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BSAC Seminar: Tunneling Magneto-Resistive Sensor Design, Fabrication and Applications

October 3, 2014
Dr. Song Xue CEO, MultiDimension Technology October 3, 2014 | 10:00 to 11:00 | Swarm Lab Immersion Room, 490 Cory Hall Host: John Huggins

Magnetic transducers are widely used in modern industry and electronics to sense magnetic field strength to measure current, position, motion, direction and other physical parameters. Commercially important approaches, in order of technical advancement, include Hall Effect, Anisotropic MagnetoResistance (AMR), Giant MagnetoResistance...

BSAC Seminar: Photonic Microsensors for Monitoring Cardiovascular Parameters

September 2, 2014
Dr. Andreas Seifert Department of Microsystems Engineering - IMTEK, University of Freiburg September 2, 2014 | 12:30 to 01:30 | 540 Cory Hall Host: Dorian Liepmann

Nearly a third of the world population dies from cardiovascular disease with a 40% death rate in countries with high income levels. New diagnostic methods are being explored to extend and complement today's practice of measuring systolic and diastolic blood pressure. The idea, realized in our research, focuses on a novel photonic method to measure...

BSAC Seminar: Metal Oxide Sensors for Outdoor Air Quality Monitoring Applications

October 14, 2014
Dr. Kristen Dorsey UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, UC San Diego October 14, 2014 | 12:30 to 01:30 | 540 Cory Hall Host: Kris Pister

Metal oxide gas sensors are one solution to portable air quality monitoring. Their low unit price, small form factor and response to several criteria pollutants make them a viable future. When exposed to a target gas, the conductivity of the metal oxide layer shifts, leading to a sensor response that is...

BSAC Seminar: Critical Success Factors for the Commercialization of MEMS: The 2013 MEMS Industry Report Card

October 21, 2014
Roger Grace President, Roger Grace Associates October 21, 2014 | 12:30 to 01:30 | 540 Cory Hall Host: John Huggins

Barriers to the commercialization of every industry and technology exist…MEMS is no exception. As we have passed more than a half century of MEMS research, design and development, many people ask why it has taken so long for MEMS technology to realize its potential or reach true commercialization. There exist 14 critical success factors that present major barriers to the...

BSAC Seminar: A Study of Organic and Inorganic Thin Films Deposited by Chemical Vapor Deposition for Gas Sensors

October 28, 2014
Julien El-Sabahy CEA-Leti, MINATEC Campus, Grenoble, France October 28, 2014 | 12:30 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall Host: John Huggins

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) such as benzene or toluene are increasingly present in our environment and represent a significant risk for human healthcare. In order to detect such gases, sensors with sensitive layers are being developed to capture and concentrate these compounds in a selective and reversible manner. A method developed at CEA in collaboration with...

BSAC Seminar: MEMS Incubation at Shanghai Industrial Technology Research Institute

November 4, 2014
Peter Himes General Manager & Vice President, SITRI Silicon Valley, Shanghai Industrial µTechnology Research Institute November 4, 2014 | 12:30 to 01:30 | 540 Cory Hall Host: John Huggins

The Shanghai Industrial microTechnology Research Institute (SITRI) was formed by the Shanghai government in cooperation with SIMIT of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (and the State Key Lab for Transducers) to create a new model for the development and commercialization of new technologies and products in MEMS, materials and other “More than Moore...

BSAC Seminar: µSpectrometer - Design Process and Simulation

October 28, 2014
Romain Mahieu CEA-Leti, MINATEC Campus, Grenoble, France October 28, 2014 | 01:00 to 01:30 | 540 Cory Hall Host: John Huggins

The first generation of µSpectrometer’s based on silicon microfabrication that have already been fabricated are based on TOF principle. However, this has proven to be very restrictive in terms of high vacuum and high speed detection systems due to high sensitivity. Therefore the second generation was design to investigate alternative structures in order to reduce the constraints on instrumentation. This last...

BSAC Seminar: Surface Tension Is Fair Game in Micro-Engineering: Let's Play!

November 25, 2014
Prof. Chang-Jin Kim Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UC Los Angeles BSAC PhD 1991 November 25, 2014 | 12:30 to 01:30 | 540 Cory Hall Host: Ming Wu

Unlike in regular scale, where tubing is needed to manipulate liquids, sub-millimeter scale liquids can be handled as discrete objects using the liquid-air interface as virtual walls. This unusual option is a result of surface tension dominating other mechanical forces in microscale. Early devices implementing this method include satellite-free inkjet printing;...

BSAC Seminar: Functional Nanomaterials and Nanofabrication Processes for Flexible Device Applications

December 2, 2014
Prof. Inkyu Park Department of Mechanical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) BSAC Postdoc 2008 December 2, 2014 | 12:30 to 01:30 | 540 Cory Hall Host: Liwei Lin

Wearable electronics are becoming a new paradigm for the next generation of computing and electronic systems. Leading global companies such as Google, Samsung and Apple are investing great effort in the development and commercialization of wearable and flexible electronic systems. The essential components for wearable electronic systems are circuits (...

BSAC Seminar: Integrated Carbon Nanotubes for MEMS Applications

December 9, 2014
Prof Jongbaeg Kim Yonsei University, Korea BSAC PhD 2004 December 9, 2014 | 12:30 to 01:30 | 540 Cory Hall Host: Liwei Lin

Controlled synthesis and adjustment of carbon nanotubes on microstructures and their applications are presented. A top-down, followed by bottom-up, integration process is performed on fully-fabricated MEMS structures to enhance the functionalities of existing MEMS and/or to develop novel sensor and actuator applications. The demonstrated microdevices include micromechanical switches with enhanced lifetime, reversible and continuous...