Current students

Please join the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology and the Department of Systems Design Engineering on Thursday, July 4, 2019 for a guest lecture by Dr. Fadi Alsaleem, Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. He will be speaking on "Micro-Electro-Mechanical Neural Integrated Sensing and Computing Units for Wearable Device Applications".[Poster]

Please join the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology and the Department of Chemical Engineering on Tuesday, June 25, 2019 for a guest lecture by Dr. Edward Roberts, Professor and Associate Head Research at the University of Calgary. He will be speaking on "Doped Carbon and Graphene Materials for Electrochemical Applications". [Poster]

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New Concepts In Nitride Light Emitters

Dr. Henryk Turski

Institute of High Pressure Physics Polish Academy of Sciences “UNIPRESS” in Warsaw, Poland

High-performance Backplane Devices for LED Video Walls

Dr. Doug Dykaar

Founder of DifTek Lasers Inc.

Abstract: [Poster] Large area electronics with high performance has application in LED video walls, where no active backplane technology exists, relegating all large LED displays to passive pixel designs.

Please join the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology on Thursday May 9, 2019 for a guest lecture by Dr. Hongbo Zeng from the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada. He will be speaking on "Hydrophobic Interactions in Water and Hydrophilic Interaction in Oil of Polymers, Emulsions and Bubbles".

Please join the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology on Thursday, April 4, 2019 for a guest lecture by Dr. Ye Tao from the Advanced Electronics and Photonics Research Centre, National Research Council Canada. He will be speaking on "Printed Electronics and Its Role in the Development of Battery-Free Sensors."

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Please join the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology on Monday, April 12, 2019 for a guest lecture by Dr. Kui Jiao from the State key Laboratory of Engines and vice dean of School of Mechanical Engineering at the Tianjin University, China. He will be speaking on "Multiphase multi-scale transport in proton exchange membrane fuel cell and development of simulation tools".

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Please join the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology on Monday, April 8, 2019 for a guest lecture by Dr. Atsushi Takahara from the Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering, WPI I²CNER, Kyushu University, Japan. He will be speaking on "Surface and Interface Characteristics of Polyelectrolyte Brushes".

The Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN) is pleased to present a Distinguished Lecture Series talk by Dr. Paul Weiss, UC Presidential Chair and a distinguished professor of chemistry & biochemistry, bioengineering, and materials science & engineering at UCLA.

Precise Chemical, Physical, and Electronic Nanoscale Contacts

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Please join the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology on Thursday, May 16, 2019 for a guest lecture by Dr. Paul Simmonds from the Department of Physics, Micron School of Materials Science and Engineering and Boise State University. He will be speaking on "Tensile-strained Self-assembly of Quantum dots for Entangled Photon Sources and Band Structure Engineering".