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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

Two-Dimensional Semiconductors for Next-Generation Optoelectronics

Hyungjin Kim
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2022

Drug Monitoring with Wearable Sweat Sensors

Li-Chia Tai
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2022

Adversarial Swarm Defense with Decentralized Swarms

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

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

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

Actuation and Localization of Resource-Constrained Autonomous Microrobotic Systems

Brian Kilberg
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2021

Two-Dimensional Semiconductor Optoelectronics

Matin Amani
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

Reconfigurable Micromechanical Filters

Jalal Naghsh Nilchi
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2019

High Performance FM Gyroscopes

Burak Eminoglu
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

All-Mechanical Receivers

Ruonan Liu
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

Chip-Scale Fluorescence Microscope

Efthymios Philip Papageorgiou; Bernhard Boser; Mekhail Anwar; Gerard Marriott
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

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

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

Kevin Han
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2019

Chip-Scale Fluorescence Microscope

Efthymios Papageorgiou
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

Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers for Ultrasonic Fingerprint Sensors

Joy (Xiaoyue) Jiang; David A. Horsley; Liwei Lin; Bernhard E. Boser; George C. Johnson
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2018

Ring-shaped and Dual-electrode Bimorph Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers

Benjamin Eovino; Liwei Lin; Tsu-Jae King Liu; George C. Johnson
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2018

Parametric Oscillation with Wineglass Disk Resonators

Thanh-Phong Nguyen; Clark T.-C. Nguyen; Bernhard E. Boser
Master's Thesis, 2018

Non-Linear Stiffness Extraction and Modeling of Wineglass Disk Resonators

Alain Anton; Clark T.-C. Nguyen
Master's Thesis, 2018

Walking Silicon: Actuators and Legs for Small-Scale Terrestrial Robots

Daniel Contreras; Kristofer S.J. Pister; Michel M. Maharbiz; Liwei Lin
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2018

Electronic Interfaces for Bacteria-Based Biosensing

Tom Zajdel; Michel M. Maharbiz
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2018

Mechanical Energy Storage for Self-Destructing Motes and Jumping Microrobots

Joseph Greenspun; Kristofer S.J. Pister; Vivek Subramanian; Liwei Lin
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2018

Impedance Spectroscopy for Surface and Fracture Wounds: Sensor Development and Clinical Application

Monica Lin; Michel M. Maharbiz
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2018