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BSAC Seminar: A Piezo-Resistive, Temperature Compensated, MEMS-Based Frequency Synthesizer

September 24, 2013
Joost van Beek Senior Principal Scientist, NXP Semiconductors September 24, 2013 | 12:30 to 01:30 | 521 Cory Hall, Hogan Room Host: John Huggins

After a brief introduction on NXP Semiconductors, this presentation will describe a frequency synthesizer using a MEMS resonator as the frequency referencing element. Uniquely, the piezo-resistive properties of silicon are exploited to read out the resonator, resulting in low impedance levels at resonance frequencies up to several 100MHz. A 55MHz MEMS oscillator with a phase noise of...

BSAC Seminar: Carbon Nanomaterial-Reinforced Piezoelectric Composites for Pipeline Integrity Monitoring

October 15, 2013
Nasser Saber PhD Candidate, School of Engineering, Univeristy of South Australia BSAC Visiting Researcher October 15, 2013 | 12:30 to 01:30 | 540 Cory Hall Host: Richard White

Piezoelectric composites comprising an active phase of ferroelectric ceramic and a polymer matrix have recently attracted numerous sensory applications. With the increasing demand on monitoring pipeline infrastructures, it is of great importance to develop flexible sensors made of multi-phase materials, more advantageous over conventional one-phase rigid ceramic sensing blocks, for...

BSAC Seminar: MEMS Digital Micro Shutter Technology Leverages Existing LCD Fabrication Capability for Low-Power Transflective Displays

November 12, 2013
Dr. Lodewyk Steyn Director of Engineering, Pictronix, a Qualcomm subsidiary November 12, 2013 | 12:30 to 01:30 | 540 Cory Hall Host: Ming Wu

The Pixtronix MEMS Display Technology delivers ultra-low power consumption and exceptional image quality for multimedia devices such as smartphones and tablets – supporting applications ranging from full-speed, full-color video, to web browsing, to e-mail and e-books in a single display. Pixtronix displays are built in existing LCD manufacturing infrastructure, but eliminate the liquid...

BSAC Seminar: Friendly Photons: Optical Sensors in Life Science and Medicine

November 5, 2013
Prof. Brian Cunningham Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign November 5, 2013 | 12:30 to 01:30 | 540 Cory Hall Host: Luke Lee

Biology is increasingly a science that relies upon new developments in sensor engineering to provide detailed information about cell function, to perform disease diagnosis, to quantify gene expression, and to image tissue. Of the many transduction methods available for applications including point-of-care diagnostics, personalized medicine, and medical imaging, approaches based upon optics...

BSAC Seminar: Chemical Sensor Challenges in the Trillion Sensor Universe

November 26, 2013
Dr. Joseph Stetter President & CTO, KWJ Engineering November 26, 2013 | 12:30 to 01:30 | 540 Cory Hall Host: John Huggins

There are billions of physical sensors in place that include temperature, pressure, acceleration, optical, etc. in consumer, medical, automotive and industrial devices. Devices used by and for the benefit of consumers and the infrastructure used by consumers and society have created high volume markets for sensors. Chemical sensors face an uphill challenge in this paradigm. It is relatively easy to see large scale platform...

BSAC Seminar: Biomimetic Self-Templating Assembly and Applications

December 10, 2013
Prof. Seung-Wuk Lee Department of Bioengineering, UC Berkeley Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Decemer 10, 2013 | 12:30 to 01:30 | 540 Cory Hall Host: John Huggins

In nature, helical macromolecules such as collagen, chitin and cellulose are critical to the morphogenesis and functionality of various hierarchically structured materials. During morphogenesis, these chiral macromolecules are secreted and undergo self-templating assembly, a process whereby multiple kinetic factors influence the assembly of the incoming...

BSAC Seminar: Diabetes, Biosensors and Drug Delivery

January 21, 2014
Professor Dorian Liepmann Prof. Dorian Liepmann Department of Bioengineering, UC Berkeley BSAC Co-Director January 21, 2014 | 12:30 to 01:30 | 540 Cory Hall Host: John Huggins

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BSAC Seminar: A Point-of-Care Flow Cytometer

January 28, 2014
Pramod Murali Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley BSAC Researcher January 28, 2014 | 12:30 to 01:30 | 540 Cory Hall Host: Bernhard Boser

Flow cytometer is an important tool that finds applications in medical diagnosis, water treatment, cell sorting, etc. Convectional optical flow cytometers using fluorescent labels to tag specific cells suffer from background noise impeding their use in point-of-care applications. In this talk, I will present a flow cytometer cartridge using magnetic labels that alleviates the above...

BSAC Seminar: Research Achievements of METU-MEMS Center and its Start-Up Activities

February 4, 2014
Dr. Tayfun Akin Director, METU-MEMS Center, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey February 4, 2014 | 12:30 to 01:30 | 540 Cory Hall Host: Clark Nguyen

The Middle East Technical University MEMS Center, which opened in 1995, was the first MEMS program in Turkey. The center has a 1300m² cleanroom area with state-of-the-art MEMS fabrication tools with 4", 6", and 8" wafer processing capability, and has raised $65M in research funding in the past ten years. The METU-MEMS Center has been working on the development of various sensors and actuators,...

BSAC Seminar: Analog Devices, Inc. MEMS Division: The Unofficial Journey from Accelerometers to Gyroscopes to Microphones to New Devices

February 11, 2014
Dr. Christophe Antoine Emerging Products - MEMS/Transducer Technology Group, Analog Devices Inc. February 11, 2014 | 12:30 to 01:30 | 540 Cory Hall Host: John Huggins

This presentation will humbly highlight some of the stories behind landmark MEMS products that Analog Devices Inc. (ADI) has commercialized over the past three decades: accelerometers for crash sensing in automotive applications, gyroscopes to allow electronic stability control, and high signal-to-noise ratio microphones for smartphones. It will also mention a few technologies that have not...