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BSAC Seminar: Toward Closing the Loop: Circuits and Systems for Real-Time Neurochemical Sensing and Activity-Dependent Intracortical Microstimulation

April 26, 2011
Prof. Pedram Mohseni Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Case Western Reserve University April 26, 2011 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall, DOP Center Conference Room Host: Michel Maharbiz

To date, brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) have sought to interface the brain with the external world using intrinsic neuronal signals as input commands for controlling external devices, or device-generated electrical signals to mimic sensory inputs to the nervous system. A new generation of neuroprostheses is now emerging that aims to combine...

BSAC Seminar: Functional Contact Lenses

May 3, 2011
Prof. Babak Parviz University of Washington May 3, 2011 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall, DOP Center Conference Room Host: John Huggins

Integration of miniature functional devices on contact lenses provides a unique opportunity for collecting information from and providing information to a user. This talk provides a brief overview of recent efforts at the University of Washington to design, build, and test a contact lens that may incorporate small optical elements or sensors. The UW group has demonstrated the integration of antennas, small radios, and...

BSAC Seminar: MEMS at Tohoku University and the Earthquake in Sendai

June 14, 2011
Prof. Masayoshi Esashi Advanced Institute for Materials Researcher, Tohoku University June 14, 2011 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall, DOP Center Conference Room Host: Al Pisano

The Microsystem Integration Center was established in 2010 to develop integrated microsystems aimed at the competitiveness of industry based on MEMS technology. There are 20...

BSAC Seminar: A Microfluidics Application: Navier-Stokes and Convection-Diffusion Equations

June 21, 2011
Prof. Ciro Filemon Flores-Rivera Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, México June 21, 2011 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall, DOP Center Conference Room Host: Dorian Liepmann

An interesting application in microfluidics is a micromixer. It is a micrometric device capable of obtaining a uniform distribution from several components of...

BSAC Seminar: Disco Hi-Tec Technology Update & Dicing Saw

June 28, 2011
Damian Paszkeicz Disco Hi-Tec America, Santa Clara June 28, 2011 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall, DOP Center Conference Room Host: Bill Flounders

Disco Hi-Tec has an Applications Lab with $14M of equipment specifically designed to enable leading-edge process development for Kiru, Kezuru, and Migaku technologies (KKM Dicing, Grinding and Polishing). The...

BSAC Seminar: Intermetallic (SLID) Bonding for High Temperature Applications of Microsystems

August 23, 2011
Prof. Knut Aasmundtveit Vestfold University College, Norway August 23, 2011 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall, DOP Center Conference Room Host: Debbie Senesky

Solid-Liquid InterDiffusion (SLID) bonding is a novel bonding technique for microsystems. The technique uses thin layers of a two-metal system: a high temperature-melting metal (e.g., Cu or Au) and a low temperature-...

BSAC Seminar: Active Micro-Optics: Novel Tunable Optics Made in Germany

July 22, 2011
Prof. Hans Zappe Department of Microsystems Engineering, Univesity of Freiburg, Germany July 22, 2011 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall, DOP Center Conference Room Host: Ming Wu

Advances in opto-mechatronics, microsystems and micro- and nano-optics have led to a rapid development of new types of photonic components, and one of the most exciting new developments is...

BSAC Seminar: Micropost Arrays to Advance Cell Handling

August 30, 2011
Ryan Sochol Department of Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley BSAC Researcher, Dissertation Presentation August 30, 2011 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall, DOP Center Conference Room Host: Liwei Lin

Mechanical engineering methods and microfabrication techniques offer powerful means for meeting biological challenges. In particular, microfabrication processes...

BSAC Seminar: Tiny Leaps for Robot-kind: Mobility, Mechanisms, and Motors for Microrobots

September 27, 2011
Prof. Sarah Bergbreiter Department of Mechanical Engineering, Univeristy of Maryland BSAC PhD 2007 September 27, 2011 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall, DOP Center Conference Room Host: Kris Pister

Research on mobile microrobots has been ongoing for the last 20 years, but the few robots that have walked have done so at slow speeds on smooth silicon wafers. However, ants can move at...

BSAC Seminar: Electrochemical Sensors for Early Detection of Cancer - a Chance for Life

October 4, 2011
Prof. Raluca-Ioana van Staden Head of Electrochemistry Lab and PATLAB, National Institution of Researcher of Electrochemistry and Condensed Matter, Bucharest, Hungary October 4, 2011 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall, DOP Center Conference Room Host: Katalin Voros

Early detection of diseases such as cancer is very important because prospects of a cure greatly increase if they are detected...