC/SMC Outstanding Service Awards Banquet |
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Presentation of Colton Medal for Research Excellence
Presentation of TEXPO Awards
Presentation of the MNRC Awards
Presentation of the ITAC/SMC Outstanding Service Awards Banquet
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