Amr Balbola

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Alberta

Amr Balbola earned his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Cairo University, Egypt, in 2008 and 2013, respectively, and obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Alberta in 2020. Currently, he is a part-time research associate at the University of Alberta. His research interests include microfabrication, strain engineering, and smart materials/structures.

Research Interests

• MEMS/NEMS
• Sensors/Actuators
• Smart material/structure

Publications

• AA Balbola, MO Kayed, E Lou, WA Moussa, Testing of a Strained Silicon Based 3-D Stress Sensor for Out-of-Plane Stress Measurements, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics 26 (2), 2021.
• AA Balbola, MO Kayed, E Lou, WA Moussa, Development of a self-monitored 3D stress sensor for adhesive degradation detection in multilayer assemblies, IEEE Sensors 20 (24), 2020.
• AA Balbola, MO Kayed, E Lou, WA Moussa, A New Approach for Developing a 3-D Stress Sensing Rosette Featuring Strain Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices 67 (2), 2019.
• AA Balbola, MO Kayed, WA Moussa, Experimental characterization of the influence of transverse pre-strain on the piezoresistive coefficients of heavily doped n-type silicon, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices 65 (11), 2018.
• AA Balbola, MO Kayed, WA Moussa, On the feasibility of a new technique for applying and sensing a pre-strain state for strain engineering, IEEE Sensors Journal 18 (1), 2017.
• AA Balbola, MO Kayed, WA Moussa, Studying the Influence of n-Type Strained (111) Silicon on the Piezoresistive Coefficients, IEEE sensors 17 (2), 2016.