MTL Annual Research Report 2006

MEMS

• A Double-gated CNF Tip Array for Electron-impact Ionization and Field Ionization
  L.-Y. Chen, L.F.V. Garcia, A.I. Akinwande
  Sponsorship: DARPA
• Hand-assembly of an Electrospray Thruster Electrode Using Microfabricated Clips
  B. Gassend, L.F. Velasquez-Garcia, A.I. Akinwande, M. Martinez-Sanchez
  Sponsorship: AFOSR, DARPA
• A Fully Microfabricated Planar Array of Electrospray Ridge Emitters for Space Propulsion Applications
  B. Gassend, L.F. Velasquez-Garcia, A.I. Akinwande, M. Martinez-Sanchez
  Sponsorship: AFOSR, DARPA
• A Double-gated Silicon Tip, Electron-Impact Ionization Array
  L.-Y. Chen, A.I. Akinwande
  Sponsorship: CreatV Micro Tech, NIH, DARPA
• A MEMS Electrometer for Gas Sensing
  J. Lee, L.F. Velásquez-García, A. Seisha, A.I. Akinwande
  Sponsorship: DARPA
• A Single-Gated CNT Field-Ionizer Array with Open Architecture
  L.F. Velasquez-Garcia, L.Y. Chen, A.I. Akinwande
  Sponsorship: DARPA
• A MEMS Quadrupole that Uses a Meso-scaled DRIE-patterned Spring Assembly System
  L.F. Velásquez-García, A.I. Akinwande
  Sponsorship: DARPA
• Digital Holographic Imaging of Micro-structured and Biological Objects
  J.A. Dominguez-Caballero, N. Loomis, J.H. Milgram, G. Barbastathis
  Sponsorship: MIT Sea Grant
• Aligning and Latching Nano-structured Membranes in 3D Micro-Structures
  N.S. Shaar, G. Barbastathis, C. Livermore
  Sponsorship: ISN
• A Microfabricated Platform for Investigating Multicellular Organization in 3-D Microenvironments
  D.R. Albrecht, R.L. Sah, S.N. Bhatia
  Sponsorship: Whitaker Foundation, NSF, NIH
• Microfluidic Hepatocyte Bioreactor
  D.T. Eddington, S.N. Bhatia
• Micromechanical Control of Cell-Cell Interaction
  E.E. Hui, S.N. Bhatia
  Sponsorship: NIH NIDDK
• Characterization and Modeling of Non-uniformities in DRIE
  H.K. Taylor, H. Sun, A. Farahanchi, D.S. Boning
  Sponsorship: Singapore-MIT Alliance
• Understanding Uniformity and Manufacturability in MEMS Embossing
  H.K. Taylor, D.S. Boning
  Sponsorship: Singapore-MIT Alliance
• A MEMS Drug Delivery Device for the Prevention of Hemorrhagic Shock
  H.L. Ho Duc, M.J. Cima
  Sponsorship: ARO (Institute for Soldier Nanotechnology)
• Application of Input Shaping® and HyperBit™ Control to Improve the Dynamic Performance of a Six-axis MEMS Nano-positioner
  S. Chen, M.L. Culpepper, S. Jordan, J. Danieli, J. Wenger
  Sponsorship: NSF
• Multi-Axis Electromagnetic Moving-Coil Microactuator
  D.S. Golda, M.L. Culpepper
  Sponsorship: NSF
• Multiwell Cell Culture Plate Format with Integrated Microfluidic Perfusion System
  K. Domansky, S.W. Inman, J. Serdy, L.G. Griffith
  Sponsorship: DuPont-MIT Alliance, Pfizer, Biotechnology Process Engineering Center
• Characterization of Nanofilter Arrays for Biomolecule Separation
  H. Bow, J. Fu, J. Han
  Sponsorship: DuPont-MIT Alliance, NIH, Singapore-MIT Alliance
• Patterned Periodic Potential-energy Landscape for Fast Continuous-flow Biomolecule Separation
  J. Fu, J. Han
  Sponsorship: NSF, Singapore-MIT Alliance, NIH NIBIB
• Fabrication of Massively-parallel Vertical Nanofluidic Membranes for High-throughput Applications
  P. Mao, J. Han
  Sponsorship: KIST IMC, NSF
• Continuous-flow pI-based Sorting of Proteins and Peptides in a Microfluidic Chip Using Diffusion Potential
  Y.-A. Song, J. Han
  Sponsorship: NSF CAREER Award, KIST-IMC, CSBi/Merck Fellowship
• Cell Stimulation, Lysis, and Separation in Microdevices
  J. Albrecht, J. El-Ali, S. Gaudet, K.F. Jensen
  Sponsorship: NIH
• Thermal Management in Devices for Portable Hydrogen Generation
  B. Blackwell, M.A. Schmidt, K.F. Jensen
  Sponsorship: ARO MURI
• Autothermal Catalytic Micromembrane Devices for Portable High-Purity Hydrogen Generation
  K. Deshpande, M.A. Schmidt, K.F. Jensen
  Sponsorship: ARO MURI
• Multiphase Transport Phenomena in Microfluidic Systems
  A. Guenther, M.T. Kreutzer, K.F. Jensen
  Sponsorship: Microchemical Systems Technology Center, ISN, Dutch Foundation for Applied Sciences (MTK)
• Microfluidic Synthesis and Surface Engineering of Colloidal Nanoparticles
  S.A. Khan, K.F. Jensen
  Sponsorship: Microchemical Systems Technology Center
• Microreactor Enabled Multistep Chemical Synthesis
  E.R. Murphy, H. Sahoo, J. Kralj, N. Zaborenko, K.F. Jensen
  Sponsorship: Pacific Scientific
• Integrated Microreactor System
  H.R. Sahoo, E.R. Murphy, A. Guenther, N. Zaborenko, K.F. Jensen
  Sponsorship: Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation
• Crystallization in Microfluidic Systems
  M. Sultana, K.F. Jensen
  Sponsorship: Merck, Lucent Technologies
• Microreactors for Synthesis of Quantum Dots
  B.K.H. Yen, A. Günther, M.A. Schmidt, M.G. Bawendi, K.F. Jensen
  Sponsorship: Microchemical Systems Technology Center, NSF, ISN
• Polymer-based Microbioreactors for High Throughput Bioprocessing
  Z. Zhang, G. Perozziello, Patrick Boyle, P. Boccazzi, A.J. Sinskey, K.F. Jensen
  Sponsorship: DuPont-MIT Alliance
• Micro-fluidic Bioreactors for Studying Cell-Matrix Interactions
  S. Chung, P. Mack, V. Vickerman, J. Hsu, R. Kamm
  Sponsorship: NIBIB, Draper Laboratories
• A Nanoscanning Platform for Biological Assays
  S. Kim, S. Gouda, S.-G. Kim (P. So group)
  Sponsorship: Intelligent Microsystems Center
• A Large Strain, Arrayable Piezoelectric Microcellular Actuator
  Z.J. Traina, S.-G. Kim
  Sponsorship: Korean Institute of Metallurgy and Manufacturing (KIMM)
• Self-powered Wireless Monitoring System Using MEMS Piezoelectric Micro Power Generator
  R. Xia, C. Farm, W. Choi, S.-G. Kim
  Sponsorship: NSF, Korean Institute of Machinery and Materials
• MEMS Pressure-sensor Arrays for Passive Underwater Navigation
  V.I. Fernandez, S.M. Hou, F.S. Hover, J.H. Lang, M.S. Triantafyllou
  Sponsorship: NOAA: MIT Sea Grant College Program
• An Integrated Multiwatt Permanent Magnet Turbine Generator
  B.C. Yen, M. Allen, F.F. Ehrich, A.H. Epstein, F. Herrault, L.C. Ho, S. Jacobson, J.H. Lang, H. Li, Z.S. Spakovszky, C. Teo, D. Veazie
  Sponsorship: ARL Collaborative Technology Alliance
• Micro-scale Singlet Oxygen Generator for MEMS-based COIL Lasers
  T. Hill, B. Wilhite, L. Velasquez, H. Li, A.H. Epstein, K.F. Jensen, C. Livermore
  Sponsorship: DARPA, MDA
• Label-free Microelectronic PCR Quantification
  C.-S. Johnson Hou, N. Milovic, M. Godin, P. Russo, R. Chakrabarti, S.R. Manalis
  Sponsorship: AFOSR, Hewlett Packard, MIT Sea Grant Program
• Atomic Force Microscopy with Inherent Disturbance Suppression for Nanostructure Imaging
  A. Sparks, S.R. Manalis
  Sponsorship: AFOSR
• Vacuum-Packaged Suspended Microchannel Resonant Mass Sensor for Biomolecular Detection
  T.P. Burg, A.R. Mirza, N. Milovic, C.H. Tsau, G.A. Popescu, J.S. Foster, S.R. Manalis
  Sponsorship: AFOSR, NIH
• Microbial Growth in Parallel Integrated Bioreactor Arrays
  H. Lee, R.J. Ram, P. Boccazzi, A. Sinskey
  Sponsorship: DuPont-MIT Alliance
• Vacuum-Sealing Technologies for Micro-chemical Reactors
  K. Cheung, K.F. Jensen, M.A. Schmidt
  Sponsorship: ARO MURI
• Direct Patterning of Organic Materials and Metals Using Micromachined Printheads
  V. Leblanc, J. Chen, D.M. Schut, P. Mardilovich, V. Bulovic, M.A. Schmidt
  Sponsorship: Hewlett-Packard
• A Thermophotovoltaic (TPV) MEMS Power Generator
  O.M. Nielsen, K.F. Jensen, M.A. Schmidt
  Sponsorship: ARO MURI
• MEMS Vacuum Pump
  V. Sharma, M.A. Schmidt
  Sponsorship: DARPA
• Rapid and Shape-Controlled Growth of Aligned Carbon Nanotube Structures
  A.J. Hart, L.C. van Laake, A.H. Slocum
  Sponsorship: Deshpande Center, NSF, Fannie and John Hertz Foundation
• A Low Contact Resistance MEMS-Relay
  A.C. Weber, J.H. Lang, A.H. Slocum
  Sponsorship: ABB Corporate Research, Baden-Daettwil
• Fast Three-Dimensional Electrokinetic Pumps for Microfluidics
  J.P. Urbanski, J. Levitan, M. Bazant, T. Thorsen
  Sponsorship: ISN
• BioMEMS for Control of the Stem-cell Microenvironment
  L. Kim, A. Rosenthal, S. Sampattavanich, J. Voldman
  Sponsorship: NIH
• Microfluidic/Dielectrophoretic Approaches to Selective Microorganism Concentration
  H.-Y. Lee, K.A. Puchala, J. Voldman
  Sponsorship: Draper Laboratories, NASA, MIT
• Microfabricated Approaches for Sorting Cells Using Complex Phenotypes
  B. Taff, S. Desai, J. Kovac, N. Mittal, J. Voldman
  Sponsorship: NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, NIH NCRR, Singapore-MIT Alliance
• A Continuous, Conductivity-Specific Micro-organism Separator
  M.D. Vahey, J. Voldman
  Sponsorship: NIH NIBIB, MIT Buschbaum Fund, CSBi/Merck Graduate Fellowship
• MEMS Vibration Harvesting for Wireless Sensors
  A. Mracek, W.S. Kim, Y. Maniouloux, S. Tonn, H. Wong, B.L. Wardle (in collaboration with S.-G. Kim)
  Sponsorship: Cambridge-MIT Institute, NSF
• Fabrication and Structural Design of Ultra-thin MEMS Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
  N. Yamamoto, D. Quinn, P. Capozzoli, N. Wicks, S. Wicks, S.M. Spearing, B.L. Wardle (in coll. with B.A. Wilhite, J. Hertz, J. Cui, K. Deshpande, K.F. Jensen, H. Tuller, M.A. Schmidt)
  Sponsorship: ARO

for additional reading...

• Carbon Nanotube - CMOS Chemical Sensor Integration
  
• An Energy Efficient Transceiver for Wireless Micro-Sensor Applications
  
• Prediction of Variation in Advanced Process Technology Nodes
• A Sub-threshold Cell Library and Methodology
• An Energy-efficient Digital Baseband Processor for Pulsed UWB Using Extreme Parallellization
• Parameterized Model Order Reduction of Nonlinear Circuits and MEMS
• Development of Specialized Basis Functions and Efficient Substrate Integration Techniques for Electromagnetic Analysis of Interconnect and RF Inductors
  
• A Quasi-convex Optimization Approach to Parameterized Model-order Reduction
• Amorphous Zinc-Oxide-Based Thin-film Transistors
• Magnetic Rings for Memory and Logic Devices
• Studies of Field Ionization Using PECVD-grown CNT Tips
  
• Combinatorial Sensing Arrays of Phthalocyanine-based Field-effect Transistors
  
• Nanoelectromechanical Switches and Memories
  
• Growth of Carbon Nanotubes for Use in Origami Supercapacitors
  
• Self-Alignment of Folded, Thin-Membranes via Nanomagnet Attractive Forces
  
• Control System Design for the Nanostructured Origami™ 3D Nanofabrication Process
  
• Tomographic Interferometry for Detection of Nafion® Membrane Degradation in PEM Fuel Cells
• Measuring Thermal and Thermoelectric Properties of Single Nanowires and Carbon Nanotubes
  
• Nanocomposites as Thermoelectric Materials
• CNT Assembly by Nanopelleting
  
• Integrated Carbon Nanotube Sensors
  
• Templated Assembly by Selective Removal
• Building Three-dimensional Nanostructures via Membrane Folding
• Organic Photovoltaics with External Antennas
  
• Titanium Nitride (TiN) MEMS Technology
  
• Four Dimensional Volume Holographic Imaging with Natural Illumination
• White Light QD-LEDs
  
• Organic Optoelectronic Devices Printed by the Molecular Jet Printer
• Design and Measurement of Thermo-optics on Silicon
  
• Polymer Waveguides for Integrated Biosensors
  
• Integration of Online Microelectronic Device Characterization and Simulation
• Low-cost Atomic Force Microscopy for the Bioinstrumentation Teaching Laboratory

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