Shancy Augustine will defend her dissertation proposal, entitled "Low Power Fluidic Control Techniques for Lab-on-a-Chip Plastic Devices" at 10:00am on Thursday, June 13th in LAR 234. Refreshments will be provided.
The goal of this project is to develop thermally actuated and manufactuable microfluidic valves for a variety of applications. The valves can be integrated in a device; the actuation of valves will be controlled by a printed circuit board (PCB). The valves are expected to be useful in any system that needs flow controls and fluid metering. The project has been funded by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and a project for an immunoassay array involving a number of microvalves is currently funded by National Institute of Health (NIH). More info can be found in this link: http://www2.mae.ufl.edu/%7Ehfan/Research.html
Amit Gupta will defend his dissertation proposal, entitled "Investigation of Electrical Bias, Mechanical Stress, Temperature and Ambient Effect on AlGaN/GaN HEMT Time-Dependent Degradation" at 10:00am on Thursday, February 21st in NEB 401. Refreshments will be provided.
Viswanath Sankar will defend his dissertation proposal, entitled "Investigation and Mitigation of Abiotic Factors Affecting Reliability of Microelectrode Arrays in Chronic Neural Implants" at 10:00am on Friday, November 16th in NEB 409. Refreshments will be provided.
Mehmet Onur Baykan will defend his dissertation, entitled "Strain Effects in Low-Dimensional Silicon MOS and AlGaN/GaN HEMT Devices" at 10:00am on Monday, July 16th in NEB 409. Refreshments will be provided.