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Phonon-Protected Superconducting Qubits

Mutasem Odeh; Alp Sipahigil
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2023

Continuous and Cuffless Blood Pressure Monitoring by Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers

Yande Peng; Liwei Lin
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2023

Pulsed Electroluminescent Devices for Emission Across Energy and Length Scales

Vivian Wang; Ali Javey
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2023

Hydrogel Actuated Carbon Fiber Microelectrode Array

Oliver Chen; Michel M. Maharbiz; Kristofer S. J. Pister
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2023

Single-Mode Waveguide Coupling of Optical Antenna-LED for Optical Interconnects

Nicolas M. Andrade; Ming C. Wu
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2023

High-Performance FMCW LiDAR with MEMS Optical Beam Scanner

Xiaosheng Zhang; Ming C. Wu
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2023

An Implantable Radiation Detector for Cancer Radiotherapy

Kyoungtae Lee; Michel Maharbiz
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2023

Understanding Radiative Recombination in Two Dimensional Semiconductors

Shiekh Zia Uddin; Ali Javey
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2023

Optical Voltage Sensing: Micro- to Kilo-Scale

Jordan Edmunds; Michel M. Maharbiz
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2023

PCB-Less Integration of a Robust Wireless MEMS Tactile Package

Dillon Acker-James; Kristofer S.J. Pister
Master's Thesis, 2023

Influence of Capacitive Transducer Nonlinearities on the Amplitude Limiting of MEMS Based Oscillators

Sherwin A. Afshar; Clark T.-C. Nguyen
Master's Thesis, 2022

An Optics-Free Ultra-Thin Time-Resolved Intraoperative Imager Using Upconverting Nanoparticles

Hossein Najafi
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2022

Single-Chip Micro Mote in EEG, fMRI, and TMS Systems

Joshua Alexander; Kristofer S.J. Pister
Master's Thesis, 2022

Suppression of Oscillator Bias Voltage Phase Noise via MEMS Resonator Arraying

Jeffrey Ni; Clark T.-C. Nguyen
Master's Thesis, 2022

Synergy of Prediction and Control in Model-based Reinforcement Learning

Nathan Lambert
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2022

Drug Monitoring with Wearable Sweat Sensors

Li-Chia Tai
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2022

Two-Dimensional Semiconductors for Next-Generation Optoelectronics

Hyungjin Kim; Ali Javey
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2022

Small Autonomous Robot Actuator (SARA): A Solar-powered Wireless MEMS Gripper

Alex Moreno; Kristofer S.J. Pister
Master's Thesis, 2021

Redesigning Power Systems on a Single Chip Micro Mote with Berkeley Analog Generator Low Dropout Series Regulator Generation

Jackson Paddock; Kristofer S.J. Pister
Master's Thesis, 2021

Adversarial Swarm Defense with Decentralized Swarms

Jason Zhou; Kristofer S.J. Pister
Master's Thesis, 2021

Analyzing the Prediction Accuracy of Trajectory-Based Models with High-Dimensional Control Policies for Long-term Planning in MBRL

Howard Zhang; Kristofer S.J. Pister
Master's Thesis, 2021

Bimorph Pinned Dual-Electrode Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers (PMUTs) for Sensing and Actuation

Zhichun Shao
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2021

Two-Dimensional Semiconductor Optoelectronics

Matin Amani
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2021

Actuation and Localization of Resource-Constrained Autonomous Microrobotic Systems

Brian Kilberg
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2021

Laser Chirp Linearization and Phase Noise Compensation for Frequency-modulated Continuous-wave LiDAR

Xiaosheng Zhang
Master's Thesis, 2021

Design, Fabrication, and Assembly of Multi-chip Walking Silicon Microrobots

Hani Gomez
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2020

Co-planar Optoelectrowetting (OEW) Device for Droplet Manipulation

Jodi Loo
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2020

Low-Loss and Nonlinear Silicon-Based Integrated Photonic Circuits

Jean-Etienne Tremblay
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2020

Pinned Boundary Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers (PMUT)

Yue Liang
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2020

Monolithic Wireless Transceiver Design

Filip Maksimovic; Kristofer S.J. Pister; Ali M. Niknejad; Stephen D. Glaser
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2020

Electromagnetic Energy Harvester for Sensors on Overhead Power Distribution Lines

Zhiwei Wu; Liwei Lin; Richard M. White; Dennis Lieu
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2020

Charge Pumping with Human Capacitance for Body Energy Harvesting

Alyssa Y. Zhou; Michel M. Maharbiz
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2020

Jumping Silicon Microrobots With Electrostatic Inchworm Motors and Energy Storing Substrate Springs

Craig Schindler
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2020

Monolithic Wireless Transceiver Design

Filip Maksimovic; Kristofer S.J. Pister
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2020

High-Q Strong Coupling Capacitive-Gap Transduced RF Micromechanical Resonators

Alper Ozgurluk; Clark T.-C. Nguyen
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2020

Stability, Sensitivity, and Selectivity of Graphene FET-based Gas Sensors

Takeshi Hayasaka; Liwei Lin; Dorian Liepmann; Ana Claudia Arias
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2019

All-Mechanical Receivers

Ruonan Liu
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2019

Expanding the Scalability and Applications of III-V Optoelectronic Devices by Evolution of Thin-Film Vapor-Liquid-Solid Growth

Mark Hettick
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2019

Reconfigurable Micromechanical Filters

Jalal Naghsh Nilchi
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2019

High Performance FM Gyroscopes

Burak Eminoglu
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2019

Fast Detection of Low-Abundance Proteins Based on Ion Concentration Polarization

Bochao Lu
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2019

Reticular Metalation in Metal-Organic Frameworks for Nanocasting and Interface Construction

Xiang Gao; Roya Maboudian
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2019

MEMS-Actuated Carbon Fibers

Rachel Zoll; Kristofer S.J. Pister
Master's Thesis, 2019

Crystal-Free Wireless Communication with Relaxation Oscillators and its Applications

David C. Burnett; Kristofer S.J. Pister; Ali M. Niknejad; Lance J. Kriegsfeld
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2019

Low Power, Crystal-Free Design for Monolithic Receivers

Brad Wheeler; Kristofer S.J. Pister; Ali M. Niknejad; Steven D. Glaser
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2019

Monolayer Transition Metal Dichalcogenide NanoLEDs: Towards High Speed and High Efficiency

Kevin Han; Ming C. Wu; Ali Javey; Feng Wang
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2019

Chip-Scale Fluorescence Microscope

Efthymios Papageorgiou; Bernhard E. Boser; Mekhail Anwar; Gerard Marriott
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2019

Monolayer Transition Metal Dichalcogenide NanoLEDs: Towards High Speed and High Efficiency

Kevin Han
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2019

Crystal-Free Wireless Communication with Relaxation Oscillators and its Applications

David Burnett
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2019

The Ionocraft: Flying Microrobots With No Moving Parts

Daniel Drew; Kristofer S.J. Pister
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2018