Clark T.-C. Nguyen (Advisor)

Research Advised by Professor Clark T.-C. Nguyen

BSAC's Best: Fall 2023 Awards Announced

September 29, 2023

BSAC would like to thank all of the researchers who presented their research during BSAC's Fall 2023 Research Review on September 27th.

BSAC Industrial Members voted for the outstanding paper and presentations and the results are in. Please join BSAC in congratulating the recipients of the Fall 2023 Best of BSAC honors, Kamyar Behrouzi and Qiutong Jin!...

Push-Pull Resoswitch Receiver

Qiutong Jin
2023
Fall 2023 BSAC Research Review Presentation View Presentation View Slides Winner: Best Oral Presentation (Fall 2023) Project:...

Qiutong Jin

Graduate Student Researcher
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Professor Clark T.-C. Nguyen (Advisor)
Ph.D. 2025 (Anticipated)

Qiutong Jin received B.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of Iowa in 2019. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in MEMS in EECS at UC Berkeley under the supervision of Prof. Clark Nguyen.

BPN972: Temperature-Insensitive Resonant Strain Sensor

Xintian Liu
Kevin H. Zheng
2023

Explore the ultimate capability of a vibrating ring-based electrical stiffness-based resonant strain sensor, rigorously confirming a superior insensitivity to temperature that should permit it to operate under wide temperature excursions, such as experienced in harsh automotive environments.

Project currently funded by: Industry Sponsored

BPN953: Long-Term Drift of MEMS-Based Oscillators

Xintian Liu
Kevin H. Zheng
2023

This project seeks to characterize and de-mystify mechanisms behind long-term drift in MEMS-based oscillators, including ones employing various sustaining amplifiers and referenced to resonators constructed in a variety of materials, including silicon, polysilicon, AlN, diamond, and ruthenium. A measurement apparatus that suppresses unwanted sources of drift, e.g., temperature, to better focus on resonator and oscillator long-term drift will be instrumental to success and will likely entail the use of double or triple ovens, as well as environment resistant circuit design.

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Kieran Peleaux

Graduate Student Researcher
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Professor Clark T.-C. Nguyen (Advisor)
Ph.D. 2022 (Anticipated)

Kieran is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in Professor Clark T.-C. Nguyen’s research group in the Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences department at UC Berkeley. Having completed his B.S. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh in 2014, his current research interests include the design and fabrication of novel resonant MEMS devices for applications in UHF filters, oscillators and RF transceivers. Primarily, he is looking for new ways to integrate CMOS and MEMS process technologies in order to realize fully monolithic integrated CMOS-MEMS transceivers.

BPN859: High Frequency Oscillator Characterization

Qiutong Jin
Kevin H. Zheng
Xintian Liu
Kieran Peleaux
QianYi Xie
2023

This project aims to study and understand fundamental mechanisms that govern phase noise, aging, thermal stability, and acceleration stability in high frequency micromechanical resonator oscillators.

Project currently funded by: Member Fees

BPN828: Zero Quiescent Power Micromechanical Receiver

Qiutong Jin
Kevin H. Zheng
2023

This project aims to explore and demonstrate a mostly mechanical receiver capable of listening signals within low-frequency and very-low-frequency range. The receiver is designed to consume zero power at standby and consume very litter power (nW) only when receiving valid bits.

Project currently funded by: Membership Fees

BPN976: Fully-Integrated MEMS-Based Wireless Receiver

Kevin H. Zheng
Qiutong Jin
Xintian Liu
2023

Recent MEMS process advancements from our group have enabled a class of low-temperature, thin-film ruthenium RF filters that can be processed directly on top of CMOS wafers. This work seeks to demonstrate the first low-IF receiver with fully-integrated MEMS-based RF channel-select filters, which permits low power applications in high-sensitivity, narrow-band software-defined communications and cognitive radio.

Project currently funded by: Member Fees

BSAC's Best: Spring 2012 Winners Announced

March 9, 2012

BSAC would like to thank the 170 researchers who presented their work in poster or plenary sessions at the Spring 2012 BSAC Research Review on March 7-9.

50 attending industrial members from 32 member organizations voted for the best presentations and posters, resulting in Best Paper and Best Poster awards (certificate and cash).

Ivan Dimov
Best Paper Ivan...