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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Chip Patterson will be defending his dissertation titled "Of Magnetic Imaging System Experiments and Micro Electro-mechanical Systems “Of MISE and MEMS”" on Friday October 23rd at 11:30AM in Larsen 234 . Sandwiches, snacks and refreshmants will be provided.
Arian Rahimi, current IMG members, have been received the 2015 IEEE Antenna and Propagation Society (AP-S) Doctoral Research Award. The IEEE AP-S awards up to 10 PhD fellowships each year to encourage students to pursue a career in the area of Electromagnetics. The awards are intended to support students involved in project work directed by a faculty member at their institution who is a member of the IEEE Antenna and Propagation Society. The title of his research is: "High Performance Conductor Architectures for Future Communication Systems" under supervision of Dr. Y.K. Yoon.
The award selection is based on creativity and quality of the proposed project, discussion of the technical interests and skills of the student.
John Rogers will defend his proposal entitled "A passive wireless MEMS dynamic pressure sensor with integrated temperature compensation for harsh environments" at 11:45 AM on Friday, October 9th, in Larsen 234.
Lunch will be provided for $3 to those who sign up on the IMG wiki (http://www.img.ufl.edu/wiki/index.php/IMG_Seminar_Series:_Fall_2015)
Ololade Oniku will defend his Dissertation entitled “Electroplated Thick-Film Cobalt Platinum Permanent Magnets” on Thursday, September 24, 2015 at noon in NRF 115. Lunch will be provided.
Dr. Nishida will present the Multi-functional Integrated System Technology (MIST) Center, a NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center led by the University of Florida (UF) with founding partner site, University of Central Florida (UCF), focused on the hardware technologies necessary to propel the next generation of smart mobile sensing/computing/communication systems. The MIST Center is motivated by three major research/industry trends: (1) stepping beyond the current challenge of continued conventional scaling of integrated circuits, a.k.a. Moore's Law, (2) exploring new functionalities at intersections of materials/ processes/ devices /circuits for multi-functional systems, and (3) integrating nanoscale materials into micro/nanosystem manufacturing.
Patrick Lomenzo will present on ferroelectricity in HfO2-based thin films:
Ferroelectricity in HfO2-based thin films offers an intriguing pathway toward the realization of ferroelectric devices for next generation memory technologies. Understanding the reliability characteristics and underlying defects of HfO2 ferroelectrics is of critical importance for its successful adoption in emerging memory devices. The observation of asymmetric ferroelectric properties of HfO2 thin films with TaN electrodes is discussed in the context of charged defects and the chemical properties of the electrode interfaces.
Dr. Tabrizian will present an overview of semiconductor micromechanical resonators and acoustic phonon traps. The phonon-level formulation of vibration modes and dissipation mechanisms will be described. Performance sensitivity of phonon traps to physical interactions will be discussed and followed by demonstration of several applications in environmental sensing and physical gauging. Moreover, temperature and dissipation compensation techniques for realization of highly-stable low-loss micro-resonators for frequency reference purposes will be reviewed.IMG welcomes Dr. Roozbeh Tabrizian as a new faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Dr. Tabrizian received the BS in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2007, and the PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013. He was then a Post-doctoral research fellow in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at University of Michigan. Roozbeh’s research has resulted in more than 25 journal and conference papers, and 6 patents. His research activities are focused on theoretical and experimental investigation of mixed-domain physical devices such as sensors, actuators, resonators and energy harvesters, and development of micro and nanofabrication techniques for large-scale integration of microsystems.