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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Can Duan will defend her dissertation entitled "Planar and Integrated MEMS Micromirrors Based Endoscopic OCT Imaging" at 1:00 pm on Monday, March 28th in NEB 589. Refreshments will be provided.
Arian Rahimi will defend his dissertation entitled as “Low Loss Passive Component Technologies for High Performance Radio Frequency Circuits Using Micro/Nano Machining” on Friday March 25th, 2016 at 1:00pm. Refreshments will be provided.
Arian Rahimi, current IMG member, has been awarded an IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) Graduate Fellowship for 2016. This fellowship is the highest honor IEEE MTT-S gives to top graduate students recognizing their research activities and promise in the area of microwave engineering. The title of his research proposal is: “Nanotechnology-Inspired Multi-Layer Conductors for High Performance Microwave Passive Components” under supervision of Dr. Y.K. Yoon.
He will be presented with the award during the Student Awards Luncheon at the 2016 IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS), San Francisco, CA which will be held May 22-27, 2016. The fellowship includes the financial assistance to the graduate student as well as the travel support to attend the IMS 2016 conference.
Congratulations to Tiffany Reagan on being awarded a Linda Hudson Scholarship by the Committee of 200 (C200).
Patrick Lomenzo will defend his dissertation titled "Ferroelectric and Antiferroelectric Properties of HfO2-Based Thin Films" at 1:00 pm on Friday, February 26 in NRF 115. Food and refreshments will be provided.
Camilo Velez will defend his proposal entitled "A Selective Magnetization Process For Batch-patterning Magnetic Materials" at 3:00 PM on Friday, December 11th, in NRF 115.
Rob Carroll will defend his proposal entitled "A microfabricated magneto-mechanical oscillator array testbed device for the study of wave propagation behaviors in nonlinearly coupled periodic structures" at 3:00 PM on Monday, December 7th, in Larsen 234.
The UF Smart Mouthguard team won 2nd place in the International Contest of Global Youth Innovation Festival 2015.
The Global Youth Innovation Festival is an international competition for college students to promote the innovative spirits of youth, to construct collaboration platforms, and to increase applications. More than 120 teams participated in the contest and 12 finalist teams from 6 countries were invited to the finals held in Beijing, CN, October 25, 2015. The UF team represented the USA and won 2nd place out of the 12 finalist teams.
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The UF team included:
Students: Justin Correll (ECE, Undergrad), Todd Schumann (ECE, Graduate), Sheng-Po Fang (ECE, Graduate)
Advisors: YK Yoon (ECE), Fong Wong (Dentistry)
Jinling Zhang and Kangfu Chen will present on topics related to their research. Food will be provided for $4 to those that sign up on the IMG wiki.
Jinling Zhang
Isolation and enumeration of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in peripheral blood of cancer patients are potentially useful for detection, characterization, and monitoring of the disease and its subsequent treatment. We have developed microfluidic devices that are capable of efficiently isolating cancer cells from whole blood. The cell capture efficiency is about 90%. The method provides a convenient and cost-efficient alternative for CTCs isolation in clinic samples.
Simulation of the interactions between cancer cells and microfluidic devices
Kangfu Chen
Our interest is to explore the interaction between cancer cell and aptamer functionalized micropost based microfluidic device. We shows the distribution of captured cancer cells around different shaped microposts experimentally. As a comparison of the experiments, a theoretical model was set up. COMSOL was used to show the laminar flow in the microchannel of the device. Based on the flow data, we describe the motion of cancer cells in the micropost patterned microchannel. The interaction between cancer cells and micropost surface was simulated based on adhesive dynamics. Finally, we compare the simulation results with the experimental results.
