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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...

BSAC Seminar: Overview of ANSYS Simulation Software: Multiphysics, MEMS, and Microfluidics to Optimization

April 1, 2014
Ming Yao Ding Senior Application Engineer, ANSYS, Inc. April 1, 2014 | 12:30 to 01:30 | 540 Cory Hall Host: John Huggins

ANSYS Inc., the world leader in engineering simulation software, has broad capabilities in the area of multiphysics that are currently available at BSAC. These capabilities include piezoelectric, thermal electric, thermal structural, thermoelastic, fluid-structural, and more. This presentation and demonstration will provide an overview of these capabilities. Application examples such as MEMS as well as...

BSAC Seminar: Cool MEMS Applications are Heating Up

April 8, 2014
Dr. Leslie Field Founder, SmallTech Consulting BSAC PhD 1991 April 8, 2014 | 12:30 to 01:30 | 540 Cory Hall Host: Richard White

The presentation will include a discussion of MEMS applications in microfluidic, biomedical, and climate-related areas from an industrial perspective. Wearable technology for activity and health monitoring provide hot opportunities for consumer products and further research. Drug delivery is a perennial area of interest, and seems to be heating up lately. And the application of MEMS devices for monitoring and mitigating...

BSAC Seminar: The Development and Applications of Single Molecule Real-Time DNA Sequencing

April 22, 2014
Dr. Stephen Turner Founder and CTO, Pacific Biosciences of California April 22, 2014 | 12:30 to 01:30 | 540 Cory Hall Host: Ming Wu

Since the advent of the first single molecule detection technologies in the late 1980s, scientists and technologist dreamed of being able to sequence an individual molecule of DNA. This goal has been realized and commercially deployed by Pacific Biosciences of California. This talk will outline the foundational technology developments in nanophotonics and biochemistry on which the method is based, as well as some anecdotes...

BSAC Seminar: Robotizing Functional Nanoentities for Single-Cell Drug Delivery, Bioanalysis and Tunable Biochemical Release

April 29, 2014
Prof. Donglei (Emma) Fan Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin Materials Science and Engineering Program, Nanomaterial Innovation Lab April 29, 2014 | 12:30 to 01:30 | 540 Cory Hall Host: Luke Lee

In this talk, I will discuss innovative concepts and approaches for robotizing functional nanoentities into highly controllable nanomotors for single-cell drug delivery, bioanalysis and tunable biochemical release. Arrays of designed nanoparticles can be precisely transported along arbitrary trajectories, assembled and actuated as...

BSAC Seminar: Solar-Thermophotovoltaics: Towards a Full-Spectrum Solar Energy Conversion and Storage Solution

May 6, 2014
Dr. Jeffrey Chou Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Micro & Nanosystems Laboratory BSAC PhD 2012 May 6, 2014 | 12:30 to 01:30 | 540 Cory Hall Host: Ming Wu

The intermittency of solar energy conversion via photovoltaics presents a major obstacle to their extensive penetration into the grid. Thus, despite major advances in solar cell efficiency, the path to fully integrated solar energy remains incomplete without solar energy storage solutions. In this talk, our recent work on the development of solar-thermophotovoltaic (STPV)...