Publications

Recent journal papers
37. G. Nagesh, D. S. -K. Ting and M. J. Ahamed, "Parallel Congruent Electrode sensor to detect and characterize droplets in a T-junction droplet generator," in IEEE Sensors Journal, 23, 20, 2023, https://doi: 10.1109/JSEN.2023.3310278. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10241329

36. Khan, I.; Ranji, A.R.; Nagesh, G.; Ting, D.S.-K.; Ahamed, M.J. Design and Demonstration of a Microelectromechanical System Single-Ring Resonator with Inner Ring-Shaped Spring Supports for Inertial Sensors. Sensors, 23, 9234, 2023 https://doi.org/10.3390/s23229234

35. Ahmad Rahbar Ranji et al, Analytical modeling of an inclined folded-beam spring used in micromechanical resonator devices, Eng. Res. Express, 5 035016, 2023

34. Ranji et al., Modelling and dynamic analysis of a MEMS ring resonator supported by circular curved shaped inner beams, Phys. Scr. 98 095227, 2023, DOI 10.1088/1402-4896/acecbf

33. P. S. Das et al., "A Wearable Multisensor Patch for Breathing Pattern Recognition," IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 23, no. 10, pp. 10924-10934, 15 May 15, 2023, doi: 10.1109/JSEN.2023.3264942. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10098758

32. Wang, A., Sahandabadi, S., Harrison, T. et al. Modelling of air damping effect on the performance of encapsulated MEMS resonators. Microsyst Technol 28, 2529–2539 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00542-022-05385-7

31. Yousefi, N.; Caba, C.; Hu, A.; Mooney, M.; Zhang, S.; Agostinis, ; A; Mirhassani, M .; Ahamed, M.J.; Tong, Y.; Rondeau-Gagné, S. (2022). Building a Versatile Platform for the Detection of Protein-Protein Interactions Based on Organic Field-Effect Transistors. ACS Applied Electronic Materials. 4(10): 4972-4981., 2022

30. Damodaran D, Mozaffari S, Alirezaee S, Ahamed MJ. Experimental Analysis of the Behavior of Mirror-like Objects in LiDAR-Based Robot Navigation. Applied Sciences. 2023; 13(5):2908. https://doi.org/10.3390/app13052908

29. Ranji, A.R.; Damodaran, V.; Li, K.; Chen, Z.; Alirezaee, S.; Ahamed, M.J. (2022). Recent Advances in MEMS based 3D Hemispherical Resonator Gyroscope (HRG) - A Sensor of Choice. Micromachines. 13(10): 1676, 2022

28 . P. Rajai and M. J. Ahamed, "Modeling of Nonlinear Dynamics and Temperature Stability of Doped Silicon Microresonators," in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, 68 (6), 2957-2964, 2021. doi: 10.1109/TED.2021.3074104.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9420332

27. H. Ahmed, P. Rajai, and M. J. Ahamed , "Temperature frequency stability study of extensional mode N-doped silicon MEMS resonator", AIP Advances 12, 015319 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0074694

26.Khan, I., Ting, D.S.K. & Ahamed, M.J. Design and development of a MEMS vibrating ring resonator with inner rose petal spring supports. Microsyst Technol 27, 985–995 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00542-020-05001-6

25.Wang, H., Vu, S., Pignanelli, J., Abdel, T., Trant, J. F., Mahshid, S., Rondeau-Gagné, S., Ahamed, M. J., Fabrication and Characterization of Autonomously Self-Healable and Stretchable Soft Microfluidics. Adv. Sustainable Syst. 2021, 2100074. https://doi.org/10.1002/adsu.202100074

24. Chen, Yihong, Arash Ahmadi, and Mohammed J. Ahamed. 2021. "Optimizing Non-Glare Zone Width of Adaptive Driving Beam (ADB) Using Fuzzy Logic Control" Applied Sciences 11, no. 19: 8840, 2021. https://doi.org/10.3390/app11198840

23. T. Zhao and M. J. Ahamed, "Pseudo-zero velocity re-detection double threshold zero-velocity update (ZUPT) for inertial sensor-based pedestrian navigation," in IEEE Sensors Journal, 21 (12), 13772-13785, 2021 doi: 10.1109/JSEN.2021.3070144.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9391710

22. Vu, Susanna; Nagesh, Gnanesh; Nastaran, Yousefi; Trant, John; Ting, David; Ahamed, Mohammed Jalal; Rondeau-Gagné, Simon. (2021). Fabrication of an Autonomously Self-Healing Flexible Thin-Film Capacitor by Slot-Die Coating. Materials Advances. 2(20): 6676-6683, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1039/D1MA00656H

21. Nagesh, G., Wang, H., Ting, D.SK. et al. Development of a rapid manufacturable microdroplet generator with pneumatic control. Microsyst Technol (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00542-020-05052-9

20. Nabeel Khan, Mohammed Jalal Ahamed, "Design and development of a MEMS butterfly resonator using synchronizing beam and out of plane actuation", Microsystem Technologies 26 (5), 1643–1652, 2020
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00542-019-04705-8

19. Julia Pignanelli, Z Qian, X Gu, Mohammed Jalal Ahamed, S Rondeau-Gagné, Modulating the thermomechanical properties and self-healing efficiency of siloxane-based soft polymers through metal–ligand coordination, New Journal of Chemistry 44 (21), 8977-8985, 2020
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2020/nj/d0nj01119c/unauth...

18. Anurag, Agarwal, Asif Salahuddin, Hualong Wang and Mohammed Jalal Ahamed, Design and development of an efficient fluid mixing for 3D printed lab-on-a-chip, Microsystem Technologies 26, 2465–2477, 2020
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00542-020-04787-9

17. Matthew Straeten, Mohammed Jalal Ahamed, "Intuitive Ultrasonic INS Augmentation for Pedestrian Path Tracking and Navigation," Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 111641, 2019
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0924424719313391

16. Payman Rajai, Hasnet Ahmed, Matthew Straeten, George Xereas, Mohammed Jalal Ahamed, Analytical modeling of n-type doped silicon elastic constants and frequency-compensation of Lamé mode microresonators, Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, Volume 297, pp. v, 2019.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0924424719308040

15. Nabeel Khan and Mohammed Jalal Ahamed," Design and development of a MEMS butterfly resonator using synchronizing beam and out of plane actuation, ", Microsystem Technologies, pp.1-10, 2019.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00542-019-04705-8

14. P. Rajai, M. Straeten, S. Alirezaee and M. J. Ahamed, "Binaural Sonar System for Simultaneous Sensing of Distance and Direction of Extended Barriers," in IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 19, no. 24, pp. 12040-12049, 15 Dec.15, 2019.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8822748

13. Matthew Straeten, Payman Rajai, Mohammed Jalal Ahamed, "Method and implementation of micro Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) in sensing basketball dynamics," Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, Volume 293, Pages 7-13, 2019.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0924424719300160

12. Payman Rajai, Matthew Straeten, Jiewen Liu, George Xereas and Mohammed Jalal Ahamed, "Modeling of temperature frequency-compensation of doped silicon MEMS resonator," 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Inertial Sensors and Systems (INERTIAL), March 26, Moltrasio, IT, pp. 1-2, 2018.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8358151

11. Mahshid, Sara; Lu, Jia; Abidi, Abrar; Sladek, Robert; Reisner, Walter; Ahamed, Mohammed Jalal, "Transverse Dielectrophoretic-based DNA Nanoscale Confinement", Scientific Reports (Nature publishing group), volume 8, 5981, 2018.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-24132-5

10. Julia Pignanelli, Kory Schlingman, Tricia Breen Carmichael, Simon Rondeau-Gagné, Mohammed Jalal Ahamed, "A comparative analysis of capacitive-based flexible PDMS pressure sensors", Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, Volume 285, Pages 427-436, 2019.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0924424718312123

9. Payman Rajai, Nabeel Khan and Mohammed Jalal Ahamed, "Modeling of Nonlinear Oscillations of Doped Lamé-mode MEMS Silicon Resonator," 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Inertial Sensors and Systems (INERTIAL), Naples, FL, USA, 2019, pp. 1-3.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8739289

8. Payman Rajai and Mohammed Jalal Ahamed, "Optimization of Interaural Intensity Difference based Binaural Sonar Sensing System for Object Detection", CSME 2018 International Congress, Toronto, Ontario, May 27-28, 2018.

7. Md Kaes, D.S-K Ting and Mohammed Jalal Ahamed, "Modeling of Structural and Environmental Effects on Microelectromechanical (MEMS) Vibratory Gyroscopes", CSME 2018 International Congress, Toronto, Ontario, May 27-28, 2018.

6. Joshua Jaekel and Mohammed Jalal Ahamed, "An inertial navigation system with acoustic obstacle detection for pedestrian applications," 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Inertial Sensors and Systems (INERTIAL), Kauai, HI, 2017, pp. 109-112.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7935662

5. Austin Liolli and Mohammed Jalal Ahamed, "Design of a Hybrid Active and Passive Efficient Micromixer for 3D Printed Microfluidics",Proceedings of the ASME 2016 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition IMECE2016, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, pp. 1-8, November 11-17, 2016.
https://asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/IMECE/proceedings-abstract/IMECE2...

4. Jiewen Liu, Joshua Jaekel, Dharamdeo Ramdani, Nabeel Khan, David S-K. Ting, and Mohammed Jalal Ahamed, "Effect of Geometric and Material Properties on Thermoelastic Damping (TED) of Hemispherical Inertial Resonator", ASME IMECE-2016 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, IMECE2016-66277, pp. V010T13A019; 6 pages, November 11-17, 2016.
https://asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/IMECE/proceedings-abstract/IMECE2...

3. Balaadithya Uppalapati, Mohammed Jalal Ahamed, Vamsy P. Chodavarapu, "Design and analysis of wafer-level vacuum-encapsulated disk resonator gyroscope using a commercial MEMS process," 2017 IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference (NAECON), Dayton, OH, pp. 108-112, 2017.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8268754

2. Pignanelli, Julia; Billet, Blandine; Straeten, Matthew; Prado, Michaela; Schlingman, Kory; Ahamed, Mohammed Jalal; Rondeau-Gagné, Simon, Imine and metal–ligand dynamic bonds in soft polymers for autonomous self-healing capacitive-based pressure sensors, Soft Matter, 2019
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2019/sm/c9sm01254k/unauth...

1. Imran Khan, David S. Ting, Mohammed Jalal Ahamed, Design and development of a MEMS vibrating ring resonator with inner rose petal spring supports
Microsystem Technologies, 1-11, 2020

Prior to UWindsor publications
Journal

1. Mohammed Jalal Ahamed, Sara Mahshid, Danillel Berard, François Michaud, Rob Sladek, Walter Reisner and Sabrina Leslie “Continuous confinement fluidics: getting lots of molecules into small spaces with high fidelity”, Macromolecules, Volume 49, Issue 7, pp. 2853–2859, 2016
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.macromol.5b02617

2. Mohammed Jalal Ahamed, Doruk Senkal, Alexander A. Trusov, Andrei M. Shkel, “Study of High Aspect Ratio NLD Plasma Etching and Post Processing of Fused Silica and Borosilicate Glass”, IEEE/ASME Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, vol. 24, issue 4, pp. 790-800, 2015. doi: 10.1109/JMEMS.2015.2442596., 2015.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7132691

3. Sara Mahshid, Mohammed Jalal Ahamed, Danillel Berard, Susan Amin, Rob Sladek, Sabrina Leslie, Walter Reisner, “Development of a Platform for Single Cell Genomics Using Convex Lens-Induced Confinement”, Lab-chip journal, Volume 15, Issue 14, pp. 3013-3020, 2015.
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2015/lc/c5lc00492f/unauth...

4. Doruk Senkal, Mohammed Jalal Ahamed, M.H.A. Ardakani, S. Askari, and Andrei M. Shkel, “Demonstration of 1-million Q-factor on Microglassblown Wineglass Resonators With Out-of-Plane Electrostatic Transduction”, IEEE/ASME Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems., Volume 24, Issue 1, pp.29,37, 2015.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/6955708

5. D. Berard, F. Michaud, S. Mahshid, Mohammed Jalal Ahamed, M.J. McFaul, P. Burebe, R. Sladek, W. Reisner, S. R. Leslie, "Convex Lens-Induced Nanoscale Templating", Volume 111, No. 37, pp. 13295-13300, PNAS (Proceedings of National Academy of Science), 2014.
https://www.pnas.org/content/111/37/13295.short

6. Mohammed Jalal Ahamed, Ridha Ben-Mrad and Pierre Sullivan, "Electrowetting on Dielectric (EWOD) based Thermo-responsive Microvalve for Interfacing Droplet Flow with Continuous Flow", IEEE/ASME Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, Volume 22, Issue 3, pp. 536, June 2013.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/6392187

7. Doruk Senkal, Mohammed Jalal Ahamed, Alexander A. Trusov, and Andrei M. Shkel, “Electrostatic and Mechanical Characterization of 3-D Micro-wineglass Resonators,” Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, vol. 215, pp.150-154, 2014.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S092442471400065X

8. Mohammed Jalal Ahamed, Ridha Ben-Mrad and Pierre Sullivan, "A Drop-on-Demand based Electrostatically Actuated Microdispenser", IEEE/ASME Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, Volume 22, Issue 1, pp. 177-185, 2013.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/6336769

9. Mohammed Jalal Ahamed, Sergey I. Gubarenko, Ridha Ben-Mrad, and Pierre Sullivan, "A Piezo-Actuated Droplet Dispensing Microfluidic Chip", IEEE/ASME Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, Volume 19, Issue 1, pp. 110-119, Feb 2010.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/5353687

10. Michael Schertzer, Mohammed Jalal Ahamed, Ridha Ben-Mrad, Peter Lea and Pierre Sullivan, "Characterizing the Surface Quality and Droplet Interface Shape for Microarray Plates", Langmuir: the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids, Volume 28 (26), 2012.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/la302091t

11. Doruk Senkal, Mohammed Jalal Ahamed, Alexander A. Trusov, and Andrei M. Shkel, “Achieving Sub-Hz Frequency Symmetry in Micro-glassblown Wineglass Resonators”, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 30-38, IEEE/ASME Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, 2013.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/6651691

12. Doruk Senkal, Mohammed Jalal Ahamed, Alexander A. Trusov, and Andrei M. Shkel, “High temperature micro-glassblowing process demonstrated on fused quartz and ULE TSG,” Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, vol. 201, pp. 525-531, October 2013
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0924424712007212

13. P. Rajai, M. Straeten, S. Alirezaee and M. J. Ahamed, "Binaural Sonar System for Simultaneous Sensing of Distance and Direction of Extended Barriers," in IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 19, no. 24, pp. 12040-12049, 15 Dec.15, 2019
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8822748

Conference Publications

1. Mohammed Jalal Ahamed, Doruk Senkal, and Andrei M. Shkel, “Improvement of Side-wall Roughness in Deep Glass Etched MEMS Vibratory Sensors”, in proceedings of IEEE Inertial 2014, pp. 127-128, Laguna Beach, CA, USA, February 25-26, 2014.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6782531

2. Mohammed Jalal Ahamed, Doruk Senkal, Alexander A. Trusov, and Andrei M. Shkel, “Deep NLD Plasma Etching of Fused Silica and Borosilicate Glass”, Proceedings of IEEE Sensors 2013, Baltimore, MD, USA, pp. 1767-1770, 03-06 Nov 2013.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6688574

3. Doruk Senkal, Mohammed Jalal Ahamed, S. Askari and A.M. Shkel, “1-million Q-factor Demonstrated on Micro-glassblown Fused Silica Resonators with Out of Plane Transduction”, in print, Hilton Head 2014 Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems, Hilton Head, South Carolina, USA, June 8-12, 2014.

4. Doruk Senkal, Mohammed Jalal Ahamed, and Andrei M. Shkel, “Design and Modelling of Micro-glassblown Inverted-wineglass Structures”, IEEE Inertial14, Laguna Beach, CA, USA, 25-26 February 2014.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/6782501

5. Mohammed Jalal Ahamed, Doruk Senkal, and Andrei M. Shkel, “Effect of Annealing on Mechanical Quality Factor of Fused Quartz Hemispherical Resonator”, Proceedings of IEEE Inertial 14, pp. 59-62, Laguna Beach, CA, USA, 25-26, February 2014.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/6782512

6. D. Senkal, S. Askari, M. J. Ahamed, E.J. Ng, V. Hong, Y. Yang, C.H. Ahn, T.W. Kenny, and A.M. Shkel, “100K Q-factor Toroidal Ring Gyroscope Implemented in Wafer-level Epitaxial Silicon Encapsulation Process”, IEEE MEMS 2014, San Francisco, CA, USA, 26-30 January 2014.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/6765564

7. Doruk Senkal, Mohammed Jalal Ahamed, Sina Askari, and Andrei M. Shkel, “Microglassblown Fused Silica Wineglass Resonators with Q-factors above 1-million and Out-of-plane Electrodes”, Eurosensors 2014, Brescia, Italy, 7-10 September, 2014

8. Doruk Senkal, Mohammed Jalal Ahamed, Alexander A. Trusov, Andrei M. Shkel, "Adaptable Test-Bed for Characterization of Micro-wineglass Resonators,” Proceedings of IEEE MEMS 2013, pp.469-472, Taipei, Taiwan 20 - 24 January 2013.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/6474280

9. Doruk Senkal, Mohammed Jalal Ahamed, Alexander A. Trusov, Andrei M. Shkel, "Demonstration of Sub-Hz Frequency Symmetry in Micro-glassblown Wineglass Resonators with Integrated Electrodes,” Proceedings of Transducers 2013, pp. 1380-1383, Barcelona, Spain, June 2013.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/6627035

10. Mohammed Jalal Ahamed, Ridha Ben-Mrad, and Pierre Sullivan, “Electrowetting on Dielectric Based Droplet Transport Inside a Closed-channel”, Proceedings of the ASME IMECE-2010 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (in CD), British Colombia, Canada, November 12-18, 2010.

11. Mohammed Jalal Ahamed, Ridha Ben-Mrad, and Pierre Sullivan, “A Piezo Actuated Dispensing Microfluidic Chip for Producing DNA-Microarrays”, Ontario Lab on a Chip 2007, Toronto, Canada, 2007.

12. D Berard, F Michaud, S Mahshid, J Mohammed Ahamed, Rob Sladek, Walter Reisner, and Sabrina Leslie, "How to get into that room at the bottom of DNA analysis", APS March Meeting 2015, Volume 60, Number 1, March 2–6, San Antonio, Texas, 2015

Patents/disclosures

1. Andrei M. Shkel, Doruk Senkal and Mohammed Jalal Ahamed, "METHOD OF FABRICATING MICRO-GLASSBLOWN GYROSCOPES", US 2017/0016742 A1, Jan 19, 2017.
2. Mohammed Jalal Ahamed and Joshua Jaekel, "A METHOD FOR STANDALONE PERSONALIZED NAVIGATION WITH REALTIME BARRIER DETECTION", US patent pending, 62455918, Feb 2017.
3. Sara Mahshid, Mohammed Jalal Ahamed, Rob Sladek and Walter Reisner, METHODS AND SYSTEMS RELATING TO DIELECTROPHORETIC MANIPULATION OF MOLECULES, US10307769B2, Jun 4, 2019