Events

Please join the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology on Thursday, February 7, 2019 for a guest lecture by Dr. Ned Djilali, FRSC, FCAE, Professor and Canada Research Chair at the University of Victoria speaking on "Modelling and Simulation of Transport Phenomena in Fuel Cell Electrodes". [Poster]

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Please join the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology on Monday, February 25, 2019 for a guest lecture by Dr. Niels Benson from theFaculty of Engineering, University of Duisburg-Essen, and CENIDE — Center for Nanointegration Duisburg-Essen, D-47048 Duisburg, Germany. He will be speaking on "Printable Silicon for a novel RFID system approach".

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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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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 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, 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".

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 and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering on Monday, July 15, 2019 for a guest lecture by Dr. Sven Achenbach from the University of Saskatchewan. He will be speaking on "High Aspect Ratio Polymer and Metal Patterning at the Synchrotron Laboratory for Micro and Nano Devices (SyLMAND), Canadian Light Source". [Poster]

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Please join the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology and the Department of Applied Mathematics on Thursday, July 29, 2019 for a guest lecture by George W. Hanson, PhD, Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He will be speaking on "Gyrotropic Graphene and Substrate Models, and Faraday Rotation with Nonreciprocal Quasi-Two-Dimensional Structures".[Poster]