Michel M. Maharbiz (Advisor)

Research Advised by Professor Michel M. Maharbiz

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
2018
Increasingly advanced tools are desired for understanding electrical activity in the brain, whether for basic neuroscience or clinically relevant brain-machine interfaces. Among the many classes of tools available, intracortical neural recording electrodes have the potential advantage of both high spatial and temporal resolution, and depending on the device can be suitable for either acute or chronic applications. To achieve the breadth of desirable characteristics for an acute neural recording array, including minimal...

Travis Massey

Alumni
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Professor Michel M. Maharbiz (Advisor)
Ph.D. 2018

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

Monica Lin
Michel M. Maharbiz
2018
Wearable sensors and instrumented implants have wide-ranging clinical applications, and their continued development in recent years has led to advances inpersonalized healthcare. Innovations in electronics and trends in mobile health are extending the capabilities of traditional medical practice. For a number of clinical conditions, there remains a lack of standardized methods for assessing patients, with physicians often relying on subjective...

Monica Lin

Alumni
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Professor Michel M. Maharbiz (Advisor)
Ph.D. 2018

Amy Liao

Alumni
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Professor Michel M. Maharbiz (Advisor)
Ph.D. 2018

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

Daniel Contreras
Kristofer S.J. Pister
Michel M. Maharbiz
Liwei Lin
2018

This dissertation presents work on components and actuators for silicon-based walking centimeter-scale robots. The focus on this work was on the actuators used to drive these robots and the linkages that make the basic structure of the robot leg.

Pin-joints are used as the basic unit of the leg linkages. The pin-joints were tested in terms of robustness and demonstrated high maximum tensile loads of over 5mN and compressive loads in excess of 100mN.

Electrostatic inchworm motors were the...

Bochao Lu

Alumni
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Professor Michel M. Maharbiz (Advisor)
Ph.D. 2019

Alyssa Zhou

Alumni
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Professor Michel M. Maharbiz (Advisor)
Professor Kristofer S.J. Pister (Advisor)
Ph.D. 2020

Konlin Shen

Alumni
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Professor Michel M. Maharbiz (Advisor)
Ph.D. 2020

BPN452: Patterned Delivery and Expression of Gene Constructs into Zebrafish Embryos using Microfabricated Interfaces

Tushar Bansal
2009

We present the design, fabrication and results of microfabricated interfaces for the patterned delivery of foreign molecules via electroporation into developing embryos. We show how these systems can be used to ‘draw’ two-dimensional patterns of tracer molecules, DNA and mRNA into the yolk and cells of zebrafish embryos (Danio rerio) at different stages of development. We demonstrate the successful delivery of two-dimensional patterns of trypan blue (normal dye), texas red (fluorescent dye), pCS2eGFP DNA and GFP-mRNA in both chorionated and dechorionated embryos. Both DNA and...