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Contact

Email: rcnorris@uwaterloo.ca

Phone: +1-519-888-4567 ext. 33661

Education

• PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ, Ontario, Canada, 2011
• MASc, Electrical Engineering, University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ, Ontario, Canada, 2006
• BASc, Electrical Engineering, University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ, Ontario, Canada, 2004

Research interests

• Fiber optic sensors for materials characterization
• Integrated devices, circuits and systems for communication and sensing (phononic crystals, electrostatic transduction, acoustic wave localization, phase-locked loops) in ​micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) and CMOS
• Numerical modeling and instrumentation automation and control for fundamental science

Publications

Refereed journal publications

• Norris R., Hamel J. and Nadeau P., "Phononic band gap crystals with periodic fractal inclusions: theoretical study using numerical analysis", Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 103, No. 10, May 2008.

Full papers in refereed conference proceedings

MEMS = Micro-electromechanical systems 

MOEMS = Micro-(opto)-electromechanical systems 

SPIE = The Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers

IEEE = The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

• P. Nieva, J. Godin, R. Norris, A. Sohi, T. Leung, "Effects of dry plasma releasing process parameters and induced in-plane stress on MEMS devices yield", SPIE Photonics West 2012 MEMS-MOEMS, January 2012.
• Norris R., Hamel J., and Nieva P.M., "Silicon integrated phononic bandgap crystal platform for sensors and signal processing elements: theory and experiment", Proceedings of the 24 IEEE International Conference on Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems, Cancun, Mexico, January 2011.
• Norris R., Nieva P.M., and Hamel J., "Analytical analysis of a discrete MEMS diatomic mass-spring phononic band gap crystal for vibration stabilization applications", Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE International Conference on Sensors, IEEE Sensors 2008, Lecce, Italy, October 2008.
• Norris R., Hamel J., and Nieva P.M., "Modeling of MEMS high-order mode inter-digital waveform synthesizer for flexural plate array sensors", Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE International Conference on Sensors, IEEE Sensors 2008, Lecce, Italy, October 2008.
• Norris R., Hamel J., Miron M. and Nadeau P., "Radio frequency acoustic band gap micro-electrical-mechanical filter design and simulation", 13th Canadian Semiconductor Technology Conference, Montreal, Canada, August 2007.
• Hamel J., and Norris R., "Acoustic Band Gap Filters: The next generation of micro-electro-mechanical filters for on-chip silicon radio frequency applications", 20th Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Vancouver, Canada, April 2007.

Poster presentations (abstract refereed), application notes and others

• Norris R., Rochman J., Mahdi M., Nieva P., Khajepour A., "Multi-band spectroscopy of nanoparticle electrode empowered lithium-ion batteries", NanoOntario, À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ, Ontario, October 11-12, 2012.
• Nieva P.M., Bassiachvili E., Hassanpour P.A., Shavezipur M., Denomme R., Asiaei S., Norris R., Effa D., Hanitijo D., "SimsLab at University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ", International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exposition, Lake Buena Vista, Florida, USA, November 13-19, 2009.

Patents

• United States Patent 7,288,887: Devices with multiple organic-metal mixed layers, October 30, 2007