Michel M. Maharbiz (Advisor)

Research Advised by Professor Michel M. Maharbiz

Dongjin Seo

Alumni
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Professor Michel M. Maharbiz (Advisor)
Ph.D. 2016

Camilo Diaz-Botia

Alumni
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Professor Michel M. Maharbiz (Advisor)
Ph.D. 2017

Silicon Carbide Technologies for Interfacing with the Nervous System

Camilo Diaz-Botia
Michel M. Maharbiz
Philip N. Sabes
Roya Maboudian
Christoph Schreiner
2017

In the past couple of decades we have seen remarkable advances in the integration of biological systems with artificial ones. Our knowledge of both of these worlds has grown exponentially, and in particular our knowledge of the human body. In recent years we have been able to understand and treat diseases we never thought we would, and we have even been able to interface with the body to restore lost functions. Direct interaction with the human brain to read and write information to it has been achieved thanks to the...

Tom Zajdel

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

Monica Lin

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 wideranging 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 physical...

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...