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A large portion of electronics research, and the generation of new ideas, is now occurring at the intersections of multiple disciplines. One of these intersections is the combination of fluidics and microfabrication techniques into the growing field of microfluidics. While microfluidics has been commonly approached from the mechanical and the biological perspective, there are also many electrical effects that are both useful and interesting to study. One of these is the electrical modification of surface tension with an applied electrical potential, called electrowetting. In this seminar I will explore methods of engineering this relatively new effect, with an eye towards applications in the fields of flat-panel displays, micro-hydraulics, and volumetric actuation.
Bio:
Jakub Kedzierski received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley in 2001, where he was one of the co-inventors of the FinFET device architecture. After graduation, Jakub worked at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center working on FinFETs and metal-gate transistors. In 2005, he joined MIT Lincoln Laboratory where he
is the Assistant Group Leader in the Advanced Silicon Devices Group. Currently he is on leave from MIT to serve as a visiting faculty at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. His research interests include: advanced silicon devices, low-power electronics, 3D integration, graphene, and microfluidics. Jakub has been awarded the IEEE EDS Paul Rappaport, and the IEEE EDS George Smith Award for best-papers, and has participated in
IEDM's process committee, NSF review panel and contributed as a reviewer for the IEEE. He has over 60 publications and patents in the electronics area.
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