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BSAC Seminar: Superlubricity-Activated Thinning of Graphite Flakes Compressed by Passivated Crystalline Silicon Substrates for Graphene Exfoliation

April 28, 2015
Prof. Hayden Taylor Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley April 28, 2015 | 12:30 to 01:30 | 540 Cory Hall Host: Dorian Liepmann

There is increasing interest in using van der Waals solids (“2D materials”) to manufacture high-performance field-effect transistors, light-emitting diodes, sensors, and other devices. The creation of these structures involves the production or isolation of single- or few-atomic layers of the constituent material(s), followed either by adhesion to other 2D materials or by the vapor...

BSAC Seminar: Empower the Machines: From the Internet of Things to a Web of Systems

May 12, 2015
Florian Michahelles Head, Web of Things Research Team, Siemens, Berkeley May 12, 2015 | 12:30 to 01:30 | 540 Cory Hall Host: John Huggins

Connectivity has allowed the internet to grow from a network of computers to an Internet of Things (IOT). Physical items are no longer isolated units, but participants in a connected world. Also, industry is beginning to recognize the value of connected machines and material in order to (re-)design processes more effectively. The presentation will consider the challenges to be solved in order to bring the IOT to the shop floor. In...

BSAC Seminar: Carbon Nanotube Sensors

June 30, 2015
Dr. Christofer Hierold Chair, Micro and Nanosystems, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zürich June 30, 2015 | 12:30 to 01:30 | 531 Cory Hall Host: David Horsley

Carbon nanotubes exhibit a number of excellent mechanical and electronic properties as functional materials in sensors. In particular, single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNT) are known for their band gap modulation due to mechanical strain, or electronic property changes due to interaction with surrounding molecules, but also for their...

BSAC Seminar: Small, Soft, Safe Micro Actuators for Bio and Medical Applications

August 17, 2015
Prof. Satoshi Konishi Department of Micro System Technology, Ritsumeikan University, Shiga, Japan Micro Nano Mechatronics Laboratory August 17, 2015 | 02:00 to 03:00 | 540 Cory Hall Host: Liwei Lin

We have studied various pneumatic balloon actuators as typical examples of small, soft and safe micro-machines. Thin and soft structures can generate force of several hundred mN, or more, by pressure of several hundred kPa. Various bio and medical applications of the pneumatic balloon actuators as well as recent work on...

BSAC Seminar: MEMS @ BOSCH

September 8, 2015
Franz Laermer Bosch September 8, 2015 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall Host: Roya Maboudian

The tutorial will give an overview on MEMS key technologies and important MEMS products from Robert Bosch Corp., as well as an outlook into future application areas, like the Internet-of-Things-and-Services (IoTS). New approaches targeting the biomedical field and molecular diagnostics, e.g., Lab-on-Chip solutions for diagnostics and analytics, will be covered as well.

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BSAC Seminar: Printable/Flexible/Stretchable Sensors: Alternative Solutions for High Volume Applications

September 15, 2015
Roger Grace President, Roger Grace Associates September 15, 2015 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall Host: John Huggins

The availability of sensors that can take the shape and work reliably in their imposed complex and demanding working environment has existed for quite some time. Interlink Electronics introduced their flexible "force sensing resistor" product line in 1985. With the recent popularity of the Internet of Things (IoT), "wearables" and more importantly….disposables…create the need for low-cost single or multiple...

BSAC Seminar: Novel Materials for Sensors and Actuators and Strategies to Develop Room Temperature Magneto Encephalography (MEG) for Brain Imaging

October 6, 2015
Prof. Massood Tabib-Azar Visiting Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley Electrical & Computer Engineering Department and Biomedical Engeering Department, University of Utah October 6, 2015 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall Host: Ali Javey

For over 5 decades, well-established materials and fabrication technologies of integrated circuits and micro-electromechanical systems have provided us with rich assortments of methodologies to envision, design, and fabricate a variety of sensors and...

BSAC Seminar: Single-Cell, 42-Plex Cytokine Analyses: From Immune Defense to Immuno Pathogenesis

October 13, 2015
Prof. Rong Fan Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Yale University October 13, 2015 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall Host: Luke Lee

Despite recent advances in single-cell genomic, transcriptional and mass cytometric profiling, it remains a challenge to collect highly multiplexed measurements of proteins produced from single cells for comprehensive analysis of immune functional state. We combine spatial and spectral encoding with ultra-high density antibody microarrays patterned in sub-nanoliter PDMS microchambers for...

BSAC Seminar: Demodulation Phase Error Correction in Open Loop Gyroscopes

October 20, 2015
Dr Chinwuba Ezekwe Bosch Sensortec, Palo Alto BSAC PhD 2007 October 20, 2015 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall Host: Bernhard Boser

Consumer electronic (CE) gyroscopes have recently enjoyed broad deployment in high volume applications, largely due to intuitive user interfaces in smart phones and video game controllers. For their continued expansion into more demanding CE applications, a further reduction of their noise, offset drift, and power dissipation, especially in the emerging always-on category, is mandatory. To be viable, solutions to these conflicting...

BSAC Seminar: Sensor Fusion Solutions for Inertial-Based Motion Tracking

October 27, 2015
Dr. Giovanni Bellusci Lead Engineer, Motion Tracking Solutions, Xsens Technologies, The Netherlands October 27, 2015 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall Host: John Huggins

Potentials offered by sensor fusion algorithms to mitigate most common errors in MEMS accelerometers and gyroscopes when used for orientation and position tracking will be discussed. The 3D body motion capture solutions developed by Xsens Technologies in the last decade will serve as detailed examples to illustrate how the use of advanced algorithms and signal processing techniques, together with...