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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...

BSAC Seminar: A CMOS Magnetic Sensor Chip for Biomedical Assay

November 8, 2011
Paul Liu Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley BSAC Researcher November 8, 2011 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall, DOP Center Conference Room Host: Bernhard Boser

The growing need for point-of-care biomedical assays motivates a significant reduction in the size and cost of present technologies. Current solutions use fluorescent or enzymatic labels with complex optical...

BSAC Seminar: Biomedical Applications for MEMS

November 1, 2011
Prof. Shuvo Roy Director, Biomedical Microdevices Lab, UCSF November 1, 2011 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall, DOP Center Conference Room Host: John Huggins

Recent progress in microelectromechanical systems - the microelectronics, microfabrication and micromachining technologies known collectively as MEMS - is being applied to biomedical applications and has become a new field of research unto itself, known...

BSAC Seminar: MEMS Marketing: Oxymoron or Opportunity

November 22, 2011
Roger Grace President, Roger Grace Associates November 22, 2011 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall, DOP Center Conference Room Host: John Huggins

Since 1998 I have been reporting on the 14 critical success factors that my research has shown to be the key to MEMS commercialization success via my annual “MEMS Commercialization Report Card.” One of the factors is marketing. While many of the other factors, including R&D...

BSAC Seminar: A Two-Axis Piezoelectric Optical Scanner and Tilting Micromirror with a Newly Developed PZT-Meandering Actuator

November 15, 2011
Dr. Yoshiaki Yasuda Chief Engineering, Standly Electric Co., R&D Center, Yokohama Japan November 15, 2011 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall, DOP Center Conference Room Host: John Huggins

In this presentation, we describe a new mechanical design for a Piezoelectric unimorph actuator that generate large static deflection angles by accumulating angular displacement in a cascaded Piezoelectric cantilever formed in a...

BSAC Seminar: Chip-Scale Atomic Devices: Precision Instruments Using Atoms, Lasers, and MEMS

November 29, 2011
John Kitching Leader, Atomic Devices and Instruments Group, Boulder Labs, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) November 29, 2011 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall, DOP Center Conference Room Host: Clark Nguyen

We describe recent work at NIST to develop precision instruments based on atomic spectroscopy, advanced semiconductor lasers and MEMS. These millimeter-scale instruments achieve levels of stability or...

BSAC Seminar: Power Electronic Interface Circuits for Energy Harvesting Devices

December 8, 2011
Prof. Paul Mitcheson Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College of London December 8, 2011 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 521 Cory Hall, Hogan Room Host: Igor Paprotny

The vast majority of work in the energy harvesting and PowerMEMS communities concentrates on transducer design without considering the necessary power electronic interface between transducer and load. Where the power processor circuit has been considered,...

BSAC Seminar: Saving the World with MEMS: Applications to Energy, Environmental Sensing, and Microrobotics

December 13, 2011
Dr. Igor Paprotny Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley BSAC Postdoctoral Researcher December 13, 2011 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 521 Cory Hall, Hogan Room Host: Kris Pister

As Earth’s population reaches 7 billion people, we are faced with unprecedented challenges that threaten our very existence. Rising energy consumption, coupled with our reliance on fossil energy resources, is changing the climate in ways that may...

BSAC Researcher Seminar: Chemical Sensitive Field Effect Transistors

July 11, 2017
Dr. Hossain Fahad Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley BSAC Postdoctoral Researcher, Ali Javey Group July 11, 2017 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall Host: Michael Cable

Silicon IC-based fabrication processes develop novel compact gas sensors that, unlike current sensors, operate at room temperature, consume minimal power, exhibit superior sensitivity, provide...

BSAC Researcher Seminar: All-Mechanical Receivers

August 8, 2017
Dr. Ruonan Liu Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley BSAC Postdoctoral Researcher, Clark Nguyen Group August 8, 2017 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall Host: Michael Cable

The widespread expectation that autonomous sensor networks will fuel massively accessible information technology, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), comes with the daunting realization that...