Yuan Rao will defend her proposal "Design of low-voltage energy harvesting interface circuits for electrodynamic vibrational energy harvesters" at 9AM on Wednesday (August 24th) in Larsen 234. Refreshments will be provided.
Ololade Oniku in his talk will be discussing the motivation and present development in the use of powder micromagnets for MEMS applications. He will also highlight the techniques that could be employed in the future to improve the properties of these micromagnets. Vikram Divakar will be speaking on the topic of using magnetically excited electrodynamic harvesters to acheive wireless power transmission. Following the seminar there will be Haitian BBQ in the Larsen-Benton courtyard.
Sagnik Pal will defend his dissertation, entitled "Modeling and Reliability of Electrothermal Micromirrors," at 10am on Tuesday, July 12th in Larson 234. The abstract is available at http://sagnik.yolasite.com/phdabstract.php. Refreshments will be available from 9:45am.
At this week's IMG seminar, Benjamin George will give a talk to outline the initial steps in using flow control to improve the aero-optic performance of flow behind a three dimensional turret. Kiri Hamaker will speak on the topic of detection of nicotine metabolites for second hand smoke using micellar electrokinetic chromatography.
Dr. Huikai Xie was recently promoted to the rank of Full Professor, an important milestone in faculty careers. Congratulations, Dr. Xie!