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BSAC Seminar: Intermetallic (SLID) Bonding for High Temperature Applications of Microsystems

August 23, 2011
Prof. Knut Aasmundtveit Vestfold University College, Norway August 23, 2011 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall, DOP Center Conference Room Host: Debbie Senesky

Solid-Liquid InterDiffusion (SLID) bonding is a novel bonding technique for microsystems. The technique uses thin layers of a two-metal system: a high temperature-melting metal (e.g., Cu or Au) and a low temperature-...

BSAC Seminar: Micropost Arrays to Advance Cell Handling

August 30, 2011
Ryan Sochol Department of Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley BSAC Researcher, Dissertation Presentation August 30, 2011 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall, DOP Center Conference Room Host: Liwei Lin

Mechanical engineering methods and microfabrication techniques offer powerful means for meeting biological challenges. In particular, microfabrication processes...

BSAC Seminar: Tiny Leaps for Robot-kind: Mobility, Mechanisms, and Motors for Microrobots

September 27, 2011
Prof. Sarah Bergbreiter Department of Mechanical Engineering, Univeristy of Maryland BSAC PhD 2007 September 27, 2011 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall, DOP Center Conference Room Host: Kris Pister

Research on mobile microrobots has been ongoing for the last 20 years, but the few robots that have walked have done so at slow speeds on smooth silicon wafers. However, ants can move at...

BSAC Seminar: Challenges in RF MEMS Modeling and Simulation: A Case Study

October 11, 2011
Dr. Giorgio Casinovi Georgia Institute of Technology, Integrated MEMS Laboratory October 11, 2011 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall, DOP Center Conference Room Host: John Huggins

Silicon RF MEMS devices, such as resonators and filters, have the potential to replace conventional electronic and mechanical devices in a variety of applications. If this is to happen, one of the problems that must be...

BSAC Seminar: Electrochemical Sensors for Early Detection of Cancer - a Chance for Life

October 4, 2011
Prof. Raluca-Ioana van Staden Head of Electrochemistry Lab and PATLAB, National Institution of Researcher of Electrochemistry and Condensed Matter, Bucharest, Hungary October 4, 2011 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall, DOP Center Conference Room Host: Katalin Voros

Early detection of diseases such as cancer is very important because prospects of a cure greatly increase if they are detected...

BSAC Seminar: Biomedical Applications for MEMS

November 1, 2011
Prof. Shuvo Roy Director, Biomedical Microdevices Lab, UCSF November 1, 2011 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall, DOP Center Conference Room Host: John Huggins

Recent progress in microelectromechanical systems - the microelectronics, microfabrication and micromachining technologies known collectively as MEMS - is being applied to biomedical applications and has become a new field of research unto itself, known...

BSAC Seminar: A CMOS Magnetic Sensor Chip for Biomedical Assay

November 8, 2011
Paul Liu Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley BSAC Researcher November 8, 2011 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall, DOP Center Conference Room Host: Bernhard Boser

The growing need for point-of-care biomedical assays motivates a significant reduction in the size and cost of present technologies. Current solutions use fluorescent or enzymatic labels with complex optical...

BSAC Seminar: MEMS Marketing: Oxymoron or Opportunity

November 22, 2011
Roger Grace President, Roger Grace Associates November 22, 2011 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall, DOP Center Conference Room Host: John Huggins

Since 1998 I have been reporting on the 14 critical success factors that my research has shown to be the key to MEMS commercialization success via my annual “MEMS Commercialization Report Card.” One of the factors is marketing. While many of the other factors, including R&D...

BSAC Seminar: A Two-Axis Piezoelectric Optical Scanner and Tilting Micromirror with a Newly Developed PZT-Meandering Actuator

November 15, 2011
Dr. Yoshiaki Yasuda Chief Engineering, Standly Electric Co., R&D Center, Yokohama Japan November 15, 2011 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall, DOP Center Conference Room Host: John Huggins

In this presentation, we describe a new mechanical design for a Piezoelectric unimorph actuator that generate large static deflection angles by accumulating angular displacement in a cascaded Piezoelectric cantilever formed in a...

BSAC Seminar: Chip-Scale Atomic Devices: Precision Instruments Using Atoms, Lasers, and MEMS

November 29, 2011
John Kitching Leader, Atomic Devices and Instruments Group, Boulder Labs, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) November 29, 2011 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall, DOP Center Conference Room Host: Clark Nguyen

We describe recent work at NIST to develop precision instruments based on atomic spectroscopy, advanced semiconductor lasers and MEMS. These millimeter-scale instruments achieve levels of stability or...