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From: Karl F Böhringer <karlb@washington.edu>
Date: Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 9:56 PM
Subject: Seminar announcement – Oliver Paul, IMTEK, University Freiburg, Germany
To: rao@cs.washington.edu
Rajesh,
Please forward this announcement to colleagues in your department.
Thanks,
Karl
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Speaker: Oliver Paul, University of Freiburg
Time: March 8, 1:30pm
Location: Paul Allen Center AE 108
Title: CMOS MEMS for Mechanical Sensing and Neuroscience
Abstract
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Piezoresistive mechanical sensing is currently experiencing a
renaissance stimulated by such novel developments as piezoresistive
field effect transistors with multiple source-drain contacts and
sensor elements for the measurement of out-of-plane components of the
stress tensor. The first part of the talk will present these sensor
elements from their foundations to the realization of smart sensor
systems for applications including smart orthodontic brackets, a
three-dimensional surface coordinate measurement system, and sensor
chips for packaging reliability studies.
The middle part of the presentation is dedicated to results of the
EU-financed project NeuroProbes, where intracortical neural probes for
electrical and chemical sensing and stimulation have been developed by
a consortium of 15 partners. CMOS-integrated microneedle probes with
up to 188 electrode sites have advanced the state of the art in the
spatial resolution of such probes, enabling a richer picture of
intracortical communication processes to be obtained.
Finally, these two lines of research are merged by the description of
microneedle-shaped stress sensor arrays. These structures are designed
to help neuroscientists to understand and minimize the mechanical
probe-brain interaction during penetration and acute and chronic
experiments.
Speaker bio
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Oliver Paul is a Professor and Chair of Microsystem Materials,
Department of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK), at University of
Freiburg, Germany. He received his Ph.D. (Dr. sc. nat.) from ETH
Zurich in 1990. He served as a visiting faculty member at Ritsumeikan
University in Japan, and University of Michigan. His research
interests include microsystems for physical sensing and biomedical
applications, and microelectromechanical systems based on commercial
IC processes. Prof. Paul has authored over 200 research publications
and given more than 70 scientific talks and colloquia.He is among the
Editorial Board of Transactions on Electrical and Electronic
Engineering (IEE Japan), and Journal Micromechanics and
Microengineering (IOP), and Sensors and Actuators A (Elsevier). He is
the co-founder of Sensirion AG, Stafa, Switzerland.
Prof. Paul is available for meetings between 2:30 and 4:30pm. Please
let me know if you want to schedule an appointment.
Karl F. Böhringer, Ph.D.
Professor
Dept. of Electrical Engineering
University of Washington
EE/CSE 234, Box 352500
Seattle, WA 98195-2500
tel 206 221-5177, fax 206 543-3842
karl@ee.washington.edu
www.ee.washington.edu/faculty/karl
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