Portable and integrated microfluidic flow control system using off-the-shelf components towards organs-on-chip applications

Organ-on-a-chip (OoC) devices require the precise control of various media. This is mostly done using several fluid control components, which are much larger than the typical OoC device and connected through fluidic tubing, i.e., the fluidic system is not integrated, which inhibits the system’s portability. Here, we explore the limits of...

Chemical vapor deposition of graphene: A route to device integration

In this thesis, I have shown that the quality of synthetic graphene can be as high as mechanically exfoliated graphene if we can get rid of the wrinkles. Any defects, impurities and grain boundaries will induce scattering, preventing ballistic transport. The experiment described in chapter 4 was the first to demonstrate ballistic transport in...

Graphene Synthesis

Graphene based piezoresistive pressure sensor

We present a pressure sensor based on the piezoresistive effect of graphene. The sensor is a 100?nm thick, 280??m wide square silicon nitride membrane with graphene meander patterns located on the maximum strain area. The multilayer, polycrystalline graphene was obtained by chemical vapor deposition. Strain in graphene was generated by applying...