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BSAC Seminar: Power Electronic Interface Circuits for Energy Harvesting Devices

December 8, 2011
Prof. Paul Mitcheson Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College of London December 8, 2011 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 521 Cory Hall, Hogan Room Host: Igor Paprotny

The vast majority of work in the energy harvesting and PowerMEMS communities concentrates on transducer design without considering the necessary power electronic interface between transducer and load. Where the power processor circuit has been considered,...

BSAC Seminar: Saving the World with MEMS: Applications to Energy, Environmental Sensing, and Microrobotics

December 13, 2011
Dr. Igor Paprotny Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley BSAC Postdoctoral Researcher December 13, 2011 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 521 Cory Hall, Hogan Room Host: Kris Pister

As Earth’s population reaches 7 billion people, we are faced with unprecedented challenges that threaten our very existence. Rising energy consumption, coupled with our reliance on fossil energy resources, is changing the climate in ways that may...

BSAC Researcher Seminar: Chemical Sensitive Field Effect Transistors

July 11, 2017
Dr. Hossain Fahad Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley BSAC Postdoctoral Researcher, Ali Javey Group July 11, 2017 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall Host: Michael Cable

Silicon IC-based fabrication processes develop novel compact gas sensors that, unlike current sensors, operate at room temperature, consume minimal power, exhibit superior sensitivity, provide...

BSAC Researcher Seminar: All-Mechanical Receivers

August 8, 2017
Dr. Ruonan Liu Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley BSAC Postdoctoral Researcher, Clark Nguyen Group August 8, 2017 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall Host: Michael Cable

The widespread expectation that autonomous sensor networks will fuel massively accessible information technology, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), comes with the daunting realization that...

BSAC Researcher Seminar: Batteryless Wireless Sensors

September 12, 2017
Dr. Osama Khan Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley BSAC Postdoctoral Researcher, Kris Pister Group September 12, 2017 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 490 Cory Hall Host: Michael Cable

We are entering an era where computing, sensing and communication are becoming disposable. This paradigm shift in computing is the key to enable the scale that the Internet-of-Things (IoT) promises, i.e., one trillion wireless sensors in the next 10 to 15 years. This staggering scale imposes new design and system challenges. The microsystem serves as...

BSAC Researcher Seminar: Atmospheric & Power System Sensors

October 10, 2017
Prof. Richard M. White BSAC Co-Founder October 10, 2017 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 490 Cory Hall Host: Michael Cable

The presentation will focus on a novel energy harvester and options for measuring and reporting air quality locally as well as measuring variables related to management of the local power systems. Extensive studies show that for people who live in U.S. residences the most serious pollutant is small...

BSAC Researcher Seminar: Gas Sensing at Room Temperature Using Graphene Transistors

December 12, 2017
Yumeng Liu Department of Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley BSAC Graduate Researcher, Liwei Lin Group December 12, 2017 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 490 Cory Hall Host: Michael Cable

In the contemporary age of sensing technologies for broad applications such as the Internet of Things, the capability to make low power, versatile, small form factor gas sensors could transform the fields of gas sensing systems into...

BSAC Researcher Seminar: Optimized Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers: From Material to Array Designs

February 13, 2018
Qi Wang Department of Mechanical Engineering, UC Davis BSAC Graduate Researcher, David Horsley Group February 13, 2018 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 490 Cory Hall Host: Michael Cable

Recent developments in piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducers (PMUT) have led to many applications such as gesture recognition sensors, fat level sensors, and fingerprint sensors, yet issues such as low output pressure, narrow bandwidth, and high fabrication costs still impede full commercialization for more applications. In this presentation, the improvement of PMUT performance will be...

BSAC Researcher Seminar: New Drug Discovery Platforms and Organ-on-a-Chip Models

January 9, 2018
Dr. SoonGweon Hong Department of Bioengineering, UC Berkeley Project Scientist, Luke Lee Group January 09, 2018 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 490 Cory Hall Host: Michael Cable

The presentation will focus on physiologically-modeled drug discovery platforms for various human organs. To avoid high costs and health risks caused by unexpected drug failures, there is a critical need for new drug discovery methods. Micro- and nanoscale engineering enabling precise microphysiological regulation is recognized as a potential approach to facilitate new drug discovery with...

BSAC Researcher Seminar: Putting the Lab Back on the Chip: Active Sensing and Flow Control in Plastic Microfluidic Devices

March 13, 2018
Marc Chooljian Department of Bioengineering. UC Berkeley BSAC Graduate Researcher, Dorian Liepmann Group March 13, 2018 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 490 Cory Hall Host: Michael Cable

The idea of a "microscale total analysis system," or "lab-on-a-chip," inspires academic research due to the promise of increased replicability and throughput in biochemical screening, and the capability to measure and manipulate biology...