Ming C. Wu (Advisor)

Research Advised by Professor Ming C. Wu

Jean-Etienne Tremblay

Alumni
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Professor Ming C. Wu (Advisor)
Ph.D. 2020

Received a B.Eng. in Engineering Physics at Polytechnique Montréal. Jean-Etienne is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley with Prof. Ming Wu. His interests are nonlinear integrated photonics and photonics packaging.

BPN552: Light-Actuated Digital Microfluidics (Optoelectrowetting)

Jodi Loo
2020

The ability to quickly perform large numbers of chemical and biological reactions in parallel using low reagent volumes is a field well addressed by droplet-based digital microfluidics. Compared to continuous flow-based techniques, digital microfluidics offers the added advantages such as individual sample addressing and reagent isolation. We are developing a Light- Actuated Digital Microfluidics device (also known as optoelectrowetting) that optically manipulates nano- to micro-liter scale aqueous droplets on the device surface. The device possesses many advantages including ease of...

Jodi Loo

Alumni
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Professor Ming C. Wu (Advisor)
Ph.D. 2020

Jodi Loo is a PhD student under Professor Ming Wu in the Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences department at UC Berkeley. Her primary research interests are optoelectronics and biophotonics and currently works on Light-Actuated Digital Microfluidic (LADM) systems based on the principle of Optoelectrowetting (OEW). She is a part of UC Berkeley Photobears (the UC Berkeley student chapter of OSA, SPIE, and IEEE Photonics Society), of which she acts as chair for the IEEE Photonics Society. She is a recipient of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and completed her B.S. in Electrical...

Monolayer Transition Metal Dichalcogenide NanoLEDs: Towards High Speed and High Efficiency

Kevin Han
2019

On-chip optical interconnects promise to drastically reduce energy consumption compared to electrical interconnects, which dominate power dissipation in modern integrated circuits (ICs). One key requirement is a low-power, high-efficiency, and high-speed nanoscale light source. However, existing III-V semiconductor light sources face a high surface recombination velocity (SRV ~ 104 – 106 cm/s) that greatly reduces efficiency at nanoscale sizes. An alternative material system is the monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), single-molecule-thick direct-bandgap semiconductors...