Enhanced Filterbanks for THz On-Chip Spectrometers

Terahertz astronomy has been exceptionally unexplored until the last decades due to a technological gap, but exactly at these wavelengths the most distant galaxies appear very bright. Efficient instruments that are capable of spectrometry are essential in understanding the physics of these distant objects. Within the framework of this thesis, an...

A Computational Model of Nanoparticle Growth: from Spark Ablation

<br/>Though the commercialisation of nanotechnology began only 30 years ago, it has developed into one of the fastest growing industries in terms of research and design, with an unlimited amount of possibilities that will transform industries from how we know them today. The advancement of nanotechnology relies on the actual production, control...

Gender differences in the evaluation of a risky technology

Research has been done on the gender differences in the evaluation of nanotechnology by Dutch TU Delft students. The research was executed using a questionnaire which was designed to examine if there are gender differences in the judgement of nanotechnology and if so, which variables play a significant role in this causal relations. Based on the...

Exploring the nanotechnology landscape for competitive advantage: A Subject-Action-Object based text mining methodology for finding, selecting and evaluating nanotechnologies for innovation problem solving

Historically, nanotechnology faces the same challenges that every new, emerging and science-based industry faces. The transfer of viable knowledge from science to market needs to be bridged better. To enhance this transfer, a methodology is designed which integrates engineering design and subject-action-object (SAO) based text mining to find,...

A Clean and Flexible Catalyst Synthesis Method: Metal nanoparticles on a fractal-like nanostructured metal oxide support

A highly porous fractal-like nanostructured metal oxide catalyst support with characteristic dimensions of a few nanometers is formed by producing metal nanoparticles in the gas phase, oxidizing them and depositing/sintering them on a nanofiber network. By admixing nanoparticles in the aerosol phase, these can evenly be distributed in the...

Molecular Dynamics Simulation on Mechanical behavior of Si Nano Cantilever under Ar Bombarding

In nano world, it is cheap and repeatable to make 2-dimensional structures, such as nanoholes and thin nanofilms. However, it is expensive to build 3-dimensional structure in a repeatable manner. Ion bombard- ment is a technique which is widely applied in engineering areas, such as thin film deposition, etching, and analysis. In this thesis work...

Functional mapping of nanoscience to industrial engineering products and capabilities

At some point in time all incumbent firms have to decide how to deal with radically new technologies. Due to the high uncertainty of return from such technologies companies might refrain from investing in such technologies early on. The threat of missing out on opportunities forces firms to make poorly based decisions. Within this thesis an...

Barriers to commercialize nanotechnology product innovation and the strategies to overcome the barriers

Nanotechnology has drawn a substantial amount of attention from policy makers and companies all across the globe. This research-intensive field is relatively in its early stages of commercialization. A plethora of large corporations and small-medium enterprises (SMEs) exists in different industries which harness nanotechnology to develop...