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BSAC Seminar: Silicon Carbide Micro-/Nanosystems for Sensing and Energy Applications

December 16, 2014
Professor Roya Maboudian Prof. Roya Maboudian Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, UC Berkeley BSAC Co-Director December 16, 2014 | 12:30 to 01:30 | 540 Cory Hall Host: John Huggins

Silicon has been the dominant semiconducting material in micro-/nanosystems technologies. However, the material and surface properties of silicon impose limitations on its use in applications involving harsh...

BSAC Seminar: Gallium Nitride-Based Sensors and Systems

December 17, 2014
Prof. Mina Rais-Zadeh Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Michigan December 17, 2014 | 12:30 to 01:30 | 540 Cory Hall Host: Clark Nguyen

In the past few years there has been rapid growth of III-V semiconductors geared toward a variety of applications where silicon performance falls short. GaN, a III-V semiconductor, has proven to be the material of choice for high-frequency, high-power, and high-temperature applications. GaN also offers a number of excellent mechanical properties making it a...

BSAC Seminar: Microsystems for Pharmaceutical Development and Production

January 12, 2015
Prof. Rajeev Ram Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology January 12, 2015 | 03:00 to 04:00 | 521 Cory Hall Host: Ming Wu

The presentation will explore microfluidics and microphotonics as tools for the rapid development of therapeutic proteins. Recent work on microfluidic devices for closed-loop control of the metabolic state of a productive cell line (both microbial and mammalian) will be presented. We demonstrate that the control afforded by the combination of...

BSAC Seminar: Micro/Nanoscale 3D Printing Means It's the End of Biomanufacturing as We Know It ♫ (& I Feel Fine) ♫

January 27, 2015
Dr. Ryan Sochol NIH Fellow, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences & Technology January 27, 2015 | 12:30 to 01:30 | 540 Cory Hall Host: Liwei Lin

In President Barack Obama’s 2013 State of the Union Address, he remarked that 3D printing could change “the way we make almost everything.” Similar to the way in which the transition from vacuum tube-based technologies to solid-state components transformed the field of electronics, the shift from standard top-down fabrication methods (e.g., soft lithography) to emerging ...

BSAC Seminar: Sensors, MEMS and Microsystems at the Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems

February 3, 2015
Albert Henning Ph.D. Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems February 3, 2015 | 12:30 to 01:30 | 521 Cory Hall Host: John Huggins

Headquartered in Munich, with a partial subvention from the German Federal Republic, the Fraunhofer Society (FhG) has many different aspects and attributes, and it is commonly misunderstood by most professionals in STEM fields external of Germany. FhG has over 25,000 'Mitarbeiter,' or employee-colleagues, spread over 67 separate institutes, most of which are found in Germany. Each...

BSAC Seminar: MEMS/NEMS Technologies for High-Performance Transducers

February 6, 2015
Prof. Xinxin Li Director, State Key Lab of Transducer Technology Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences February 6, 2015 | 10:00 to 11:00 | 540 Cory Hall Host: Liwei Lin

This seminar discusses the development and investigation of a MIS single-wafer micromachining technology, sensing effects and micro/nano sensors. Applications include volume manufacturable physical sensors for use in automobiles, smart phones and medical analysis. With combined micro/nano integration,...

BSAC Seminar: APIs: How to Make Sensor Networks More Relevant and Secure End-Point Data

February 10, 2015
Sachin Agarwal Vice President, Product Marketing, SDA Software February 10, 2015 | 12:30 to 01:30 | 540 Cory Hall Host: John Huggins

Wearables and sensors may be the hip new accessories in the hot emerging Internet of Things (IOT), but when that slick Thing on your face/wrist/body needs to grab data from an enterprise back-end system or access functionality for a cloud-based application, it's really just another client making an API call. How you handle that API call can make a huge difference in the relevance and proper...

BSAC Seminar: Microfluidic Stretchable RF Electronics

February 6, 2015
Prof. Klas Hjort Head, Microsystems, Technology Program. Uppsala University, Sweden February 6, 2015 | 01:00 to 02:00 | 521 Cory Hall Host: Ming Wu

In contrast to the traditional rigid and brittle silicon-based electronics, stretchable electronics has brought interest due to its high mechanical compliance when it is attached to complex and soft surfaces such as our skin, eyes or inner organs. This is of particular interest for many devices which require ergonomic interfaces to enhance our user experience, e.g.,...

BSAC Seminar: Estimation of Dynamic Interfacial Forces in Mechanical and Vehicle Systems

February 17, 2015
Prof. Rajendra Singh Director, NSF I/UCRC Smart Vehicle Concepts Center, Ohio State University February 17, 2015 | 12:30 to 01:30 | 540 Cory Hall Host: John Huggins

Direct measurement of dynamic forces is not practical in many real-life applications because the interfacial conditions may change. Thus indirect force estimation methods must be developed, though they pose special difficulty for nonlinear mechanical elements since the transfer path type methods are applicable only for linear systems. The first example considers the hydraulic engine mount as...

BSAC Seminar: Single Molecular-Level Association of Chemical Activity with Biomolecular Motion Using MEMS Devices

March 3, 2015
Prof. Hiroyuki Fujita Director, Center for International Research on Micronano Mechatronics (CIRMM), University of Tokyo March 3, 2015 | 12:30 to 01:30 | 540 Cory Hall Host: Liwei Lin

MEMS fabrication and microactuators emerged in the late 1980’s. Today, these devices are applied to commercial products and to scientific tools for nano and bio technologies. This enables precise measurement of the mechanical, electrical, and chemical properties of nano/bio objects with simultaneous observation by optical or electron microscopy. Prof. Hiroyuki Fujita will...