Conveners
R2-6 General Instrumentation II (DIMP) / Physique générale des instruments II (DPIM)
- Kirk Michaelian (Natural Resources Canada)
Al-Amin Dhirani
(University of Toronto)
16/06/2016, 13:15
Instrumentation and Measurement Physics / Physique des instruments et mesures (DIMP-DPIM)
Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)
We have microfabricated and evaluated the performance of nanogap conductivity/dielectric constant sensors with a novel architecture. The “apertured impedance microchips” (AIM) feature aluminum metal/silicon-oxide/silicon layers, where the top metal layer has apertures and the middle oxide layer has wells. This layered yet open geometry enables molecules to have access to detection electric...
Dr
Luc Beaulieu
(Physics Dept, Memorial University)
16/06/2016, 13:30
Instrumentation and Measurement Physics / Physique des instruments et mesures (DIMP-DPIM)
Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)
A new 16 microcantilever sensor system for performing sensing experiments in liquid or gas will be presented. The system uses two 8-microcantilever arrays held in a sensor cell. The microcantilever deflections are monitored by oscillating two focused optical beams over the microcantilevers such that only one microcantilever is illuminated at one time and each microcantilever is illuminated...
Louis Poirier
(National Research Council Canada)
16/06/2016, 13:45
Instrumentation and Measurement Physics / Physique des instruments et mesures (DIMP-DPIM)
Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)
Since 1997 the National Research Council Canada has been monitoring ice loads on the Confederation Bridge. It has proven a valuable research platform to examine full scale ice loading events on a sloped structure. Ice loading results from the bridge are still used today in order to validate numerical models which are used to optimize the designs of offshore platforms which could be subjected...
Martin Connors
(Athabasca University)
16/06/2016, 14:00
Instrumentation and Measurement Physics / Physique des instruments et mesures (DIMP-DPIM)
Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)
More than a decade ago, high function microcontrollers like the Microchip PIC allowed a large step to be made in data acquisition, as compared to fabrication of systems from discrete parts. They had a high level of integrated peripherals relevant to the task, good development environments, and relatively easy programming, including high level languages on the most advanced members of the...
