Mehmet Onur Baykan will defend his dissertation, entitled "Strain Effects in Low-Dimensional Silicon MOS and AlGaN/GaN HEMT Devices" at 10:00am on Monday, July 16th in NEB 409. Refreshments will be provided.
Srivatsan Parthasarathy will defend his dissertation, entitled "Strain effects in long to short channel MOSFETs: From Drift Diffusion to Quasi Ballistic Transport" at 1:00 pm on Friday, July 6th in Larsen 234. Refreshments will be provided.
Antonio Acosta will defend his dissertation, entitled "Investigation of Stress Effects on Ferroelectric Capacitors for Performance Enhancement of Ferroelectric Random Access Memory" at 10:00am on Friday, July 6th in Larsen 234. Refreshments will be provided.
Mehmet Onur Baykan will defend his dissertation proposal, entitled "Strain Effects in Low-Dimensional Silicon MOS and AlGaN/Gan HEMT Devices" at 9:00am on Monday, February 27th in NEB 409. Refreshments will be provided.
Antonio Acosta will defend his dissertation proposal, entitled "Investigation of Stress Effects on Ferroelectric Capacitors for Performance Enhancement of Ferroelectric Random Access Memory" at 9:30am on Friday, December 2nd in Larsen 234. Refreshments will be provided.
Andrew Koehler will defend his dissertation, entitled "Impact of Mechanical Strain on AlGaN/GaN HEMT Performance: Channel Resistance and Gate Current," at 1pm on Friday, October 28th in NEB 589.
Hyunwoo Park will defend his dissertation, entitled "Impact of Uniaxial Stress on Silicon Diodes and Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor-Field-Effect-Transistors under Radiation," at 9:30am on Friday, October 21st in Larson 234. Refreshments will be available from 9:15am.
Min Chu will defend her dissertation, entitled "Characterization and Modeling of Strained Si FET and GaN HEMT Devices", at 9:30am on Friday, October 28th, at NEB 589. Refreshments will be available from 9:15am.
On Friday, March 25th, some IMG undergraduates will present their work at the Undergraduate Research Symposium in the Reitz Grand Ballroom. Two poster sessions are scheduled for 9-11am and 3-5pm, with oral presentations 1-3pm. The presentation schedule is attached; please come out and show your support for the IMG undergraduates!
Technological advances in microelectrode neural probes have great potential to benefit patients with neurological diseases and injuries because they allow for direct interfacing and intervention with neurons of the nervous system. The interface design involves chronically collecting neural activity directly from the cortex of the brain, interpreting its information, and delivering therapy via an electronic interface. Such Brain-Machine Interface (BMI) systems that are capable of recording and processing the activity of large ensembles of cortical neurons have the potential to allow paralyzed individuals to communicate with the external world via computer control or direct control of prosthetic limbs and wheelchairs.We design, fabricate, and test flexible microelectrode array that can be hybrid-packaged with custom electronics in a fully implantable form factor to realize a self sustained BMI system. Also the flexible cable will provide strain relief to the implanted electrode and potentially improve long term viability.
This project aims at designing novel micromachining techniques for polymer-based flexible substrate microelectrodes as well as defining requirements for recording amplification, signal processing, and wireless telemetry systems. Much effort is going into the design and fabrication of highly compliant 2D electrodes which will potentially increase the possibilities of achieving reliable neural recordings over a chronic period . All efforts are in attempt to further the field of chronic neural recording for neuroprosthetic therapies.