• First research group in Canada to build a device for generation of X-rays using carbon nanotube
  cold cathodes, with the ultimate aim of making a portable handheld X-ray device for medical and
  industrial applications.
• Sinha, N., Field emission from carbon nanotube thin films. Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and
  Nanotechnology. Ed. H.S. Nalwa, American Scientific Publishers. vol. 14, pp. 149-159, 2011.
• Roy Mahapatra, D., Sinha, N. and Melnik, R.V.N., Degradation and failure of field emitting carbon
  nanotube arrays, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, vol. 11, no. 5, pp. 3911-3915, 2011.
• Park, S., Sinha, N. and Hamad-Schifferli, K., Effective size and zeta-potential of nanorods by
  Ferguson analysis, Langmuir, vol. 26, no. 16, pp. 13071-13075, 2010.
• Sinha, N., Roy Mahapatra, D., Sun, Y., Yeow, J.T.W., Melnik, R.V.N. and Jaffray, D.A., Electromechanical
  interactions in carbon nanotube based thin film field emitting diode, Nanotechnology,
  vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 25701 (1-12), 2008.

• NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship 2008 – 2010 (NSERC stands for Natural Sciences and Engineering
  Research Council of Canada)
• Nominated for NSERC Doctoral Prize by Faculty of Engineering, University of Waterloo, 2008
  (Only one thesis is nominated each year by the faculty for the award)
• NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship- Doctoral 2006-2008 (Awarded to
  top PhD candidates nationally)
• University of Waterloo President’s Graduate Scholarship 2006 – 2008 University of Waterloo Graduate
  Scholarship (Awarded 9 times during Ph.D.)

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