Research

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Acoustics Chip

Circulating Tumor Cells | Personalized Medicine
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Point of Care Chip

Handheld Diagnostics | Neuroscience Studies
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Energy Harvester Chip

Self Powered Systems | Surveillance Electronics

MEMS Micropump Chip

Lab-on-a-chip Platforms | Medical Implants
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CMOS-SAW Chip

Breast Cancer Diagnosis | Patented Technology

Nanotechnology

Nanowire Transistors | CMOS-Nano Hybrid

Noteworthy

Integrated Circuits: ASIC, Mixed-Signal Design, FPGA Prototyping
MEMS: Integrated Microfluidics, Implantable Medical Devices
CMOS: Monolithic CMOS-MEMS, Hybrid CMOS-Nano
Biosensors: CMOS-SAW, Cancer Diagnostics, FET Sensors
Nanotechnology: Nanowires, VLSI, FEM Modeling

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration

Thomas Edison

Facts and Figures

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CMOS MPW Tapeouts

Transistor to System

60

Publications High Impact Top Tier

24 Journals 36 Conferences

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Prototypes

Packaged Chips System PCBs

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Acoustics Chip

NSF CAREER Award entitled “Acoustics Lab on a Chip for Comprehensive Biophysical Studies of Tumor Cells: Towards Personalized Cancer Diagnosis and Therapeutics.” Our original contributions focus on the development and integration of several proprietary technologies to be used as a microchip based handheld platform for cancer diagnosis and therapeutics with single cell precision
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3D Multiphysics Model

Our chips employ three novel technologies in Acoustics, Magnetics and Electronics on a single chip device that is capable of performing sensing, drug delivery, holistic cell characterization through enumeration, viable capture and release. Our technologies have applications in cancer, neuroscience, diabetes, genetics, and rare diseases. They form a model for CMOS and biocompatible implementations
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Tumor Cells

Our integrated lab-on-a-chip platform is a small form factor, standalone, hand-held device with a smart microchip at its core. There is no need for external electronics equipment. Our plug-and-play, replaceable, reproducible, and customized microchips can be integrated with microfluidics to improve device (re)usability, experiment repeatability, enhance data collection process and data quality 
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NSF Science360 Video

Original video tutorial on our technology entitled "Acoustics Lab on a Chip: Towards Personalized Medicine and Cancer Diagnosis" is featured at NSF Science 360 and UM Youtube Channel. This video focuses on our efforts in developing an acoustics, magnetics and electronics integrated microchip platform for comprehensive tumor cell analysis
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Energy Harvester Chip

Our energy harvester chip offers exciting innovations in self-powered and self-sustaining electronics, transducers, sensors, actuators for novel applications in surveillance, signal intelligence, wireless sensor networks, smart-home sensors, and implantable medical devices. Our single chip solutions get manufactured on the same substrate from wafer to chip, from system to transistor, from board to micro levels

CMOS Microelectronics

CMOS is the most widely used technology in the current ASIC industry due to its low power, high performance, and high levels of integration capabilities. Our innovative CMOS compatible manufacturing and packaging methods and biocompatible, soft, flexible materials reduce unit device cost, yield more reliable interconnections, and help minimize the parasitic losses by placing all mechanical and electronic components in close proximity

Biocompatible Materials

Our prototypes are wire bonded to standard IC packages with built-in power conditioning circuitry on the same chip therefore readily available for integration with all current chip technologies while offering smallest possible form factors, significant cost reductions, and long-term battery-less operation that produces maximum electrical power output with minimal material volumes.
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NSF Science 360 Featured Video

Original video tutorial on our technology entitled "CMOS Compatible Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting at MEMS Scale" is featured at NSF Science 360 and UM Youtube Channel. This video focuses on our efforts in developing a CMOS compatible energy harvester microchip for medical implant and surveillance applications
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Point-of-Care (PoC) Microfluidics

Our proprietary high frequency non-invasive cell interrogation platform enables enhanced understanding of cancer at the origin. Outcomes have potential for utilization in healthcare industry for cancer diagnosis and therapeutics applications. Integration of three novel technologies on a single chip can pave the way for next generation point-of-care tools

3D Microfabrication

Versatility of our platform offers exciting applications in medicine: cancer, neuroscience, clinical medicine, cell engineering, point-of-care, rapid, comprehensive blood, and other bodily fluid analysis for personalized precision medicine, point-of-care and clinical use cases

Neuroscience on Silicon

Novel, integrated, smart, high-throughput chip platform for early diagnosis, determining prognosis and monitoring therapy for diseases like cancer.  Our technologies aims to improve the national and global medical infrastructure as well as manufacturing, biotech and pharmaceutical industries
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Magnetics Lab-on-a-Chip (LoC)

Our single chip platforms use innovations in microfabrication, integration of sensors with electronics, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), very large scale integration (VLSI), and application specific integrated circuits (ASIC) as well as microfluidics, materials science, microelectronics, computational modeling, and packaging
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MEMS Micropump

Our MEMS Micropump Chip is designed to address the growing need for controlled fluid transport applications in medical and pharmaceutical industries such as biomedical sensors, drug delivery systems, microfluidic switches, cell, protein synthesis and implantable medical devices

Biocompatible Implant

Our innovative single-chip CMOS compatible MEMS solution offers high precision control for achieving nanometer scale displacements at low operating voltages. With our biocompatible polymer-based materials and manufacturing methods, highly efficient actuation at large displacements can be produced without fracture

Drug Delivery

In addition to traditional use cases, our versatile micropumps can be used in diverse cutting-edge applications such as manufacturing processes in semiconductor industry, printing, thermal management in electronics, fuel cells, chemical industry, innovative cooling systems for computer chips as well as modern customized AI/ML ASIC chips

CMOS Compatible Materials

Since our innovative design uses standard microfabrication techniques that can readily be integrated with all ASICs, it makes manufacturing at scale possible. Our prototypes are tested and performance characterizations were completed using our high precision nano displacement system that includes a ferroelectric tester and an AFM

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CMOS-SAW Chip

There is an ever-growing demand to develop sensitive and specific assays to detect biomarkers in serum that could be used in early detection of diseases like cancer, determining prognosis and monitoring therapy. Our CMOS Chip was used in the selective detection of a prominent breast cancer biomarker

Multiplexed Biosensor

Our patented CMOS-SAW technology presents a viable alternative to the existing biosensor technologies by offering higher sensitivity levels, requiring minimal sample volumes, compatibility with cutting-edge integrated circuit technologies at much lower costs

Patented Innovations

Our chips significantly improved traditional SAW device performances by applying the recent advances in MEMS design, fabrication and packaging techniques. Major novelties include RF operation, wireless integration capability, temperature control, multiplexing, biocompatible integrated microfluidics with improved reusability  

Breast Cancer Diagnosis

Our prototypes can readily be integrated with custom built smart read-out electronics and DSPs to offer a small form factor monolithic CMOS-MEMS solution. Beyond the cancer biosensor application, our patented novelties offer potential use cases in telecommunications -broadband, mobile, wireless- applications that use voice, data and video ASIC chips

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Nanowire Transistors

One of the biggest challenges in nanotechnology is to reliably interface its products to the micro, meso and macro scales. In addition, currently used nanotechnology fabrication methods present major roadblocks for scalability, reproducibility, and throughput

CMOS-Nano Hybrid

Our work in this realm has the potential to transform the techniques to build nanoscale components integrated with conventional microelectronics circuitry and can make a major impact on next generation nano-enabled memories, processors, sensors and mixed-signal systems

Sensors and Electronics

In order to address the growing demand to integrate nano-scale components with readily available commercial CMOS infrastructure to achieve a leap in device performances, we use novel nanofabrication techniques, comprehensive multiphysics device modeling and very large scale integration (VLSI) with system level electronics

Micro-to-Nano Interface

We are working on reproducible, high-yield fabrication of novel nanostructures such as nanowires and the methods to use them as sensors and integrated electronic circuit components. In these applications, we use a combination of silicon micromachining, CMOS and nanotechnology toolsets for high-precision hybrid fabrication methods to develop intelligent systems with VLSI capabilities
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