News & Events

BSAC Researcher Seminar: Wearable Sweat Sensors

July 10, 2018
Mallika Bariya Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley BSAC Graduate Researcher, Ali Javey Group July 10, 2018 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 490 Cory Hall Host: Michael Cable

Human sweat has emerged as an appealing biofluid for non-invasive monitoring of health and physiology. Developments in wearable sweat sensors has created the possibility of continuous in situ sensing of sweat biomarkers for personalized and predictive healthcare. The presentation will focus on the Javey Lab’s seminal work on continuous, in situ,...

BSAC Researcher Seminar: Flexible Energy Harvesters, Sensors, and Actuators Based on Electret and Piezoelectret

December 11, 2018
Dr. Junwen Zhong Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley BSAC Postdoctoral Researcher, Liwei Lin Group December 11, 2018 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 490 Cory Hall Host: Michael Cable

With the rise of intelligent wearable electronics and the Internet of Things (IoT), flexible energy harvesters/sensors that can convert irregular...

BSAC Researcher Seminar: Q-Boosting of Metal MEMS Resonators via Localized-Anneal Induced Tensile Stress

August 14, 2018
Alper Ozgurluk Alper Ozgurluk Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley BSAC Graduate Researcher, Clark Nguyen Group August 14, 2018 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 490 Cory Hall Host: Michael Cable

Introduction of tensile stress via localized Joule heating has yielded some of the highest metal MEMS resonator Q's measured to date, as high as 48,919 for a 12-MHz ruthenium micromechanical clamped-clamped beam...

BSAC Researcher Seminar: MEMS-Based Drug Delivery: Evolution of Technologies

February 12, 2019
Professor Dorian Liepmann Prof. Dorian Liepmann BSAC Co-Director, Professor of Bioengineering and Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley February 12, 2019 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 490 Cory Hall Host: Michael Cable

Drug delivery using MEMS technologies at BSAC started about 30 years ago when microfluidics research had just begun. The work involved developing microneedles as well as novel fluid control systems...

BSAC Researcher Seminar: Metal-Organic Frameworks: Lego-Like Chemistry and Their Applications to Energy and Sensing

April 9, 2019
Xiang Gao Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, UC Berkeley BSAC Graduate Researcher, Roya Maboudian Group April 09, 2019 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 490 Cory Hall Host: Michael Cable

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are a powerful new class of porous, crystalline materials constructed by the linkage between inorganic clusters and organic molecules. Due to diverse chemistries, MOFs can be tailored with great tunability to achieve high surface area and high molecular recognition for applications in areas such as energy...

BSAC Researcher Seminar: Chip-Scale Fluorescence Microscope

May 9, 2019
Efthymios Papageorgiou Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UC Berkeley May 9, 2019 | 03:30 to 04:30 | 490 Cory Hall Host: Bernhard Boser, Mekhail Anwar Dissertation Presentation

There is a persistent need for an intraoperative device that is capable of detecting microscopic residual disease (MRD), small clusters of hundreds to thousands of cancer cells left behind after the gross tumor is removed during a surgical resection.

...

BSAC Researcher Seminar: Oncodust: Implantable Dosimeter for Cancer Therapy

May 14, 2019
Kyoungtae Lee Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UC Berkeley BSAC Graduate Researcher, Michel Maharbiz Group May 14, 2019 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 490 Cory Hall Host: Michael Cable

Proton beam therapy is a well-established medical procedure for treating certain kinds of cancer and is uniquely suited for treatment of head, neck, and eye tumors. Despite the continuous improvements in treatment plan simulations, improper tissue irradiation can occur if there is a physical shift (e.g., patient movement) in the tumor or...

BSAC Researcher Seminar: Large-Scale Nanoplasmonic PCR on Chip for Rapid Precision Molecular Diagnostics

June 11, 2019
Dr. Youngseop Lee Department of Bioengineering, UC Berkeley BSAC Postdoctoral Researcher, Luke P. Lee Group June 11, 2019 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 490 Cory Hall Host: Michael Cable

This work presents the novel nanoplasmonic PCR on chip for rapid precision molecular diagnostics. The nanoplasmonic pillar arrays (NPA) comprise gold nanoislands on the top and sidewall of glass nanopillar arrays. The nanoplasmonic pillars enhance light absorption of a white light-emitting diode (LED) over the whole visible range due to strong electromagnetic hotspots between nanoislands. As a...

BSAC Seminar: Optotune Focus-Tunable Lenses and Laser Speckle Reduction Based on Electroactive Polymers

January 23, 2012
Dr. Manuel Aschwanden CEO and Co-Founder, Optotune January 23, 2012 | 03:30 to 04:30 | 521 Cory Hall, Hogan Room Host: Niels Quack

Based on selected liquid and elastic polymers, Optotune has developed adaptive optical components such as focus-tunable lenses and laser speckle reducers. The lenses range from 2 to 55mm in aperture, are mechanically or electrically actuated, and offer a continuous range of focal powers of several 10 diopters. This...

BSAC Seminar: Integrated Genomic Technologies for Next Generation Medical Care

January 24, 2012
Dr. Amir Ali Talasaz Senior Director of Scientific Research, Illumina January 24, 2012 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall, DOP Center Conference Room Host: Michel Maharbiz

Next-gen nucleic acid analysis is paving the way for a new era in healthcare and personalized medicine. Through introduction of new genome analysis technologies, the cost reduction of nucleic acid analysis has outpaced Moore’s Law. The current price points have already facilitated the...