Microelectronics
Microelectronics is the design, construction and analysis of integrated microelectronic devices, circuits and their applications in communications, control, computing and biomedical systems. It includes the extension of microelectronic fabrication techniques to create micromechanical and microfluidic devices.
Research Topics
- Wireless sensors and networks, biosensors and medical devices, wearable electronics
- Physiological, behavioral, and environmental monitoring
- Design and test of micro-devices, micro-systems and micro-networks, fault-tolerance
- Microsensors and actuators fabrication
- Silicon micromachining, integrated microelectronic and micromechanical sensors and actuators, microphotonics, biomedical microdevices, pathogen detection system, process and device simulation
- Microfluidics, microassembly, high-aspect ratio microfabrication techniques and micro total analysis systems
Research Labs
- Glenn Chapman Laser Laboratory - Laser Applications to Micro-scale Processing
- Image Sensor Reliability Laboratory - Defect Analysis in Digital Image Sensors (ISRL)
- Institute of Micromachine and Microfabrication Research - Micromachine and Microfabrication (IMMR)
- Microinstrumentation Laboratory Microsystems for Biomedical Applications (MiL)
- Reconfigurable Computing Laboratory System Design on Heterogeneous Networks-on-Chip (RCL)
System on Chip Laboratory VLSI Systems - Nanodevice Fabrication Group