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BSAC Seminar: Printed Electrochemical and MEMS Sensors for Air Quality and e-Health Applications

November 15, 2016
Dr. Joe Stetter President & CTO, KWJ Engineering November 15, 2016 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 490 Cory Hall Host: Michael Cable

KWJ and partner SPEC-Sensors LLC have fabricated a family of miniature, yet high-performance, Screen Printed Electro-Chemical [SPEC] gas sensors for air quality (indoor and outdoor) and wearable personal exposure monitoring. We have advanced gas sensor technology to the point where we are able to bridge the cost-performance-gap. New devices in distributed high volume environmental and wearable markets using SPEC sensors are appearing. Sensing in...

BSAC Seminar: Magnetic Shape Memory: From Terminator 2 to Microfluidics

November 29, 2016
Dr. Peter Müllner Micron School of Materials Science and Engineering, Boise State University November 29, 2016 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 490 Cory Hall Host: Michael Cable

You may have seen something like magnetic shape memory (MSM) alloys at the movies. In Terminator 2, a “liquid metal” robot faces-off against a more traditionally engineered robot. Although not humanoid, MSM alloy uses the same basic principle: it shape-shifts. Apply a magnetic field, and the material responds with a shape change. Remove the field, and the new shape...

BSAC Seminar: Recent Activities on Development of Al-Alloy Sputtering Targets for High Temperature Interconnections

December 6, 2016
Dr. Kazushi Hayashi Kobelco Research Institute, Kobe Steel, Ltd. December 6, 2016 | 03:00 to 04:00 | 531 Cory Hall Host: Jim Cheng

The Sputtering Target Division of KOBELCO RESEARCH INSTITUTE, a subsidiary of Kobe Steel, Ltd., has been developing original sputtering targets for new thin films, proposing a wide range of industrial applications in FPD, Optical Discs, and power electronics field. The Electronics Research Laboratory of Kobe Steel, Ltd has a long experiences with sputtering, micro fabrication and testing systems and is responsible for the development of...

BSAC Seminar: Integrated Nanoscale Antenna-LED for On-Chip Optical Communication

May 2, 2017
Seth Fortuna Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley BSAC Graduate Researcher Dissertation Presentation May 2, 2017 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall Host: Ming Wu

Traditional semiconductor light emitting diodes (LEDs) have low modulation speed because of long spontaneous emission lifetime. Spontaneous emission in semiconductors (and indeed most light emitters) is an inherently slow process owing to the size mismatch between the length of the atomic optical dipole oscillations responsible...

BSAC Seminar: Single Crystal Diamond as a Material for Micro- and Nanosystems

January 23, 2018
Prof. Niels Quack Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) BSAC Postdoc, 2014 January 23, 2018 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 540 Cory Hall Host: Ming Wu

The extraordinary material properties of single crystal diamond provide great promise for numerous micro- and nanosystems: the wide spectral range of transparency from the UV into the far IR, in combination with high thermal conductivity, mechanical hardness, chemical resistance and biocompatibility make the case for outstanding photonic components, while the combination of high elasticity and crystalline structure...

BSAC Researcher Seminar: FMCW Lidar: Scaling to the Chip-Level and Improving Phase-Noise-Limited Performance

November 28, 2017
Phillip Sandborn Philip Sandborn Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley BSAC Graduate Researcher November 28, 2017 | 12:00 to 01:00 | Wozniak Lounge, 430 Soda Hall Host: Ming Wu

Lidar (light detection and ranging) technology has the potential to revolutionize the way automated systems interact with their environments and their users. Most lidar systems in industrial use rely on pulsed (or "time...

BSAC Researcher Seminar: Ionocraft: Flying Microrobots With No Moving Parts

September 11, 2018
Daniel Drew Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley BSAC Graduate Researcher, Kris Pister Group September 11, 2018 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 490 Cory Hall Host: Michael Cable

Electrohydrodynamic (EHD) force was noted as early as 1709 and investigated by great minds like Benjamin Franklin, Faraday, and Maxwell. The presentation will focus on research developing novel EHD actuators using MEMS microfabrication techniques and investigations into miniaturization and scaling of EHD thrusters. Robotic platforms enabled by EHD thrusters...

BSAC Researcher Seminar: Direct Frequency-to-Digital Gyroscopes with Low Drift and High Accuracy

November 13, 2018
Dr. Burak Eminoglu Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley BSAC Postdoctoral Researcher, Bernhard Boser Group November 13, 2018 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 490 Cory Hall Host: Michael Cable

MEMS gyroscopes have been used for a variety of applications including gaming and image stabilization. Long term stability of commercial MEMS gyroscopes remains a hindrance to meeting navigation requirements. In order to meet these requirements, a new solution is needed to improve long term stability without inordinate size, cost, and...

BSAC Technology Seminar: Ultra-Low Power and Scalable Programmable Silicon Photonic MEMS

May 20, 2022
Tuesday, 20 May 2022 at 11 am | 521 Cory Hall

Professor Sangyoon Han Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering | Intelligent Nanophotonics Laboratory Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST) Host: Professor Ming Wu
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BSAC Researcher Seminar: High-Q Strong Coupling Capacitive-Gap Transduced RF Micromechanical Resonators

December 3, 2019
Alper Ozgurluk Alper Ozgurluk Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley December 3, 2019 | 2:00 to 3:00 | 490 Cory Hall Host: Prof. Clark T.-C. Nguyen Dissertation Presentation

Single-digit-nanometer electrode-to-resonator gaps have enabled 200-MHz radial-contour mode polysilicon disk resonators with motional resistance Rx as low as 144Ohm...