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Here you will find Projects dealing with:

Tuneable RF components: capacitors, inductors, transformers
RF microrelays
High frequency MEMS resonators: devices, structures, and processes

Current Active Projects:
A Low-Power Receiver Employing RF Channel-Selection
A Micromechanical Power Amplifier
A Micromechanical Power Converter
A Micromechanical RF Channelizer
A Robust Medium Access Control Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
AlN Piezo: Aluminum Nitride Narrowband RF Filters
AlN Piezo: Thermal Compensation of Aluminum Nitride Lamb Wave Resonators (MiNaSIP)
Electric Power Sensing for Demand Response
High Linearity RF Photonic Links
Improving Energy Efficiency Through Exploratory Sub-Metering of Cory Hall
Levitated Micromechanical Resonators
Low Power All-Digital Transceiver for Wireless Sensor Network
MiNaSIP 2.A.1: MEMS-Based Oscillators
MiNaSIP 2.A.2: Micromechanical Transmit Filter
Mobile Airborne Particulate Matter Monitor for Cellular Deployment
Passive Wireless Transducers for a Distributed High Density Neural Interface
Protocol Agnostic Compression in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (PACMAN)
Wireless Sensor Network Scalability and Deployment in Industrial Automation

Indicates a MiNaSIP Project

Recently Ended Projects:
3nJ/bit 2.4GHz CMOS RF Transceiver
A Variable Inductor Array Using Lateral-Contact Microrelays
Algorithms for Position and Data Recovery in Wireless Sensor Networks
AlN Piezo: Aluminum Nitride CMOS-Integrated Accelerometer (MiNaSIP)
AlN Piezo: Aluminum Nitride RF Filters
AlN Piezo: Aluminum Nitride Wideband RF Filters
AlN Piezo: Monolithic Acoustic RF MEMS Modules
AlN Piezo:Aluminum Nitride Piezo Thermoelastic Damping (MiNaSIP)
Aluminum Nitride-Based Actuators for Tunable Terahertz Electronics
As-Grown SiGe Thin Film with Low Stress and Low Strain Gradient
Chemical Sensing with Smart Dust
CMOS Imaging Receiver for Free-Space Optical Communication
GHz Nano-Mechanical Resonators
High Frequency MEMS Resonator for Wireless Communication Applications
High Frequency Optoelectronic Oscillators (OEO)
High-Performance MEMS Capacitors
Incremental Network Programming
Integrated Nano Mechanically-Regulated Atomic Clock: 3.4 GHz Resonator
Integration of MEMS switches and RF passive components
Ivy - A Sensor Network Infrastructure for the College of Engineering
Lateral-Mode NEMS Resonators Using Internal Electrostatic Transduction
Limits to Micromechanical Resonator Performance
Localization of Footsteps through Ground Vibrations
Location Estimation Using RF Time of Flight
Manufacturing Repeatability of the Frequency and Q of Capacitive Micromechanical Disk Resonators
MEMS Microswitch for High-Voltage Applications
MEMS Resonator Simulation with HiQLab
MEMS RF Switch with Liquid Gallium Contacts
MiNaSIP 2.B.1: Piezoelectric/Electrode/Ambient Interaction in Contour-Mode Resonators
Nano-Gap Piezoelectric Resonators for RF Mechanical Magnetic Field Generation
Nanoresonator Interface Electronics
Nanowire-Coupled Resonators
Novel SiGe Processes for Electrostatically Actuated MEMS Resonators
Piezoelectric Aluminum Nitride Vibrating RF MEMS for Radio Front-End
Piezoelectric MEMS for Resonator Applications
Plastic 3-D W-band Antenna array
Plastic Energy Harvester
Post-process of GHz-range SiGe Resonators Over Standard RF CMOS Circuitry for Transceiver Applications
Post-processing heat treatment of thin film Aluminum Nitride
Resonant Drive: Sense and High Voltage Electrostatic Drive Using Single MEMS Electrode
RF Dielectric Fluid Immersed Silicon MEMS Tunable Capacitors
RF Dust for Human Gestural Interpretation
Self-Healing RF MEMS Switch
Silicon carbide process development and characterization for harsh-environment sensors
Smart Flea
Steered Agile Laser Transmitter (SALT)
Subterranean Wireless Sensor Network
Synchronization and interaction of MEMS oscillators
Thermally-induced residual stresses in MEMS sensors
Tunable Inductors and Transformers Utilizing Electro-Thermal Vibromotors
Ultra-Low Energy Circuits for Distributed Sensor Networks (Smart Dust)
Ultra-Low Power Radio for Sensor Networks
Wireless Physician Tracking