Dr. Rubaiyet Iftekharul Haque

RESEARCH PROJECT INVOLVEMENTS

Date: 2.2020 - 3.2022

Project: μCoilImpant: Additive Manufacturing for Implantable 3D Micro-Coil Array for Cortical Activation

Funded by: EuroTechPostdoc program, partially funded by the European Commission Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions under Horizon 2020

Main Responsibilities: Development of ice lithography setup with new gas injection system and cryogenic stage. Design and development of 3D micro-coil neural prosthetic using nanoscale 3D printing technique, namely, ice lithography. Characterization of the neural prosthetic.

Date: 1.2019 - 12.2019

Project: D-SENSE - Digital Manufacturing of 3D Printed Wearable Sensors.

Funded by: Strategic Focus Area (SFA) Advanced Manufacturing program.

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Main Responsibilities: Synthesis, study and optimization of carbonblack-silicone composites for their piezoresistive properties. Design and development of smart shoe insole with piezoresistive sensors for gait analysis along with the development of readout electronics.

Date: 8.2018 - 1.2019

Project: WeCare - Cognitive-multisensing wearable sweat biomonitoring technology for real-time personalized diagnosis and preventive health care.

Funded by: Swiss National Science Foundation (FNSNF).

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Main Responsibilities: Design and development of wearable sweat sensors. Use of paper fluidics and flexible microfluidic. Developing fabrication methods for flexible sensor prototypes.

Date: 2.2018 - 10.2018

Project: Feasibility study of a use of capacitive sensor to detect the position and gap of foil overlapping

Funded by: Industrial projects.

Main Responsibilities: Design and optimization of the capacitive sensor suitbale for detecting foil position and foil edges gap or overlapping. Development of the sensor using inkjet printing technique.

Date: 3.2018 - 6.2018

Project: Wind energy harvesting using triboelectric effect

Funded by: Industrial projects.

Main Responsibilities: Design and development of triboelectric device to harvest wind flow energy in the pipes. Development of wind flow setup and characterization of generator.

Date: 2016 - 2017

Project: "Body Powered SenSE"

Funded by: Swiss National Science Foundation (FNSNF).

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Main Responsibilities: Design and development of triboelectric device to harness mechanical/kinetic energy from human body motions. Development of mechanical and electrical characterization setups to study the triboelectric properties.

Date: 2012 - 2015

Project: SPINNAKER: Item-level sensing, anywhere anytime

Funded by: OSEO, France.

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Main Responsibilities: Designing of capacitive acoustic resonant sensors. Developing the fabrication process flow employing printed electronics method.

Date: 2010 - 2011

Project: Project PTDC/CTM/104186/2008: "Ferroelectric - carbon nanotube (CNT) composites towards the fabrication of advanced functional devices"

Funded by: FCT, Portugal.

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Main Responsibilities: Synthesis of advanced functional nanostructure of 1D nano lead free ferroelectric (FE) and multiferroic composites with CNTs. Exploitation of low cost hydrothermal / chemical methods to grow FE on CNTs.

Date: 3.2009 - 8.2009

Project: Low-cost cold extrusion system for single-phase channel waveguides based on sol-gel process 

Funded by: Internship project

Main Responsibilities: Development of cold extrusion system. And test of deposition of single-phase channel waveguides based on sol-gel process.