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BSAC Seminar: Nanostructured CTC Chip with Integrated Micromixer for Cancer Diagnostics

February 21, 2012
Dr. Yi-Kuen Lee Center for Bioengineering & Biomedical Device, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology February 21, 2012 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall, DOP Center Conference Room Host: Liwei Lin

Mixing is one of the most important microfluidic processes in biochemistry analysis, fine chemical production, polymer chain reaction (PCR), genotyping, sequencing and synthesis of nucleic acids. In the past decade, a large number of different types of...

BSAC Seminar: Arcsine Law for Quantum Harmonic Oscillators

March 20, 2012
Prof. Hayato Saigo Nagahama Institute of Bio-Science and Technology, Japan March 20, 2012 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall, DOP Center Conference Room Host: Al Pisano

There is one mysterious probability law: The Arcsine Law. It has very different features in comparison to famous normal distribution (Gaussian). For instance, it is bounded and “polarized” - the probability around the bounds is large while probability density around expectation value is small! Nevertheless,...

BSAC Seminar: Opportunities in Cancer Therapy: An Overview of Cancer Diagnosis, Treatment and Surveillance

March 13, 2012
Mekhail Anwar, M.D., Ph.D. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley Department of Radiation Oncology, UC San Francisco BSAC MS 2001 March 13, 2012 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall, DOP Center Conference Room Host: Bernhard Boser

Cancer is a name that often evokes a homogeneous entity that is the second leading cause of death in the US and responsible for over 7 million deaths annual worldwide. But these numbers often belie where the...

BSAC Seminar: Chirality Selective Growth of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

April 3, 2012
Prof. Yuan Chen School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore April 3, 2012 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall, DOP Center Conference Room Host: Ali Javey

Our research focuses on developing synthesis, purification, and enrichment methodologies toward the economical production of carbon nanotubes with well-defined atomic structure. Several new catalysts, such as Co-MCM-41 and Co-TUD-1, have been developed to manipulate chiral structure...

BSAC Seminar: Photocatalytic Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Films via Molecular Layer Deposition

April 10, 2012
Dr. Roie Yerushalmi Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem April 10, 2012 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall, DOP Center Conference Room Host: Ali Javey

I will present our recent results for Molecular Layer Deposition (MLD) approach for the formation of organic-inorganic metal oxides with controllable properties. The hybrid MLD films can be formed on macroscopic surfaces, as well as on nanostructures such as nanoparticles and nanowires with high...

BSAC Seminar: Mobile Airborne Particulate Matter Monitor for Cellular Deployment

April 24, 2012
Frederick Doering Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley BSAC Graduate Student Researcher April 24, 2012 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall, DOP Center Conference Room Host: Igor Paprotny

The design, fabrication, and experimental results of a MEMS air-microfluidic sensor for measuring the concentrations of airborne particulate matter (PM) such as tobacco smoke or diesel exhaust is presented. Our sensor (25 mm × 21 mm × 2 mm in size)...

BSAC Seminar: How to Successfully Transfer MEMS from the Nanolab to a Commercial Foundry

May 1, 2012
Dr. Alissa Fitzgerald A.M. Fitzgerald & Associates May 1, 2012 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall, DOP Center Conference Room Host: John Huggins

You've got a working process at the Marvell Nanolab, a budding business, and now you're thinking about how to transfer your process to foundry for commercial production. What's next? In this talk, I will describe what it takes to execute a smooth process transfer based on our experiences doing several such transfers for our customers. Foundry transfer...

BSAC Seminar: Brillouin MEMS

May 8, 2012
Dr. Gaurav Bahl Optics and Photonics Laboratory, University of Michigan Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign May 8, 2012 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall, DOP Center Conference Room Host: Ali Javey

In a manner similar to the forces that we feel as a car goes around a curve, light is also known to apply centrifugal force when guided along a circular path. In recent years, whispering gallery microdevices have emerged that exploit optical forces...

BSAC Seminar: Contamination Thresholds of Pt- and RuO2- Coated Microrelays

June 15, 2012
Prof. Maarten de Boer Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University June 15, 2012 | 11:00 to 12:00 | 540 Cory Hall, DOP Center Conference Room Host: Roya Maboudian

Microelectromechanical relays are of great interest in radio-frequency communications, power switching applications, and in automatic test equipment. Ohmic DC relays must maintain low electrical resistance over millions to billions of cycles. As such devices are cycled, soft metal coatings such as gold either tend to (i) cold-...

BSAC Seminar: Mass-Mobility Characterization of Flame-Made ZrO2 Aerosols: Primary Particle Diameter & Extent of Aggregation

June 22, 2012
Max Eggersdorfer Institute of Process of Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich June 22, 2012 | 11:00 to 12:00 | 540 Cory Hall, DOP Center Conference Room Host: Niels Quack

My research focuses on the simulation of nanoparticle growth by coagulation and sintering and real-time characterization methods of the former in the gas-phase. Although models exist to characterize agglomerates of spherical particles, up to now the primary particle size was obtained ex-situ from electron microscopy,...