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BSAC Seminar: Texas Instruments Digital Micromirror Device (DMD) - Where We've Come From and Where We're Heading

December 8, 2015
Dr. Patrick (Rick) Oden TI Fellow, DLP® Products Group, Texas Instruments December 8, 2015 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall Host: John Huggins

Since first public release of parts in the spring of 1996, DLP® Products has produced several tens of millions of projection systems for a variety of applications ranging from ultra-bright, cinema systems capable of handling >100K lumens down to small-form-factor (‘pico’) projection with dimensions on the order of a thumb-nail and light outputs of ~30-300 lumens. This versatility has...

BSAC Seminar: Frequency Tunable MEMS-Based Timing Oscillators and Narrowband Filters

December 15, 2015
Henry Barrow Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley BSAC Graduate Researcher Dissertation Presentation December 15, 2015 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall Host: Clark Nguyen

In modern communication systems, conventional transistor technologies cannot sufficiently meet the demand for high performance filters in terms of insertion loss, percent bandwidth, and dynamic range. Instead these filters are typically implemented using large, off-chip components with orders of magnitude higher...

BSAC Seminar: Micro and Nano Magnetic Transducers

January 21, 2016
Prof. Jürgen Kosel Computer Electrical and Mathematical Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) January 21, 2016 | 11:00 to 12:00 | 400 Cory Hall Host: Liwei Lin

Magnetism has a long history in science and engineering. It has enabled economic and technical advancement from the compass, more than 2,000 years ago, to contemporary spintronic devices. While miniaturized magnetic transducers have been central to data storage and sensor devices, they have recently penetrated new areas...

BSAC Seminar: Scalable Fabrication of Carbon-Based MEMS/NEMS and Flexible Devices

January 26, 2016
Prof. Zirong Tang School of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics January 1, 2016 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 490 Cory Hall Host: Roya Maboudian

Three-dimensional (3D) carbon-based micro/nanostructures have the advantage of excellent mechanical, electrical and electrochemical properties, superior biocompatibility, etc. Various methods will be presented to demonstrate the scale fabrication of carbon-based high-aspect-ratio MEMS/NEMS and hierarchical flexible structures for their...

BSAC Seminar: Molecular-Scale and Polymer-Based Electronic Devices

February 2, 2016
Prof. Takhee Lee Visiting Professor, UC Berkeley Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University, Molecular Nanoelectronics Lab February 2, 2016 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 490 Cory Hall Host: Ali Javey

Research developments in the utilization of individual molecules or molecular monolayers as electronic and optoelectronic device components will be introduced. Specifically, recently developed understanding of the electrical transport characteristics and device functionalities through various types of molecular junctions with a high device yield on rigid or...

BSAC Seminar: On the Origin of Microsystems: The Symbiosis of Electrons and Photons

February 9, 2016
Behnam Behroozpour Behnam Behroozpour Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley February 9, 2016 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 490 Cory Hall Host: Bernhard Boser

The future of the human–machine society, such as IoT and electronic cities, calls for a more dynamic technology paradigm that can easily conform to upcoming needs. IC fabrication techniques have already led to the development of technologies...

BSAC Seminar: Dynamics-Enhanced Sensory Processing in Microelectromechanical Systems

February 16, 2016
Dr Ashwin Seshia Fellow, Department of Electrical Engineering, Queens' College, University of Cambridge

Reader in Microsystems Technology

On Sabbatical at UC Berkeley

February 16, 2016 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 490 Cory Hall Host: John Huggins

Instruments based on resonant and oscillatory elements have historically been employed to conduct some of the most accurate physical measurements. This talk describes research to enable miniaturized electromechanical sensor...

BSAC Seminar: Reconfigurable RF Resonators: Architectures and Technology

March 15, 2016
Prof. Dimitrios Peroulis School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University Deputy Director, Birck Nanotechnology Center March 15, 2016 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 490 Cory Hall Host: Tsu-Jae King Liu

The next generation of 5G communication systems comes with vastly different requirements for the RF front-ends from what our existing systems are used to. Reconfigurable RF devices in new bands up to 100 GHz are envisioned for 5G systems. Additionally, their multifunctional characteristics tend to impose linearity requirements and interference mitigation...

BSAC Seminar: Harnessing the Chemistry and Photophysics of Porous Silicon for Degradable Micro- and Nano-Scale Sensing Devices

April 19, 2016
Prof. Michael J. Sailor Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, UC San Diego Materials Science and Engineering, Department of Bioengineering, Department of Nanoengineering April 19, 2016 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 490 Cory Hall Host: Kris Pister

There is increasing emphasis on electronic and micromechanical devices that incorporate graceful or catastrophic degradation into their designs. Whereas complete disintegration might be a convenience for disposable devices designated for use in the field (such as air or water quality monitors, wireless communications, etc.), it...

BSAC Seminar: Digital Water: Evolution of the Insights of Lord Rayleigh

April 26, 2016
Dr. Gilbert A. Hawkins Associate Research Director, Kodak Research Lab April 26, 2016 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 490 Cory Hall Host: John Huggins

As fields of science progress, they occasionally mature to points of some "closure," where there is a perception among many workers that a unified framework of understanding has been developed, has been tested from many points of view, has led to important ramifications to society, and is communicable to a broad audience with some elegance.

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