BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Turkey BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20380119T061407 TZOFFSETFROM:+0300 TZOFFSETTO:+0300 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=3TU;BYMONTH=1 TZNAME:+03 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20160907T000000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0300 TZOFFSETTO:+0300 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1WE;BYMONTH=9 TZNAME:+03 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180503T000000Z UID:1115E263-3989-4E5A-8A15-25A2122C3107 DTSTART;TZID=Turkey:20180223T133000 DTEND;TZID=Turkey:20180223T153000 DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Prof. Tayfun Akın\, Middle East Technical University\ n\nTopic: "METU-MEMS Center"\n\nLocation: Middle East Technical University \, Ankara\, Turkey\n\nAbstract: The first MEMS program in Turkey started i ts activities in 1995 at METU\, leading to the first MEMS Center of Turkey . The METU-MEMS Center has a 1300 m2 cleanroom area with the state-of-the- art MEMS fabrication tools with 4"\, 6"\, and 8" wafer processing capabili ty\, thanks to the $65M national and international research funds\, mostly raised in the past 10 years. METU MEMS Center has recently become one of the first 4 national centers of Turkey. The talk will introduce METU-MEMS Center\, along with its research activities\, summarizing the research ach ievements of the selected subjects\, including low-cost CMOS based microbo lometers that attracted VC funding to set up a spin-off company\, gyroscop es showing performances below 1degree/hour\, accelerometers showing perfor mances below 10ug with above 130dB dynamic range\, RF MEMS switches operat ing above 12 billion cycles\, innovative and patented BioMEMS devices for cancer cell detection and for cochlear implants. The talk will also introd uce two current spin-off/start-up companies from METU working on infrared detectors and readout electronics\, namely Mikrosens and Mikro-Tasarim. Mi krosens is a fabless semiconductor company\, developing ultra-low-cost inf rared detectors with only one-mask post-CMOS process. Mikro-Tasarim is als o a fabless semiconductor company\, developing ROICs and their driver/digi tizer ASICs for hybrid/monolithic\, cooled/uncooled detectors in UV\, Visi ble\, NIR\, SWIR\, MWIR\, and LWIR wavelengths.\n\nBio: Prof. Dr. Tayfun A kin received B.S. degree in electrical and electronics eng with high honor s from Middle East Tech. Univ. (METU) Ankara\, Turkey\, in 1987 and went t o USA for his graduate studies with a fellowship provided by NATO Science Scholarship Program through TUBITAK. He received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in 1989 and 1994 in electrical eng.\, from Univ. of Michigan\, Ann Arbor. He returned to Turkey in 1995 to start the country’s first MicroElectroMec hanical Systems (MEMS) program. He became Asst. Prof. in 1995\, Assoc. Pro f. in 1998\, and Prof. in 2004 in Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Eng. at METU. He served as the Chair of METU Micro and Nanotechnology Graduate Program for 3 years. He is the Director of the METU-MEMS Center\, which h as a vision of not only conducting state-of-the-art research on MEMS\, but also establishing a high tech industry based on the MEMS technology. He r aised and managed over 65M USD funding for several national and internatio nal projects\, including EU (FP6\, FP7\, Horizon2020)\, NATO\, and NSF-USA funded projects. He has served in various MEMS\, EUROSENSORS\, TRANSDUCER S\, and SPIE conferences as a committee member. He received a number of na tional and international awards. He was the co-chair of IEEE MEMS Conf. he ld in Istanbul in 2006. He is the winner of the First Prize in Experienced Analog/Digital Mixed-Signal Design Category at 1994 Student VLSI Circuit Design Contest organized by Mentor Graphics\, Texas Instruments\, Hewlett- Packard\, Sun Microsystems\, and Electronic Design Magazine. He has a tota l of over 200 international journal and conference publications. He is als o co-founder of six start-up companies\, namely Mikro-Tasarim\, MikroSens\ , Pikselim\, Mikro BiyoSistemler\, Mikrosistemler\, and AREF Sens.\n\nCo-s ponsored by: URSI-TR\n\nSpeaker(s): Prof. Tayfun Akin\, \n\nAnkara\, Ankar a\, Türkiye LOCATION:Ankara\, Ankara\, Türkiye ORGANIZER:ozergul@metu.edu.tr SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:IEEE AP/MTT/EMC/ED TURKEY CHAPTER SEMINAR SERIES -- SEMINAR 24 URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/169620 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p>Speaker: Prof. Tayfun Akın\, Middle East Technical University</p>\n<p>Topic: "METU-MEMS Center"</p>\n<p>Location:&n bsp\;Middle East Technical University\, Ankara\, Turkey</p>\n<p>Abstract:& nbsp\; The first MEMS program in Turkey started its activities in 1995 at METU\, leading to the first MEMS Center of Turkey. The METU-MEMS Center ha s a 1300 m2 cleanroom area with the state-of-the-art MEMS fabrication tool s with 4"\, 6"\, and 8" wafer processing capability\, thanks to the $65M n ational and international research funds\, mostly raised in the past 10 ye ars. METU MEMS Center has recently become one of the first 4 national cent ers of Turkey. The talk will introduce METU-MEMS Center\, along with its r esearch activities\, summarizing the research achievements of the selected subjects\, including low-cost CMOS based microbolometers that attracted V C funding to set up a spin-off company\, gyroscopes showing performances b elow 1degree/hour\, accelerometers showing performances below 10ug with ab ove 130dB dynamic range\, RF MEMS switches operating above 12 billion cycl es\, innovative and patented BioMEMS devices for cancer cell detection and for cochlear implants. The talk will also introduce two current spin-off/ start-up companies from METU working on infrared detectors and readout ele ctronics\, namely Mikrosens and Mikro-Tasarim. Mikrosens is a fabless semi conductor company\, developing ultra-low-cost infrared detectors with only one-mask post-CMOS process. Mikro-Tasarim is also a fabless semiconductor company\, developing ROICs and their driver/digitizer ASICs for hybrid/mo nolithic\, cooled/uncooled detectors in UV\, Visible\, NIR\, SWIR\, MWIR\, and LWIR wavelengths.</p>\n<p>Bio:&nbsp\; Prof. Dr. Tayfun Akin received B.S. degree in electrical and electronics eng with high honors from Middle East Tech. Univ. (METU) Ankara\, Turkey\, in 1987 and went to USA for his graduate studies with a fellowship provided by NATO Science Scholarship P rogram through TUBITAK. He received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in 1989 and 199 4 in electrical eng.\, from Univ. of Michigan\, Ann Arbor. He returned to Turkey in 1995 to start the country&rsquo\;s first MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS) program. He became Asst. Prof. in 1995\, Assoc. Prof. in 19 98\, and Prof. in 2004 in Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Eng. at METU . He served as the Chair of METU Micro and Nanotechnology Graduate Program for 3 years. He is the Director of the METU-MEMS Center\, which has a vis ion of not only conducting state-of-the-art research on MEMS\, but also es tablishing a high tech industry based on the MEMS technology.&nbsp\; He ra ised and managed over 65M USD funding for several national and internation al projects\, including EU (FP6\, FP7\, Horizon2020)\, NATO\, and NSF-USA funded projects. He has served in various MEMS\, EUROSENSORS\, TRANSDUCERS \, and SPIE conferences as a committee member. He received a number of nat ional and international awards. He was the co-chair of IEEE MEMS Conf. hel d in Istanbul in 2006. He is the winner of the First Prize in Experienced Analog/Digital Mixed-Signal Design Category at 1994 Student VLSI Circuit D esign Contest organized by Mentor Graphics\, Texas Instruments\, Hewlett-P ackard\, Sun Microsystems\, and Electronic Design Magazine. He has a total of over 200 international journal and conference publications. He is also co-founder of six start-up companies\, namely Mikro-Tasarim\, MikroSens\, Pikselim\, Mikro BiyoSistemler\, Mikrosistemler\, and AREF Sens.</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR