Magnetic and Magnetoelectric MEMS/NEMS for Sensing, Power, RF, Microwave and mm-Wave Electronics
The coexistence of electric polarization and magnetization in multiferroic materials provides great opportunities for realizing magnetoelectric coupling, including electric field control of magnetism, or vice versa, through a strain mediated magnetoelectric coupling in layered magnetic/ferroelectric multiferroic heterostructures. The strong magnetoelectric coupling has been the enabling factor for different multiferroic devices, which, however, has been elusive, particularly at RF/microwave frequencies. In this presentation, I will cover the most recent progress on new integrated RF magnetoelectric NEMS (nanoelectromechanical system) based sensors and antennas [1-9]. Specifically, we will introduce magnetoelectric multiferroic materials and their applications in different devices, including novel ultra-compact RF NEMS acoustic magnetoelectric antennas immune from ground plane effect with < l0/100 in size, self-biased operation, and ground plane immunity. These magnetoelectric antennas are smart antennas with picoTesla magnetic field sensitivity, and with orders of magnitude improved figure of merit for wireless power, transfer compared to state-of-the-art technologies. We will also cover ultra-sensitive RF NEMS magnetoelectric magnetometers with ultra-low noise for DC and AC magnetic fields sensing and magnetoelectric signal processing devices. These novel ferroic materials and devices show great promise for applications in compact, lightweight and power-efficient sensors, antennas, and tunable components for radars, communication systems, biomedical devices, IoT, etc.
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- Date: 25 Mar 2021
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- Starts 15 March 2021 04:14 PM
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Nian Sun of W.M. Keck Laboratory for Integrated Ferroics, & ECE Department, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
Biography:
Nian Sun is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and in affiliation with Bioengineering, Director of the W.M. Keck Laboratory for Integrated Ferroics, Northeastern University, and founder and chief technology advisor of Winchester Technologies, LLC. He received his Ph.D. degree from Stanford University. Prior to joining Northeastern University, he was a Scientist at IBM and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies. Dr. Sun was the recipient of the Humboldt Research Award, NSF CAREER Award, ONR Young Investigator Award, Outstanding Research Award, Oustanding Translational Research Award, etc. His research interests include novel magnetic, ferroelectric, and multiferroic materials, devices, and microsystems, novel gas sensors, and sensor systems, etc. He has over 280 publications and over 30 patents and patent applications. One of his papers was selected as the “Ten most outstanding full papers in the past decade (2001~2010) in Advanced Functional Materials”. He is a fellow of the IEEE, the Institute of Physics, and the Institution of Engineering and Technology, and an editor of IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, and Sensors Journal.
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