News & Events

BSAC Seminar: Novel Materials for Sensors and Actuators and Strategies to Develop Room Temperature Magneto Encephalography (MEG) for Brain Imaging

October 6, 2015
Prof. Massood Tabib-Azar Visiting Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley Electrical & Computer Engineering Department and Biomedical Engeering Department, University of Utah October 6, 2015 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall Host: Ali Javey

For over 5 decades, well-established materials and fabrication technologies of integrated circuits and micro-electromechanical systems have provided us with rich assortments of methodologies to envision, design, and fabricate a variety of sensors and...

BSAC Seminar: Single-Cell, 42-Plex Cytokine Analyses: From Immune Defense to Immuno Pathogenesis

October 13, 2015
Prof. Rong Fan Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Yale University October 13, 2015 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall Host: Luke Lee

Despite recent advances in single-cell genomic, transcriptional and mass cytometric profiling, it remains a challenge to collect highly multiplexed measurements of proteins produced from single cells for comprehensive analysis of immune functional state. We combine spatial and spectral encoding with ultra-high density antibody microarrays patterned in sub-nanoliter PDMS microchambers for...

BSAC Seminar: Demodulation Phase Error Correction in Open Loop Gyroscopes

October 20, 2015
Dr Chinwuba Ezekwe Bosch Sensortec, Palo Alto BSAC PhD 2007 October 20, 2015 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall Host: Bernhard Boser

Consumer electronic (CE) gyroscopes have recently enjoyed broad deployment in high volume applications, largely due to intuitive user interfaces in smart phones and video game controllers. For their continued expansion into more demanding CE applications, a further reduction of their noise, offset drift, and power dissipation, especially in the emerging always-on category, is mandatory. To be viable, solutions to these conflicting...

BSAC Seminar: Sensor Fusion Solutions for Inertial-Based Motion Tracking

October 27, 2015
Dr. Giovanni Bellusci Lead Engineer, Motion Tracking Solutions, Xsens Technologies, The Netherlands October 27, 2015 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall Host: John Huggins

Potentials offered by sensor fusion algorithms to mitigate most common errors in MEMS accelerometers and gyroscopes when used for orientation and position tracking will be discussed. The 3D body motion capture solutions developed by Xsens Technologies in the last decade will serve as detailed examples to illustrate how the use of advanced algorithms and signal processing techniques, together with...

BSAC Seminar: Micro-Plasma Field Effect Transistors Operating at Sub-Paschen Regime

November 3, 2015
Prof. Massood Tabib-Azar Visting Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and Biomedical Engineering Department, University of Utah November 3, 2015 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall Host: Ali Javey

Micro plasma devices (MPD) with power gain are of interest in many applications involving operations in environments with ionizing radiations, propulsion, control and amplification of electromagnetic waves, and in...

BSAC Seminar: Progress Toward Wafer-Scale Thermionic Energy Conversion and Perspectives on Future University Shared Fabrication Facilities

November 10, 2015
Prof. Roger T. Howe Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University BSAC PhD 1984 November 10, 2015 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall Host: Richard Muller

Thermionic energy converters (TECs) were conceived in 1915, demonstrated in 1939, and were the focus of huge investments during the Cold War by the U.S. and the Soviet Union. A 6 kW thermionic converter, fabricated using precision machining technology, was flown in 1987 by the Soviet Union. TEC research ramped down in the 1990s and the field...

BSAC Seminar: Crumpled Two-Dimensional Materials for Multifunctional Sensor Devices

November 13, 2015
Prof. SungWoo Nam Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign November 13, 2015 | 03:00 to 04:00 | 400 Cory Hall Host: Liwei Lin

Superb electromechanical properties of two-dimensional (2D) materials provide a substantial promise for advanced nanoelectromechanical devices, flexible electronics, and wearable bioelectronic devices. My research group’s work on fabrication and processing of crumpled 2D materials-based micro-/nano-structures for...

BSAC Seminar: RF Interference in Sensor Networks

November 17, 2015
Rashid Osmani Vice President of R&D, Microphones Division, Knowles Corporation November 17, 2015 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall Host: John Huggins

Even if the hype is discounted, it is generally agreed that wireless sensor networks have tremendous growth potential. By its very nature, a wireless link is susceptible to interference that can disrupt normal operation. There are different grades of service disruption from minor annoyance to total breakdown, none of which is an acceptable option for critical...

BSAC Seminar: Xip: The Information in Your Fingertips, at Your Fingertips

November 24, 2015
Dr. Octavian Florescu President, Xip BSAC PhD 2010 November 24, 2015 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall Host: Bernhard Boser

Xip is a diagnostics company that has developed a monolithically-integrated CMOS IC that counts individual molecules in a drop of unprocessed plasma. Mated to this IC is a passive sample preparation system that uses a drop of whole blood from a finger stick and removes the red blood cells which can introduce volumetric errors. Using this technology, Xip has developed the first single-use digital blood...

BSAC Seminar: Sensors - Supporting Megatrends

December 1, 2015
Peter Deane Director, Smart Machines Architecture and Technology, Samsung Innovation Center, Menlo Park December 1, 2015 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall Host: John Huggins

This seminar will not be an in-depth technical session, but a high-level discussion that will, hopefully, be entertaining and informative. There will be a general introduction to Samsung and the Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center. Areas to be covered include key sensor-oriented thrusts and some perspectives on IoT, mHealth, and Smart Machines. The...