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Physical Sensors & Devices

Here you will find Projects dealing with:

Silicon MEMS actuators: comb, electro-thermal, and plastic deformation
Precision electronic sensing and measurements of capacitive, frequency, and coulombic MEMS variables
Structures and architectures for gyroscopes, accelerometers, micro strain gauges for direct application to rigid structures e.g., steel, and levitated MEMS

Current Active Projects:
BPN642: 10 MHz Optical Phased Array Metrology and Control
BPN435: A Micromechanical Power Amplifier
BPN433: A Micromechanical Power Converter
BPN656: Airborne Particulate Monitoring Using a Micromechanical Electrometer
BPN466: Aluminum Nitride Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasound Transducers
BPN653: Biologically Inspired Self-Activated Building Envelope Regulation System (SABERS)
BPN573: Cyborg Fly: Wireless Control of a Housefly
BPN505: Deployment of Wireless Stick-On Circuit Breaker PEM AC Sensors for the Smart Grid
BPN584: Design, Fabrication and Testing of a High Density, Large Area µECoG Array
BPN708: Direct-Write Graphene Channel Field Effect with Self-Aligned Top Gate New Project
BPN608: FM Gyroscope
BPN534: Fully Integrated Micromechanical Clock Oscillator
BPN614: HEaTS: 4H-SiC FET Technology for Harsh Environment Sensing Application
BPN499: HEaTS: Aluminum Nitride Inertial Sensors for Harsh Environments
BPN644: HEaTS: SiC Bipolar Junction Transistors for Harsh Environment Sensing Applications
BPN638: HEaTS: SiC Devices and ICs for Harsh Environment Sensing
BPN663: HEaTS: SiC Diodes and Rectifiers for Harsh Environment Sensing Applications
BPN616: HEaTS: SiC Harsh Environment Pressure Sensors
BPN661: HEaTS: SiC Thin-Film Flame Ionization Sensor
BPN424: HEaTS: Silicon Carbide Thin Film and Nanostructures for Harsh Environment Sensing and Energy Applications
BPN693: HEaTs: Thermally Stable Aluminum Nitride Lamb Wave Resonators for Harsh Environment Applications
BPN603: Hemispherical Resonator Gyro
BPN628: High Frequency Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasound Transducers
BPN684: Integrated Microgyroscopes with Improved Scale-Factor and Bias Stability
BPN634: Low Voltage and Fast Response Actuators
BPN655: Materials for High Quality-Factor Resonating Gyroscopes
BPN599: MEMS Electronic Compass: Three-axis Magnetometer
BPN698: Nanomaterial Based Macroscale Flexible Sensor System
BPN697: Natural Gas Pipeline Research
BPN574: On-Chip Micro-Inductor
BPN687: QES: Robust Optical Flame Detection in Harsh Environments
BPN705: Standard CMOS-Based Stick-On Electricity Meters for Building Sub-Metering New Project
BPN540: Temperature Stable Micromechanical Resonators and Filters
BPN485: Ultrasonic Depth Sensing on a Chip

Indicates a MiNaSIP Project

Recently Ended Projects:
A MEMS Optical Modulator and Filter
A Sub-mW Mode Matching Sigma-Delta Vibratory Gyroscope Readout Circuit with a 0.004 deg/sec/rtHz Noise Floor over a 50Hz Band
Aluminum Nitride Ultrasonic Doppler Velocity Sensor
Background Calibration for Low-Power High-Performance A/D Conversion
Background calibration techniques for digitally assisted ADC
Bi-directional Electrothermal Electromagnetic Actuators and Relays
Biomimetic Infrared sensor based on the nanogap junction array
CMOS-Integrated Nanowire-Based Molecular and Gas Sensors
Design and Modeling of Liquid Bearing Electrostatic Micromotor
Design of a Smart Universal Game Board
Dynamic Fetal Airway Occlusion for Treatment of Congenital Pulmonary Hypoplasia
Electronic Interface for Micromachined Gyroscope Sensors
Electrostatic Actuator Design for a Digital Output Gyroscope
Floating Electro Mechanical Systems (FLEMS)
HEaTS Sensors for Extreme Harsh Environments
HEaTS: Aluminum Nitride Technology for Inertial Sensors
HEaTS: Structurally Multifunctional Actuation and Readout Techniques for MEMS (SMART MEMS)
High Z Materials for Nuclear Detection
InAs XOI Gas Sensor
Inkjet Interfaces for Controlling Biological Pattern Formation
Integrity Assessment of Underground Power Distribution Cables
International Research Collaboration: BSAC and IMST at Vestfold University College
LIDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) with MEMS
Limits to Micromechanical Resonator Performance
Liquid Bearing Micromotors
Low-Power High-Performance Analog-to-Digital Converters
MEMS Biopolymer: Polymer Coated Cantilevers for Infrared Heat Sensing
MEMS Integrable Temperature Sensor
MEMS Metal Gimbal: Design and Fabrication
MEMS Metal Gimbal: Design and FEM
MEMS Poly/Nano: Biomimetic, Polymeric Transistor-based Biosensor Technology
MEMS Poly/Nano: Compact, Organic RRAM for Transparent and Flexible Electronic Application
MEMS Poly/Nano: Polymer Coated Cantilevers for Infrared Heat Sensing
MEMS REPS: Assembly of a MEMS Compressed Air Expander Unit
MEMS Sensor for Hard Disk Glide Test
MEMS Strain Gauge on Steel - Miniaturization of Transduction Circuits
MEMS Strain Gauge on Steel: Elastic Encapsulation
MEMS Strain Gauge on Steel: Resonant Sensor Design and Fabrication
MEMS Strain Gauge on Steel: Selective Strain Isolation
MEMS Strain Gauge on Steel: Test Fixture Design
MEMS Strain Gauge on Steel: Testing Localized Silicon-Steel Bonds
MEMS Strain Gauges on Steel: Electronic Interfaces for Resonant Sensors
MEMS-Based Magnetic Probe Microscopy
Micro Autonomous Air Vehicles
Micro, Tunable, Check Valves for Surgical Applications
Microfabricated Torsional Actuator by Self-Aligned Plastic Deformation
Micromachined Electrodes for Capacitive Sensors
Micromechanical Resonant Displacement Gain Stages
Micromechanical Resonator Gyroscopes
Micromechanically-Enhanced Magnetoresistive Sensors
Microrobots
Multidirectional Force and Torque Sensor for Insect Flight Research
Nanostructure-Based Nanoactuator
Non-dispersive IR gas detection with a MEMS scanning mirror and Linear Variable Filter
Off-the-Shelf Distributed Robots (COTS-BOTS)
Parametrically-Amplified MEMS Magnetometer
Phase Noise Considerations of a MEMS Oscillator
Pipelined ADC Utilizing Passive Inter-stage Gain
QES: MEMS Polymer Infrared Sensor Array
Readout Circuits for AlN Resonant Sensors
Scanning Probe Methods for the Characterization of Nanomechanical Resonators
SiC Flame Ionization Sensor
SiC TAPS: Capacitive Sensors Design and Fabrication
SiC TAPS: Ion Beam Assisted Deposition (IBAD) Encapsulation
SiC TAPS: Pressure Sensor Design and Optimization
SiC TAPS: Strain Gauge System Design
SiC TAPS:Pressure Sensor Design for Harsh Environments
Silicon carbide process development and characterization for harsh-environment sensors
Strain Sensors for Wind Turbines
TFT Modeling for Single Transistor Sensors
Thermally-induced residual stresses in MEMS sensors
Thin Film MEMS Pressure Sensor for Detection of Pressure Fluctuations in a Rat Brain due to Blast Injury
Tribology Test Chip for Contacting NEMS design
Ultra High Shock Resistant Sensors
Ultra-smooth conducting parallel plates with nanoscale separation for single molecule sensing and investigation of Casimir force
VLSI MEMS Switch