Micro & Nanosystems

MEMS sensors and actuators; nanofabrication materials, processes and devices; labs-on-a-chip; small-scale energy generation, storage and harvesting; microsystem medical devices and treatments; trust and security for nano-scale devices.

ISR researchers have developed nanoscale technologies for sensing and manipulation. These systems include biologically inspired cell-based sensors and biological and chemical sensing systems for toxin detection, micro-ball bearing and three-dimensional grayscale microfabrication technologies for microengines, and microfluidic medical devices for detecting and treating biofilms. Our research has contributed to advances in batteries, including a tobacco mosaic virus scaffold battery with high surface area and capacity, high-powered nanostructured 3D microbatteries, and carbon nanotube current collectors for aqueous battery systems.

Recent ISR micro and nanosystems publications

2019

An Imaging Platform for Real-Time In Vitro Microscopic Imaging for Lab-on-CMOS Systems

Bathiya Senevirathna, Sheung Luhave, Elisabeth Smela, Pamela Abshire

The first real-time imaging platform that generates high-quality images of lab-on-CMOS systems in cell culture environments.

2019 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS)

2019

Virus-assembled technology for next-generation bioenergy harvesting devices

Sangwook Chu, Adam Brown, James Culver, Reza Ghodssi

Research into Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV)-based assembly of glucose oxidase electrodes for the development of advanced enzymatic biofuel cells (EBCs).

PowerMEMS 2018: Journal of Physics Conference Series, IOP Publishing

2019

Incomplete ionization in aluminum-doped 4H-silicon carbide

Christopher Darmody and Neil Goldsman

An investigation of the degree of incomplete ionization of aluminum-doped 4H-silicon carbide. The research contributes to the advance of p-type silicon carbide (SiC) technology.

Journal of Applied Physics