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BSAC Seminar: Chemical Sensor Challenges in the Trillion Sensor Universe

November 26, 2013
Dr. Joseph Stetter President & CTO, KWJ Engineering November 26, 2013 | 12:30 to 01:30 | 540 Cory Hall Host: John Huggins

There are billions of physical sensors in place that include temperature, pressure, acceleration, optical, etc. in consumer, medical, automotive and industrial devices. Devices used by and for the benefit of consumers and the infrastructure used by consumers and society have created high volume markets for sensors. Chemical sensors face an uphill challenge in this paradigm. It is relatively easy to see large scale platform...

BSAC Seminar: Biomimetic Self-Templating Assembly and Applications

December 10, 2013
Prof. Seung-Wuk Lee Department of Bioengineering, UC Berkeley Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Decemer 10, 2013 | 12:30 to 01:30 | 540 Cory Hall Host: John Huggins

In nature, helical macromolecules such as collagen, chitin and cellulose are critical to the morphogenesis and functionality of various hierarchically structured materials. During morphogenesis, these chiral macromolecules are secreted and undergo self-templating assembly, a process whereby multiple kinetic factors influence the assembly of the incoming...

BSAC Seminar: Diabetes, Biosensors and Drug Delivery

January 21, 2014
Professor Dorian Liepmann Prof. Dorian Liepmann Department of Bioengineering, UC Berkeley BSAC Co-Director January 21, 2014 | 12:30 to 01:30 | 540 Cory Hall Host: John Huggins

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BSAC Seminar: A Point-of-Care Flow Cytometer

January 28, 2014
Pramod Murali Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley BSAC Researcher January 28, 2014 | 12:30 to 01:30 | 540 Cory Hall Host: Bernhard Boser

Flow cytometer is an important tool that finds applications in medical diagnosis, water treatment, cell sorting, etc. Convectional optical flow cytometers using fluorescent labels to tag specific cells suffer from background noise impeding their use in point-of-care applications. In this talk, I will present a flow cytometer cartridge using magnetic labels that alleviates the above...

BSAC Seminar: Research Achievements of METU-MEMS Center and its Start-Up Activities

February 4, 2014
Dr. Tayfun Akin Director, METU-MEMS Center, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey February 4, 2014 | 12:30 to 01:30 | 540 Cory Hall Host: Clark Nguyen

The Middle East Technical University MEMS Center, which opened in 1995, was the first MEMS program in Turkey. The center has a 1300m² cleanroom area with state-of-the-art MEMS fabrication tools with 4", 6", and 8" wafer processing capability, and has raised $65M in research funding in the past ten years. The METU-MEMS Center has been working on the development of various sensors and actuators,...

BSAC Seminar: Analog Devices, Inc. MEMS Division: The Unofficial Journey from Accelerometers to Gyroscopes to Microphones to New Devices

February 11, 2014
Dr. Christophe Antoine Emerging Products - MEMS/Transducer Technology Group, Analog Devices Inc. February 11, 2014 | 12:30 to 01:30 | 540 Cory Hall Host: John Huggins

This presentation will humbly highlight some of the stories behind landmark MEMS products that Analog Devices Inc. (ADI) has commercialized over the past three decades: accelerometers for crash sensing in automotive applications, gyroscopes to allow electronic stability control, and high signal-to-noise ratio microphones for smartphones. It will also mention a few technologies that have not...

BSAC Seminar: Nanoimprint Lithography: From Sub-10nm Resolution to Printable Photonic Devices

February 18, 2014
Dr. Christophe Peroz aBeam Technologies, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Molecular Foundry February 18, 2014 | 12:30 to 01:30 | 540 Cory Hall Host: Paul Lum

Nanoimprint Lithography (NIL) offers unique opportunities for cost-effective fabrication of photonic devices with micro/nanometer features. Over the last six years, we have pushed the limits (e.g., resolution, materials, robustness) of the NIL techniques and opened the route for new applications. I will present a novel Step-and-Repeat NIL process on pre-spin coating films and will discuss its...

BSAC Seminar: Programmable On-Chip DNA Compartments as Artificial Cells

February 20, 2014
Eyal Karzbrun Department of Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel PhD Candidate, Prof. Roy Bar-Ziv Group February 20, 2014 | 11:00 to 12:00 | 400 Cory Hall Host: Michel Maharbiz

Encapsulating biochemical reactions in a bilayer membrane has been the focus of much work toward an artificial cell, but the barrier to materials transport through the membrane inhibits the emergence of essential cellular functions. Here, we circumvent the transport barrier by assembling a membrane-free, two-...

BSAC Seminar: Overview of the Coventor Software Tools Present at BSAC

March 11, 2014
Sandipan Maity Application Engineering Manager, Coventor Inc. March 11, 2014 | 12:30 to 01:30 | 540 Cory Hall Host: John Huggins

Coventor offers two different MEMS software platforms for academic and research purposes at BSAC. The overview will address both tool suites by comparing and contrasting use cases as well as comparative advantages.

MEMS+®, Coventor's platform for rapid evaluation of MEMS and MEMS+IC MEMS+design, enables...

BSAC Seminar: Illumina Next Generation Sequencing Technology and Applications

March 18, 2014
Arash Jamshidi Sr. Scientist, Systems Reseacher, Illumnia BSAC PhD Postdoc 2011 March 18, 2014 | 12:30 to 01:30 | 540 Cory Hall Host: Ming Wu

Next generation sequencing has made tremendous breakthroughs in the past decade, pushing the cost of whole genome sequencing to $1,000 in 2014. Illumina has been at the forefront of this progress through introduction of innovative technologies that have made this trajectory possible. In this talk, I will discuss the basics of DNA sequencing and, in particular, Illumina's...