Albert P. Pisano (Advisor)

Matthew Hopcroft

Alumni
Professor Albert P. Pisano (Advisor)
Mechanical Engineering
PostDoc 2007 to 2010

Research Specialist in Prof. Albert Pisano's research group. Managed micro/nano technology research projects on MEMS power, RF resonators, and chip cooling.

Navdeep Dhillon

Alumni
Mechanical Engineering
Professor Albert P. Pisano (Advisor)
PostDoc 2012

Biomimetic, Polymeric Transistor-Based Biosensor Technology

Jim C. Cheng
Albert P. Pisano
Ming C. Wu
Liwei Lin
2009

The goal of this research is the creation of robust, flexible, polymer sensors and circuits fabricated partially from the low cost biopolymer, chitosan, the deacetylated form of chitin which is the second most abundant polyssacharide in nature. Chitin is found in crustaceans, insects, bacteria and fungi. The sensors will detect diatomic gases and DNA to more complex macro molecules (e.g. exotoxins) in a fluidic or dry environment. Polymer-nanoparticle (e.g. Ge) hybrid films allow for development of robust polymer thin-film transistors and, with optimization of the hybrid film,...

Knut Aasmundtveit

Alumni
Mechanical Engineering
Professor Albert P. Pisano (Advisor)
PostDoc 2007

Chitosan as a MEMS Engineering Material

Jim C. Cheng
Albert P. Pisano
Liwei Lin
2006
Since the beginning of civilization, there has been a thrust to better ourselves, to enhance our performance and capabilities. With nature as a template, a variety of sensors were created. As technology improved, artificial sensors have mostly surpassed their natural counterparts in sensitivity and size except in several specific areas, one being infrared sensing. The Melanophila acuminata, also known as the jewel beetle, is one of ...

Jim C. Cheng

Alumni
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Professor Albert P. Pisano (Advisor)
Ph.D. 2009

David A. Horsley

Former BSAC Co-Director
Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering
Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center (BSAC)
Ph.D. 1998

David A. Horsley is a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, Davis, Vice Chair for Graduate Studies at the University of California, Davis, and a Co-Director of the Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center.


Professor Horsley’s research interests include micro-fabricated sensors and actuators with applications in optical MEMS, communication, displays, and physical and biological sensors.


Prior to joining the faculty at UC Davis, Professor Horsley held research...

Liwei Lin

Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center (BSAC)
Ph.D. 1993

Liwei Lin is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the James Marshall Wells Academic Chair, and a Co-Director of the Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center.

Professor Lin's research interests include design, modeling, and fabrication of micro/nano structures, sensors, actuators, and mechanical issues in micro/nano systems which includes heat transfer, solid/fluid mechanics, and dynamics.

Professor Lin is the recipient of the 1998 NSF CAREER Award for research in MEMS Packaging and the 1999 ASME Journal of Heat...

Albert P. Pisano

Former BSAC Co-Director
Mechanical Engineering
Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center (BSAC)

Albert P. Pisano is the Dean of the Jacobs School of Engineering and holds the Walter J. Zable Chair in Engineering. He is an active researcher who serves on the faculty of the departments of mechanical and aerospace engineering and electrical and computer engineering.

Prior to September 2013, Pisano served on the UC Berkeley faculty. The FANUC Endowed Chair of Mechanical Systems, he held faculty appointments in mechanical engineering and in electrical engineering and computer sciences. Pisano served as senior co-Director of the Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center...

BSAC Researchers Advised by Albert P. Pisano