TRACK 3: SENSOR R&D – Advanced Materials, Design, Modeling & Fusion for Sensor Applications
Significant improvements in materials and engineering have paved the way for novel, multifunctional integrated sensor systems with unlimited market potential. Advancements in low-cost materials processing and printing techniques have enabled the development of cost-efficient sensor platforms for applications within such industries as life sciences, transportation, oil & gas, defense and consumer electronics. This conference track will provide research scientists, engineers and developers with a forum to present their latest research in design and application of integrated sensors systems, including such as areas as:
- Theory and Modeling
- Low-Cost Substrates
- Nano Materials for Sensor Applications
- High & Low Temperature Material Processing
- Material Characterization
- Components and Systems
| - Evaluation and Testing
- Advanced Materials and Architectures
- Phenomena, Modeling and Evaluation
- Enabling Technologies
- Applications for Printed Materials
- Application Driven Development
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Tuesday, November 10
7:30 am Conference Registration and Morning Coffee
8:55 Chairperson’s Opening Remarks
Kalle Levon, Ph.D., Research Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, New York University
PLENARY KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS
9:00 High-Rate Nanoscale Printing for Sensors, Energy and Materials Applications
Ahmed Busnaina, Ph.D., William Lincoln Smith Professor, Distinguished University Professor & Director, The NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center for High-Rate Nanomanufacturing, Northeastern University
The NSF Center for High-Rate Nanomanufacturing (CHN) has developed
a new nanoscale printing process that can use a variety of nanomaterials
and can print onto a variety of substrates with nanoscale resolution
match the present state of the art silicon electronics circuit line width.
Last year, the center developed and built a fully-automated robotic cluster
tool system that prints at the nanoscale to make products that fully take
advantage of the superior properties of nanomaterials. Because of its
relative simplicity, the fully automated Nanoscale Offset Printing System
(NanoOPS) is expected to eliminate some of the high cost entry barriers
to the fabrication of nanoscale devices for sensors, electronics, energy,
medical, and functional materials applications.
9:35 Mobile Experience Application Platforms for Internet of Things/Everything (IOT/IOE)
Peter Mason, Director, Applications Platform Group, Cisco
Cisco estimates that 50 billion devices and object will be
connected to the internet by 2020. Yet today, more than 99%
of things in the physical world remain unconnected. This
presentation will highlight how the Internet of Things and Big Data fit into
IoE, and enable business outcomes through (1) new business models,
products, and services; (2) increased enterprise speed and agility; (3)
improved decision making; and (4) an unprecedented customer experience.
They will hear examples of how Cisco and our customers are taking
advantage of the data and information being generated by lighting up dark
assets. Most importantly, they will gain valuable insights into the business
and technology imperatives for the Internet of Everything.
10:10 Using Invention, Innovation and It's Resulting IP to Becoming Valuable to Your Value Chain as You Develop Sensors
John Cronin, Managing Director & Chairman, ipCapital Group
This presentation will
describe case studies of creating large value through the use of
focusing in invention, innovation and the resulting IP by virtualizing
the future products. As we evaluate these case studies, it will become
clear that focusing on creating larger value is all about the systematic
techniques and processes for invention, use of experts, use of market
data and use of patent literature directions. The key takeaways will be
to provide a unique insight for the sensor, biosensor and power device
organizations to see a brighter future for obtaining much higher value
within the value chain.
10:40 Coffee Break with Poster Viewing
11:25 Chairperson’s Remarks
Mona Jarrahi, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of California Los Angeles
11:30 MEMS Gas Chromatography and Magnetic Beads for Food Safety Sensing
Peter Hesketh, Ph.D., Professor, Micro & Nanoengineering, George Tech University*
We are developing low power portable MEMS-gas chromatography system for the detection of volatile organic compounds (VOC) and investigating its use in agricultural applications to detect fungus and insect infestations on plants. In this work, a new bonding technique for micro-fabrication of an all silicon gas chromatography column which can withstand the temperature cycling that is required for axial temperature programming, is being investigated. The goal of this work is to apply the MEMS-GC to the detection of VOC gases released by infected plants.
Our simulations predict that our system would results in capture of 95% of the Salmonella passing through it at a variety of flow rates over a short distance down the microchannel. * M. Ballard1, Z. Mills1, D. Owen1, S. Hanasoge1, M. Navaei1,2, A. Mahdavifar1,2, A. Alexeev1, J. Jie2, G. McMurray2, J. D. Dimandja3
12:00 pm Integrated Sensing Systems for Selected Biological Applications – Challenges and Emerging Trends
Suranjin Panagrahi, Ph.D., Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology, Purdue University
Sensors are the devices that generate information for a biological, physical, and chemical process of an object or process. Integrated sensing systems are gaining wider acceptance for different biological applications ranging from quality control, inspection to automation and process control. This presentation will cover the system engineering approaches to develop integrated sensing system for selected biological applications in agricultural and food domain. The challenges and emerging trends in sensing (transduction) principles and other associated system components (communication, computational platform, power source, display, storage and information processing) will be discussed.
12:30 Networking Lunch
1:55 Chairperson’s Remarks
Roger Grace, President, Roger Grace Associates
2:00 Game-Changing Terahertz Sensor Technologies for Large-Scale Consumer Market
Mona Jarrahi, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, UCLA
Terahertz waves have unique specifications that enable unprecedented sensing functionalities for personal health monitoring, environmental monitoring, and security screening as well as pharmaceutical, industrial, and agricultural product quality control. In the first part of this talk, I will give an overview of the unique applications of terahertz waves for chemical identification, material characterization, biomedical sensing and diagnostics and describe the state of the existing terahertz sensors and the major challenges for their successful entry into a large-scale consumer market. In the second part of the talk, I will introduce a game changing technology that enables high performance, low cost, and compact terahertz spectroscopy and imaging systems for various applications.
2:30 Alternative Platforms for High Volume Sensor Applications: Printable/Flexible
Roger Grace, President, Roger Grace Associates
With the recent popularity of the Internet of Things (IoT) and especially “wearables”…the need for single or multiple sensors per system that are small, lightweight and low- power consuming that also can conform to the shape of the environment in which they must operate in is becoming essential. The presentation will address several sensors that are currently being designed into “smart systems” for IoT and wearable applications. To be presented will be some of the more interesting PFOE sensor technologies currently in under development and in production in the commercial sector as well those under development in the leading research universities and research labs around the world. We will also address flexible circuit platforms and their interconnectivity issues as part of this smart sensor-based system integration approach.
3:00 Mobile-Phone Based Optical Imaging Platform for Rapid and Accurate Detection and Quantification of Waterborne Pathogens in Low Resource Settings
Hatice Ceylan Koydemir, Postdoctoral Researcher, Electrical Engineering, UCLA
We will present a cost-effective and field portable detection platform that is composed of a disposable sample cartridge, a smartphone based fluorescence microscope, and a custom designed Windows based application for detection and enumeration of waterborne pathogens (e.g. Giardia lamblia cysts) in resource-limited settings. Our experimental findings demonstrate that this platform has an average cyst capturing efficiency of ~79% and, it automatically detects and quantifies the captured cysts using a machine learning based algorithm with a sensitivity of ~84%, resulting in a limit of detection of ~12 cysts per 10 mL.
3:30 Refreshment Break with Poster Viewing
4:10 PLENARY PANEL DISCUSSION: Sensor Commercialization - Challenges and Opportunities
Moderator:
Lisa Friedersdorf, Deputy Director, National Nanotechnology Coordination Office, National Nanotechnology Initiative
Panelists:
Steve Semancik, Ph.D., Physicist and Project Leader, Biomolecular Measurement Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Joshua Windmiller, Ph.D., CTO, Electrozyme, LLC
Len Sheynblat, Vice President, Engineering, Qualcomm
This panel will focus on the identification and discussion of challenges that are faced by the sensor development community during the fabrication, integration, and commercialization of sensors. The National Nanotechnology Coordination Office (NNCO) provides technical and administrative support to the Nanoscale Science, Engineering, and Technology (NSET) Subcommittee, serves as a central point of contact for Federal nanotechnology R&D activities, and provides public outreach on behalf of the National Nanotechnology Initiative.
5:10 End of Day One
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Wednesday, November 11
8:30 am Conference Registration Open and Morning Coffee
8:55 Chairperson’s Opening Remarks
Perena Gouma, Ph.D., Professor, Materials Science and Engineering; Director, Center for Nanomaterials and Sensor Development, SUNY Stony Brook
PLENARY KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS
9:00 Personalization in Sensor-Rich Environments
Martha G. Russell, Executive Director, mediaX, Stanford University
The right message, at the right time, in the right place is increasingly an expectation of consumer and business information systems. As context awareness emerges as a differentiating factor for interactive applications, both embedded and mobile sensors are evolving to contribute to this vision. Personal identity is a complex, dynamic construct. It is simultaneously individual and social, predictable and emergent, often culturally and situationally dependent. New opportunities for personalization in sensor-rich environments include frontiers in human sciences, as well as in information technologies.
9:30 Nano-Enabled Biosensors: From Bench-to-Bedside
Christopher M. Hartshorn, Ph.D., Program Manager, Office of Cancer Nanotechnology Research, National Cancer Institute
Nano-enabled biosensors (e.g. biosensors utilizing nanotechnology for recognition, transduction, or both) offer much potential with their inherent high surface-to-volume ratios, multi-functionality, and unique physical/chemical properties. Regardless of what combination of recognition element/material/signal transduction mechanism eventually employed, an ideal biosensor must be able to effectively discriminate the analyte(s), detect low quantities, and have a broad dynamic range. This talk will focus on several in vitro and in vivo nano-enabled diagnostic sensing platforms that are at multiple stages of the development and commercialization pathway. Exploration into their needs for successful translation as well as future trends in their application to personalized medicine and cancer will be discussed.
10:00 Coffee Break with Poster Viewing
10:25 Chairperson’s Remarks
Peter Hesketh, Ph.D., Professor, Micro & Nanoengineering, George Tech University
10:30 Functional Micro/Nanostructures for Flexible and
Wearable Sensors
Inkyu Park, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Wearable electronics is becoming the new paradigm for the next generation computer and electronic systems. In this talk, I will discuss the recent trends and state-of-the-art in these component and systems technology for wearable electronics. Then, I will discuss the chemical and physical sensors that are being developed at our laboratory at KAIST. In specific, I will explain about (1) metal oxide nanowire based flexible gas sensors for toxic gases, (2) metal nanotube based flexible gas sensors for hydrogen gas, (3) photosensitive nanomaterial based flexible UV sensors and (4) metal nanowire / CNT based flexible and stretchable strain sensors for human motion detection.
11:00 Modeling, Analysis, and Ultrafast Imaging for Semiconductor Applications
Subramanian Sankaranarayanan, Ph.D., Scientist, Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory
11:30 Mitigating Risk: Test Methods for Wearable Electronics
John McNulty, Ph.D., CRE, P.E., Principal Engineer, Materials & Corrosion Engineering Practice, Exponent, Inc.
This presentation will address gaps in existing standards and relevant test methods for wearable devices in the following areas: biocompatibility/biostability in the context of skin irritation and key irritant materials besides nickel; dermal injury arising from single or multiple fault conditions that cause resistive heating; corrosion as typically evaluated for implanted devices but also subject to exposure to sweat and other liquids; adhesion of devices to skin as well as within multi-layer assemblies; and RF performance in the context of radiation emissions and immunity as well as ‘wireless coexistence’ with other wearable and/or implantable electronic devices.
12:00 pm Closing Remarks and End of Conference
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