Paracrine and autocrine cell signaling are critical factors guiding tissue development and maintenance, and dysregulation of these cues contributes to…
The high-frequency variability characterization of MOSFETs is becoming more necessary due to new process developments such as high-K metal gates,…
Electromechanical resonators such as quartz crystals, surface acoustic wave (SAW) resonators, and ceramic resonators have become essential components in electronic…
It is desirable to extend the functionality of MEMS to different form factors including large area arrays of sensors and…
Malaria prevails mainly in the countries that lack proper medical facilities, and it kills about a million people worldwide a…
Thin Film Bulk Acoustic Resonators (FBARs) are widely used in the design of modern radio frequency components including duplexers, filters,…
DNA damage has been found to play critical roles in cancer, aging, and heritable disease. There is rising interest in…
Aptamers are emerging as popular alternatives to antibodies as affinity probes in immunoassays. From a point-of-care diagnostics standpoint, aptamers have…
The mechanical properties of tissues and cells have important implications on their differentiated state, functions and responses to injury. Altered…
We present an integrated microfluidic probe that captures the contents of selected single adherent cells from standard tissue culture platforms…
Tumor invasion has received considerable attention as a critical step in cancer metastasis, and is a promising target for developing…
We recently demonstrated a process of thermal ink jet printing of PZT thin films for MEMS applications [1] [2] . …
In this project, a piezoelectric 2-D array of ultrasound transducers will be developed for compact, portable 3-D ultrasound imaging systems….
To overcome the limitations of piezoelectric energy harvesters such as narrow bandwidth and low power density, our group has recently…
A novel sensing technology for unmanned undersea vehicles (UUVs) is under development. The project is inspired by the lateral line…
Electric Propulsion (EP) brings benefits for space missions requiring relatively large changes in satellite velocity, for example by reducing the…
Precision frequency detection has enabled the suspended microchannel resonator (SMR) to weigh single living cells, single nanoparticles, and adsorbed protein…
For systems biology, the models are more often limited by the absence of reliable experimental data than by available computational…
Polycrystalline metallic thin films are vital in a wide variety of applications, including microelectronics, plasmonics, magnetic storage, N/MEMS and catalysis. …
One of the most fundamental technical problems concerning spacecraft design is preparing the vehicle to survive the extreme conditions encountered…
Field Emitter Arrays (FEAs) are excellent cold cathodes, but they have not found widespread adoption in demanding device applications because…
Retarding potential analyzers (RPAs) were first developed in the 1960’s. RPAs find widespread application including characterization of near-spacecraft environments and…
There is a need for microscale vacuum pumps that can be readily integrated with other MEMS and electronic components at…
A near-ultraviolet (UV) sensor based on zinc oxide (ZnO) nanowires (NWs) that is sensitive to photo excitation at or below…
Many immune responses are mediated by cell-cell interactions. In particular, cytotoxic T cells form conjugates with pathogenic and cancer cells…
The use of microsystems to manipulate and study cells in microenvironments is continually increasing. However, along with such increase in…
Stem cell phenotype and function are influenced by microenvironmental cues that include cell-cell, cell-extracellular matrix (ECM), and cell-media interactions, as…
Autocrine signaling is a mode of chemical signaling that occurs when cells can capture self-secreted diffusive factors. Apart from its…
The development of new techniques to separate and characterize cells with high throughput has been essential to many of the…
Microfabricated/microfluidic approaches to cell sorting, include purely dielectrophoretic (DEP) trap arrays [1] , passive hydrodynamic trap arrays with active DEP-based…
Significant interest exists in creating insect-based Micro-Air-Vehicles (MAVs) [1] [2] [3] that would combine advantageous features of insects—small size, effective…
The mechanism of critical heat flux (CHF) is commonly attributed to two limits during boiling behavior: 1) the hydrodynamic limit…
Two of the greatest challenges in MEMS are those of packaging and integration with CMOS technology. Development of unreleased MEMS…