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This thesis activities, consists of three main parts. The first part is, manufacturing and optimization of the electrical part of blood glucose measurement devices, based on electrochemical sensors. In this part, design of blood glucose measurement systems based on two and three electrode electrochemical sensors are proceeded and the accuracy of the electrical block, is increased up to 1mg/dl according to sensor current range. The second part, is related to the design of different probes for blood electrical characteristics (impedance magnitude) measurements, at low frequencies. Measurements with these probes show, first the blood impedance magnitude range at low frequencies and moreover,... 

With the increasing development of the semiconductor industry, the density integration of integrated circuits with affordable expenses has gained a special place between different researches. Nanolithography as a way to decrease the size of patterns has a significant contribution in integration of circuits. Scanning Probe Nanolithography (SPNL) is one of the most important nanolithography methods due to its ability to create patterns with an extremely high resolution and direct patterning. Scanning Near-field Optical Lithography (SNOL) has the advantages of the usage of optic such as non-direct effect on sample and the advantages of scanning systems such as high resolution. In first part of... 

Gene expression microarrays include thousands of probes spotted on their surface to measure the expression level of a set of genes. Identifying the amount of a transcript level by hybridization, each probe is complementary to a fragment of a specific gene transcripts. Although probes are designed to avoid crosshybridization to non-specific transcripts, occurrences of cross-hybridizations is inevitable due to massive probes that are spotted on microarrays. The main question is whether these non-specific cross-hybridization have significant effect on the downstream analysis of gene expression microarray datasets. This thesis aims at answering to this question by considering datasets from... 

The precise measurement of fluid flow in different fields of the industry is vitally important. In addition, due to enormous hydrocarbon reservoirs, Iran is the biggest owner of gas reservoirs in the world and exact measurement of fluids is of considerable importance to consumption or export. Ultrasonic flowmeters that are the most useful ones of them consist of three elements made of piezoelectric, impedance matching layer and backing material. In this study, on the contrary to former backing materials which usually use of titanium, tungsten, and aluminum oxide as a composite Filler, for the first time, tungsten oxide is used. In order to do this, composite samples were built of tungsten...