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Low Power, Crystal-Free Design for Monolithic Receivers

Brad Wheeler; Kristofer S.J. Pister; Ali M. Niknejad; Steven D. Glaser
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

MEMS-Actuated Carbon Fibers

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

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

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

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

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

Monica Lin; Michel M. Maharbiz
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

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

Flexible Supercapacitors Based on Micro/Nanofibers

Caiwei Shen; Liwei Lin; Bryan McCloskey; Van Carey
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2018

Atomically Thin Processing of High Surface Area Nanomaterials for Electrochemical Energy Devices

Emmeline Kao; Liwei Lin; Hayden Taylor; Dorian Liepmann
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2018

A High-Density Carbon Fiber Neural Recording Array Technology: Design, Fabrication, Assembly, and Validation

Travis Massey; Michel M. Maharbiz; Kristofer S.J. Pister; Michael R. DeWeese
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2018

Understanding and Engineering Surface and Edge Defects of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides

Peida (Peter) Zhao; Ali Javey; Ming C. Wu; Daryl Chrzan
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2018

Textile Supercapacitor for Wearable Energy Storage

Dongwoo Shin; Liwei Lin; Samuel Mao
Master's Thesis, 2018

Device Physics and Material Properties of Two-Dimensional Semiconductors

Sujay Desai; Ali Javey; Junqiao Wu; Tsu-Jae King Liu; Jeffrey Bokor
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2018

Instrumenting Flexible Substrates for Clinical Diagnosis and Monitoring

Amy Liao; Michel M. Maharbiz
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2018

Hollow Disk Electromechanical Coupling Cx/Co Boosting

Yafei Li; Clark T.-C. Nguyen
Master's Thesis, 2018

Room Temperature Gas Sensing using Graphene FET

Yumeng Liu; Liwei Lin
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2017

Dosimetry Dust: An Ultrasonic Backscatter Implantable Dosimetry Device

Stefanie Garcia; Michel M. Maharbiz; Kristofer S.J. Pister
Master's Thesis, 2017

Integrated Molecular Diagnostic Platform

Byungrae Cho; Luke P. Lee; Ming C. Wu; Randall J. Lee
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2017

FEA-Assisted Analysis and Gain Optimization of a Micromechanical Resonant Displacement Amplifier

Gleb Melnikov; Clark T.-C. Nguyen; Kristofer S.J. Pister
Master's Thesis, 2017

FMCW Lidar: Scaling to the Chip-Level and Improving Phase-Noise-Limited Performance

Phillip Sandborn; Ming C. Wu; Bernhard Boser; Kristofer S.J. Pister; Liwei Lin
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2017

Integrated Nanoscale Antenna-LED for On-Chip Optical Communication

Seth Fortuna; Ming C. Wu; Eli Yablonovitch; Jie Yao
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2017

Metal Oxides for Solid State Electronics: Transparent Electrodes, Photoanodes and Transistors

Hyun Sung Park; Liwei Lin
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2017

Silicon Carbide Technologies for Interfacing with the Nervous System

Camilo Diaz-Botia; Michel M. Maharbiz; Philip N. Sabes; Roya Maboudian; Christoph Schreiner
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2017

Mechanical Design, Dynamics, and Control of Micro Vibratory Gyroscopes

Parsa Taheri-Tehrani; David A. Horsley
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2017

Sensing and Harvesting Pressure Fluctuations in Harsh Environments

Levent Beker; Liwei Lin; Albert P. Pisano; Tarek Zohdi; Rikky Muller
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2017

Novel Processing Schemes for Material Systems on Amorphous and Flexible Substrates

Kevin Chen; Ali Javey; Ming C. Wu; Daryl Chrzan
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2017

Microfluidic Circuitry via Additive Manufacturing

Casey Glick; Liwei Lin
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2017

Rodent Wearable Ultrasound Interrogation System for Wireless Neural Recording

Joshua Kay; Bernhard E. Boser; Michel M. Maharbiz
Master's Thesis, 2017

Magnetic Field Sensing Using Micromechanical Oscillators

Soner Sonmezoglu; David A. Horsley; Rajeevan Amirtharajah; Xiaoguang “Leo” Liu
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2017

Chip-scale Lidar

Behnam Behroozpour Baghmisheh; Bernhard E. Boser; Ming C. Wu; Liwei Lin
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2017

Electrochemical Approaches to Renewable Energy

Peter Lobaccaro; Joel Ager; Roya Maboudian; Alexis Bell; Ali Javey
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2016

Microfluidic Analysis of Vertebrate Red Blood Cell Characteristics

Kathryn Fink; Dorian Liepmann; Luke P. Lee
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2016

Highly Scalable Silicon Photonic Switches Based on Waveguide Crossbar with Movable Waveguide Couplers

Sangyoon Han; Ming C. Wu; Richard S. Muller; Liwei Lin
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2016

Neural Dust: Ultrasonic Biological Interface

Dongjin Seo; Michel M. Maharbiz; Elad Alon; John Ngai
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2016

Integrated MEMS Cavity Optomechanical Oscillators for Wireless and Optical Communications

Turker Beyazoglu; Clark T.-C. Nguyen; Ming C. Wu; Liwei Lin
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2016

Environmental Gas Sensing With High Surface Area Nanomaterials on a Low-power Microfabricated Heater Platform

Anna Harley-Trochimczyk; Roya Maboudian; David B. Graves; Liwei Lin
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2016

Growth and Characterization of Silicon Carbide Thin Films and Nanowires

Lunet Luna; Roya Maboudian; Carlo Carraro; Jeffrey Reimer; Liwei Lin
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2016

Electron Devices Based on Transition Metal Dichalcogenides

Mahmut Tosun; Ali Javey; Junqiao Wu; Liwei Lin
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2016

Interface Electronics for Ultrasonic Transducers

Hao-Yen Tang; Bernhard E. Boser; David A. Horsley; Liwei Lin
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2016

Low-Power, High-Stability FM MEMS Gyroscopes

Yu-Ching Yeh; Bernhard E. Boser; Liwei Lin
Master's Thesis, 2016

Integrated 4H-Silicon Carbide Diodes and Bridge Circuits for Harsh Environment Applications

Shiqian Shao; Albert P. Pisano; Liwei Lin; Tsu-Jae King Liu; Jie Yao
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2016

Curved and Bimorph Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers (PMUT)

Sina Akhbari; Liwei Lin; George C. Johnson; Tsu-Jae King Liu
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2016

Chip-scale Lidar

Behnam Behroozpour; Bernhard E. Boser; Ming C. Wu; Liwei Lin
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2016