[Staff] ERC Seminar on 2/13/12 at 3:30pm; videoconference from UW & MIT

[Theresa Garcia]

Please share attached flyer with faculty, staff and students:

Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering PRESENTS

“Active RF and mm-Wave MEMS Resonators 
Using Transistor Sensing”

Dana Weinstein, PhD
Finn Assistant Professor
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Dr. Weinstein will discuss the Resonant Body Transistor (RBT), which can be integrated into a standard CMOS process for low power clock generation and high-Q tank circuits. We recently demonstrated the first hybrid RF MEMS-CMOS resonators in Si at the transistor level of IBM’s 32nm SOI CMOS process, without the need for any post-processing or packaging. The unreleased, Si bulk acoustic resonators are driven capacitively using the thin gate dielectric, and actively sensed using a body-contacted nFET incorporated into the resonant cavity. FET sensing with the high fT, high performance transistors in CMOS amplifies the mechanical signal before the presence of parasitics. The resulting RF-MEMS resonators provide low power, low cost, small footprint building blocks for on-chip signal generation and processing. 

   
Monday, February 13, 2012
3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
SDSU will connect via videoconference from SDSU, room E203e
Space is limited, please arrive early; contact Theresa Garcia, tgarcia at mail.sdsu.edu for questions

Theresa M. Garcia, M.A.Ed.
'91 & '09
SDSU MEP Director
619 594-5679
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