IMG research focuses on micro- and nanosystems for healthcare, energy, security, aerospace, transportation, consumer electronics, and other industries. Efforts include design, fabrication, characterization, and ultimately deployment of micro and nanotechnologies for a wide variety of applications. IMG is playing a leading role in the MIST Center (Multi-functional integrated system technology), an NSF I/UCRC program.
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Haocheng Zhou will defend his proposal, entitled: "A MEMS-BASED FIVE-HOLE PROBE WITH OPTICAL PRESSURE TRANSDUCERS" on Thursday, 6/15, at 8:30 AM in Larsen 234. Breakfast will be provided.
We congratulate Dr. Toshi Nishida for his new appointment as Interim Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, beginning July 15, 2017. Dr. Nishida is Professor and Associate Chair of Research in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and an Affiliate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) at the University of Florida. He received his Ph.D. (1988) and M.S. degrees in Electrical and Computer engineering and B.S. degree in Engineering Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. With colleagues and students, he has published over 150 refereed journal and conference papers and received three best paper awards. He has mentored 23 PhD students. His current research portfolio with graduate students includes high performance multifunctional semiconductor devices and systems, low power memory and device technologies, and novel three-dimensional fabrication. He has 11 issued U.S. patents. Dr. Nishida is the Director of the NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center on Multi-functional Integrated System Technology (MIST) launched in 2014 (www.mist-center.org). The vision of the MIST Center is innovating More than Moore technologies for smart systems in the Internet of Things era. He is a co-founder of the Interdisciplinary Microsystems Group. He received the 2003 College of Engineering Teacher of the Year award, the 2017 University of Florida Term Professorship award, and is an Alan Hastings Faculty Fellow. He is a senior member of the IEEE.
Timothy Clingenpeel will defend his proposal entitled "Nano-layered non-magnetic/ferromagnetic metaconductors for energy efficient RF passives" at 1:30pm on Friday, May 5th in NRF-115. Some refreshments will be provided.
Kangfu Chen will defend his proposal entitled "Flow and Interaction Patterns Between Tumor Cells and Microfabricated Structures" at 9:15 am on Thursday, April 27th in MAE-A 221. Refreshments will be provided.
Dr. Yoon and Dr. Moghaddam both received the Doctoral Dissertation Advisor/Mentor Award from the UF Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering. They are 2 recipients out of the 5 rewarded in the whole college for the 2017-2018 academic year. IMG extends its warmest congratulations!
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Jason June will defend his dissertation, entitled: "An acoustic and hydrodynamic study of grazing flow over Helmholtz resonators" on Tuesday, 4/18, at 2:00 PM in Larsen 234. Refreshments will be provided.
IMG will be well-represented at the upcoming Transducers in June 2017:
PHONONIC DETECTION OF MORPHOLOGICAL PHASE TRANSITION IN ATOMIC-LAYERED HAFNIUM-ZIRCONIUM-OXIDE (Oral)
M. Ghatge, G. Walters, T. Nishida, and R. Tabrizian
University of Florida, USA
D15-ENHANCED SHEAR-EXTENSIONAL ALUMINUM NITRIDE RESONATORS WITH KT2 > 4.4% FOR WIDE-BAND FILTERS (Oral)
B. Jo, M. Ghatge, and R. Tabrizian
University of Florida, USA
Professor Swaminathan Rajaraman, IMG visitor, will present his work on micro/nanoelectrode arrays and their role in advancing human health during the ECE seminar. He is an ECE & MSE assistant professor at the University of Central Florida (UCF) with joint appointments at the NanoScience Technology Center and at BRIDG.
Abstract:
Cellular function and response has been a significant subject of human fascination since time immemorial and a major field of study that has improved the understanding of the mechanics of the human body. Specifically, the functioning of electrogenic or electrically active cells is of particular interest in this talk as these cells control several important physiological functions such as visualization, locomotion, and activities of key organs such as the brain, heart, eyes, ears, and spinal cord.
Micro/NanoElectrode Arrays serve as the primary interface for signal transduction with electrogenic cells and in conjunction with CMOS electronics, mechanics and software techniques are enabling instrumentation that will result in actively and passively manipulating a variety of electrogenic cells. Such manipulation of electrogenic cells can happen either in a dish, or on a wearable or in an implantable setting. These efforts to engage with electrically active cells are resulting in and will result in major advances in human health in areas such as drug discovery, diagnostics, therapeutics, prosthetics, environmental sensing and implantable devices in the upcoming decades.
