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BSAC Researcher Seminar: Batteryless Wireless Sensors

September 12, 2017
Dr. Osama Khan Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley BSAC Postdoctoral Researcher, Kris Pister Group September 12, 2017 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 490 Cory Hall Host: Michael Cable

We are entering an era where computing, sensing and communication are becoming disposable. This paradigm shift in computing is the key to enable the scale that the Internet-of-Things (IoT) promises, i.e., one trillion wireless sensors in the next 10 to 15 years. This staggering scale imposes new design and system challenges. The microsystem serves as...

BSAC Researcher Seminar: Atmospheric & Power System Sensors

October 10, 2017
Prof. Richard M. White BSAC Co-Founder October 10, 2017 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 490 Cory Hall Host: Michael Cable

The presentation will focus on a novel energy harvester and options for measuring and reporting air quality locally as well as measuring variables related to management of the local power systems. Extensive studies show that for people who live in U.S. residences the most serious pollutant is small...

BSAC Researcher Seminar: Gas Sensing at Room Temperature Using Graphene Transistors

December 12, 2017
Yumeng Liu Department of Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley BSAC Graduate Researcher, Liwei Lin Group December 12, 2017 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 490 Cory Hall Host: Michael Cable

In the contemporary age of sensing technologies for broad applications such as the Internet of Things, the capability to make low power, versatile, small form factor gas sensors could transform the fields of gas sensing systems into...

BSAC Researcher Seminar: Optimized Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers: From Material to Array Designs

February 13, 2018
Qi Wang Department of Mechanical Engineering, UC Davis BSAC Graduate Researcher, David Horsley Group February 13, 2018 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 490 Cory Hall Host: Michael Cable

Recent developments in piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducers (PMUT) have led to many applications such as gesture recognition sensors, fat level sensors, and fingerprint sensors, yet issues such as low output pressure, narrow bandwidth, and high fabrication costs still impede full commercialization for more applications. In this presentation, the improvement of PMUT performance will be...

BSAC Researcher Seminar: New Drug Discovery Platforms and Organ-on-a-Chip Models

January 9, 2018
Dr. SoonGweon Hong Department of Bioengineering, UC Berkeley Project Scientist, Luke Lee Group January 09, 2018 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 490 Cory Hall Host: Michael Cable

The presentation will focus on physiologically-modeled drug discovery platforms for various human organs. To avoid high costs and health risks caused by unexpected drug failures, there is a critical need for new drug discovery methods. Micro- and nanoscale engineering enabling precise microphysiological regulation is recognized as a potential approach to facilitate new drug discovery with...

BSAC Researcher Seminar: Putting the Lab Back on the Chip: Active Sensing and Flow Control in Plastic Microfluidic Devices

March 13, 2018
Marc Chooljian Department of Bioengineering. UC Berkeley BSAC Graduate Researcher, Dorian Liepmann Group March 13, 2018 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 490 Cory Hall Host: Michael Cable

The idea of a "microscale total analysis system," or "lab-on-a-chip," inspires academic research due to the promise of increased replicability and throughput in biochemical screening, and the capability to measure and manipulate biology...

BSAC Researcher Seminar: Advances in Nanomaterials for Low-Power Gas Sensing

April 10, 2018
David Gardner David Gardner Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, UC Berkeley BSAC Graduate Researcher, Roya Maboudian Group April 10, 2018 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 490 Cory Hall Host: Michael Cable

Accurate detection of hazardous chemicals is critical to public and environmental health, as well as maintaining safe and efficient operations for many industrial processes. The...

BSAC Researcher Seminar: A High-Density Carbon Fiber Neural Recording Array Technology

May 8, 2018
Travis Massey Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley BSAC Graduate Researcher, Michel Maharbiz Group June 12, 2018 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 490 Cory Hall Host: Michael Cable

Increasingly advanced tools are desired for detecting electrical activity in the brain, with many applications demanding ever greater channel count and finer sampling pitch to maximize neural information gathered while still minimizing the adverse biological response to the implanted device. I will present a 32-channel carbon fiber...

BSAC Researcher Seminar: Optical Phased Array for LiDAR Applications

June 12, 2018
Dr. Youmin Wang Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley BSAC Postdoctoral Researcher, Ming Wu Group June 12, 2018 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 490 Cory Hall Host: Michael Cable

The focus of the presentation is the development of a MEMS-based optical phased array with an unprecedented aperture size and phased shifter array size. Optical phased array (OPA) are well known and...

BSAC Researcher Seminar: Wearable Sweat Sensors

July 10, 2018
Mallika Bariya Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley BSAC Graduate Researcher, Ali Javey Group July 10, 2018 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 490 Cory Hall Host: Michael Cable

Human sweat has emerged as an appealing biofluid for non-invasive monitoring of health and physiology. Developments in wearable sweat sensors has created the possibility of continuous in situ sensing of sweat biomarkers for personalized and predictive healthcare. The presentation will focus on the Javey Lab’s seminal work on continuous, in situ,...