Applied Physics Seminar

Thursday, April 27, 2017

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Watson 104

MEMS are becoming 3D and atomically precise

Andrei Shkel, Prof., Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Irvine,

Microtechnology comes of age. Clearly, some significant advances have been made, and we see a footprint of the technology in an ever-growing consumer electronics market full of interactive products enabled by microtechnology. These products include, for example, accelerometers for gaming, gyros for auto safety, resonators for clocks, and more. The questions remain, however: Is the technology really on the level of what we consider to be precision sensing? Is making sensors small necessarily result in degradation of performance? Why do we need the precision of sensing for our daily life and what are the opportunities if we have the precision at our fingertips? We are exploring a number of technological solutions, including micro glassblowing technology for precision sensing and silicon origami-like assembly techniques for classical and atomic MEMS; all to be discussed in this talk.

**Pizza will be provided at 11:30am in the Watson Lobby

For more information, please contact Jennifer Blankenship by phone at 626-395-8124 or by email at [email protected].

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