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BSAC Seminar: Micro-Plasma Field Effect Transistors Operating at Sub-Paschen Regime

November 3, 2015
Prof. Massood Tabib-Azar Visting Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and Biomedical Engineering Department, University of Utah November 3, 2015 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall Host: Ali Javey

Micro plasma devices (MPD) with power gain are of interest in many applications involving operations in environments with ionizing radiations, propulsion, control and amplification of electromagnetic waves, and in...

BSAC Seminar: Progress Toward Wafer-Scale Thermionic Energy Conversion and Perspectives on Future University Shared Fabrication Facilities

November 10, 2015
Prof. Roger T. Howe Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University BSAC PhD 1984 November 10, 2015 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall Host: Richard Muller

Thermionic energy converters (TECs) were conceived in 1915, demonstrated in 1939, and were the focus of huge investments during the Cold War by the U.S. and the Soviet Union. A 6 kW thermionic converter, fabricated using precision machining technology, was flown in 1987 by the Soviet Union. TEC research ramped down in the 1990s and the field...

BSAC Seminar: Crumpled Two-Dimensional Materials for Multifunctional Sensor Devices

November 13, 2015
Prof. SungWoo Nam Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign November 13, 2015 | 03:00 to 04:00 | 400 Cory Hall Host: Liwei Lin

Superb electromechanical properties of two-dimensional (2D) materials provide a substantial promise for advanced nanoelectromechanical devices, flexible electronics, and wearable bioelectronic devices. My research group’s work on fabrication and processing of crumpled 2D materials-based micro-/nano-structures for...

BSAC Seminar: RF Interference in Sensor Networks

November 17, 2015
Rashid Osmani Vice President of R&D, Microphones Division, Knowles Corporation November 17, 2015 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall Host: John Huggins

Even if the hype is discounted, it is generally agreed that wireless sensor networks have tremendous growth potential. By its very nature, a wireless link is susceptible to interference that can disrupt normal operation. There are different grades of service disruption from minor annoyance to total breakdown, none of which is an acceptable option for critical...

BSAC Seminar: Xip: The Information in Your Fingertips, at Your Fingertips

November 24, 2015
Dr. Octavian Florescu President, Xip BSAC PhD 2010 November 24, 2015 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall Host: Bernhard Boser

Xip is a diagnostics company that has developed a monolithically-integrated CMOS IC that counts individual molecules in a drop of unprocessed plasma. Mated to this IC is a passive sample preparation system that uses a drop of whole blood from a finger stick and removes the red blood cells which can introduce volumetric errors. Using this technology, Xip has developed the first single-use digital blood...

BSAC Seminar: Sensors - Supporting Megatrends

December 1, 2015
Peter Deane Director, Smart Machines Architecture and Technology, Samsung Innovation Center, Menlo Park December 1, 2015 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall Host: John Huggins

This seminar will not be an in-depth technical session, but a high-level discussion that will, hopefully, be entertaining and informative. There will be a general introduction to Samsung and the Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center. Areas to be covered include key sensor-oriented thrusts and some perspectives on IoT, mHealth, and Smart Machines. The...

BSAC Seminar: Texas Instruments Digital Micromirror Device (DMD) - Where We've Come From and Where We're Heading

December 8, 2015
Dr. Patrick (Rick) Oden TI Fellow, DLP® Products Group, Texas Instruments December 8, 2015 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall Host: John Huggins

Since first public release of parts in the spring of 1996, DLP® Products has produced several tens of millions of projection systems for a variety of applications ranging from ultra-bright, cinema systems capable of handling >100K lumens down to small-form-factor (‘pico’) projection with dimensions on the order of a thumb-nail and light outputs of ~30-300 lumens. This versatility has...

BSAC Seminar: Frequency Tunable MEMS-Based Timing Oscillators and Narrowband Filters

December 15, 2015
Henry Barrow Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley BSAC Graduate Researcher Dissertation Presentation December 15, 2015 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall Host: Clark Nguyen

In modern communication systems, conventional transistor technologies cannot sufficiently meet the demand for high performance filters in terms of insertion loss, percent bandwidth, and dynamic range. Instead these filters are typically implemented using large, off-chip components with orders of magnitude higher...

BSAC Seminar: Micro and Nano Magnetic Transducers

January 21, 2016
Prof. Jürgen Kosel Computer Electrical and Mathematical Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) January 21, 2016 | 11:00 to 12:00 | 400 Cory Hall Host: Liwei Lin

Magnetism has a long history in science and engineering. It has enabled economic and technical advancement from the compass, more than 2,000 years ago, to contemporary spintronic devices. While miniaturized magnetic transducers have been central to data storage and sensor devices, they have recently penetrated new areas...

BSAC Seminar: Scalable Fabrication of Carbon-Based MEMS/NEMS and Flexible Devices

January 26, 2016
Prof. Zirong Tang School of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics January 1, 2016 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 490 Cory Hall Host: Roya Maboudian

Three-dimensional (3D) carbon-based micro/nanostructures have the advantage of excellent mechanical, electrical and electrochemical properties, superior biocompatibility, etc. Various methods will be presented to demonstrate the scale fabrication of carbon-based high-aspect-ratio MEMS/NEMS and hierarchical flexible structures for their...