This is the photo we took for ECE 2012 annual report.

From left to right: Prof. Matteo Rinaldi, Shahrokh Saeedi, Dr. Yu Hui, Raúl Vyas, Zhenyun Qian.

(Shahrokh left our group at the end of summer 2012, Raúl Vyas graduated in May 2014, Dr. Yu Hui graduated in May 2015)

See details of our current group members

The total amount of the award is $300,000 for a 2 year duration.

The objective of the DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA) program is to identify and engage rising research stars in junior faculty positions at U.S. academic institutions and expose them to Department of Defense needs as well as DARPA’s program development process. YFA combines funding, mentoring and networking with industry and DoD early in a recipient’s career to help them in framing future research in the context of defense needs. The long-term goal of the YFA program is to develop the next generation of academic scientists, engineers and mathematicians in key disciplines who will focus a significant portion of their career on DoD and national security issues.

Out of 560 applicants, 51 of the nation’s brightest young scientists were selected to receive grants under the 2012 DARPA Young Facility Award (YFA) program.

For more information about DARPA Young Faculty Award. Please click here

The paper M. Rinaldi, A. Tazzoli, C. Zuniga, and G. Piazza, ” 970 MHz Ovenized Oscillator Based on an AlN MEMS Resonator with Monolithically Integrated Suspended Nano Hot Plate”, has been accepted for presentation at the 15^th Hilton Head Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Workshop (Hilton Head 2012), Hilton Head, USA, 3-7 June 2012.

The paper M. Rinaldi, Y. Hui, C. Zuniga, A. Tazzoli and G. Piazza, “High Frequency AlN MEMS Resonators with Integrated Nano Hot Plate for Temperature Controlled Operation “, has been accepted for presentation at the IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium 2012 (IFCS 2012), Baltimore, USA, 21-24 May 2012.

The paper M. Rinaldi, A. Tazzoli, J. Segovia-Fernandez, V. Felmetsger and G. Piazza, “High Power and Low Temperature Coefficient of Frequency Oscillator Based on a Fully Anchored and Oxide Compensated AlN Contour-Mode MEMS Resonator”, has been accepted for presentation at the IEEE 25th International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS 2012), Paris, France, January 29- February 2, 2012.