Technical Reports

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Design Considerations for CMOS-Integrated Hall-effect Magnetic Bead Detectors for Biosensor Applications

Karl Skucha; Bernhard E. Boser; Ming C. Wu; Luke P. Lee
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2012

Technologies for Blood Diagnostics

John Waldeisen; Luke P. Lee; Zev J. Gartner; Lee W. Riley
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2012

High-Q Aluminum Nitride RF MEMS Lamb Wave Resonators and Narrowband Filters

Ernest Ting-Ta Yen; Albert P. Pisano; Clark T.-C. Nguyen; Liwei Lin; Richard M. White
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2012

Polymer Microfluidic Device for High-throughput Single-cell Encapsulation, Lysis, and Biological Assay

Timothy Brackbill; Albert P. Pisano; Liwei Lin; Amy Herr
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2012

Nanomaterial Synthesis and Integration for Sensor and Energy Applications

Heather Chiamori; Liwei Lin; Samuel S. Mao; John Clarke; Oscar D. Dubo ́n
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2012

Engineering Optical Antenna for Efficient Local Field Enhancement

Tae Joon Seok; Ming C. Wu; Eli Yablonovich; Luke P. Lee
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2012

Mobility in Wireless Sensor Networks

Ankur Mehta; Kristofer S.J. Pister; Michel M. Maharbiz; Alexandre Bayen
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2012

High-Q Low-Impedance MEMS Resonators

Li-Wen Hung; Clark T.-C. Nguyen; Tsu-Jae King Liu; Liwei Lin
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2012

Thin Film Encapsulation Methods for Large Area MEMS Packaging

Armon Mahajerin; Liwei Lin; Dorian Liepmann; Tsu-Jae King Liu
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2012

High Resolution Additive Patterning of Nanoparticles and Polymers Enabled by Vapor Permeable Polymer Templates

Michael Demko; Alberto P. Pisano; Liwei Lin; Ming C. Wu
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2012

A CMOS Magnetic Sensor Chip for Biomedical Applications

Peng Liu; Bernhard E. Boser; Seth Sanders; Yuri Suzuki
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2012

Electrospun Direct-write Multi-functional Nanofibers

Jiyoung Chang; Liwei Lin; Albert P. Pisano
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2012

Microengineered Platforms For Assessing Cell-Cell Communication and Single-Cell Influences on Adult Neural Stem Cell Fate

Sisi (Siyu) Chen; Michel M. Maharbiz; David V. Schaffer; Henk Roelink; Zev Gartner
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2012

Evaporation-Driven Fast Crystallization of 3D Micro- and Nano-particle Assemblies via Micro Mechanical Systems

Sun Choi; Albert P. Pisano; Tarek I. Zohdi; Liwei Lin; Ming C. Wu
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2012

Metal-optic and Plasmonic Semiconductor-based Nanolasers

Amit Lakhani; Ming C. Wu; Xiang Zhang; Eli Yablonovitch
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2012

Cellular Mechanotransduction via Microfabricated Post Arrays

Adrienne Higa; Liwei Lin; Song Li; Dorian Liepmann
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2012

Micro-Columnated Loop Heat Pipe: The Future of Electronic Substrates

Navdeep Singh Dhillon; Albert P. Pisano; Liwei Lin; Omer Savas ̧; Ali Javey
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2012

Micro Chemical Vapor Deposition for the Synthesis of Nanomaterials

Qin Zhou; Liwei Lin; Albert P. Pisano; Ali Javey
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2011

Enclosed Microfluidic Platform Realizing Enhanced Stem-cell Survival (EMPRESS)

Yue Zhang; Matthew V. Tirrell; Albert P. Pisano; Tejal A. Desai
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2011

MEMS Lens Scanners for Free-Space Optical Interconnects

Jeffrey Chou; Ming C. Wu; Bernhard E. Boser; Liwei Lin
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2011

Towards a Synthesizable Standard-Cell Radio

Richard Su; Kristofer S.J. Pister; Jan Rabaey; Paul Wright
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2011

MEMS Aluminum Nitride Technology for Inertial Sensors

Gabriele Vigevani; Albert P. Pisano; Liwei Lin; Ming C. Wu
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2011

An Experimental Study of Enhanced Thermal Conductivity Utilizing Columnated Silicon Microevaporators for Convective Boiling Heat Transfer at the Microscale

Christopher Hogue; Albert P. Pisano; Dorian Liepmann; Ming Gu
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2011

A MEMS Thin Film AlN Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Valve

Ya-Mei Chen; Albert P. Pisano; Liwei Lin; Tsu-Jae King Liu; Tarek Zohdi
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2011

Carbon Nanotube-based MEMS Energy Storage Devices

Yingqi Jiang; Liwei Lin; Albert P. Pisano; Constance Chang-Hasnain
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2011

Light-induced Electrokinetics: A path to a Versatile Micro Total Analysis System

Justin Valley; Ming C. Wu; Michel M. Maharbiz; Amy E. Herr
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2011

Dopant Profiling of III-V Nanostructures for Electronic Applications

Alexandra Ford; Yuri Suzuki; Junqiao Wu; Ali Javey
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2011

Inductor Optimization for Passive Wireless Implantable Capacitive Sensors

Neel Shah; Shuvo Roy; Albert P. Pisano
Master's Thesis, 2011

Light-induced Electrokinetics: A path to a versatile micro total analysis system

Justin K. Valley; Ming C. Wu; Michel M. Maharbiz; Amy E. Herr
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2011

Capacitive Power Transfer

Mitchell Kline; Bernhard E. Boser; Seth R. Sanders
Master's Thesis, 2011

Biologically-inspired Microfluidic Platforms and Aptamer-based Nanobiosensors

Hansang Cho; Luke P. Lee; Dorian Liepmann; Ming C. Wu; John Kurhanewicz
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2010

Microfluidic Microbial Fuel Cells for Microstructure Interrogations

Erika Parra; Liwei Lin; Carlos Fendandez-Pello; John D. Coates
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2010

MEMS Resonant Strain Sensor Integration

David Myers; Albert P. Pisano; Liwei lin; Andrew Neureuther
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2010

Localized Strain Sensing Using High Resolution, Highly-sensitive MEMS Resonant Strain Gauges

Matthew Wei-Jen Chan; Albert P. Pisano; Liwei Lin
Master's Thesis, 2010

The Design and Implementation of Parametrically Amplified Lorentz Force MEMS Magnetometers

Matt Thompson; David A. Horsley; Donald Margolis; Dean Karnopp
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2010

MEMS Development for In-Cylinder Combustion Monitoring

S. Wodin-Schwartz; Albert P. Pisano
Master's Thesis, 2010

Fully Integrated Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) Bio-Assay Platform

Octavian Florescu; Bernhard E. Boser; Richard M. White; Ali Javey; Eva Harris
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2010

Oxygen Concentration Microgradients for Cell Culture

Jaehyun Park; Michel M. Maharbiz; Ming C. Wu; Amy E. Herr
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2010

Nanoplasmonics-enabled On-Demand and Systematic Gene Regulation

Eunice Lee; Luke P. Lee; Michel M. Maharbiz; Tejal Desai; Han Lim
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2010

Cortical Microstimulation for Neural Prostheses

Subramaniam Venkatraman; Kristofer S.J. Pister
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2010

Large, Ordered 3D Nanocup Arrays for Plasmonic Applications

Joanne Lo; David A. Horsley; Jack L. Skinner
Master's Thesis, 2010

Toward A Levitated Micromechanical Resonator

Ilya Gurin; Clark T.-C. Nguyen; Liwei Lin
Master's Thesis, 2010

Polymer-Ceramic MEMS Bimorphs as Thermal Infrared Sensors

Clinton Warren; Albert P. Pisano; Luke P. Lee; Liwei Lin
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2010

Solid State Electrochemical Sensors for Nitrogen Oxide (NOx) Detection in Lean Exhaust Gases

Jonathan Michael Rheaume; Albert P. Pisano; J. Karl Hedrick; Seth Sanders
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2010

Temperature-Compensated Aluminium Nitride Lamb Wave Resonator Performance Study

Damien Wittwer; Albert P. Pisano
Master's Thesis, 2010

On-Chip Thin Film Encapsulation Development Utilizing Porous Anodic Alumina Shell

Nicolas Ferrier; Albert P. Pisano
Master's Thesis, 2010

SIlicon Photonic Devices for Optoelectronic Integrated Circuits

Jason Tien; Ming C. Wu; Constance Chang-Hasnain; Xiang Zhang
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2009

Direct-Write Piezoelectric Nanogenerator by Near-Field Electrospinning

Chieh Chang; Liwei Lin; Albert P. Pisano; Seung-Wuk Lee
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2009

Optoelectronic Manipulation, Assembly, and Patterning of Nanoparticles

Arash Jamshidi; Ming C. Wu; Constance Chang-Hasnain; Liwei Lin
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2009

Integrated Nanoplasmonic Optical Microfluidics for Label-free Bioassays

Yir-Shyuan Wu; Luke P. Lee; Ming C. Wu; Steve Conolly
Ph.D. Dissertation, 2009