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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...

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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...