Congratulations Center’s PhD Graduate – Antea Risso successfully defended her PhD Thesis entitles “Zero-standby-power Wireless Infrared-based Crop Water-Stress Detectors for Large Scale Smart Farms” on April 21, 2023.

Congratulations Center’s PhD Graduate – Hussein Hussein successfully defended his PhD Thesis entitles “Parametric Circuits for Enhanced Sensing and RF Signal Processing” on April 13, 2023.

Congratulations Center’s PhD Graduate – Bernard Herrera-Soukup successfully defended his PhD Thesis entitles “Ferroelectric Micro-machined Ultrasonic Transducers for Biomedical and Processing In-Sensor Applications” on November 9, 2022.

Congratulations Center’s PhD Graduate – Giuseppe Michetti successfully defended his PhD Thesis entitles “RF Front-End Components based on Linear-Time-Variant Modulation of Piezoelectric MEMS Resonators” on November 8, 2022.

The NSF sponsored Nano Systems Innovation (NanoSI) workshop was successfully held on November 4, 2022.

Congratulations Center’s PhD Graduate – Sila Deniz Calisgan successfully defended her PhD Thesis entitles “ADVANCEMENTS ON ZERO STANDBY POWER MEMS SENSORS” on October 17, 2022.

Congratulations Center’s PhD Graduate – Meruyert Assylbekova successfully defended her PhD Thesis entitles “Aluminum Nitride and Scandium-doped Aluminum Nitride materials and devices for beyond 6 GHz communication” on October 14, 2022.

Congratulations Center’s PhD Graduate – Michele Pirro successfully defended his PhD Thesis entitles “AlScN material characterization for MEMS applications” on September 26, 2022.

AME Academy 2022 Summer Session, co-sponsored by Northeastern SMART, was successfully held on July 29, 2022.

Postdoc Position on Sensor Projects at SMART Center

The Postdoc will be working on research projects related to the design, fabrication, testing and packaging of microelectromechanical devices for infrared spectroscopy and their integration with lasers and gas cells into a low-power, miniature and light-weight greenhouse gas sensor system suitable for the development with drones.

Congratulations Center’s PhD Graduate – Sungho (Ryan) Kang successfully defended his PhD Thesis entitles “Plasmonically Enhanced Infrared Sensing Microsystems” on January 11, 2022.

Congratulations Center’s PhD Graduate – Flavius Pop successfully defended his PhD Thesis entitles “Intrabody Communication for Real-Time Monitoring of Implanted Medical Devices based on Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers” on December 1, 2021.

Congratulations Center’s PhD Graduate – Vageeswar Rajaram successfully defended his PhD Thesis entitled “Zero Power Microelectromechanical Sensors for Large-Scale IoT Applications” on September 14, 2021.

SMART Center received recognition from the academia, industry, and government agencies on its Annual Workshop on Nano Systems Innovation (NanoSI2021).

SMART Center was highlighted in a pre-recorded video case study within the official broadcast at this year’s Joint MRS (Materials Research Society) Virtual Spring and Fall Meeting, Nov 28 – Dec 4, 2020.

SMART Center 2020 Seminar Series – “Key elements in Productization of MEMS Oscillators” by Dr. Gabriele Vigevani on 12/1/2020, 1:35 pm – 2:35 pm!

SMART Center Deploys an Evatec CLUSTERLINE® 200 for Manufacturing High Performance Piezoelectric Micro and Nano Systems!

Congratulations Center’s PhD Graduate – Yao Yu successfully defended his PhD Thesis entitled “Microelectromechanical Magnet-free Non-Reciprocal Devices for In-band Full-Duplex Applications“!

Congratulations Center Faculty Members – Assistant Professors Aatmesh Shrivastava and Hui Fang, together with Affiliated Faculty Holly Jimison, were awarded a $300K NSF grant to create a “Self-powered Smart Ring for Always-On Health Interventions”!

Congratulations Center Faculty Member – Assistant Professor Hui Fang (PI), together with ChE Assistant Professor Ryan Koppes (co-PI), in collaboration with UCLA and Boston Children’s Hospital, Receive $2.2M NIH Award Leading to State-of-the-Art Electrophysiological Capabilities!

Congratulations Center Faculty Member – Assistant Professor Yanzhi Wang organized the ROAD4NN workshop: International Workshop on Research Open Automatic Design for Neural Networks, at DAC 2020!

Congratulations Center’s PhD Student – Vageeswar Rajaram Receives Best Paper Award at IEEE IFCS-ISAF!

Congratulations Center Faculty Member – Associate Professor Josep Jornet Publishes Paper in the Journal ‘Science’ on Tunable Topological Charge Vortex Microlaser!

Welcome InvenSense joined SMART Center as a Collaboration Partner!

Congratulations Center Faculty Member – Assistant Professor Yanzhi Wang group’s AI technology of deep neural networks on mobile devices got highlighted in news article – “Deep Neural Networks are coming to your phone. Here’s how that could change your life.”

Welcome InterDigital joined SMART Center as a Collaboration Partner!

Welcome Evatec joined SMART Center as a 5-year Collaboration Partner!

Congratulations Center Faculty Members – Assistant Professor Cristian Cassella (PI), Associate Professor Marvin Onabajo, and Associate Professor Matteo Rinaldi received a NSF Award to Enable Longer Battery Lifetime and Next-Generation Micro- and Nano-Sensors!

Congratulations Center’s first PhD graduate – Guofeng Chen successfully defended his PhD Thesis entitled “Piezoelectric μ-Resonators for Low-Power and Low-Cost IoT Communication Nodes”!