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Under the direction of Prof. Piazza the PMaNS Laboratory is conducting cutting-edge research on micro and nanoelectromechanical (M/NEMS) piezoelectric devices for RF signal processing, chemical/biological detection, acoustic sensing and all mechanical computing. The research group has expertise in different areas of M/NEMS ranging from electrical, mechanical and material engineering. We have access to state-of-the-art nanofabrication and nanocharacterization facilities for manufacturing and testing of new classes of M/NEMS transducers. We have fun tackling fundamental science and engineering problems at the micro and nanoscale that can provide orders of magnitude performance improvement over current technologies. For example, we are currently working on the development of switched AlN filter banks for reconfigurable RF front-ends to be employed in future spectrum-aware cognitive radios, nanoresonant sensing systems that can tag individual molecules and cells and nanomechanical transistors for low power mechanical computing. |
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LATEST NEWS
POST-DOC POSITION in RF MEMS AVAILABLE STARTING JULY 2013. Please, email application to piazza@ece.cmu.edu
2013
Congrats to Songbin for securing a faculty position at UIUC
Congrats to Usama for securing a faculty position at Zewail University
Lisha and Jeronimo’s abstracts have been selected for best paper award at IEEE IFCS 2013
2012
Nick’s paper on Phononic Crystal devices has won the best paper award at the IEEE Ultrasonic Symposium
2011
Prof. Piazza’s group has moved to Carnegie Mellon University. If you are interested in working in his laboratory, please contact him at piazza@ece.cmu.edu
Congrats to Matteo who is heading off to Northeastern University as assistant professor
Matteo’s paper on the effects of volume and frequency scaling in AlN NEMS resonators on oscillator phase noise wins the best student paper award at IEEE FCS 2011
Matteo and Nick papers on AlN NEMS sensors and phononic crystals are nominated for best student paper awards at IEEE FCS 2011
2010
Chiara and Matteo were awarded with the Weiss Tech House Innovation Fund as students inventors of SmartSense technology
2009
Nipun’s APL paper is featured in the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology
Chengjie receives SSCS Predoctoral Fellowship for 2009-2010
Chiara and Matteo’s APL paper is featured in both the Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research and in the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology
Matteo’s paper on AlN filters above 3 GHz wins the best paper award at IEEE FCS’09
2008
Chengjie’s paper on AlN contour-mode oscillators wins best paper award at IEEE FCS’08 in Hawaii
2006
Gian receives the IBM Young Faculty Award |
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Piazza Micro and Nano Systems Laboratory
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“Making MEMS and NEMS” |
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Micromechanical Signal Processors |
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Nanomechanical Sensors |
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Nanomechanical Logic |
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PMaNS |
