This Friday, Matt Williams will be giving a seminar on the new IMG webpage, including a demonstration of how to use the new website interface to post news, events, etc. Please make every effort to attend.
Microfluidics is a rapidly expanding field and microfluidic devices are used in many different areas including biotechnology, chemical analysis and medicine. Microvalves are often one of the building blocks required to complete a successful microfluidic device. They carry out a variety of functions including containing fluids, regulating flows, and isolating one region from another in a microfluidic system.
All are welcome to attend Erin Patrick's defense of her dissertation, entitled "Design, Fabrication, and Characterization of Microelectrodes for Brain-Machine Interfaces." Refreshments will be served.
Device and circuit characterization is one of the routine tasks that most IMG students will face. Some of the characterization procedures become very challenging because of equipment limitations. For example, the parameter being measured is out of the range of available equipments, or the equipment does not have the functionality to create conditions required by the measurement.
In this talk, three basic techniques are discussed to help solve some of the common problems. They are:
Alex Phipps will defend his dissertation, entitled "Modeling and Characterization of Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Systems with the Pulse Resonant Converter." All are welcome to attend.
Within IMG, MATLAB codes are used extensively to predict device performance, usually via lumped element models (LEMs). As these models increase in complexity, it becomes harder to keep track of the many workspace variables, function input/output syntax, data formats, etc. It can also be extremely difficult to save simulation results or post-process in organized ways.
Dr. Sheplak and Dr. Nishida will be giving a talk on the state of IMG in Larsen 234. All IMG members are encouraged to participate.