Medical devices
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Micro-Hydraulic Optical Devices (Asheesh Divetia) Use of hydraulics to create deformable optical devices, such as lenses, and controlled acutation of mirrors. |
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Microscope on a Needle (Asheesh Divetia) Micro-optical technology to produce a miniaturized, rastering system, designed to fit on the end of a needle, for microscopic imaging applications (optical biopsy). |
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Polymer Micro-Cantilevers for Advanced Hearing Implants (Tao Xu) Optical cantilever wavegudies are used to create a multi-channel, high quality tuning tranceiver for advanced, low power hearing applications. |
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Micro thermal devices for cancer ablation (Kevin Zanzani) Microscopic devices that can be injected into a cancer tumor, then used for remotely coupling heat into the tumor, killing it. |
Lab Miniaturization
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Bar code beads for multiplexed assays (Anthony Tsai) Development of microbeads with bar code patterns imprinted on them and reader system to read them. |
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Electrophoresis in Polymer Microfluidic Chips (Hsuan Lai) Polymer chip technology to perform high speed, high resolution capillary electrophoresis. |
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Single Cell Analysis in Microfluidic Chips (Hsuan Lai) An integrated platform to perform single cell assays on a single microfluidic chip, including optical lysis of individual cells. |
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Cell Selector Chip (Wei Xu) Microfluidic chip to allow user control and selection and storage of individual cells. |
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Low-Cost, Miniaturized Dynamic Light Scattering (Zhian Lai) Miniaturization of dynamic light scattering to enable scattering technology to be integrated and deployed on biotech micro-platforms. |
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Fast Electrical Lysis of Cells for Capillary Electrophoresis (Futian Han) Develop a micro-capillary electrode probe for performing electrical lysis and capillary electrophoresis on living cells. |
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Microfluidic Flow Sensor Technology (Wei Xu) Technology development for integrated micro-flow sensors, utilizing optical cross-correlation techniques. |
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Microfabricated Gel-Chips (Kuosheng Ma) Micro-patterning of gels for use in high-speed, low volume gel eletrophoresis devices. |
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Lollylab: a laboratory in a lollypop (None at this time) Development of a micro-laboratory that resides within a lollypop for saliva analysis and drug delivery |
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Optical Tomography for Microflow Characterization (Lei Wang) Optical Dopler Tomography imaging techniques developed to characterize microfluidic flow in polymer microfluidic chips. |
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Polymer Microfluidic Chip Fabrication Technology (Patrick Coffey) Develop techniques for fabricating and sealing high quality microfluidic chips in thermoplastics such as acrylic, polystyrene, and polycarbonate. |
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Intelligent Protein Crystallization in Nanovolumes (Lily Wu) Micro-platform to enable intelligent, high throughput protein crystallization in nanovolumes. |
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Polymer Surface Grafting Techniques (Hsuan-Hong Lai) Technology to covalently graft polymers to the surfaces of polymer microfluidic chips to enhance chip performance (formerly Shuwen Hu). |
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Remote, Automated Coliform Sensing Technology (Cynthia Jensen-McMullin) Small instruments that can be deployed for autonomous monitoring of bacterialogical contamination of surf zones. |
Micro-optical devices
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Liquid Crystal Integrated Polarization Controller (Zhian Lai) Integration of liquid crystal technology with microfluidic chip technology to produce a small, integrated polarization controller. |
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Micro-Magnetic Mirrors (Hans Hu) Magnetic micro-mirrors actuated by external magnetic fields to produce a micro scanning system. |
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Polymer Waveguide Technology (Tao Xu) Microfabrication techniques for manufacturing optical waveguides in polymer at low cost. |
RF MEMS / metal MEMS
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Reconfigurable Antennas Using RF MEMS Switches (Bedri Cetiner) Design and develop advanced, reconfigurable and phased-array antennas based on RF-MEMS switches. |
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Three dimensional microwave circuits (Harrison Chang) Technology for fabricating high density, three dimensional microwave circuits in polymer substrates. |
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Micro-Electromagnetic Actuator (Jason Lin) Microfabrication technique to build a strong miniature electromagnet. |
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RF MEMS Switch Technology (Harrison Chang) Microfabrication technology to build micro-RF switches on laminated printed circuit boards. |
RF circuit design
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Broadband Circuit Design for Fiber-Optic and Wireless Communications (Aroonchat Chatchaikarn) Design and modelling of advanced, high speed circuits for wireless telecom applications. |
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Power Amplifier Reliability with HD-ICP-CVD Nitride Passivated pHEMT (Huinan Guan) Test and modelling of power amplifiers fabricated using silicon nitride grown in a high density inductively coupled plasma chemical vapor deposition system. |
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Advanced Power Amplifier Design (Huai Gao) Advanced broadband communication systems with HBT technology. |
Micro/nano fabrication
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Conductive polymers for MEMS (Yuli Wang) Conductive polymer processes and their intergration into MEMS devices. |
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Electro-active polymers for MEMS (Yuli Wang) Processes for building electro-active polymers and their intergration into MEMS devices. |
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High Aspect Ratio Metal MEMS (Srividya Krishnamurthy) Develop microfabrication processes for producing high aspect ratio structures in metals. |
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Micro metal parts (Tiffany Lee) Processes for building micro-parts from metals and other materials using electroforming techniques. |
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Mini-chip Rapid Process Development (Richard Chang) Develop a low cost, easy to implement microfabrication procedure for rapid process development and student training. |
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Novel Nanofabrication Technologies (Wei Wei) Use of novel micromachining techniques in polymer, metal and silicon to produce feature sizes of less than 100 nm without the need for advanced lithography. |
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Advanced SU-8 Processing Techniques (Harrison Chang) Novel process techniques to build microdevices using SU-8 high precision photoresist. |
Previous projects
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Electrochemical Micromachining (Richard Chang) Develop electrochemical methods to micromachine silicon and other materials. |
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Patternable Electro-Optical Polymers (Yang Yang) Development of new polymer material with high electro-optical coefficient, that can be patterned into waveguides using UV lithography. |
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Deep Etching of Compound Semiconductor Materials using RIE (Joy Lau) Study deep etch processes in GaAs using chlorine-based chemistries in RF-based reactive ion etching. |
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Micro-Cantilever Biosensor Arrays (Tao Xu) Microfabricated cantilevers for use in rapid ligand detection. |
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Micro-Titration Chip (Tu Anh Nguyen) Technology to perform micro-titration on a microfluidic chip platform. |
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Wafer Level MEMS Packaging (Johnson Chiang) Development of polymer-based, wafer-level packaging technology for low cost pakaging and wafer-level testing of MEMS devices. |
Web page updated on January 24, 2006