Phononic Sensors and Actuators Lab

IMG 2018 Kick-Off Meeting

Congratulations to all of this year's IMG Award recipients, and a special thanks to all those who have contributed to our group. This year's kick-off meeting focused on the future of our group, and making it evident that "our most valuable asset is you". Let us continue working as a team and setting a precedent for research groups all around. 

The IMG Awards recognize outstanding achievements and contributions of student members in our organization. The research award honors the exceptional academic impact the students have made in their field, and the service award acknowledges the hard work the students have put into improving and maintaining the quality of IMG.

  •  Xiao Jiang won the IMG Excellence in Research.
  •  Nicolas Garraud and Richard Rode won the IMG Excellence in Service.

2017 IMG Annual Report

The IMG faculty are pleased to release the IMG annual report for the calendar year 2017. This document is a record of the group activities, achievements and finances for the previous year. You are encouraged to refer to this document if needed.

The 2017 IMG Annual Report can be downloaded here.

IMG Kickoff Meeting

Event date: 
Tue, 08/21/2018 - 11:45am to 1:30pm

With the Fall semester arriving, we will be having our IMG Kickoff Meeting on August 21, 2018 (day before classes start) from 11:45AM to 1:30PM. During this meeting, we'll discuss important IMG updates, introduce new members, recognize our accomplishments over the last year, and present some IMG awards. We may also try to take a group photo, so if you have a IMG polo or t-shirt, please wear it.

Please note, all IMG members are expected to attend this meeting. Pizza and drinks will be provided.

Dr. Tabrizian Receives the ECE Excellence Award for Teaching

On April 8th, the IMG Faculty Member and ECE Assistant Professor, Roozbeh Tabrizian, received the ECE Excellence Award for Teaching. The Electrical and Computer Engineering College awards one faculty award per year in each of three categories: Research, Teaching and Service. We would like to congratulate Dr. Tabrizian on this accomplishment!

IMG @ Hilton Head 2018

IMG will be well-represented at the upcoming Hilton Head Workshop in June 2018: 

Microfabricated Electrodynamic Wireless Power Receiver for Bioimplants and Wearables (Oral)
Nicolas Garraud, Daniel Alabi, John D. Varela, David P. Arnold, and Alexandra Garraud

Robust and Scalable Tissue-Engineerined Electronic Nerve Interfaces (Oral)
Cary Kuliasha, Benjamin Spearman, Eric W. Atkinson, Abbas Furniturewalla, Paritosh Rustogi, Sahba Mobini, Elizabeth A. Nunamaker, Anthony Brennan, Kevin Otto, Christine Schmidt, and Jack W. Judy

Batch-Fabrication of Diamagnetically Levitated Microrobots (Oral)
Camilo Velez, Ron E. Pelrine, and David P. Arnold

Increasing the Thickness and Deposition Rate of High-Performance Electroplated CoPt Permanent Magnets (Poster)
Yuzheng Wang, Jacob Ewing, and David Arnold

A Nanomechanical Identification Tag Technology for Traceability and Authentification Applications (Poster)
Mehrdad Ramezani, Angela R. Newsome, Mayur Ghatge, Fengchao Zhang, Swarup Bhunia, and Roozbeh Tabrizian

High Kt2·Q Lamb-Wave ScAlN-On-Silicon UHF and SHF Resonators (Poster)
Mayur Ghatge, Valeriy Felmetsger, and Roozbeh Tabrizian

Dr. Tabrizian Receives $500K NSF CAREER Award

We congratulate Dr. Roozbeh Tabrizian for receiving an NSF CAREER Award for his project, “Active Nano-Acoustic Waveguide Matrix to Tackle Signal Processing Limits: Enabling Wideband and Nonreciprocal Integrated Communication Beyond the UHF.”

Dr. Tabrizian’s five-year, $500K grant will support his research on novel germanium-based nano-acoustic signal processors that enhance access to radio spectrum resources. These novel processors will work towards alleviating radio spectrum overcrowding due to scarcity, as well as enable ultra-fast data communication, required for emerging amenities in a modern society.

More detailed information is available here and on nsf.gov.

IMG @ IEEE IEDM 2017

UF and IMG will be represented at the upcoming IEEE International Electron Device Meeting (IEDM) in December 2017 in San Francisco.

High-Q Silicon Fin Bulk Acoustic Resonators for Signal Processing beyond the UHF (Oral)
M. Ramezani, M. Ghatge, and R. Tabrizian
University of Florida, USA

The IEEE International Electron Device Meeting (IEDM) is the world’s preeminent forum for reporting technological breakthroughs in the areas of semiconductor and electronic device technology, design, manufacturing, physics, and modeling. IEDM is the flagship conference for nanometer-scale CMOS transistor technology, advanced memory, displays, sensors, MEMS devices, novel quantum and nano-scale devices and phenomenology, optoelectronics, devices for power and energy harvesting, high-speed devices, as well as process technology and device modeling and simulation.