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BSAC Seminar: Digital Resolution Proteomic and Genomic Liquid Biopsy using Plasmonic-Photonic Hybrid Resonators

October 22, 2019
Prof. Brian T. Cunningham Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign October 22, 2019 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 490 Cory Hall Host: Prof. Luke P. Lee

The strong electromagnetic coupling between plasmonic nanoparticles and photonic crystal surfaces is used as the basis for an ultrasensitive detection platform technology called “Activate Capture + Digital Counting” (AC+DC) that offers single step,...

BSAC Seminar: Emerging Semiconductor Nanoscale Devices and Systems for Classical and Quantum Information Processing

November 8, 2019
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BSAC Technology Seminar: Broad-Spectrum Electronic Biomolecular Sensing

February 2, 2020
Prof. Roger T. Howe Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University February 2, 2020 | 12:00 to 01:00 | 490 Cory Hall Host: Prof. Clark T.-C. Nguyen

Conventional electronic biomolecular sensors use charge transfer across an electrically biased electrode-electrolyte interface as the detection mechanism. Specificity to a single analyte molecule is possible by...

BSAC Technology Seminar: Chip-Scale Wave-Matter Interactions at RF-to-Light Frequencies: Circuits, Systems and Applications

November 16, 2021
Professor Ruonan Han Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences | Microsystems Technology Lab Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Traditional electromagnetic (EM) spectral sensors using integrated circuit technologies (e.g. automotive radars, security imagers, cameras, etc.) are normally based on wave scattering or absorption by macroscopic objects at a remote distance; the operations are also not specific in wave...

BSAC Technology Seminar: Hyperpolarized Quantum Sensors

September 28, 2021
Professor Ashok Ajoy Department of Chemistry, UC Berkeley

“Quantum sensor” technologies have opened attractive new applications stemming from the ir sensitive detection of magnetic fields. This is typified by the Nitrogen Vacancy (NV) center in diamond that has allowed the nanoscale sensing of spins in materials, molecules, and biological systems through optical means. In this talk, Professor Ashok...

BSAC Technology Seminar: Informatics Approach to Forecasting & Optimizing Batteries

October 5, 2021
Professor William Chueh Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University

The vast design space and long lifetime of batteries have limited the speed of innovations at the materials, cell, and systems level. In this talk, Professor Chueh will overview efforts at Stanford to dramatically accelerate the pace of research and development for lithium-ion batteries by hybridizing physics-based and data-driven approaches...

BSAC Technology Seminar: Engineering in Precision Medicine

October 26, 2021
Dr. Ali Khademhosseini CEO and Founding Director Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation


Engineered materials that integrate advances in polymer chemistry, nanotechnology, and biological sciences have the potential to create powerful medical therapies. Dr. Khademhosseini is interested in developing ‘personalized’ solutions that utilize micro- and nanoscale technologies to enable a range of...

Javey Lab: Researchers Demonstrate New Semiconductor Device Possibilities using Black Phosphorus

August 11, 2021
William Schulz

Stress and strain, applied in just the right manner, can sometimes produce amazing results.

That is what researchers, led by a team at UC Berkeley’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, discovered about an emerging semiconductor material — black phosphorus (BP) — used to make two types of optoelectronic devices: light emitting diodes (LEDs) and photodetectors.

Under mechanical strain, BP can be induced to emit or detect infrared (IR) light in a range of desirable wavelengths — 2.3 to 5.5 micrometers, which spans the short- to mid-wave IR — and to do so...

Lin Lab: Insect-Sized Robot Navigates Mazes with the Agility of a Cheetah

July 2, 2021
Kara Manke

Many insects and spiders get their uncanny ability to scurry up walls and walk upside down on ceilings with the help of specialized sticky footpads that allow them to adhere to surfaces in places where no human would dare to go.

Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have used the principle behind these some of these footpads, called electrostatic adhesion, to create an insect-scale robot that can swerve and pivot with the agility of a cheetah, giving it the ability to traverse complex terrain and quickly avoid unexpected obstacles.

The robot is...

BSAC Welcomes New Faculty Co-Director

May 26, 2021

Please welcome Professor Alp Sipahigil to BSAC's distinguished board of faculty co-directors.

Alp Sipahigil is the Chang Hui Faculty Fellow and an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. He has joint appointments as a Faculty Scientist at the Materials Sciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a supporting appointment at UC Berkeley Physics. His research is in solid-state quantum technologies, with a focus on hybrid quantum devices based on superconducting qubits, nanomechanics,...