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  • Over 100 MEMS (microelectromechanical systems) transducers will be used in each future automobile.

  • Over 10 MEMS sensors and actuators will be used in each cell phone.

  • Military and commercial applications will increasingly benefit from the use of MEMS, especially when anticipated significant improvements in performance are realized via the integration of MEMS with novel nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS).
Some Impacts of Research
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  • Impact on electronic products, e.g. cell phone and computer, through a piece of 1-mm thick polymer film with effective thermal conductivity 100X better than copper.
  • Impact on organic displays or sensor packages through a nano-scaled barrier coating with 10,000X enhanced hermeticity.
  • Impact on wireless communication and sensing through a patch antenna that is 5-10X smaller than current antennas.
  • Impact on biomedical and environmental detection through a biosensor with a single molecule sensitivity while reducing false alarm rate by 100X.
  • Impact on energy applications through a light emitting diode with 3X improvement in efficiency and 100X improvement in device-level thermal resistance.
  • Impact on electronic and energy storage products through a solid state supercapacitor with the capacitor density increased by 25-100X.
AFOSR grant
March 2008, a team of iMINT professors (Assistant Professor Ronggui Yang of Mechanical Engineering, Professor Kurt Maute of Aerospace Engineeing Sciences and Professor Martin Dunn of Mechanical Engineering) won a 3-year highly competitive AFOSR Discovery Challenge Thruster grant (BAA 2007-08). Yang's team will use the $600K to develop A Design Tool for Nanostructures with Tunable Thermal Properties.
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